Editore: Loujon Press, Tuscon, Arizona, 1969
Da: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Softcover. Condizione: Very Good. No. 4/5 (double issue), softcover issue. Tall octavo. 191pp. Unprinted wrappers with integral dust jacket (tipped-on inside the front cover), printed on several paper stocks. Jacket and early (exposed) foredges foxed, and wrappers soiled, middle 20 or so pages (on tan stock) with light but unobtrusive staining, sound and near very good. (Without the fragile outer jacket and sealed flowers, but we are unsure if they were issued with the softcover edition.) Contributions by William Wantling, Charles Bukowski, Diane Di Prima, Denise Levertov, Lawrence Durrell, Michael Hamburger, Douglas Blazek, d. a. levy, Thomas Merton, Robert Bly, Jackson Mac Low, Jean Cocteau, and many others. Also prints an "Homage to Kenneth Patchen" with contributions by Bro. Antoninus, Allen Ginsberg, Hugh MacDiarmid, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Henry Miller, and others. A cool magazine, "Handset, Mostly, & Hand Bound At Loujon's Desert Workshop Printery, Arizona U.S.A. .".
Editore: A Loujon Press Book Periodical, 1968-1969, 1969
Da: Longhouse, Publishers & Booksellers, Brattleboro, VT, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
First edition, first printing With its front cover photograph of the poet Kenneth Patchen. A hardcover edition. An excellent 46 page homage to Kenneth Patchen. All the supplements are here and profusely illustraged with photographs, art work. A memoriam to d. a. levy. Poetry throughout by levy, Lenore Kandell, Anselm Hollo, Thomas Merton, Robert Bly, Keith Wilson, Al Purdy, Douglas Blazek, John Haines, Robert Kelly, Margaret Randall, Denise Levertov, Diane di Prima, Charles Bukowski, Larry Eigner, Clarence Major, Russell Edson, and many others. Near fine with light age tone and quite handsome all around.