Irving rosenthal editor (25 risultati)

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. A stapled digest containing 20 internal pages. "The Tin Drum" by Gunter Grass reviewed by Kay Boyle (with full-page photograph of Gunter Grass). Staples lightly rusted (no bleeding); tiny chip to right edge of front cover and first several pages; covers show light corner wear. …

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. A stapled digest containing 24 internal pages. With articles: "Big Chips Off the Old Block" by Alfred Kazin (a review of "The Collected Stories of William Faulkner"); "The Structure of Impulse" by Sam Hunter (a review of "Jackson Pollock" by Bryan Robertson). Staples lightly rusted (no bleeding); scuffing along outer narrow spine fold.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Fair. First Edition. A stapled digest containing 20 internal pages. "Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary" reviewed by J. Christopher Herold; the "Letters of Dostoevsky" reviewed by Alfred Kazin; two Folkways recordings reviewed by Nat Hentoff. Staples rusted (no bleeding); front cover nearly detached; covers moderately soiled; small corner chip. …

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. A stapled digest containing 12 internal pages. Issue is devoted to short reviews of "Past Selections & Bonus Books." Covers lightly age-soiled.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. A stapled digest containing 24 internal pages. With special cover feature "On Henry Miller" (on the "Tropic of Cancer" with contributions from George Orwell, Lawrence Durrell, Karl Shapiro, Philip Rahv, and Harry T. Moore). Staples lightly rusted (no bleeding); very short closed tear to upper outer narrow spine fold; a few short scuffs along outer narrow spine fold.…

Soft cover. Condizione: VG+. First Edition. A stapled digest containing 24 internal pages. With articles: "The American Experience in Art" by Alfred Kazin (a review of "Art and Life in America" by Oliver Larkin); "The World in a Book" by Richard Howard (a review of "Degrees" by Michel Butor). Front cover shows the lightest of age-soil; tiny corner chip.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Good. First Edition. A stapled digest containing 24 internal pages. With articles: "Negative Clamours and the Hope of Reprieve" by Harold Clurman (a review of "Seven Plays of the Modern Theater"); "What a Real Person He Is!" by Irving Kristol (a review of "The Thought and Character of William James" by Ralph Barton Perry); "The Last of the Yahis" by Joan Meyers (a review of "Ishi in Two Worlds" by Theodora Kroeber). Staples rusted (no bleeding); light to moderate scuffing along outer narrow spine fold; very small corner chip to front cover; light corner crease to upper right corner of front cover and first few inside pages.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Good. First Edition. A stapled digest containing 20 internal pages. "Contemporaries" by Alfred Kazin reviewed by Howard Mumford Jones; article on Billie Holiday by Ralph Gleason; "The New Golden Bough" by James George Frazer reviewed by Arnold Toynbee. Staples rusted (no bleeding); in moderately age-soiled covers; covers show light edge and corner wear in places.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. A stapled digest containing 24 internal pages. With article "To Understand All Is Not to Forgive All" by Peter Gay (a review of "The Inquisition of the Middle Ages" by Henry Charles Lea); a one-page review of recording "[Edith] Piaf Sings in French and English" (with full-page photograph of Edith Piaf on stage). Scuffing along outer narrow spine fold; tiny scuff to front cover; three tiny chips to left rear edge.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Good. First Edition. A stapled digest containing 24 internal pages. With articles: "Supermarket Politics and Private Daydreams" by William V. Shannon (on "The Real Bohemia: A Sociological and Psychological Study of the 'Beats'" by Francis J. Rigney and L. Douglas Smith, Jr.); "An Evening with Leadbelly" by Nat Hentoff (a review of the recording "Leadbelly's Last Sessions"). Covers moderately age-browned; light to moderate scuffing along outer narrow spine fold. …

Soft cover. Condizione: VG+. First Edition. A stapled digest containing 24 internal pages. With articles: "Words, Music, and History" by James Lyons (a review of "The Folk Songs of North America" by Alan Lomax); "The Love of Persons" by Mark Van Doren (a review of "The Characters of Love" by John Bayley). Covers lightly age-browned; light wear along outer narrow spine fold.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. A stapled digest containing 24 internal pages. With article "Toynbee and his Critics" by William Barrett (a review of "Reconsiderations" by Arnold J. Toynbee). Scuffing along outer narrow spine fold.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing, August 1958. This issue features William S. Burroughs, "Naked Lunch", Chapter 2. Tightly bound in wraps with covers showing slight age-toning and wear. The contents are unmarked except for a few small red pen check marks to the text.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Good. 1st Edition. First edition, second printing (stated), August 1958. The "Zen" issue with works on Zen Buddhism by Alan W. Watts, D. T. Suzuki, Jack Kerouac, Gary Snyder, et al. Art works by Toko Shinoda, Takashi Simmi and Franz Kline. Fiction and book reviews by Samuel Beckett, Charles Olson, et al. Tightly bound in wraps. The cover shows age-toning, creases, edge wear and small chips to lower corners, remains Good. Several pages show some pen marks, otherwise unmarked.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Volume 1, Spring, 1959. Clean and tightly bound in illustrated wraps. Exceptionally nice copy with fine, tight contents and only slight rubbing to covers.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Autumn 1958 issue of the lit mag, featuring Chapter 2 of Burroughs' novel Naked Lunch. Lightly worn, Very Good.

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. Slightly leaned, some pale staining to wrappers. …

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. Publisher: Big Table, Chicago, Spring 1959.NEAR FINE in lightly soiled paper wraps, as issued. Features Jack Kerouac's "Old Angel Midnight" by Kerouac, and "Ten Episodes From Naked Lunch" by William S. Burroughs.

Soft cover. Condizione: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. A very nice set of Big Table, all five volumes in about near fine condition. Volume 1 is fine with no toning to the wraps; Volume 2 has toning to the textblock; Volume 3 has a little toning to the spine but is still near fine; Volume 4 is near fine or better; Volume 5 has wear to almost 2" to the rear spine fold, but still near fine. All volumes tight and square. No internal markings. Well-preserved, an exceptional set. Includes Kerouac, Burroughs, Ginsberg, Ferlinghetti, Bowles etc.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. [3], 152pp, [7], bound in stiff paper covers, with the binding and hinges tight, Subscription Card laid-in. Signed n the Contents page by Allen Ginsberg, his long time partner Peter Orlovsky, and Gregory Corso. Articles include *Old Angel Midnight by Jack Kerouac *Further Sorrows of Priapus and The Garment of Ra by Edward Dahlberg *Ten Episodes From Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs and *Three Poems by Gregory Corso. Covers show age toning, spine is NOT creased, corner crease to back cover. Interior in Very Good Condition. Slip of paper laid-in reading "Purchased from Ginsberg et al. the night of the lecture they gave at Lowell Lecture Hall and autographed by them at that time. Harvard, Spring of 1959. (Went with Valerie Shaw). Stockton Springs, 13 April 1979. Signed by Andrew B. W. MacEwen". MacEwen was a Scottish Genealogist, Historian and Antiquarian Book Dealer in Stockton Springs, Maine. Signed by Author(s).…

8vo. 88 pages. Printed wrappers. Containing chapter two of 'Naked Lunch.' This was the second appearance of any section of the novel in print, following the Spring issue of the journal. For those keeping track, the headline above the text contains the misprint "William C. Burroughs." "The 1958 appearance of a Naked Lunch excerpt in the Chicago Review created a scandal that ended in the resignation of the magazine's two editors, Irving Rosenthal and Paul Carroll. The controversy was initiated when an editorial review by Chicago Daily News columnist Jack Mabley, appeared under the title 'Filthy Writing on the Midway.' Mabley objected to what he called "'obscene' writing in the University of Chicago's literary magazine. Published alongside Burroughs in the Chicago Review were Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and other young and unconventional writers of the period" (Columbia University exhibition). Rosenthal went on to write one of the great (woefully unheralded) novels of the era, 'Sheeper,' in which Burroughs and the Beats appear. Some light wear and toning at extremities, a few spots on cover, but a very good copy.…

Magazine. Condizione: Very Good+. First Edition; First Printing. This is the first of five issues published by the magazine Big Table. It conatins the complete contents of the suppressed *Winter 1959 Chicago Review*, which consisted of "Ten Episodes from *Naked Lunch*" by William S. Burroughs, "Old Angel Midnight" by Jack Kerouac, two pieces by Edward Dahlberg and three poems from Gregory Corso. *Maynard and Miles* C6. Conditon is VG+ withlight wear to edges and corners and a small crease aross the lowere right corner.A subscription card is laid in. ; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 152 + ads pages.…

