signed first edition Hardcover
1968 · New York
by WURLITZER, Rudolph
New York: Random House, 1968. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Fine in a lightly rubbed, near fine dustwrapper with two light spots. Author's compliments card laid in. Inscribed by the author: "For George - (Jorge) and Cynthia - With love - and salt around the rim and the Sylvia Motel - Rudy. Thanks for the grey Stetson." First novel, a sixties road trip narrative, compared in a blurb on the rear panel to Thomas Pynchon (Pynchon himself contributed a blurb to one of Wurlitzer's subsequent works). Wurlitzer's numerous screenplays include the cult drag-racing film *Two-Lane Blacktop* starring James Taylor and Dennis Wilson, and the cult search-for-the-perfect-guitar film *Candy Mountain* with Tom Waits, Leon Redbone, Dr. John and many others. A lovely copy with an intriguing association. (Inventory #: 65880)