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Big Table 1 (1959 - contains the complete contents of the suppressed Winter 1959 Chicago Review, including a selection from Naked Lunch) by Rosenthal, Irving (ed.), Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, Gregory Corso, Edward Dahlberg - 1959

by Rosenthal, Irving (ed.), Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, Gregory Corso, Edward Dahlberg

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Big Table 1 (1959 - contains the complete contents of the suppressed Winter 1959 Chicago Review, including a selection from Naked Lunch) by Rosenthal, Irving (ed.), Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, Gregory Corso, Edward Dahlberg - 1959

Big Table 1 (1959 - contains the complete contents of the suppressed Winter 1959 Chicago Review, including a selection from Naked Lunch)

by Rosenthal, Irving (ed.), Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, Gregory Corso, Edward Dahlberg

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Chicago: Big Table, Inc, 1959. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 8vo, 160pp, printed wrappers. The significant first issue of this important and influential Beat Generation literary magazine, containing the content of the suppressed Winter 1959 Chicago Review. Includes a selection from "Naked Lunch," plus "Old Angel Midnight" by Kerouac and writing by Edward Dahlberg. Unmarked copy with toning to covers, light spine wear.
  • Bookseller Philip Smith, Bookseller US (US)
  • Format/Binding Soft cover
  • Book Condition Used - Very Good
  • Jacket Condition No Jacket (as issued)
  • Edition 1st edition
  • Binding Paperback
  • Publisher Chicago: Big Table, Inc
  • Date Published 1959
  • Keywords Irving Rosenthal Jack Kerouac William S. Burroughs Naked Lunch Gregory Corso Edward Dahlberg Big Table 1 Chicago Review Winter 1959 censorship censored Beat Generation counterculture Beat Generation : Periodicals

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Big Table 1

Big Table 1

by ROSENTHAL, Irving (editor)

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Chicago: Big Table Inc, 1959. Slightly leaned, some pale staining to wrappers. 8vo. Original printed wrappers. First edition of this infamous first issue of Big Table - founded after editors Irving Rosenthal and Paul Carroll resigned from The Chicago Review in protest to harsh criticisms of their printing portions of the then-unpublished novel Naked Lunch by William S. Burrough. This first issue of Big Table, founded in the wake of this episode, was impounded by the U.S. Post Office. A court trial resulted in its favor, and the journal continued through another 5 issues. Rosenthal's novel Sheeper is a classic of the era, and one of the great minor novels of American literature. See Clay & Phillips, A Secret Location on the Lower East Side, p. 45.
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Big Table 1 (1959 - contains the complete contents of the suppressed Winter 1959 Chicago Review,...

Big Table 1 (1959 - contains the complete contents of the suppressed Winter 1959 Chicago Review, including a selection from Naked Lunch)

by Rosenthal, Irving (ed.), Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, Gregory Corso, Edward Dahlberg, et al

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Chicago: Big Table, Inc, 1959. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). Near VG. 8vo, 160pp, printed wrappers. The significant first issue of this important and influential Beat Generation literary magazine, containing the content of the suppressed Winter 1959 Chicago Review. Includes a selection from Naked Lunch (Schottlaender C6), plus Old Angel Midnight by Kerouac, three poems by Gregory Corso, and writing by Edward Dahlberg. Unmarked copy, internally sound with some toning and light stains to covers (and first interior leaf), a little spine lean.
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BIG TABLE 1; The Complete Contents of the Suppressed Winter 1959 Chicago Review

BIG TABLE 1; The Complete Contents of the Suppressed Winter 1959 Chicago Review

by Rosenthal, irving (Ed.)

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Chicago IL: Big Table, Inc, 1959. First Printing. Trade paperback. Near Fine/No dust jacket. 8vo. 158pp. Wraps. BIG TABLE was launched in 1959 following the suppression of the Winter 1958 issue of The Chicago Review.and included Jack Kerouac's long narrative poem Old Angel Midnight, ten episodes from Burrough's Naked Lunch, which would first be published in its entirety later that year by the Olympia Press in Paris,three poems by Gregory Corso and The Garment of Ra and Further Sorrows of Priapus by Edward Dahlberg. A very collectible copy of important beat era publication. Subscription postcard laid in.
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