Chicago Review Spring 1958 by Irving Rosenthal (ed. ) - 1958

New York: Birth Press, 1965. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). Near VG. 8vo, 104pp, stapled wrappers. Scarce, thick final issue of this Birth Press era title edited by Tuli Kupferberg of the Fugs. An antiwar anthology lovingly assembled with an imaginative collage layout. (This copy does not have the Fuck for Peace insert leaflet found in some copies.) Unmarked copy with some toning and soil (overlay illustration to one page has associated shadowing from original glue).

San Francisco: Beatitude Press, 1977. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 4to, 46pp (plus plates), stapled wrappers. Rare mid-seventies issue of the classic San Francisco underground Beat magazine, includes a great range of luminaries (including one poem by Dale Pendell). A curious 1976 leaflet entitled The Grant Getter's Gazette by Michael Weiner is laid in. Unmarked copy with a bit of reading wear (front cover has some printing offset, as observed with other copies).

Cambridge, England: Prospect, 1961. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 4to, 32pp, stapled wrappers. Scarce issue of this little magazine from 1961 Cambridge, with work by J.H. Prynne and others. Subscription slip bound in. Unmarked copy, outer stain to one corner, light outer soil.

San German, Puerto Rico: Inter American University, 1960. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). Near VG. 8vo, 192pp (plus plates), printed wrappers. Rare first issue of this important little magazine featuring a stellar roster of contributors, including Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray as well as Beat notables including Burroughs (Schottlaender C13), Corso, Ferlinghetti, et al. Unmarked copy with significant bumps and some general wear.

Berkeley: Tree, 1974. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Fine. 8vo, [iv]+204pp, printed wrappers. Beautiful as-new copy of the fourth issue of this groundbreaking literary and Kabbalistic magazine edited by David Meltzer. Includes Image of the Wall by Wallace Berman, a lengthy 1964 letter from Lenny Bruce to a judge, a number of Kabbalistic pieces from traditional authorities, and other material from writers associated with the Semina scene. Unmarked copy, as new.

New York: Birth Press, 1965. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). Near VG. 8vo, 104pp, stapled wrappers. Scarce, thick final issue of this Birth Press era title edited by Tuli Kupferberg of the Fugs. An antiwar anthology lovingly assembled with an imaginative collage layout. (This copy does not have the Fuck for Peace insert leaflet found in some copies.) Unmarked copy with some toning and soil (overlay illustration to one page has associated shadowing from original glue).

San Francisco: Beatitude Press, 1977. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 4to, 46pp (plus plates), stapled wrappers. Rare mid-seventies issue of the classic San Francisco underground Beat magazine, includes a great range of luminaries (including one poem by Dale Pendell). A curious 1976 leaflet entitled The Grant Getter's Gazette by Michael Weiner is laid in. Unmarked copy with a bit of reading wear (front cover has some printing offset, as observed with other copies).

Cambridge, England: Prospect, 1961. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 4to, 32pp, stapled wrappers. Scarce issue of this little magazine from 1961 Cambridge, with work by J.H. Prynne and others. Subscription slip bound in. Unmarked copy, outer stain to one corner, light outer soil.

San Francisco: Department of Pharmacology, University of California Medical Center, 1967. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). Near VG. 4to, 60 leaves (printed one-side), printed wrappers. The rare first issue of this important journal devoted to psychedelics. Includes a symposium transcript that includes Richard Alpert. Unmarked copy some general reading wear and soil.

An Elucidation by Gertrude Stein. Offprint from: transition, no. 1. [Paris:] transition, April 1927. 8° (195 x 144mm).
First edition, in original buff-coloured stapled yapped wrappers. 16pp. Minor crimping to top fore-edge yapped wrappers. Pages uncut. Usual age-toning. A Very Good copy of this fragile, ephemeral publication.
This scarce offprint was issued to correct the mis-printings to the text of the article that had just appeared in the first issue of the magazine "transition." (Wilson A10). Stein insisted on the printing of this supplementary pamphlet, but only enough copies to supply subscribers were printed; these were laid-in to copies of the first printing of the magazine issue. The pamphlet begins with an apology by Elliot Paul, the co-editor of "transition", stating: "Since, unfortunately, the version of Miss Gertrude Stein's 'An elucidation' printed in the April number of Transition, while containing the correct words, presented them in the wrong order (through an inadvertence in the… Read More