webb gypsy lou (17 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition. Clean unmarked copy, sticker stain on rear pastedown, mild wear to the covers. Kenneth Patchen tribute issue.

Paper over boards with handmade paper jacket. A very handsome literary periodical, edited and printed, "handset mostly" at Loujon's Desert Workshop Printery in Arizona by Lou and John Webb, "and the ghost of Geronimo." With color illustrations. Contributors include Allan Kaprow, Charles Plymell, Simon Perchik, Elizabeth Bartlett, Larry Eigner, Charles Bukowski, Diane di Prima, Maragret Randall, Robert Kelly, a homage to Kenneth Patchen, d. a. levy, Barbara A. Holland, Harold Norse, Dick Higgins, Anselm Hollo, and numerous others. The book is very good with bumps to crown of spine and upper right front and back boards. The fragile dust jacket has come apart at the spine and is included in two pieces.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Illus., 9 x 6", pict wraps, 112pp, covers lightly rubbed, extremities lightly bumped and worn, contents toned; from a smoker's library with accompanying tobacco smell. Contains Charles Bukowski ("Sick Leave"), Jack Kerouac ("Sept. 16, 1961, Poem"), etc.

First edition, hardcover issue. 191 pp. Very near fine in illustrated paper-covered boards. Near fine delicate printed paper dust jacket with some wear to base of spine and tips of lower flap folds. One of 500 hardcover copies with a pressed flora picked "inside a mile of Geronimo's grave." Special 46 page section devoted to Patchen, with tributes by Antoninus, Ginsberg, Norse, Rexroth, Bern Porter, Ferlinghetti, and many others. Work also by Kaprow, Edson, Bukowski, Levertov, levy, Merton, Kryss, Mac Low, Kay Johnson, Ray Johnson, and many more.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. 1st edition. VG+ in Fair dw. 8vo, 212pp (plus plates), printed boards with printed dustwrapper. 1 of 500 stated copies of this double final issue in book format of this classic title, with a stellar roster of contributors. Includes floral insert by Gypsy Lou Webb. Unmarked copy, solid with a little light spotting; dustwrapper missing most of spine and an adjacent margin of the back cover; light spotting to insert slip. Not Signed.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. Tucson: Loujon Press, 1969. [14] + 196pp + [6]. 4to. White paper covered boards, b/w photo prints on front and back covers. Colorful stiff endpapers. INCLUDES WORKS BY CHARLES BUKOWSKI, AL PURDY, AND JEAN COCTEAU. Richly decorated throughout with illustrations and b/w photographs. Final edition of The Outsider. TYPE HANDSET, BOOK HANDBOUND. Includes laid-in payment slip, copy of newspaper article describing flood that ended Loujon Press. Also contains HAND-SEALED FLORA AND SPELL MADE BY LOUISE WEBB. Plant paper dustjacket with red lettering and decoration, quite delicate. Fair. Interior of book very clean, very minor wear on spine, otherwise very good.

Paperback. Condizione: Very good+ condition. First Edition. 112 pages of text. Original illustrated paperback binding is slightly creased and worn. Includes a publisher's prospectus advertising Bukowski's signed limited edition of "It Catches My Heart In Its Hands" as well as details about upcoming issue Number Four. Contributors include: William Burroughs, Charles Bukowski, Jack Kerouac, Kenneth Patchen, Henry Miller, Edward Dorn, Gregory Corso, Jean Genet, etc. Illustrations include black and white photographs of New Orleans musicians and images by Kenneth Patchen. Moderate and typical browning to the paper, and the hand-stamped tissue guard at the front is browned and chipped along the edge. First edition. Size: Octavo (8vo). Book.

