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SHIG’S REVIEW Issues # 1-3 by MURAO, Shigeyoshi (Editor)

by MURAO, Shigeyoshi (Editor)

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SHIG’S REVIEW Issues # 1-3

by MURAO, Shigeyoshi (Editor)

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San Francisco: Adler Press (1 &2) / City Lights (3), 1960, 1969. All near fine. Shig was a pioneer of the zine movement, utilizing photocopies to self-publish material collected in the course of his life at the center of San Francisco’s bohemian culture. He worked at City Lights, sold the copy of Howl that lead to the obscenity trial, went on trial with Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and was written out of the Howl movie. Shig’s Review first appeared in 1960 as two volumes of poetry edited by Shig and published by Adler Press. These printed publications featured poets such as Vincent McHugh, C. H. Kwock, and brothers Vincent and Sean McBride—poets not found in City Lights publications. Marvin Friedman, one of the poets featured in Shig’s Review #1 moved from New York to San Francisco in 1957. His literary idols were Saul Bellow and Bernard Malamud rather than Ginsberg and the Beats. Friedman and Phil Leider, who had come from New York together, had a few drinks one night and headed for City Lights, only to find it closed. They penned a few parodies of Ginsberg on the spot, and taped them to the door of City Lights. They returned to City Lights a few days later, and found that their parodies had been mimeographed and were being given away at the bookstore. Shig subsequently invited them to submit poems for Shig’s Review #1. The third issue of Shig’s Review includes poems by Shigeyoshi Murao, Yoshi Murao, Yoshi Murao Shigi, and other variations on Shig’s name. Instead of poems, the volume features a single photo cropped in different ways. In the image, Shig is sitting on the edge of a bed, holding a stick with a bird figure at the end, which is probably a child’s toy from his Japanese folk art collection.
Shig's Review 1 (1960)

Shig's Review 1 (1960)

by Murao, Shigeyoshi (Shig, ed.), Bill Margolis, Vincent McHugh, Sadie Monsanto, Richard McBride, Sean McBride, Marvin Friedman, Phil Leider, Richard Sherman, et al

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1st edition
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Paperback
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San Francisco: Adler Press, 1960. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 8vo, 20pp, stapled wrappers. The rare first issue of this Beat-era underground review edited by Shigeyoshi Murao of City Lights Books. A bit of typical toning to wrappers; solid unmarked copy overall.
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Shig's Review 2 (1960)

Shig's Review 2 (1960)

by Murao, Shigeyoshi (Shig, ed.), Daniel Moore, Vincent McHugh, Sadie Monsanto, John Saccaro, Ralph Costa, Melville Abbett, Louis Embree, Morton Grinker, et al

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1st edition
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Paperback
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Berkeley, California, United States
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San Francisco: Adler Press, 1960. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 8vo, 16pp, stapled wrappers. Nice copy of the rare second issue of this Beat-era underground review edited by Shigeyoshi Murao of City Lights Books. Unmarked copy (except for penciled original price to front cover), minor wear.
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Shig's Review, Nos. 1-3 (first three issues [later issues were published much later])
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Shig's Review, Nos. 1-3 (first three issues [later issues were published much later])

by MURAO, Shigeyoshi

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(San Francisco: Adler Press / Issue #3 published by City Lights, 1969. Softcover. Near Fine. First editions. First three issues; all that were published before 1984. Small quartos. Stapled printed wrappers. Slight age-toning at the extremities of the wrappers, else near fine. Slim poetry journal edited by Japanese-American Shig Murao, longtime factotum at City Lights Books who was arrested for selling a copy of *Howl* to the police. City Lights owner Lawrence Ferlinghetti contributes poems under a pseudonym in issues #1 and #2. Issue #3, published nine years after the first, is satiric, listing Shig as ALL of the contributors, and consisting entirely of variations on the same photograph by Beth Bagby, of Shig holding a toy wooden bird on a stick. Early sets of this ephemeral little magazine are very uncommon.
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£2,409.00