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[Charles Bukowski, Jackson Mac Low]Abyss Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 1Somerville, MA: Abyss Publications, 1971. Offset. Saddle-stapled. 11 x 8 1/2 in. [44] pp. Wrappers with minor discoloration.Abyss Magazine was a literary &amp; surrealistic arts anthology edited by Gerard Dombrowski, published in Massachusetts by Abyss Publications.This issue features three poems by Charles Bukowski ("The Misfit", "Poet in Residence," and "Nobody Wants to Hear Your Troubles"; Debritto B533, pg. 210). These are a surprising inclusion in the magazine, as the majority of the other poems in this issue are experimental concrete poems, and the magazine itself focused mostly on Tibetan codes and mystical elements. Nonetheless, it also features contributions from Jackson Mac Low, Douglas Blazek, and Carl H. Weissner.Condition as described in catalogue note. For further information on the condition of this lot please email <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="mailto:info@boo-hooray.com">info@boo-hooray.com</a>. All lots are sold on an "as is" basis at the time of sale. Images form a part of the condition description for each lot, though images online may represent hues and shades which differ from the actual item.

[Charles Bukowski, Jackson Mac Low] — Abyss Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 1

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Allen GinsbergImprovised Poetics [presentation copy]Buffalo: Anonym Books, 1971. First edition. In wraps with photographic portrait of Ginsberg. [iv], 52 pp. 6 3/4 x 5 in. Inscribed on the title-page. Wraps just beginning to separate, otherwise a nice copy.First edition, presentation copy, inscribed to Judith Malina of the Living Theatre, "11/8/86 For Judith" and signed. Limited to 2000 copies, this book is a transcription of a discussion between Allen Ginsberg, Michael Aldrich, Edward Kissam, and Nancy Bleeker at Ginsberg’s farm in Cherry Valley, New York, on November 26, 1968.&nbsp;The text deals with the act of writing, the way poems appear on a page, and the ways that people read poems and speak them in their minds. From the introduction by Mark Robinson, “[the book’s] main prosodic concern centers around the notion that: the line is a measure of thought. It also shows how poetry is mapped and/or charted in Ginsberg’s and his contemporaries’ practice. Which carries the further implication: how to read.” Ginsberg later taught classes on Improvised Poetics at Naropa, and continued to write about and develop this idea so central to his compositional method.Condition as described in catalogue note. For further information on the condition of this lot please email <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="mailto:info@boo-hooray.com">info@boo-hooray.com</a>. All lots are sold on an "as is" basis at the time of sale. Images form a part of the condition description for each lot, though images online may represent hues and shades which differ from the actual item.

Allen Ginsberg — Improvised Poetics [presentation copy]

Allen Ginsberg; Barry Miles, Ted Berrigan, edsLong Hair, vol. 1. no. 1London and New York:&nbsp;Lovebooks Ltd,&nbsp;1965. First edition. Illustrated wraps with portrait of Ginsberg. 80 pp. 7 7/8 x 6 3/8 in. Wraps lightly toned.&nbsp;A short-lived literary journal published by underground press mainstay Barry Miles, founder of International Times and owner of Indica Books, with Ted Berrigan serving as the New York editor. This first issue includes Allen Ginsberg’s “Ankor Wat,” as well as contributions from Tuli Kupferberg, Michael Horovitz, Gerard Malanga, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Ron Padgett, free jazz musician Archie Shepp, and others. A nice example of transatlantic counterculture.Condition as described in catalogue note. For further information on the condition of this lot please email <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="mailto:info@boo-hooray.com">info@boo-hooray.com</a>. All lots are sold on an "as is" basis at the time of sale. Images form a part of the condition description for each lot, though images online may represent hues and shades which differ from the actual item.

Allen Ginsberg; Ted Berrigan, Barry Miles, eds. — Long Hair, vol. 1. no. 1

Ezra PoundThe Cantos of Ezra Pound: CX — CXVI [cover by Joe Brainard]New York: Fuck You Press, 1967. Offset and mimeograph. Side-stapled in pink wraps. 11 x 8 1/2 in. [13] pp. Closed tear to rear wrap, bumping to corners and left edge, and small closed tears to two leaves.Ed Sanders' pirated Fuck You Press edition of The Cantos of Ezra Pound: CX — CXVI, with the cover by Joe Brainard. The publication of this edition forced the official authorized version into publication.According to Joshua Kotin, who in 2014 began to undertake a census of the publication, "The book connected Ezra Pound, the most influential poet of the century, to the world of the mimeograph revolution, a publishing phenomenon that changed the landscape of poetics after the Second World War. But the book, in turn, brought Fuck You Press and [Sanders] both celebrity and revenue. But more important: it allowed a new generation of poets to read Pound in the face of his fascism and anti-Semitism. As Chelsea Jennings writes, 'Sanders’s edition of the Cantos […] is at once an homage to Pound — an affirmation of his continued relevance not just to history but to the present — and a defiant appropriation of his poetry and legacy.'"Copies in pink wraps are very rare, and not accounted for by Gallup (cf A87). Lacks the colophon, as usual for copies in pink wraps.Reference: Kotin, "<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://realitystudio.org/bibliographic-bunker/fuck-you-press-archive/the-fuck-you-press-cantos-a-census/">The Fuck You Press Cantos: A Census</a>," RealityStudio, 2018Condition as described in catalogue note. For further information on the condition of this lot please email <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="mailto:info@boo-hooray.com">info@boo-hooray.com</a>. All lots are sold on an "as is" basis at the time of sale. Images form a part of the condition description for each lot, though images online may represent hues and shades which differ from the actual item.

