The Autobiography Of a Brown Buffalo

by Acosta, Oscar Zeta

Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo is the first novel by Oscar Zeta Acosta and it focuses on his own self-discovery in a fictionalized manner. An autobiography, the plot presents an alienated lawyer of Mexican descent, who works in an Oakland, California antipoverty agency, without any sense of purpose or identity.

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by Acosta, Oscar Zeta

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1972
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San Francisco: Straight Arrow Books, 1972. Paperback. 199p., illustrations, first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps; mildly worn, fore-edge and top and bottom edges of textblock foxed, else good condition. Also published in cloth. Acosta was a Chicano lawyer and the model for Dr. Gonzo in Hunter S. Thompson's "Fear and Loathing in Los Vegas.
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Straight Arrow, San Francisco, 1972 The very rare UNCORRECTED PROOF of this book, accompanied by a great letter from a vice president of Straight Arrow books to Nina Finkestein at Ms. Magazine. Tan printed wraps, 10 5/8 x 5 3/8 inches, 163 pp. (Note: "First Printing" stated on the copyright page.) Very good (pencil mark through the printed title and… Read more about this item
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San Francisco: Straight Arrow Books [1972], 1972. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. [6], 11-199, [1] pp. Bound in brown cloth with gold lettering on the front board and the spine, gold endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $7.00 on the front flap of the jacket. Illustrated with a few drawings of American bison. Acosta was a well-known… Read more about this item
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[San Francisco: Straight Arrow Books, 1972].. Brown cloth, lettered in gilt. Preliminaries and chapter heads illustrated. Thin and almost unobtrusive remainder designation on top edge, otherwise about fine in near very good, typically rubbed pictorial dust jacket with remnant of Yale Co-Op price sticker on front jacket flap near printed price. First edition of the Chicano activist lawyer's first… Read more about this item
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San Francisco, CA: Straight Arrow Books, 1972. Very Good/Very Good. San Francisco, CA: Straight Arrow Books, 1972. Later printing. Octavo. 199 pp. Photo-illustrated dust jacket with "$7.00" price present. Brown boards stamped in gilt. Dust jacket lightly edgeworn with moderate wrinkling. Boards lightly shelfworn with slight lean. Binding is sound. Touch of foxing to edges of text block… Read more about this item
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