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 toning to front and back wrappers; offsetting from front wrapper onto title page and on rear wrapper onto end paper; a little rubbing to spine.
First and only edition.
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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