The Hasty Papers: A One-Shot Review, Alfred Leslie
1st edition, 1960
195 pages. 
39.7 x 29.4 cm

Singular literary artifact of the Beat Era. Original folio of art and social critique, politics, poetry, comics, communism and sex. Included are works by Jean Paul Sartre, Truman Capote, Boris Pasternak, Jean Genet, Fidel Castro, Gregory Corso, Frank O'Hara, Allen Ginsberg, John Ashbery, Charles Olson, William Arrowsmith, Jack Kerouac, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Alan Ansen, Derek Walcott, Wm. Carlos Williams, Gael Turnbull, Barbara Guest, Robert Frank, Terry Southern, Alfred Jensen, Peter Orlovsky, Alice Neel, Alfred Leslie and others. Includes compete text of Fitz Hugh Ludlow's The Hasheesh Eater (1857). 

Condition: Fair. Front stiff-card wrapper and spine are intact but stained; back wrapper missing. Spine is good. Some pages near front and back are crimped. Back page is loose and crimped. Interior text, drawings and photographs are otherwise very good; binding is very good, tight. Has been lightly if ever read, but pages are fragile. Small handwriting on front in faded blue ink: "To Susan"