[Rarebooks] FS: INSCRIBED Association Copy of NAKED LUNCH

[Charles Agvent]

HUNCKE, Herbert. ELSIE JOHN AND JOEY MARTINEZ. New York: Pequod Press, 
1979. First Edition. Printed wraps. Two stories by one of the original 
Beats. Illustrated by Leni Fuhrman with a print tipped-in opposite the 
title page. Copy #23 of 100 numbered copies with handset type SIGNED by 
the author and the artist on the colophon page. Fine.

Elsie John was a German-born "hermaphrodite" performer, also known as a 
"half-and-half" in the parlance of the side show or "freak" show trade 
because of the custom of presenting half of the body with attributes of 
a typical male and the other half female. In this memoir Huncke 
describes how Elsie John introduced him to heroin and to the gay 
underground of 1930s Chicago. (#015227)     $135

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