The Tokyo-Montana Express

by Richard Brautigan

First edition, signed.  New York:  Targ Editions, 1979  

Hardback is overall in VERY GOOD+ condition.

• Charcoal cloth covers are mostly clean with gilt text to spine.  Boards are sunned at extremities, show a little edgewear.  Corners are sharp.  See photos.   
• Spine has gilt text and is sunned with softened ends.  See photos.
• Binding is strong. 
• End papers/ pastedowns show little to no sign of age or wear.
• Interior exhibits minimal signs of age and wear.  Inside pages are free of writing and intentional marks. 
• Text block edges have untrimmed fore and foot edges, a little dust. 
• Onionskin dust jacket, as isssued, shows a little bumping at head and foot, tiny chips at spine ends. 
• PS2026.0225

37 pages. 6.75 x 10.25 inches

First, limited edition, signed by the author.  Targ Editions #6, designed and printed by Leonard Seastone at his Tideline Press.  Charcoal boards under an onionskin wrapper, protected by an acetate wrap.  Title page printed in colored inks with decorative rondel.  Interior is unmarked.  Condition overall in VG+, with some sunning to spine and top board.

A collection of twenty short stories by the American novelist, poet, and short-story writer Richard Brautigan (1935-1984).  As described by Brautigan's prefatory note, they were "written in Tokyo and Montana between 1977 and 1978.  The stories are positioned so as to alternate between the two cultures.  They are another way of looking at things."

The book was designed and printed by Leonard Seastone (born 1950) at his Tideline Press.  Seastone was one of a number of fine press printers who worked with William Targ (1907-1999), collaborating on the Targ Editions beginning in 1978.  A very successful editor in the field of commercial publishing, Targ was nonetheless committed to the art of bookmanship and the ideals of the private press.  After retiring from Putnam, he founded Targ Editions, which he ran from his home in Greenwich Village.  As Targ wrote for his Targ Editions checklist: "Each of these books is individually designed (no two formats are alike) and they are produced by letter press and are hand-bound.  The various printing papers are of high quality, and enduring — mainly of rag, and deckle-edged.  The bindings are of pictorial or decorated boards, and/or cloth over boards.  Each book is signed by its author.  The editions are limited to between 150 and 350 copies each." 

Limited edition of 350 copies.  Signed by the author on the colophon.

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