Lingua: Inglese
Editore: Wobber Brothers, San Francisco, 1950
Da: The Green Arcade, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. In very good condition; light toning top edge and edge parallel to spine front and back covers; short diagonal crease top outside corner last two pages; otherwise, clean, binding sound. Co-edited by William Lutz. Staple bound, 31 pages. 7.5 x 5.5 in. Contributors include: Karim Amirkhosrovi, May Carl, Era Chamberlain, Estelle Childs, Ada Davies, Mary Greenfield, Benjamin Gross, Lawrence Hart, Martha Heyneman, Mary Hutton, Winifred Johnson, Ann Marie Larson, William Lutz, Jeanne McGahey, Rosalie Moore, Alice Paula, Emily Pausch, Tekla Perry, Kenneth Pettitt, Helen Scales, Suzanne Sullivan, Jeanette Tellock, Betty Turnoy, Emily White, Elva Williams, Don Wobber and Nanying Stella Wong.
Lingua: Inglese
Editore: Wobber Brothers, San Francisco, 1950
Da: The Green Arcade, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Soft cover. Condizione: Near Fine. In near fine condition; heavy toning to pages facing end papers; one 1/2-in. horizontal outside edge of final page; otherwise, clean, binding sound. Staple bound, 31 pages. 7.5 x 5.5 in. Contributors: Robert Barlow, Ethelford Carrol, Nanying, Ken Pettitt, Helen Scales, Betty Turnoy, Elva Williams and Don Wobber.
Editore: Number Magazine, San Francisco, 1950
Da: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Paperback. Original edition. 31pp. Thin duodecimo [19 cm] Saddle-stiched printed wraps. Very good. Toning to wraps. A Magazine of Modern Poetry. Contributors include Jeanne McGahey, Kenneth Pettitt, William Lutz and others.
Editore: Wobber Brothers, San Francisco, 1950
Da: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condizione: Very good. Original printing. 31pp. Thin duodecimo [19 cm] Saddle-stitched printed wraps. A Quarterly of Modern Poetry. Chinatown Issue. Traditional Chinese peasant songs translated and illustrated by Nanying.
Editore: Number Magazine, San Francisco, 1950
Da: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condizione: Very good. Original printing. 32pp. Thin duodecimo [19 cm] Stapled printed wraps. Some pages bound upside down and out of order. Featuring The Sombreron a Mexican Drama by B. Ortiz de Montelanno.
Editore: By the editor [1950], San Francisco, 1950
Da: G. F. Wilkinson Books, member IOBA, GRASS VALLEY, CA, U.S.A.
Membro dell'associazione: IOBA
Softcover. Condizione: Fine. First issue. 12mo; stapled, printed blue wrappers; includes writing by: Rosalie Moore, Nanying S. Wong, Elva Williams, Alice Paula, William Lutz, Betty Turnoy, Emily White, Suzanne Sullivan, Karim Amirikosrovi, Tekla Perry, Martha Heyneman, Mary Greenfield, Jeanne McGahey, Helen Scales. From Joseph Henry Jackson's review in the San Francisco Chronicle: ". A more serious kind of poetry is what interests the publisher of a new magazine of which Volume I, Number 1" is on my desk. (Who was it said that the saddest words in the language were "Volume I, Number 1"?). It's called Number and since it's editor, Don Wobber, seems to exercise exceptionally good judgment in his selections, perhaps this is one periodical that will prove the saying wrong. I particularly liked his brief preface to the new venture in which there was none of the arty jargon you find in so many "modern" little magazines.
Editore: San Rafael, CA: Lawrence Hart, 1962
Da: Philip Smith, Bookseller, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st edition. VG+. 8vo, 72pp, printed wrappers. A commemorative anthology, about 3/4 of which is devoted to work by or related to Robert Barlow (1914-1951; poet, anthropologist, and associate of H. P. Lovecraft). The remainder is devoted to poems by other writers associated with the Activist Group. Unmarked copy, publisherÕs price label to cover, a little outer wear and soil. Not Signed.
