The Revolt of the Cockroach People
- SIGNED
- San Francisco: Straight Arrow Books, 1973
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