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 farm scene; pp. 251; very minor foxing to edges, near fine; bold presentation inscription "To Peter from Nick Cave" in ink to front free endpaper.
First US edition, inscribed by the author.
Cave’s first novel is a dark and hallucinatory tale centred on Euchrid Eucrow, the inbred child of a deranged religious sect, raised in isolation and terrorised by his monstrous parents. His descent into delusion and violent madness unfolds with the fevered intensity of Cave’s lyrics – brutal, visionary, and unmistakably his own.
This copy includes a loosely inserted yellow Tower Records advertising flyer with a photocopied Los Angeles Times review of Cave’s performance at Lollapalooza.
SKU: 2121686