Claude Pélieu, Automatic Pilot

New York, Fuck You Press, 1964. First Edition. Side-stapled pictorial wraps, 28 x 21.5 cm, 37 pp. Cover printed offset, the remainder mimeographed rectos only (except rear cover printed verso). Mild wear and soil, small stain on top back wrapper, else clean and sound.

Automatic Pilot is the scarce first publication of the French 'Beat' poet and artist Claude Pélieu (1934-2002), translated from French to English in cooperation with his (future) wife Mary Beach.