Proletarian Laughter. Poems
- 1 vols. 8vo
- Yonkers, N.Y.: The Alicat Bookshop Press, 1948
Yonkers, N.Y.: The Alicat Bookshop Press, 1948. First Edition of the author's first book. 1 vols. 8vo. Original pictorial stapled wrappers, somewhat age-darkened and brittle as customary with this book, small closed tear at center of spine Very Good. First Edition of the author's first book. 1 vols. 8vo. Willeford was a tank commander during World War II and author of four best-selling and extremely dark crime novels during the 1980s, beginning with Miami Blues. His first book, Number 12 in the Alicat Bookshop “Outcasts” Series is consciously modelled upon Hemingway's in our time, and consists of short poems and seven prose “Schematics”. Herron 1