Mcclure Michael James Harmon Jack (4 results)

Paperback. Condition: VG. Staple-bound 8vo, 47 pages, Very Good minus condition with a chip missing at rear by crown of spine; light soiling & fading to covers & some edge-wear. Interior, while tanned, is nearly flawless. Uncommon.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. VG. 8vo, 48pp, stapled wrappers. One of the most important postwar American underground literary magazines. This issue, co-edited with Michael McClure, contains early appearances by major Beat writers, as well as a range of exceptional contemporary writers. (The Ed Dorn contributions are Streeter C5ÐC8; Robert Duncan is Bertholf C72; Gary Snyder is Sherlock v2.D19.) Unmarked copy from the library of Philip Lamantia; light sunning to wrappers and a little overall wear. Not Signed.

wrapper. Condition: Almost fine. Ronald Bladen (illustrator). 1st edition. San Francisco, Ark, 1956, 48 pp. (8vo) saddle-stitched wrappers. --- --- Signed by Joanna McClure. --- --- Important postwar American underground literary magazine. This issue, co-edited with Michael McClure, contains early appearances by major Beat writers and other contemporary voices. With work by Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, Robert Creeley, Gary Snyder, Denise Levertov, Kenneth Rexroth, Edward Dorn, Kenneth Patchen, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Paul Cox, et al. --- ---- --- Faint sunning and wear to wrappers; else fine.

Condition: Very Good. First Edition. San Francisco, CA: Ark, 1947-1957. First Editions. Three volumes; octavos; the earliest issue in pictorial wrappers with yapp edges, the latter two issues in printed staplebound wrappers; illus., including linocuts by Ronald Bladen in No. I. Moderate wear to the earliest issue with small chips at spine ends, margins a bit toned, light dust-soil to wrappers of No. III. A Very Good and sound set. The complete set of this extraordinary poetry journal, the first issue preceding the latter two by nearly a decade. Contributors included Kenneth Patchen, e.e. cummings, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Philip Whalen, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Kenneth Rexroth, William Carlos Williams, and many many others.