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Amok Press Edition of Jack Black's "You Can't Win" (1988)

New York City: Amok Press (book, memoir), 1988. 8.25" x 5.25" x 0.875", 394 pages, softcover, ISBN 0-941693-07-4. You Can't Win  by Jack Black, as published in a first softcover edition by Amok Books (New York City) in 1988, 62 years after its first appearance in print. Cover illustrations by Joe Coleman, and cover design by Laura Lindgren. The design of the 24-chapter text block follows the original 1926 printing, aside from the addition of a foreword by William S. Burroughs, who was deeply influenced by this book as a youth.  Shoaf II.231.

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