Description: Weed: Adventures of a Dope Smuggler Jerry Kamstra, photographs by Eugene Anthony Published by Harper & Row, New York, 1974. First Edition 1st printing. SIGNED / INSCRIBED by Jerry Kamstra. Cloth backed boards some musty odor ; foxing to foreedges in dust jacket good fully intact. Autobiographical account of smuggling marijuana from Mexico to the United States. J"erry Kamstra (January 2, 1935 – November 26, 2019) was an American novelist, poet, artist and community organizer. Kamstra is best known for his novels Weed: Adventures Of A Dope Smuggler and The Frisco Kid. Kamstra was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts NEA Writers Grant in 1978 for his novel General Popo: A Novel of Mexico. He was a prominent artist denizen and “Beatnik” of San Francisco’s North Beach neighborhood in the late 1950s and early 1960s, as chronicled in The Frisco Kid, his novel of the Beat Generation. The novel has become a cult classic which literary critic and Kerouac biographer Gerald Nicosia claims is “a Beat masterpiece on par with On The Road.”
Price: 80 USD
Location: Berkeley, California
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Restocking Fee: No
Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Binding: Hardcover
Modification Description: Signed and inscribed by the Author on the half-title page.
Place of Publication: New York, NY
Signed: Yes
Publisher: Harper & Row, Publishers
Modified Item: Yes
Subject: Literature & Fiction
Year Printed: 1974
Original/Facsimile: Original
Language: English
Special Attributes: 1st Printing, Dust Jacket, First Edition, First Printing, Inscribed, Signed
Region: North America
Author: Jerry Kamstra
Personalized: Yes
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Topic: Literature, Modern
