First UK edition of The Abortion: An Historical Romance 1966 by Richard Brautigan (1973)
Medium format hardback in near fine condition. Some shelf wear to the extremities of the cover boards and dust jacket. Slight age toning to the page block and pages. Front end page has been neatly removed (see picture 5 for reference). No other markings. Pages clean, binding firm.
About
A reclusive young man works in a San Francisco library for unpublishable books. Life’s losers, an astonishing number of whom seem to be writers, can bring their manuscripts to the library, where they will be welcomed, registered and shelved. They will not be read, but they will be cherished. In comes Vida, with her manuscript. Her book is about her gorgeous body in which she feels uncomfortable. The librarian makes her feel comfortable, and together they live in the back of the library until a trip to Tijuana changes them in ways neither of them had ever expected.
