BARTHELME, Donald. Unspeakable Practices Unnatural Acts..

(London): Jonathan Cape, 1968.  First UK edition.  Octavo.  180 pages.  The UK first edition of the author’s second collection of short stories.  Here a collection of fifteen short tales which focus on the various aspects of the struggle – sometimes ludicrously comic – to be human in a world that seems hell-bent on complete depersonalisation.   A very good copy, slightly musty, in dust jacket.