NY: Pequod Press, 1979. First edition. No. 42 of 100 copies signed by Huncke and Fuhrman at rear. [4], 9, [3]pp; block-print illustration mounted opposite title page. Saddle-sewn in printed card wraps. Mild crease to top corner of front cover, else fine.
A pair of brief autobiographical portraits by American writer and counterculture icon Herbert Huncke (1915-1996): one of Elsie-John, a German crossdresser and self-described "hermaphrodite" who performed a half-man, half-woman act in Chicago side-shows and later on Coney Island, and was instrumental in introducing a young Huncke to the drug and gay underworlds; the other of Joey Martinez, a young Puerto Rican street tough whom Huncke befriended while in the hospital undergoing methadone treatment. This limited edition followed by a trade edition of 1979, also Pequod.
