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Burns, Alan.
Dreamerika!
Publisher: Calder & Boyars Ltd, London;
Date of Publication: 1972
Stock Code: 6803
FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. Octavo, pp. 135. Publishers’ red cloth with gilt titles to spine in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket designed by Vanessa Strong. Very slight bruise to spine. Signed by Alan Burns to fellow author Laurence Staig; “Alan Burns for Laurence with best wishes”, to ffep. Jacket lightly toned to spine and top edge. A Near Fine copy in like jacket. A novel of lies, fantasy-history and a fusion of fact and dream, in a satirical take on the Kennedy dynasty. The experimental Author collected newspaper clippings, headlines, photographs and cartoons then dissected them, interspersing them throughout the text; his collage is carefully reproduced in this, his fourth novel. Scarce. £200.00