Highlands, NC: The Nanthala Foundation/Jonathan Williams Publisher [Jargon Society], 1965. 190pp. Large 8vo. Orange cloth decorated and titled in black; dust jacket. Very near fine in a price-clipped jacket.
First edition of this experimental novel by American writer Paul Metcalf (1917–1999); an exploration of the lives of two brothers, interspersed with passages from Melville and Christopher Columbus. A complex and underappreciated hybrid text. Issued as Jargon 43.
