Richard Brautigan
The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster
Jonathan Cape, London, 1970. First UK edition (originally published 1968). Hardcover in yellow dust jacket.
A luminous early collection from one of America’s most singular literary voices.
The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster captures Richard Brautigan at his most distilled—lean, strange, tender, and quietly devastating. These short poems move between absurdity and ache in a single breath, transforming ordinary images into incantations. As with his novels, Brautigan’s gift lies in compression: the surreal made intimate, the intimate made mythic.
This is the 1970 first British edition published by Jonathan Cape, in its striking yellow dust jacket with photographic cover. A handsome copy overall, with light wear to the jacket edges and minor handling consistent with age. The book remains solid and clean internally.
A desirable early Brautigan title—particularly appealing to collectors building a run of his late-60s and early-70s work.
Richard Brautigan
The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster
Jonathan Cape, London, 1970. First UK edition (originally published 1968). Hardcover in yellow dust jacket.
A luminous early collection from one of America’s most singular literary voices.
The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster captures Richard Brautigan at his most distilled—lean, strange, tender, and quietly devastating. These short poems move between absurdity and ache in a single breath, transforming ordinary images into incantations. As with his novels, Brautigan’s gift lies in compression: the surreal made intimate, the intimate made mythic.
This is the 1970 first British edition published by Jonathan Cape, in its striking yellow dust jacket with photographic cover. A handsome copy overall, with light wear to the jacket edges and minor handling consistent with age. The book remains solid and clean internally.
A desirable early Brautigan title—particularly appealing to collectors building a run of his late-60s and early-70s work.
