Willeford, Charles Ray, III [1919 - 1988]. Et al. — The OUTCAST POETS

Yonkers NY: Alicat Book Shop Press, 1947. 1st edition. Printed envelope. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve. Loose sheets. 8vo. Fine in a Nr Fine envelope. Willeford was an American writer. An author of fiction, poetry, autobiography, and literary criticism, Willeford is best known for his series of novels featuring hardboiled detective Hoke Moseley. Willeford published steadily from the 1940s on, but vaulted to wider attention with the first Hoke Moseley book, Miami Blues (1984), which is considered one of its era's most influential works of crime fiction. Film adaptations have been made of four of Willeford's novels: Cockfighter, Miami Blues, The Woman Chaser, and The Burnt Orange Heresy. This the author's 1st appearance in print ('Entrance To An Era'; In Time of This'; 'I Passed Over the River'; 'Basement Pastoral' & 'The Apocalypse'). From the Alicat Outcast Series of Chapbook Series, No. VIII. The other poets represented: P. K. Thomajan, Miriam Allan deFord, Robert Anthony and F. H. Kaler.