CLOSE TO THE KNIVES: A Memoir of Disintegration

New York: Vintage Books, 1991. First edition. Very good.. Scarce first printing of this stream-of-consciousness memoir of the influential multimedia artist and AIDS activist, published only a year before his death. This powerful memoir encompasses Wojnarowicz's fraught childhood, his artistic and personal life, and the trauma of the AIDS crisis, with scathing criticisms of the US government's reaction. A scarce account of the period by someone at the center of it. 8'' x 5''. Original black-and-white pictorial wrappers. 276 pages. Wrapper with light edgewear, spot of soil to one corber. Leaves uniformly mildly toned. Else sound.