New York, NY: Beach Books,Texts & Documents, Inc., 1969. Second American Edition, First Edition Thus. Softcover. A collage novel originally published in 1960 by Norman Rubington (1921-1991) under the nom de plume “Akbar del Piombo.” Rubington, per our distinguished colleague Gregory Stephenson at the European Beat Studies Network (ebsn.eu), “was an acclaimed American artist — painter, sculptor, illustrator and filmmaker — who lived much of his adult life abroad, chiefly..... More