Condizione: very good. 138pp. Octavo. Pictorial wrappers, with a black and white photograph of Charles Bukowski on the front and a street scene of New Orleans on the back. Pink tissue end papers, with "Printed by Hand in New Orleans, USA" stamped in red on the front tissue. Bronze to text block edges. Heavily illustrated throughout in black and white. Minor shelf wear, with some creasing along the bottom edge and to the corners, as well as a tiny closed tear to the head of the spine. Internally clean and an overall tight and bright copy. very good The Outsider was an avant-garde literary magazine published by Loujon Press, which was run by Jon Edgar Webb and his wife, Louise "Gypsy Lou" Webb. The Webbs produced the Outsider from their small apartment in the French Quarter in the early 1960's. By day Gypsy Lou sold paintings on a street corner, and by night she set the type that introduced the world to the beat poet Charles Bukowski whose work Jon Webb also chose for their first two Loujon Press books- It Catches My Heart in It's Hands and Crucifix in a Deathhand. Each page of every copy of this issue of the Outsider was printed by hand individually on a 19th century clamshell press. This issue contains work by Miriam Patchen, Kenneth Patchen, Kay Johnson, Gary Snyder, Robert Creeley, Michael McClure, William Burroughs, Irving Layton, Diane Wakowski, Charles Bukowski, Henry Miller and many more.

Paperback. Condizione: Very good+ condition. First Edition. Number 2: 112 pages of text. Original illustrated paperback binding is slightly creased and worn. Contributors include: William Burroughs, Charles Bukowski, Jack Kerouac, Kenneth Patchen, Henry Miller, Edward Dorn, Gregory Corso, Jean Genet, etc. Illustrations include black and white photographs of New Orleans musicians and images by Kenneth Patchen. Moderate and typical browning to the paper, and the hand-stamped tissue guard at the front is browned. Number 3: 138 pages of text. Original illustrated paperback binding is slightly creased and worn with a small bump at the top of the spine. Celebrates Charles Bukowski, named the Outsider of the Year with numerous contributions by him, and many photographs of him. Contributors include Kenneth Patchen, Gary Snyder, Robert Creeley, William S. Burroughs, Henry Miller, Robert Creeley, Jean Genet, Gary Snyder, Irving Layton, Miriam and Kenneth Patchen, Michael McClure, Diane Wakowski, Harold Norse, Larry Eigner, Anselm Hollo, etc. First editions. Size: Octavo (8vo). Book.

Four volumes. First three numbers fine in illustrated wrappers, the fourth issue fine in boards and very near fine fragile dust jacket. A terrific little mag, with contributions from all the bright lights: Bukowski, Burroughs, Lamantia, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Henry Miller, Patchen, Dick Higgins, Levertov, d.a. levy, Tom Kryss, and a many of others., Volume three features Bukowski as "The Outsider of the Year." Volume 4 & 5 features a 46 pp "Homage to Kenneth Patchen." Wormwood Review editor Marvin Malone's set. Laid into #2 is a holograph note from Jon Webb on Outsider letterhead thanking Malone for "your words on Buk," which were printed in #3, and promising to send that issue when published. Promo flyer for IT CATCHES MY HEART IN ITS HANDS laid into issue #3. Three pieces of press ephemera laid into 4/5, upon which is penned the note, "Dear Mr. Malone - Thank you for your wonderful patience & hope you drop us a line - Gypsy Lou." For the run:

No Binding. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. Single sheet (approx. 66 x 21cm) printed on one side only, giving full information about the publication and its background, quotations by Miller and (from the book's introduction) Lawrence Durrell, and a striking photo of Miller by Peter Gowland. The sheet is folded three times, as issued, and kept in the printed envelope, stamped and addressed to the original recipient, along with an order form (unused). Inevitable creasing around the folds, but clean and generally crisp, the envelope somewhat worn.

First Edition. One of 500 copies. Octavo (26cm); original pictorial paper-covered boards; [xii],[1]-191,[11]pp; illus. Light wear and very mild dustiness to extremities, with some light creasing at crown; contents fresh; Near Fine, lacking both the fragile pictorial tissue dustjacket and the hand-sealed insert containing flowers from Crazy Horse's grave. Laid into this copy is an ALS from Jon Webb to a "George" on Loujon Press stationary: "Dear George Hope you are well. Here's one of the first copies bound of this book issue of Outsider. Be at binding for weeks. We're okay just tired from the long hours. We send you our best Jon (+ Lou). Together with an original letterpressed order form for this issue of The Outsider on one side, and Bukowski's Crucifix in a Deathhand on the other.Final issue of Jon and Lou Webb's legendary literary journal, the first three issues of which were published in the New Orleans. Contents include works by Charles Plymell, Kenneth Patchen, Charles Bukowski, William Wantling, Diane Di Prima, Denise Levertov, Thomas Merton, Harold Norse, Larry Eigner, Ted Enslin, and many others. Debritto B428.

