The Revolt of the Cockroach People

  • SIGNED
  • San Francisco: Straight Arrow Books, 1973
By Acosta, Oscar Zeta
San Francisco: Straight Arrow Books, 1973. First edition. Very Good/Very Good+. First edition, first printing. Signed by Oscar Zeta Acosta on the front pastedown and inscribed, "To my old friend Althea, the African Queen. Jan '74 Aztlan." 258 pp. Bound in publisher's beige cloth decorated in blind and lettered in white on the spine. Very Good, slightly bumped corners, slight lean and a bowing to boards, in a Very Good+ unclipped dust jacket with light edgewear and soiling and rubbing to extremities.

The scarce semi-autobiographical Chicano Movement-themed novel, signed by Acosta. The radical lawyer and activist was fictionalized by Hunter S. Thompson as drug-gobbling "Dr. Gonzo" in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and disappeared the year he signed this book.

Details

Title

The Revolt of the Cockroach People

Author

Acosta, Oscar Zeta

Condition

Very Good

Publisher

Straight Arrow Books: San Francisco

Date

1973

Edition

First edition


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