Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1977. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1977. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth-backed boards, dark red topstain, in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($7.95); 178pp. A few chips to jacket margins with brief split to front fold; spine toned. Boards shelfworn with adjacent toning and mild bowing to boards approaching fore-edge. Binding sound and pages unmarked. A Very Good copy of Babitz's second work, ten stories from "that other planet, rickety myth, demi-paradise that is L.A.," (from front flap), following her debut three years prior, Eve's Hollywood.