signed
1989 · New York
by Allan Gurganus
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. Very Good -/Very Good +. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. Ninth Printing. Octavo (24cm); xiv,718pp. Publisher's red dust jacket with $21.95 price intact; boards in teal with burgundy cloth spine and bronze lettering. Jacket is clean and crisp with very light shelfwear. Light bump to bottom corner of front board; spine ends nudged; rear hinge slightly sprung. Binding is sound and pages unmarked.
Signed to Allen Ginsberg on front free endpaper with inscription "To Allen Ginsberg, A kindred spirit, the essence of the essence — yours in Love, Allan. Charleston - 1990." Additional undated handwritten letter laid in on yellow lined paper from lawyer and local Charleston historian Ted Ashton Phillips, Jr., which reads "Dear Allen - Sorry about my drunken midnight phone call concerning [recently-executed South Carolina serial killer] Pee Wee Gaskins. / In any case, here is the long overdue book I promised. Janet and Alice both send love & sloppy wet kisses, as do I. Ted Phillips." Gurganus wrote a remembrance of Phillips in The American Scholar, "The Man Who Loved Cemeteries," after Phillips' death in 2005. (Inventory #: 31553)
Signed to Allen Ginsberg on front free endpaper with inscription "To Allen Ginsberg, A kindred spirit, the essence of the essence — yours in Love, Allan. Charleston - 1990." Additional undated handwritten letter laid in on yellow lined paper from lawyer and local Charleston historian Ted Ashton Phillips, Jr., which reads "Dear Allen - Sorry about my drunken midnight phone call concerning [recently-executed South Carolina serial killer] Pee Wee Gaskins. / In any case, here is the long overdue book I promised. Janet and Alice both send love & sloppy wet kisses, as do I. Ted Phillips." Gurganus wrote a remembrance of Phillips in The American Scholar, "The Man Who Loved Cemeteries," after Phillips' death in 2005. (Inventory #: 31553)