Condizione: Fine. - sc Small quarto [9-3/4 inches high by 8-1/2 inches wide]. 1-1/3 single-spaced typed pages on olive green Loujon Press letterhead. Dated "5/13/67". Boldly signed in red ink "Jon (& Louise) Webb". Folded twice for mailing. Near fine. A wonderful letter addressed to a writer, in which Webb regrets that he cannot include the scripts which he has sent him in his literary review Outsider #4. Webb then launches into a poignant description of the terrible financial difficulties facing the press: ".We went broke doing a few books from going overboard on format, and now hope only from the Miller book to get a press to replace the one we've got which has done its last job. / We need an angel, and we know one will pop up eventually, but we need one now. We feel pretty sure we'll have enough to make the initial payment on the press, but there'll be a lot of paper, ink and new type, and other things that cost plenty, for we use the best stock in our printing, best everything. That always kills profit. / Rare book dealers are now making dough on our productions. Gotham Book Mart and others sell first 3 issues of the Outsider for 17.50 for the set of 3, and we're out of #1 and #3, so can't sell a set to any one."Jon Edgar and "Gypsy Lou" Webb founded the Loujon Press in the French Quarter of New Orleans in 1960. The press's literary review the Outsider was hailed by the Village Voice and the New York Times as one of the best of its day and featured such authors as Charles Bukowski, Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Robert Creeley, Denise Levertov and Walter Lowenfels. Outsider #4, referred to in the letter, was eventually combined with Outsider #5 and was the last issue published. The press also published two collections of early poetry by Bukowski, and books by Henry Miller. The Miller book mentioned in the letter is "Insomnia", published in 1970.

Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Complete run of the legendary Loujon Press magazine so profusely signed it seems like an avant-garde poetry yearbook with an additional mockup of the last issue and an ALS from Bukowski to the Loujon Press editors. The Outsider was first run out of the Webb's apartment in New Orleans and later at their place in Tuscon. Ornately designed and letterpressed, the installments are themselves audacious art objects produced in small runs. The first volume is signed and inscribed by publisher Gypsy Lou Webb on the front tissue-guard and is additionally signed by Bukowski on the first page and a number of authors at their contributions: Gary Snyder, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Amiri Baraka, Michael McClure, Robert Creeley, Gene Frumkin, John Ashbery, and Diane di Prima. The second volume is also signed by Gypsy Lou plus Anselm Hollo and Gene Frumkin. Volume 3 also signed by Gypsy Lou plus Robert Creeley, Michael McClure, and Anselm Hollo. Vols. 4 and 5 signed by Gypsy Lou plus Anselm Hollo, Gene Frumkin, David Meltzer, and Doug Blazek. The mockup of the last issue includes a hand-written note on the front jacket, likely in the hand of Jon or Lou Webb, discussing the progress of the issue and mentioning delays due to flooding and is signed by Gypsy Lou, Anselm Hollo, and Gene Frumkin. All volumes on the lower end of very good or better, with edgewear and toning to the early volumes and some foxing on the last volume, previous owner signatures on some of the volumes. Bukowski letter is signed, original mailing envelope with his LA address present as is a handwritten letter of provenance (only for the letter) from a previous seller. Letter is near fine. A dream Outsider lot, likely without equal. Signed by Author(s).

