here’s one of my favourite quotes about brautigan. this is from bruce cook of the national observer and located on the back cover of the hawkline monster: a gothic western.

no writer you can think of is quite like him today, nor was any writer anytime – unless you can imagine the kind of things mark twain might have written had he wandered into a field of ripe cannabis with a pack of zig zag papers in his pocket. that’s about as close as i can come to brautigan, a kind of cracker-barrel surrealist whose humor is essentially nineteenth-century western american.

if you’re looking for a brautigan find – here’s where to look.

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The Pill Versus The Springhill Mine Disaster
© 1968
cover photograph by Edmund Shea
Marsha Pacaud was Brautigan’s friend and lover. There was no back cover art work.

Rommel Drives On Deep Into Egypt
© 1970
cover photograph by Edmund Shea

Beverly Allen is the woman in the photo. This photograph is from the same photo shoot as the pix on A Confederate General from Big Sur, which was taken on a misty, rainy day in 1970 in the sandbox in the panhandle of Golden Gate Park. The back cover of the book was a photo of the sandbox.

Trout Fishing In America
© 1967
cover photograph by Erik Weber

Brautigan called the woman in this picture, Michaela Le Grand, his “muse”. A photograph of Brautigan (alone) in front of the same statute had already been slated for the cover of Trout Fishing. One day Erik suggested Brautigan and Michaela pose in front of the statute. Brautigan liked the new image better and convinced his publisher to use it instead of the original. The back cover did not contain art work.

Revenge of The Lawn
© 1971
Cover photograph by Edmund Shea. The woman is Sherry Vetter. There was no back cover art work.

A Confederate General from Big Sur
© 1971
the cover photograph is by Edmund Shea overlaid on a reprint of a painting entitled ‘The Next to the Last Confederate Soldier’ by Larry Rivers. The version shown here is the UK release which has a pix of Richarnd and Beverly Allen.

Beverly Allen is the woman in the photo. This photograph is from the same photo shoot as the pix on Rommel Drives On Deep Into Egypt which was taken on a misty, rainy day in 1970 in the sandbox in the panhandle of Golden Gate Park.

The USA release contained a back cover photo of Richard which was taken by Erik Weber.

The Abortion: An Historical Romance 1966
© 1964
cover photograph by Edmund Shea.
the woman on the cover is Victoria Domalgoski, a friend of Richard’s.
no art work on the back cover.