Loading Mercury with a Pitchfork

Brautigan, Richard

Published by Simon and Schuster, New York, 1976

About this Item

First edition, first printing. Presentation copy to friend and future biographer William "Gatz" Hjortsberg, signed by Richard Brautigan on the title page and inscribed, "This copy is for Gatz Hjortzberg 'wishing him good working days on his novel' with Love from Richard Brautigan August 24, 1976 Pine Creek, Montana." 127 pp. Bound in publisher's cloth with silver spine lettering. Fine in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light wear. Publisher's "With the Compliments of the Author" slip laid-in along with a humorous nude fisher woman postcard addressed to Brautigan from "Gatz,": "Mrs. Nelson never looked so good!" and postmarked 29.07.76, possibly a nod to Brautigan's earlier novel Trout Fishing in America. A sharp copy of Brautigan's ninth work of poetry inscribed to the fellow writer and member of the Montana Gang who decades later penned the massive, 600,000 word biography, Jubilee Hitchhiker: The Life and Times of Richard Brautigan.

Seller Inventory # 140947318

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Loading Mercury with a Pitchfork
• Publisher: Simon and Schuster, New York
• Publication Date: 1976
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Association Copies
  • Poetry
  • Signed