Vintage 1971 First Edition Second Printing HC with DJ: “Tarantula” by Bob Dylan

As shown. See all photos. Found among my late mother’s belongings. Seen better days. Purchase with this in mind. Pages mostly fine. Spine secure. It’s the cover and the dust jacket that are most diminished.

“Bob Dylan's only fictional book was written in 1964/65/66 during the creative peak that produced Blonde on Blonde. Reminiscent of Dylan's best songs, it is essential reading for anyone interested in his creative processes. Initial publication was repeatedly delayed, and it circulated for years only as a 'bookleg' photocopied from reviewers' advance proofs. Fittingly, perhaps, because this is a book that captures the tone and spirit of the turbulent times in which it was written. The alternating poems and prose echo the artistic concerns we find in Dylan's contemporary songs: a sense of protest, a verbal playfulness and spontaneity, and a belief in the legitimacy of the street—with all its colourful life—as a subject.”

In style of Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg