Penngrove, CA: Avec, 1988. 94 pp. with illustrations. VG+ Quarto in rubbed pictorial wraps with edgewear. Premiere Issue of this journal, heavy on poetry with a scattering of fiction, including an excerpt from the "Lost Chapter" of Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs. Contributors include James Broughton, Anselm Hollo, David..... More
Toronto, Ontario. 32 pp. with illustrations in stapled pictorial wraps with a touch of soiling, overall VG+. Contents include “Black Cultural Crisis in Canada” by Lennox Brown, “A History of the Black Media in Canada” by Russell Keith, “Profile of Lennox Brown: A Black Playwright” and “John Belfon: A Black..... More
Fall 1967. 52 pp. Octavo. Illustrated stapled wraps. VG only (exposure damage, spotting to covers affecting the final ten pages, soiling and offsetting). Six illustrations, six photos. The Preface, from the faculty advisor to the Black Student Union, states that Stanford black students must contend with “being black in a...... More
Published by The School Paper Club of the Barnstable (MA) Junior and Senior High Schools. 12 pp., typed and photomechanically reproduced, side-stapled between two pieces of construction paper, the front cover with typed publication information and a hand-colored ivy design border. Former owner’s name (?) written on rear cover. About..... More
Features the essay “Confessions of a Luddite” by Maxine Kumin and the poem “Painter of Doll Faces” by Charles Simic. Includes Simic’s address label on back cover (written in another hand in pen). Near Fine in wraps. Uncommon. More
[n.p.]: Granta Books, 2004. Near Fine softcover with a touch of shelfwear. SIGNED by Jonathan Lethem at his contribution, “Two or Three Things I Dunno about Cassavetes.” Also features Colson Whitehead on the art of moviegoing in New York, John Fowles on the troubled history of The French Lieutenant’s Woman..... More
Atlanta: Shair Productions/House of PRAE, 1978. Jamil el-Shair, Editor. 20 pp. VG or better in illustrated stapled wraps (foxing and soiling). Scarce literary journal of mostly poetry by Black authors (including reprinting of two poems by Paul Laurence Dunbar) and other Atlanta area authors. Illustrated throughout. Grio was funded in..... More
East Lansing, MI: [n.p.], 1976. Edited by John Harn, Don Anderson, Alan Harris, Brian Hough, and Loring Wirbel. Design and layout by Jeff Yerkey. Photos by Vincent St. I. Smith and Michael Warholak, Jr. 31 pp. VG+ in stapled pictorial wraps (toning, sunning to edges, light soiling). Journal of poetry..... More
Columbia, Missouri: Stephens College, 1980. VG+ stapled pictorial wraps, with images of contributors Ahmos Zu-Bolton II and Harryette Mullen on front cover. 64 pp. INSCRIBED by both Zu-Bolton and Mullen to one Cecelia, who the authors met at Tougaloo College, a HBCU located in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1980 (both inscriptions..... More
New York, NY. Handwritten by the authors and published unedited and indiscriminately by Dan Saxon. Contributors include Ted Berrigan, Gerard Malanga, Anselm Hollo, Ron Padgett, and Paul Blackburn. Side stapled and mimeographed, 22 pp. VG+. Distributed at Café Le Metro avant-garde poetry readings in small numbers (reportedly less than..... More
New York: Anchor Books, 2001. Series Editor: Larry Dark. The 2001 Prize Jury: Mary Gordon, Michael Chabon, Mona Simpson. Bound Galley. SIGNED by George Saunders at his story “Pastoralia” and includes a doodle by him, and SIGNED by Antonya Nelson at her story “Female Trouble.” Near Fine softcover. An unusual..... More
265 pp. Feature on Seamus Heaney, with an interview, an essay, and articles on the poetry by Helen Vendler, Jay Parini, and others. Also included is an interview with Czeslaw Milosz and contributions from Mark Edmundson, David Citino, David Bromwich, and Susan Kress. More
Brunswick, GA: Brunswick Junior College, 1969. Volume 3. First Edition. 48 pp. Edited by Phyllis Barr. Artwork and Photography by Lamar Harris, Bill Ungerer, and Douglas Seaman. Poems of love, death, time, and nature. VG in 8.5" x 11" stapled pictorial wraps (soiling). No copies of this early edition in..... More
VG+ softcover (light edgewear and crease to top corner). Eleven short stories, including those by Ellen Gilchrist and Rick Moody and an early story—preceding his first book, CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, by one year—of George Saunders’s “Sticks.” SIGNED by Saunders at his contribution. More
New York: 5X Publishing Co., 1971. First Edition. 190 pp. Cover by Charles Abramson, “a Badd Cover Brotha!!” VG+ in perfectbound illustrated wraps (light rubbing and soiling to covers). INSCRIBED by Sonia Sanchez on Contents page: “Blacklove! Sister Sonia Sanchez 1972.” Contains poetry, short stories, and plays by more than..... More
SIGNED by George Saunders at his Interview (p. 68-84) with James Schiff. Near Fine with a soft bend to lower corner. A long-ranging, honest, and revealing interview with the future National Book Award finalist, conducted after his early successes with CivilWarLand in Bad Decline (1996) and Pastoralia (2000). More
Union City, CA: The Fault Press, 1980. VG+ stapled illustrated wraps (toning, edgewear). Stories, poetry, art, photography, and more from Erica van Horn, Blythe Ayne, W.S. Doxey, Robert Joe Stout, Linda Lemon, and more. More
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..... More
Tall Quarto. 40[3] pp. and includes inside the rear cover Portfolio/2 “The Shaker Dove” by Daniel Patterson. Contributors include Ralph Dennis, Dabney Stuart, Lewis Lipsitz, and Edmund Skellings. Includes A Special Supplement on William Faulkner: A Story and Five Poems. VG+ or better. More
Somerville, MA: [n.p.], 1972. September 1972. 32 pp. Cover photography by Caroline McAllister. Stapled illustrated wraps, about VG+ (paper clip ghost on front cover). Laid in is an order form and an ALS from the co-editor Hogan to one J. Wagoner (Nov. 22, 1972) on Aspect letterhead. 2 pages, back..... More
Atlanta: African Expressions, 1970. 42 pp. Illustrated, original stapled pictorial wrappers. Near Fine. Developed as part of the Atlanta Center for Black Art, Rhythm was a short-lived magazine with only 3 issues printed (Danky, 5137). This inaugural issue includes work by Ameer (sic) Baraka (LeRoi Jones) on “Black Nationalism vs. Pimp Art,” Bill Mahoney on..... More