[ADULT ENTERTAINMENT]. BARR, Candy (pseudonym of SLUSHER, Juanita Dale (1935-2005)]. A Gentle Mind... Confused. [Midland, TX:] Dulce Press, 1972. 8vo. 56 pp. Publisher's blue cloth backstrip over green boards, spine lettered in gilt, publisher's price-clipped dust jacket. FIRST EDITION OF HER FIRST BOOK, A BOOK OF POEMS WRITTEN DURING ONE OF HER STAYS IN PRISON, SIGNED BY HER ON THE FFEP.

Barr/Slusher was a prostitute, exotic dancer, one of the earliest porn stars (she had done a famous short film, "Smart Alec"), had relationships with mobsters Mickey Cohen and Jack Ruby, had been in jail for drug possession and shooting her second husband, and was a film choreographer. In the early 1980s, Texas Monthly magazine proclaimed her (and other important Texans) as one of "history's perfect Texans." 

Light rubbing to binding, jacket rubbed, toned, lightly soiled, rear jacket panel dampstained and wrinkled. Very good.