Editore: Chicago: Modern Poetry Association, 1951
Da: Philip Smith, Bookseller, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st edition. VG+. 8vo, 64pp, printed wrappers. Nice copy of this special Activists 1951 issue, guest-edited by Lawrence Hart. Includes a note on Robert Barlow shortly after his suicide, a Barlow poem, and work by others associated with the group. Unmarked copy with toning to spine and light wear. Not Signed.
Editore: AMS Press, 1970
Da: Boyd Used & Rare Books, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Membro dell'associazione: CBA
Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Boards in vibrant blue cloth with title stamped in white on spine. Clean and unmarked. [280] pages. A collected reprint of the first eight issues of Number, a poetry magazine out of Mills College in Oakland, California, published in the early 1950's, associated with the 'Activist' group of poets, who were a close-knit but little-known Bay Area poetry movement that began in 1936. Includes pieces by Rosalie Moore (1948 Yale Younger Poet--chosen by Auden, and early friend of US Poet Laureate Kay Ryan), Jeanne McGahey, and Lawrence Hart, all of whom were members of the 'Activist' group of poets, to which the May 1951 and November 1958 issues of Poetry magazine were devoted. Other contributors include Luis Monguio, Robert Barlow, Waltrina Furlong, Kenneth Pettitt, Marie Graybeal, Emily Pausch, Betty Turnoy, Marie Wells, Ted Wright, Nanying Stella Wong, Don Wobber, and others, as well as a number of Mills College students.
Editore: Ams Press, New York, 1970
Da: Black Swan Books, Inc., Lexington, KY, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. First Edition Thus. Reprint of the first eight issues of Number. A Magazine of Modern Poetry published 1950-1955. The first four numbers were edited by Don Wobber and the last four by Robert Brotherson. The first four issues are numbered while the last four are not. Total pagination is approximately is 250 pages. As issued without dust jacket. Not an ex-library copy. No remainder marks. No names or marks in the text. Most books shipped within 24 hours. All books mailed with Delivery Confirmation in a heavy cardboard box. Fine condition. Selling Used and Rare books on line since April 1998 and from our bookstore in the heart of the Bluegrass since 1984. ; 8vo.; 31, 31, 32, 32, pages.
Hardcover. Condizione: Good. covers have scattered wear and rubbing, ends of spine lightly bumped, binding tight, pages unmarked, first eight issues of a poetry magazine first published in the spring of 1950 Size: 6 x 10.5.
Editore: Number, (San Francisco), 1954
Da: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Softcover. Condizione: Very Good. Volume 1, Number 1 Volume 1, Number 4. Four issues. Approximately 120pp. Ex-library with a stamp and bit of label residue inside the cover of each volume; No. 1 with an abrasion inside the cover and a tiny creased tear on the cover and first couple of leaves, No. 2 with a short tear on the final leaf, and No. 4 with the wrappers lightly foxed and worn, overall very good and sound. The first four issues of this San Francisco poetry magazine. No. 1 features an introduction by Activist poet Lawrence Hart and seems to focus on the work of younger poets, including several first publications (including the editor, Wobber's; he is described as being in the printing business). Brief bios are given for each poet. No. 2, the "Chinatown issue," features traditional Chinese songs translated and illustrated by "Nanying," as well as poems by Ken Pettit, Robert Barlow, Ethelford Carrol, Elva Williams, Don Wobber, and Betty Turnoy. No. 3 (misbound, with some pages upside-down or out of order) features poetry and a brief biography of poet, anthropologist, and friend of Lovecraft Robert Barlow (also known as R. H. Barlow), mentioning his recent suicide, and also featuring his translation of B. Ortiz de Montelanno's "The Sombreron: A Mexican Drama." No. 4 features poems by Betty Turnoy, Evelyn Belvin, Ted Wright, Kenneth Pettit, Don Wobber, Waltrina Furlong, Luis Monguio, and a selection of poems from the students of Mills College. The four issues of an interesting little poetry magazine; Numbers 1-8 were reprinted by AMS Press in 1970.