[Rarebooks] FS: Scarce Michael McClure Typescript of THE ADEPT

[Charles Agvent]

McCLURE, Michael. THE ADEPT (TYPESCRIPT). n.p., [@1970]. First Edition. 
Typescript of 175 photocopied pages with minor corrections in a black 
cloth binder of McClure's second and, so far, last novel, "a 
phantasmagorical adventure story of cocaine and murder." The inside 
front cover is SIGNED by McClure in block lettering. He's also written 
his San Francisco address and phone number. He has rather cryptically 
INSCRIBED it to someone whose name is whited out: "In friendship/for 
saving/Allen Ginsberg's/The Rise & Fall of America." In 1969 McClure 
began a collaboration with the legendary singer of the Doors, Jim 
Morrison, in writing a film script based on this then unpublished novel. 
The script, titled SAINT NICHOLAS, was completed after many nights of 
drinking but never published. A couple of pages with some edgewear at 
the beginning and a few more with a dark ink stain at the outer margin, 
but generally clean. The binding with expected wear. Very Good.

McClure gave his first poetry reading at the age of 22 at the legendary 
Six Gallery event in San Francisco in 1955, where Allen Ginsberg first 
read HOWL. He died in 2020. (#019364)        $750

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