Notes of a Nude Model and Other Pieces [Inscribed and Signed]

New York: Spuyten Duyvil, 2003. Very Good. New York: Spuyten Duyvil, 2003. First Edition. Small, slim 12mo (18cm); publisher's pictorial card wrappers; 103pp. Light wear and dust-soil to margins, rear cover lightly damp spotted, else Very Good and sound. Inscribed and signed by the author on title page together with her 212 phone number.

Memoirs of the "grande horizontale" nude model and Greenwich Village "den mother" Harriet Sohmers Zwerling (1928-2019), a member of James Baldwin's Parisian expat community and (arguably) the original dud avocado.

Reference: Lauren Collins, "Last Bohemians," The New Yorker, March 5, 2006.