Lillabulero: Being a Periodical of Literature and the Arts. Volume I, Number 1
Winter, 1967. Tall Quarto. 56 pp. with Portfolio/1 A Photographic Essay by Peter Schlaifer inside the rear cover. About VG+ overall, with a 4” tear to front cover, creasing and spotting. Laid in is a December 18, 1966 The News and Observer article, “Mag Makes Debut” with picture of Banks reviewing the first issue (Banks is quoted as saying, “We do not expect to make a profit.”). The inaugural issue features work by Nelson Algren, William Stafford, Lewis Lipsitz, and Evan S. Connell, Jr., among others, contains reviews of Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49 and Walker Percy’s The Last Gentleman, and capsules of Sylvia Plath’s Ariel, Langston Hughes’s Poems from Black America, and A Poetry Reading Against the Vietnam War. A relatively hard-to-find first issue of this important periodical that ran from 1967-1974. Item #330
Price: $300.00