NICHOLS, Robert. Slow Newsreel of Man Riding a Train. San Francisco: City Lights Books. 1962.
Small 4to. Original blue and white wrappers; pp. [2] 5-36; slight foxing to front and back wrappers; general fading across both and to binding which is also rubbed; offsetting from front wrapper onto title page.
First and only edition, signed by Lawrence Ferlinghetti who specifies himself as "editor" of The Pocket Poets Series.
Robett Nichols, poet and playwright, was one of the earliest established "soldier poets" of WWI and a friend of his contemporaries Siegfried Sasson and Robert Graves. Slow Newsreel of Man Riding Train is number fifteen in Ferlinghetti's cult series The Pocket Poets series, following Allen Ginsberg's notorious Kaddish .
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