The New Book / A Book of Torture (the poet Keith Abbott's copy)

New York and London: Grove Press, Inc.; Evergreen Books Ltd, 1961. Second printing. Paperback. Very good. 64pp. Slim octavo [20.5 cm] Illustrated wraps. with mild toning to the wraps. Ex-libris Northwestern poet Keith Abbott, with his name at the head of the half title. In 1953, Michael McClure settled in San Francisco, where his poems were published in a number of little magazines, and where he grew to be associated with the "San Francisco Renaissance.