The Frisco Kid
Kamstra, Jerry. Harper & Row, 1975 (1st Ed., 1st Printing). Hardbound. Design by Dorothy Schmiderer. Jacket design by Mark Rubin. Author photo by Ken Collins. The novel that Kerouac biographer Gerald Nicosia called 'a Beat masterpiece on par with On the Road'. It chronicles an assortment of loosely fictionalized North Beach, San Francisco, oddballs—Hube the Cube, Johnny Woodrose, Linda Lovely, Trout Fishing in America Shorty—many of whom are documented in Walter Chappell's jacket photocollage, which covers a groovily designed edition, complete with map-printed end-sheets and a satisfying use of the brush script–inspired typeface Dom Casual, designed by Iranian-born typographer Peter Dom and near-ubiquitous for several decades.
Tight, square spine. Clean, unmarked interior. Some very subtle foxing to the edges, but no other notable wear to the book. Jacket has some moderate edge-wear and a few small areas of soiling. 261 pp. Fiction.
