Nonsense

San Francisco: Stolen Paper Editions, 1967. Paperback. Unpaginated, about thirty pages printed on differing paperstocks (intentional?) and here & there typeset rubrications. Quite amusing and beautiful, and Greg Irons' sketches are fully in the spirit. Stolen Paper publishers has printed up Watts' "nonsense" respectfully, and condition is excellent, with just a hint of handling to covers: sound, clean, unmarked. A single caveat: copyright page credits one Richard Borst with "Photos of Watts", but there are none in this binding, nor any trace of excision. So be it. Edward Lear in Sausalito, doing zazen. Poetry,or rather, Verse, very much in the Edward Lear vein, or even better, in the vein of Charles Dodgson's "Jaberwocky". Portmanteau words a specialty, some of which, Watts says, ran round his head during his childhood. He lets fly here, nothing but silliness, even throughout his page & a half Introduction. (Inventory #: 327081)