The complete run of the avant-garde literary magazine which championed the early work of Charles Bukowski and published work by Jack Kerouac, Diane di Prima, Henry Miller, Dick Higgins, William Burroughs, and many more. Located in the heart of New Orleans's French Quarter, John Webb and Gypsy Lou's "small, cash-starved press was an inky crossroads that brought together a failed jewel thief, a devoted Vieux Carre street artist, an out of place oil company, and a famously drunken poet in a modern literary triumph" (Poetry Foundation). The Webbs laboriously printed their publications on a traditional hand press, in contrast to the rapid mimeo magazines which were popular at the time. 5 numbers in 4 vols, octavo. Nos. 1-3 in original black and white photographic wrappers, Nos. 4 and 5 together as issued in original boards, several pages in each number printed on coloured paper. Mail order form and copy of article about a flood at the printer's loosely inserted into Nos 4/5. Ink stamped address of Nomad, California, on front free endpaper of No. 2. Wrappers a little creased and rubbed, short closed tear at foot of spine of No. 1, contents of No. 1 and 2 toned, covers of Nos 3/4 lightly soiled, a few leaves foxed, slight offsetting to rear pastedown: a very good set.

Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: dj. First editions. First editions. 102 pp.; 112 pp.; 138 pp.; 191 [10] pp. 4 vols. 8vo and Large 8vo. An excellent set of The Outsider, an important literary magazine founded in New Orleans, and distinguished by elaborate graphic design and a broad reach: "Jon and Lou's magazine was attractive to poets and authors for its high quality - despite the fact that it sold for only $1. It also was attractive to writers because the Webbs produced large editions. The typical mimeographed magazines of the time, which were produced in quantities of 200 to 300, didn't have much reach. But Loujon's 3,100-copy editions guaranteed broader exposure." (MacCash, "Jon and Gypsy Lou Webb, Bukowski and the 1960s French Quarter," The Times-Picayune, Aug 29, 2013) The Outsider was an early champion of Bukowski, and Vol. 3, from 1963, features him on the cover. The Loujon press also published Bukowski's second and third books, It Catches My Heart in Its Hands (1963) and Crucifix in a Deathhand (1965). The volumes give a lot of pages over to the appreciateion of Kenneth Patchen, including correspondence with his wife, Miriam, and dedicated 46 pages of Vol. 4/5 to Patchen. Other writers published in the Outsider included Marvin Bell, William S. Burroughs, Cid Corman, Gregory Corso, Diane Di Prima, Ed Dorn, Russell Edson, Lawrnece Ferlinghetti, Jean Genet, Langston Hughes, LeRoi Jones, Jack Kerouac, Philip Lamantia, Clarence Major, Michael McClure, G. C. Oden, Charles Olson, Peter Olovsky, Joel Oppenheimer, Gary Snyder, Jonathan Williams, Diane Wakoski, and art by Ray Johnson, Noel Rockmore, among others. Dorbin C112-122, 152-153, 189-191, D20-22, E9-10 Vol. 1 in paper wrappers with crease to front and rear wrappers from being opened, light shelfwear; Vol. 2 loose in wrappers, evenly toned, very nice; Vol. 3 with some shelfwear, otherwise near fine; Vol. 4/5 in publisher's printed paper covered boards, fine, with dust jacket in fine shape, with residue of tape affixing it to board, present is the pressed flowers from Geronimo's grave and an order form for Bukowski's Crucifix in a Death Hand 102 pp.; 112 pp.; 138 pp.; 191 [10] pp. 4 vols. 8vo and Large 8vo.

