Richard Brautigan 3-Book Lot – First Paperback Printings Watermelon Sugar Pill Lawn

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Three books that pretty much explain why Richard Brautigan remains one of the unmistakable voices of late-1960s and early-1970s American counterculture. In Watermelon Sugar is his strange, spare novel of iDEATH and a post-apocalyptic pastoral world; The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster gathers his poetry from 1957–1968; and Revenge of the Lawn collects the tiny, funny, melancholy stories he wrote between 1962 and 1970. Together they move through the territory Brautigan made his own—sex, death, trout, loneliness, absurdity, California, and the peculiar comedy of being alive.

These are also the editions a lot of readers actually encountered: inexpensive photographic paperbacks that circulated through bookstores, college towns, backpacks and communal houses rather than sitting untouched on somebody’s shelf. The first Delta printings of In Watermelon Sugar and The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster retain their terrific period photographic covers, while the first Simon & Schuster paperback of Revenge of the Lawn completes a great little Brautigan shelf. Sold together as found, and much more fun as a group than individually.

Three essential Richard Brautigan paperbacks from the period when his strange little corner of American literature was becoming part of the culture.