Guffan, Mick

Liar Survivor

London, England: Tangerine Press, 2023. Limited Signed & Numbered Edition. Hardcover. "Keep your / friends close / keep Guffan / closer" ("Opener," pg. 1). “Liar Survivor” is the fourth work by Mick Guffan (1953-2006) to be released by Michael Curran’s Tangerine Press, the others being 2022’s “Bastard Out of Mitchum,” [TMB Item #5018], 2021’s “Bent for the Job,” and 2018’s “Inner London Buddha.” Guffan has received more and more recognition as of late, with an honorable mention even in the UK’s premier left-wing newspaper, The Guardian, in which the esteemed UK author Howard Cunnell writes, “The former taxi driver, airplane cleaner, carpenter and poet Mick Guffan may be a ghost or a pseudonym, or a fabrication. Either way, he is elusive.” Elusive, indeed; if not for the dutiful work of Tangerine Press, Guffan—half-part Basho, half-part Bukowski—might ruefully be swept into the storm drains of history. Limited Edition Hardcover “handbound in boards by Tangerine Press, London,” per colophon; No. 25/50 numbered copies with “Signature Scraps” (featuring Guffan’s signature, as implied). Guffan signature, on scrap in thin, black pen ink, reads: “Mick Guffan.” In very fine condition, essentially as new with only slightest shelf-wear to fine-edges & corners, else pristine. Very Fine. [Item #5568]

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