329 pages. First edition, first printing. Dust jacket art by Eric Von Schmidt. description. Dust jacket not price clipped, $5.95. First edition, first printing, stated. Farina was married to Mimi Baez, Joan's sister. His first & only book. He was killed in a motorcycle accident two days after the book was published. Blurb on the front flap from Thomas Pynchon who was his classmate at Cornell.