Charles Plymell's "The Last of the Moccasins" (1971)

San Francisco, California, US: City Lights Books (book, memoir), 1971.
8" x 5.25" x 0.5", 161 pages, softcover.

The Last of the Moccasins by Charles Plymell, as published first in softcover by City Lights Books (San Francisco, California, US) in 1971. A memoir of life in S.F. and "on the road" in the 1950s, with a number of mentions of Neal Cassady and Allen Ginsberg, among others. Introduction by Nidra Poller.

This has a blurb by William S. Burroughs (London, 1971) on the back cover: “Plymell has as much in depth to say about death as Hemingway did and a lot more to say about it in terms of the present generation still-born into a world that can offer nothing… death from an OD… Death from a plane crash… Computerized death… He is saying a lot about life too which has become the chewed-over leftovers of death… ‘A manifesto of ashes….’”

This copy was acquired from Philip Smith, Bookseller (Berkeley, California, US).