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Wantling, William.
The Awakening.
Publisher: Turret Books, London;
Date of Publication: 1967
Stock Code: 9202
Signed limited edition, No. 139 of 200 copies only. 12 mo, pp. 47, [1]. Publishers’ bright emerald green cloth with gilt titles to spine, in unclipped printed cream dust-jacket. Clean and crisp; signed and numbered by the author to verso title page. Dust-jacket lightly surface soiled, and repaired with archival tape to reverse at head of spine. A near fine copy in a very good dust-jacket. Collection of verse by the American poet Wantling (1933- 1974), who appears as a character in the novels and poetry of his acquaintance Charles Bukowski. £50.00