869: Leaving Small’s Hotel
Covers and Copyright
Eric Kraft’s novel contains Peter Leroy’s memoir.
For Mad
LEAVING SMALL’S HOTEL is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, dialogues, settings, events, and organizations portrayed in it are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictionally and are not to be construed as real.
Copyright © 1998 by Eric Kraft
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.
E-mail babbingtonpress@erickraft.com.
Manufactured in the United States of America.
Design and cover photograph by Eric Kraft.
The advertisements for schemes to raise animals for profit originally appeared in the February 1953 issue of Popular Mechanics magazine. All the other illustrations have been drawn by the author or cobbled together by the author from clip art.
Several of the episodes of Dead Air that are incorporated in Leaving Small’s Hotel were originally published in Exquisite Corpse.
Cover image: Claude Monet, Le Pont d’Argenteuil (1874, detail)
Peter Leroy’s cover image: Colin Campbell Cooper, At Edgartown, Martha’s Vineyard (1915, detail)
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Publishing History
1998 Picador USA published Leaving Small’s Hotel in hardcover.
2014 First Babbington Press Print Edition
2019 First Babbington Press ePub Edition