First edition, first printing On Christmas Day 1958, co-editors from the University of Chicago, Irving Rosenthal and Paul Carroll founded the highly influential Big Table. Rosenthal edited the premiere issue which we are offering here along with Issues No. 2 and No. 4. Only five issues in all and these three are offered here as a set. The first issue published the then highly controversial "Naked Lunch" by Burroughs (in excerpts) and Jack Kerouac's "Old Angel Midnight" which were originally to be published in The Chicago Review. The US Post office impounded over 400 copies and refused to deliver the first issue because of what they called "obscenity and filthy contents". That decision was appealed by none other than Judge Julius Hoffman of the later Chicago Eight trial fame, reversing the initial decision and stating that Big Table was not obscene. Paul Carroll took over the helm and edited the next four issues from 1959 to 1960. Big Table published works by John Ashbery, Robert Creeley, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg ,LeRoi Jones, Denise Levertov andmany others. Legend has it Jack Kerouac gave the name "Big Table" to the editors. The issues are very good to near fine wraps with the usual toning of the acidic paper stock.…

Paperback. First four issues (Volume I, Nos. 1-4). Small 8vo. Stiff pictorial wrappers. 152pp, (6pp ads); 122pp, (2pp ads); 120pp; 141pp, (3pp ads). Illustrations (one foldout). Very good to near fine. Handsome, tight and near complete (4 out of 5) set of this short-lived Beat quarterly that begins with the premiere issue (Spring 1959) and the first appearance of Jack Kerouac's "Old Angel Midnight" and William S. Burroughs' "Ten Episodes from Naked Lunch," along with contributions from Edward Dahlberg and Gregory Corso -- these first two of which brought obscenity charges from the U.S. Postal Service. Three following issues likewise feature a "Who's Who" of contributors that include Leon Golub, Paul Bowles, Brother Antoninus, Andre Breton, Paul Blackburn, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allen Ginsburg, Robert Duncan, John Ashbery, Aaron Siskind, Robert Creeley, Norman Mailer, Peter Orlovsky, Jean Genet, Richard G. Stern and many others. Subscription form laid into first volume along with 23 June 1959 "Chicago Daily News" clipping "Call Beatnik Magazine Obscene." A superb grouping.…

First Edition. A complete run of the Beat literary magazine, founded in response to the suppression for reasons of "obscenity" of The Chicago Review's Winter 1958 issue. These copies have been signed a whopping 33 times by a Who's Who of the contributors and prominent figures associated with the Beat and Black Mountain schools of poetry/lit. From the collection of Joe Lee, who clearly made it his mission to meet the leading lights of the period and get their autographs over a number of years. The first issue is signed by William S. Burroughs (at a lengthy excerpt of his shot across the bow Naked Lunch, poets Robert Creeley and Denise Levertov (on ads at the rear), and folksingers Odetta and Peggy Seeger. The second issue is signed by Allen Ginsberg (dated 11/84), David Meltzer, Amiri Baraka (known as LeRoi Jones at the time; dated 11/98), artist Jules Feiffer, and poet/publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti on the rear wrap. The third issue is signed by poets Ginsberg (dated 6/12/94), Baraka, Creeley, John Ashbery; chronicler of the gay experience John Rechy, Feiffer, and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Norman Mailer. The fourth issue signed by comedian Steve Allen on an ad for his album at the front, Ginsberg (dated 6/12/94), Levertov (on her poem "The Rainwalkers"), Creeley, Diane DiPrima, Meltzer, Gary Snyder, Michael McClure, Ashbery, and Baraka (dated 11/98). The fifth and final issue signed by Creeley, Ashbery, John Updike, Meltzer, Rechy, and Odetta (dated 3-14 '98). Ted Joans's signature is somewhere in one of these issues too; memory fails which one. All volumes Very Good or slightly better, typical age toning and some light wear, bindings a little strained. A remarkable collection of signatures of major figures in the Beat movement, the folk scene, and the Black Mountain school, with some up-and-coming novelists like Updike and Mailer thrown in; all of which together with Big Table itself really capture the zeitgeist of the late '50s and early '60s. Signed.…