CAVE, Nick. And the Ass saw the Angel. New York: HarperCollins.1989.
8vo. Original green and blue cloth backed boards with gilt lettering to spine; pictorial dust wrapper featuring a scene of a farm; pp. 251; Very minor foxing to edges, near fine.
First US edition, inscribed by Nick Cave "To Peter from Nick Cave" to ffep. Includes a loosely inserted yellow Tower Records advertising flyer with photocopied Los Angeles Times review of Cave's performance at Lollapaloza to verso
Cave's first novel is the macabre story of Euchrid Eucrow, who, growing up the result of inbreeeding in a strange religious sect and terrorised by his monstrous parents, finally explodes in an act of delusional psychosis. No one else could have written this book.
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