Douglas Casement (6 results)

Pictorial wrappers. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. The 1965 maiden issue of this wonderful Flint, Michigan-based poetry review, created and edited by Dougas Casement. This 1st issue attracted some major talent and includes contributuons by William Burroughs, Leroi Jones, Phillip Whalen, Piero Heliczer, Diane DiPrima, Gerard Malanga, Ray Bremser, Anselm Hollo, Jonathan Williams et al. A crisp, Near Fine copy in its stapled, light-brown wrappers. Also includes a nice piece of ephemera (A Jonathan Williams booklet called "Petite Country Concrete Suite") tucked into the rear pastedown pocket.…

Paperback. First Edition. First edition. One of 500 copies. Stapled wraps with silkscreened cover, silkscreen illustrations inside. Very Good, wraps lightly soiled, staples rusted, bumped corners, offsetting from silkscreens. A 1967 rallying of Cleveland local, mimeo, and a few well-known poets to the cause of Asphodel Bookshop owner Jim Lowell who was charged with obscenity by local police alongside legendary underground poet d.a. levy.…

90 pp. Touch of foxing to top edge, else very near fine in stapled wrappers. One of 900 numbered copies. The first-hand "drug issue" featuring work by Al Young, d.a. levy, John Sinclair, Ray and Bonnie Bremser, Clive Matson, Richard Krech, and many others. William Wantling's 16 pp chapbook, "Heroin Haikus" present in the designated position at the rear of the volume.…

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Octavo. Stapled wrappers with screenprinted cover with price sticker, rubbed, very good. Magazine limited edition to just 500 copies in honor of Jim Lowell. Contributors include Charles Bukowski, Jonathan Williams, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Denise Levertow, Charles Olson, Robert Lowell, Guy Davenport, R. Wolter, Mitchell Goodman, Russell Atkins, Marvin Malone, William Wantling, Jacob Leed, T.L. Kryss, Dwight Macdonald, Paul Carroll, Carol Woideck, d.a. Levy, Douglas Casement, George Dowden, Hubert Selby, Jr., Mike Murphy, Franklin W.W. Osinski, Geoffrey Cook, Kent Taylor, D.R Wagner, Donald Cauble, J.M. Edelstein, James Laughlin, Brown Miller, Philip Kaplan, Gilbert Sorrentino, Felix Pollak, Michael McClure, Dave Cunliffe, Ron Caplan, Carl Weissner, David W. Harris, Walter Lowenfels, John Cornillion, Allen De Loach, Jasper Wood, and Walter R. Keller.…

Softcover. Condition: Fine. First edition. Octavo. Stapled wrappers with screenprinted cover with price sticker, lightly rubbed and bumped, about fine. Magazine limited edition to just 500 copies in defense of Jim Lowell, owner of the Asphodel Book Store, who was arrested along with D.A. Levy on obscenity charges. Contributors include Charles Bukowski, Jonathan Williams, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Denise Levertov, Charles Olson, Robert Lowell, Guy Davenport, R. Wolter, Mitchell Goodman, Russell Atkins, Marvin Malone, William Wantling, Jacob Leed, T.L. Kryss, Dwight Macdonald, Paul Carroll, Carol Woideck, Levy, Douglas Casement, George Dowden, Hubert Selby, Jr., Mike Murphy, Franklin W.W. Osinski, Geoffrey Cook, Kent Taylor, D.R Wagner, Donald Cauble, J.M. Edelstein, James Laughlin, Brown Miller, Philip Kaplan, Gilbert Sorrentino, Felix Pollak, Michael McClure, Dave Cunliffe, Ron Caplan, Carl Weissner, David W. Harris, Walter Lowenfels, John Cornillion, Allen De Loach, Jasper Wood, and Walter R. Keller.…

[ii] 65p. + several folding pages, 8x5.5 inch staplebound pamphlet; toning and staining on front wrap, otherwise in very good condition. Number 402 of 500 copies. Featuring poetry by Diane diPrima, Amiri Bakara (as LeRoi Jones), Philip Whalen, review of 3 Eric Dolphy records by John Sinclair, and many others. Between pages 15 and 16 is a first state foldout: a William S. Burroughs cut-up piece called The Coldspring News, which appears as a fictitious 1899 newspaper clipping.…