MY VITA IF YOU WILL - The Uncollected Ed McClanahan by McClanahan, Ed (foreword by Robert Stone) - 1998

Washington D.C.: Counterpoint, 1998. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. 8vo. (xi) 274 pp. Trade paperback format. Signed on the title page by Ed McClanahan. Lightly rubbed on the corners with a flat uncreased spine; aside from the author's signature, no interior markings. One of the Fab Five group of Kentucky writers, McClanahan is well known for his crude humour. This collection contains: Foreword by Robert Stone; The Little Known Bird of the Inner Eye; The Cynic; Postcard; Captain Kentucky Visits the Left Coast: A Memoir of Wallace Stegner; The Greatest Writing Ever Wrote; The Harry Eastep File; Empathy Follows Sympathy; Great Moments in Sports; Visions of Neal - A Dirge; Fredpitaph: Remembering Fred Nelson; Richard Brautigan's Revenge of the Lawn - a review with Gurney Norman; Zen Bastard to the Rescue: A Tip of the McClanahat to Paul Krassner; Grateful Dead I Have Known; Ed Sander's The Family - A Review; Another Great Moment in Sports; Where I Live; Futhermore; and Fear and Hope and a Gutter; followed by McClanahan of Brooksville: A Recognition by Wendell Berry; and Autobiography of a Voice by Tom Marksbury..