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First hardcover edition. SIGNED on the title page. The author's second novel, originally issued by a small press in a longer version but in paperback only. From the front flap: "the exuberant, irresistible story of the adventures of Willy Middlebrook, aka Willy Crusoe..veteran, fugitive, wanderer, and lover. On the lam from a spurious murder charge, Willy sets off in search of his mystical bride, Erica. His quest takes him from the Mushroom Mountain Sanitarium in the hills of West Virginia, via highways, bus stations, and cheap diners in Philadelphia, St. Louis and points in between, to a lost gold mine in the sky-high rockies of Idaho, where he and the wily old prospector Uncle Henry do battle with the ghost of the lost miner Jedediah." Illustrated with line drawings by Edward Wong. 286 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Uncommon signed. .ISBN # 0-318741229 

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