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Pickard, Tom.
Guttersnipe.
Publisher: City Lights, San Francisco; London;
Date of Publication: 1971
Stock Code: 12860
Inscribed first edition. Octavo, pp., [2], 76. Bound in the publisher’s pictorial thin card wraps with portrait of Pickard. Spine sunned and lightly creased to corners. Contents clean and bright. A very good copy. Inscribed “Tom Pickard (in jepardy[sic]) Arcade in Newcastle Feb, 23rd 72” with a surreal doodle to the half-title. Pickard’s experimental semi-autobiographical novella centring on a working class poet dropout. £50.00