Levy (D.A.) The North American Book of the Dead, parts 1 and 2, first edition, deluxe issue, one of 7 copies with 3 original paintings on thicker paper bound in, the first with presentation inscription on verso to W.E. Wyatt, 4 ink corrections to text by the author, original blue pictorial wrappers, saddle-stitched as issued, Cleveland, Free Lance Press, 1965; another edition, parts 1-5, one of 210 copies, bound dos-a-dos, one illustration, two leaves of pink paper, original wrappers with an original signed watercolour painting on paper pasted to front cover and wrapping round onto lower cover, but some wear to spine, Cleveland, 7 Flower Press, 1966; and 6ff., carbon-copied typescript on paper (with various business letterheads on verso) of the first poem, with alternative title crossed out in ink by an unknown hand, together 8 pieces, 4to and 8vo *** A key poetry title of the Sixties counterculture movement. Probably the best-known book by the quintessential hippie-poet of the1960s, a major figure in the Cleveland, Ohio underground and a writer whose suicide at a young age ensured him a kind of literary immortality that probably would have surprised him.The inscription on the verso of the first original painting inserted into the first item reads: "to W.E. Wyatt, love & compassionate apples from the cleveland monasteries. d.a. levy 7/65. one of 7 copies with paintings? by the author."The second item is the first 7 Flower Press edition and is greatly expanded from the above self-published edition Levy created a year earlier, which included only Parts I and II; this edition goes through Part V and, according to Levy's preamble has "72 million revisions" in the previously published parts. It is a mimeographed edition, done in a print run of 210 copies "for friends and editors I want to confuse." Also noted is that a few copies will be for sale at the Asphodel Bookshop, the legendary Cleveland store that JimLowell owned, which became the epicentre for underground poetry in the 1960s and beyond.