Richard Farina. 
 
Random House: 1966. Fourth printing. Hardcover in a dust jacket. Octavo. Wear along the top and bottom of the jacket so that the jacket is bowed. Tears on the top of the spine of the jacket and a larger one on the top fold of the front panel to the flap. Wear along the top and bottom of the boards. Corners are bumped, and the bottom corners are a little exposed. Text block a little shaken. 329 pages. Jacket good, book very good. 
 
Nurse Fang, the girl in the green socks, Plastic Man, Heffalump the quadroon, the pearled she-wolf, Mentor University, Las Vegas, the Thousand Acre Plantation: questing to figure out everyone he meets, just where he is, and whether he can score, Farina's stand-in college student Gnossos is shot through pinball machine America like he's in outrageous technicolor accompanied by a score from a 200 player kazoo orchestra (as college buddy Thomas Pynchon wrote). Since this is the fourth printing, the back panel of the jacket notes Farina's death before going into his extraordinary life as a world traveler, political worker, and folk singer. 
 
"Young Gnossos Pappadopoulis, furry Pooh Bear, keeper of the flame, voyaged back from the asphalt seas of the great wasted land: oh highways U.S. 40 and unyielding 66, I am home to the glacier-gnawed gorges, the fingers of lakes, the golden girls of Westchester and Shaker Heights. See me loud with lies, big boots stomping, mind awash with schemes."