Editore: Contour Quarterly, Berkeley, 1947, 1947
Da: Jackson Street Booksellers, Omaha, NE, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Very Good Plus in wraps. Very light wear to edges of covers. 67pp 8vo. IB.
Editore: Los Angeles: Variegation Publishing Company, 1949
Da: Philip Smith, Bookseller, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st edition. VG+. 8vo, 24pp, stapled wrappers. Scarce 1949 little magazine from Los Angeles, includes a poem by future avant-garde filmmaker Christopher Maclaine. Unmarked copy with soft crease to back cover and a bit of staple rust. Not Signed.
Editore: San Francisco: Leslie Woolf Hedley, 1950
Da: Philip Smith, Bookseller, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st edition. Near VG. 8vo, 28pp, stapled wrappers. Scarce early issue of this important San Francisco literary review from the gestation period of the Beat Generation. Includes work by Christopher Maclaine, Jackson Mac Low, et al. Unmarked copy, a bit of cover wear and soil. Not Signed.
Editore: Berkeley: Contour, 1948
Da: Philip Smith, Bookseller, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st edition. VG. 8vo, 68pp, stapled wrappers. The scarce third issue of this short-lived underground literary magazine edited by poet, future filmmaker, and eventual speed casualty Christopher Maclaine. Includes a Robert Barlow appearance not noted in Abrams's bibliography. Unmarked copy, a little staining to front cover and light general wear. Not Signed.
Editore: Berkeley, CA: Contour, 1947
Da: Philip Smith, Bookseller, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Soft cover. Condizione: Fine. 1st edition. Near Fine. 8vo, 68pp, stapled wrappers. The uncommon second issue of this short-lived underground literary magazine edited by poet, future filmmaker, and eventual speed casualty Christopher Maclaine. Includes an essay on Henry Miller by Sanders Russell and a single-page cartoon by Virgil Partch. Fresh, unmarked copy with very light wear. Not Signed.
Editore: Berkeley: Contour (1948)., 1948
Da: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
64 pp. Spine lightly toned, corners bumped. In all, a very good plus copy in wrappers of this outstanding, albeit short-lived periodical. Work by Zahn, Rexroth, both Maclaines, Mason Jordan Mason, and a reprinting of Joyce?Äôs essay, ?ÄúIbsen?Äôs New Drama.?Äù.
Editore: Taos, NM: The Flying Fish, 1948
Da: Philip Smith, Bookseller, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st edition. VG. 8vo, 16pp, stapled wrappers. A rare 1940s little magazine issued by Judson Crews from Taos. Includes about 4 pages of support for Ezra Pound, as well as some discussion of and an advertisement for Christopher MaclaineÕs magazine Contour. Price to cover (no other markings), a little wear and soil. Not Signed.
Editore: Horace Schwartz, Sausalito, California, 1952
Da: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Magazine. Octavo. 44pp. Stapled wrappers. A touch of sunning at the extremities and a pencil mark on the front wrap, near fine. A literary magazine containing the first print appearance by Larry Eigner, an untitled poem ["In the blackout."], preceded only by his juvenilia. Other contributors include Robert Creeley, Gil Orlovitz, Kenneth L. Beaudoin, James Boyer May, Chris Bjerknes, William Rainer, Dell Skeels, Rick Barrom, Vincent Ferrini, Charles Edward Eaton, Frederick Eckman, Leslie Woolf Hedley, S.E. Moray, Harry Hooten, Richard Wirtz Emerson, Christopher Maclaine, Winston Collingwood, Gibson Paul, Dick Abee, Stephen Alfred, R.A. West, Len Root, Hank Rohert, Dwight Wilson, Walker Williams, and Gene Magner.
Editore: Wallace Berman [Los Angeles], [CA], 1959
Da: Specific Object / David Platzker, New York, NY, U.S.A.
[18] pp.; 18.7 x 12.2 cm.; tipped in image[s]; duotone; edition size 350; unsigned and unnumbered; letterpress Issue number five of Semina, published and edited by Wallace Berman. Issue five features folded covers housing a printed manila pocket housing 18 loose poems and images. Artists include Wallace Berman, John Wieners, David Meltzer, Ruth Weiss, Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz, Christopher Maclaine, Anne McKeever, Antonin Artaud, Larry Jordan, Kirby Doyle, Philip Lamantia, John Chance, Robt. Kaufman, Michael McClure, John Reed, Wm. Margolia, and John Hoffman. Cover photo by Charles Brittin. Type was handset and done on 5 x 8 inch handpress. All images in it are in Cancun Mexico. Verso features a portrait of Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz. Very Good. Complete copy featuring all 18 inserts. Rubbing and bumping off cover edges. 4.8 cm. dog-ear to bottom left corner of verso, 2.4 cm. crease to bottom right corner of verso, and 12 inch long crease parallel to bottom edge of verso. Very light creasing to 3 of the 18 inserts, 2.1 cm. dog-ear to top right corner of uncredited illustration of a woman, and light yellowing to Peyote Poem by John Wieners. Contents otherwise clean and unmarked.
Editore: Wallace Berman [Los Angeles], [CA], 1959
Da: Specific Object / David Platzker, New York, NY, U.S.A.
[18] pp.; 18.7 x 12.2 cm.; tipped in image[s]; duotone; edition size 350; unsigned and unnumbered; letterpress Issue number five of Semina, published and edited by Wallace Berman. Issue five features folded covers housing a printed manila pocket housing 18 loose poems and images. Artists include Wallace Berman, John Wieners, David Meltzer, Ruth Weiss, Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz, Christopher Maclaine, Anne McKeever, Antonin Artaud, Larry Jordan, Kirby Doyle, Philip Lamantia, John Chance, Robt. Kaufman, Michael McClure, John Reed, Wm. Margolia, and John Hoffman. Cover photo by Charles Brittin. Type was handset and done on 5 x 8 inch handpress. All images in it are in Cancun Mexico. Verso features a portrait of Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz. Poor / Good. This copy contains 17 of the 18 inserts: missing photograph of Philip Lamantia injecting heroin by Wallace Berman (aka Pantale Xantos). Includes a two-sided handwritten letter by Wallace Berman to previous owner introducing the issue. Significant rubbing and wear to covers (as noted by Berman himself in his letter noting it had even been through mudslides). Rubbing, staining, and creasing across covers, 8 mm. fold/surface tear to bottom right corner of recto. 1.5 cm. crease to bottom left corner of verso. Wear to edges of contents with staining, dog-ears, and handling wear.
Editore: Wallace Berman, [Los Angeles], 1959
Da: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Folded pictorial covers with interior printed manila pocket housing 18 loose poems and images. 18.5x12 cm (7 1/2" x 5"). One of 350 copies. Contents complete. Near Fine, light wear and soiling to wrappers; some pieces with toning or offsetting, a few with creases at corner tips The fifth installment of Wallace Berman's legendary artist's magazine. Contributors include Berman, John Wieners, David Meltzer, Ruth Weiss, Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz, Christopher Maclaine, Anne McKeever, Antonin Artaud, Larry Jordan, Kirby Doyle, Philip Lamantia, John Chance, Bob Kaufman, Michael McClure, John Reed, Wm. Margolia, and John Hoffman. Semina was published for nine issues, between 1955 to 1964. All are now rare.