Marc Schleifer Editor (3 results)

Condition: Good. Spring 1960, premiere issue featuring Paul Bowles, William S. Burroughs, Charles Olson, Allen Ginsberg, and more. Pictorial stiff paper wraps have allover moderate soiling and foxing, particularly near spine. Rubbing to spine fold. Light shelfwear to edges, corners bumped. Interior age-toned with scattered foxing.…

Softcover. Condition: Good. 102pp; Creasing to front cover & spine, pen marks to back cover, text unmarked, binding is sound, Good condition. Scarce, vintage literary magazine from the Beat era. This issue: Dave by Jack Kerouac; In Search of Yage by William S. Burroughs; The Ship in Yokohama by Gary Snyder; The Edge by Diane Di Prima; Death & Love by Tuli Kupferberg; Breughel -- Triumph of Death by Allen Ginsberg; Kif -- Prologue & Compendium of Terms by Paul Bowles; much more.…

Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First edition. First edition, first printing of the rare hardcover issue. [vi], 128 pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth affect with spine lettered in gilt. Near Fine with lean to binding. In a Very Good+ unclipped dust jacket with fading to spine, short crease at crown with light wear and rubbing to covers. A forgotten classic, an armed self-defense manifesto that challenged pacifist priorities of the Civil Rights Movement. The work directly influenced Huey P. Newton and the founding of the Black Panther Party. Often overlooked, Williams is considered a crucial figure of the Black Power Movement in the late '60s; when this book was published he was serving as a sort of Tokyo Rose or Lord Haw-Haw of Cuba, in exile there. He would become the first President of the Republic of New Afrika organization. Hardcover copies of the first edition are scarcely seen in the trade.…