Unknown. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" A superb collection of Loujon Press correspondence between Jon and Gypsy Lou (Louise) Webb, and Outsider contributor Marcus Jack Grapes. See extensive discussion of the Grapes / Webb relationship in Weddle: BOHEMIAN NEW ORLEANS: THE STORY OF THE OUTSIDER AND LOUJON PRESS. Spanning the years 1964 to 1970, this choice collection of 34 letters (many multi-page), 5 postcards, and 6 related items (some letters with additional material, inscribed ephemera, etc.), spans the greatest years of Loujon Press, and sees the press migrate from New Orleans to New Mexico, Tucson, and Nashville. Jack Grapes (b. 1940), was a Tulane undergraduate and aspiring poet. In addition to being an OUTSIDER author, poet, editor, and publisher, he was also one of the Webb's closest friends (one of only two people besides Charles Bukowski being allowed at the Webb's home during the production of CRUCIFIX IN A DEATHHAND) and a Loujon supporter. Grapes, who early in life began publishing chapbooks, was later founder of the Bombshelter Press and ONTHEBUS, and can be numbered at the fore of those influenced by Loujon and the Webbs. OUTSIDER 4/5 features an Album of Grapes untitled poems, 15 in all. As befits letters sent by a noted printers of hand-made books, the letters, in addition to remarkable content, are graphically quite interesting, and would both publish and exhibit well. BRIEF EXCERPTS (all from letters by Jon Webb): 9/16/64 " Now I've gone over your work thoroughly Your earlier work shows, it seems, a kind of influence, I'd say, from Wolfe, tho I could be wrong. But it has a flavor of the creative sentimentality of Wolfe, a good flavor, still it's a seeming derivative flavor, one which you've managed to get out of in your "8 poems about this and that". These poems, best you've done yet, can stand some reworking, but not too much. I've enough confidence in your redoing them right, that I'm setting aside a two-page spread for them in Outsider #4" 11/26/64 I want to congratulate you on two things: One, is the immense improvement in your work. I was and continue to be pleasantly surprised at the speed in which you jumped from a kind of creative fumbling to a much more surefooted touch in your writing, which is immediately evident in your latest stuff sent recently It's hard to believe, the vast improvement in your handling of your material, and your good and promising leaning away from the "establishment" that is, poetry as it has been established and known among the academics, that is (again), poetry that follows the old ruts and is fast passing into boredom and obscurity; the old poetic poetry. You've escaped this tunnel Second, I congratulate you on your discipline in this respect: your ability to stay away from the editor until you've produced a sizeable piece of work; as you did it is always a bad thing for writer and editor to be too close while a writer is developing" 7/12/65 " Our sudden leaving gave us no chance to contact you I have held off writing till we got settled somewhere - have tried Arizona whole hog but everywhere is Goldwater. No place for us to publish Outsider from. So we're off this Thursday by train to Santa Fe All I hope is that the press keeps surviving the travels" 10/13/65 "Got your two fine letters, also the books and my god you've done a remarkable job of publishing, and the contents are more than exceptional must say again the book is a great start as a book by you, and it's far better looking than the usual first book of poetry, better than any of Buk's first books" Buk will be here to visit for 3 days on the 15th. Sure wish you could be here. But it's really only 2 ½ days and 2 nights. And right after his visit, that is on the 20th, we'll be moving out of Santa Fe. Just can't take the altitude, and also can't get the supplies I'll need for #4. The 7000 feet has my heart pumping with exertion, so best to get out. And am short of breath most of the time. Can't risk a stroke. Breaks my heart to think of all the money it cost trying to make it here [more printing press trouble] During the hurricane we tried about ten times to get you on the phone, but all lines were out or busy. We were worried about you, sir. We've rented an apartment unseen in El Paso, from ad in the paper, which is located in a section we know is slum territory, but only place we could get with the dogs, and besides it might be an experience" 9/6/66 "I was just too stunned by your first letter, about the things you said I said on the phone not like me. Remember most of the conversation, but I was crazy worried and was drinking wine, drank a whole bottle of sherry while talking to you, must have gone off my nut, plus I'd had a little stroke the day before so I was going through a crisis when I phoned, a lot because we were out of paper and not knowing where to get money for another piece I haven't been drinking at all, and the sherry knocked me silly, must have if I said all the crazy impossible things you say I said. If I said anything to hurt you must have been you were one close enough to let go my tension to in that worried hour Love from us, and try to forgive any absurdities of the phone call; just don't recall saying a thing that was hurtful, tho I must if you say I did. God, not you of all people! I had to be temporary out of my head. Like Buk, who phones me sometimes plastered and gives Lou and me hell for impossible and fancied wrongs, and then apologizes for weeks. Tho he needn't for I understand him and know when he's calling me all sorts of things on phone he won't remember the next day, and that I'm one who cares enough for him to let him go and listen without interrupting or hanging up. But my call to you was for help and not to raise hell for you Be good when we get out of this Tucson graveyard and back to N. Orleans" 3/12/67 [extensive discussion of Loujon awards for book design] "Your latest book & pub. effort is a gem. I love precise neatness & pres.