Ezra Pound — The Cantos of Ezra Pound CX — CXVI [cover by Joe Brainard]

Allen Van NewkirkGuerrilla Volume 1, Number 2Detroit:&nbsp;Guerrilla,&nbsp;1967. Offset on newsprint. 28 pp. 15 ½ x 11 ¼ in. Old horizontal fold with wear along fold to some sheets, extremities chipped, open tear to right outer margin (&lt; ½ in.) and lower outer margin (~ ½ in.), toning.The second and final issue of the extremely rare radical underground newspaper Guerrilla, “a national newspaper of contemporary kulchur,” edited by Allen Van Newkirk and an editorial team at the Detroit Artists’ Workshop Press.A flagship in revolutionary thought, poetry, and news, the newspaper was published during the riots in Detroit during the summer of 1967 and the height of the Detroit Free Press literary movement. Situated squarely in the window of political possibility inaugurated by 1960s riots, the newspaper featured a star-studded roster, with Ellen Phelan serving as Art Editor, and a list of contributing editors that included Sun Ra, Diane di Prima, Michael McClure, Stan Brakhage, John Sinclair, Robert Kelly, Marion Brown, David Meltzer, and Joel Oppenheimer.This issue features poetry by Di Prima and Robert Kelly, an essay by Gilbert Sorrentino on avant-rock, another from John Sinclair on jazz and bebop, alongside a letter on film by Stan Brakhage, and an epistolary poem to George Büchner by Michael McClure. It also features striking cartoons, illustrations, and photography.While Guerrilla billed itself in the first issue as a “monthly” newspaper, this second issue appeared four months late — in the interim, the police had assaulted the editorial offices, then shared with the Artists’ Workshop Press, and arrested the entire editorial staff. By the time the second issue appeared, some of the staff were still pending trial, and co-editor John Sinclair had resigned over an internal dispute about Guerrilla's attitude towards hippies. His editorial displays ambivalent and critical feelings about the middle-class youth movement.Editor Allen Van Newkirk later made news again. In 2005, Newkirk was arrested and shot following a December 12 armed robbery of a Toys R’ Us near Vancouver, British Columbia. He had attempted to flee the toy shop, but crashed into a police car after a short chase. After crashing he opened fire on the cops; shortly after, he was shot and killed. Sources say his commitments to surrealism determined the location of the robbery.Condition as described in catalogue note. For further information on the condition of this lot please email <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="mailto:info@boo-hooray.com">info@boo-hooray.com</a>. All lots are sold on an "as is" basis at the time of sale. Images form a part of the condition description for each lot, though images online may represent hues and shades which differ from the actual item.

Allen Van Newkirk — Guerrilla Volume 1, Number 2

Next to NothingPaul BowlesKathmandu:&nbsp;Bardo Matrix,&nbsp;1976. First edition. Printed on rice paper. Machine-stitched in lokta wraps with Verifax cover, brown tissue flyleaves. [28] pp, rectos only. 9 1/2 x 7 1/4 in. Illustrated. Lacking the tipped-in frontispiece, stray spots.&nbsp;First edition, a limited issue of 500 hand-numbered copies, the present copy out of series. In his essay on the Bardo Matrix Press, Ira Cohen states, “In 1976 Paul Bowles sent me his poem, Next to Nothing, written specially for Bardo Matrix. Although I knew that Paul expressed a preference for an unadorned presentation of the text with little or no graphics, I ended up using six different design elements by six different artists.” The illustrations include the Verifax cover by Rosalind May Lama; a title-page illustration by Sidney Hushour; a rapidograph illustration by Petra Vogt; a skull illustration on the colophon by Lee Baarslag; and a Kufic design on the rear wrapper by Bowles.The present copy lacks the frontispiece collage by Dana Young — possibly as the copy is out of series. Starstreams Poetry Series, no. 5. Miller A31.Condition as described in catalogue note. For further information on the condition of this lot please email <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="mailto:info@boo-hooray.com">info@boo-hooray.com</a>. All lots are sold on an "as is" basis at the time of sale. Images form a part of the condition description for each lot, though images online may represent hues and shades which differ from the actual item.

Paul Bowles — Next to Nothing

Piero HeliczerFolding Chair of the Printing Master, a Catalog of Items Printed by The Dead Language 1963New York &amp; Paris: The Dead Language Press, 1963. 9 x 4 in. Two unbound letterpress leaves. Illustration by Aubrey Beardsley. Corners lightly bumped, original horizontal folds, stray spots.Heliczer's 1963 catalog for titles from the Dead Language Press. These leaves were letterpressed by Heliczer, before being folded and bound with tape to produce eight panels. The catalog lists ten titles: To Girl Body, A Pulp Magazine for the Dead Generation, The Beautiful Book, The First Battle of the Marne, Loverman, You Could Hear the Snow Melting and Dripping Into the Deers Mouth, the opening section of Angus Maclise’s Straight Farthest Blood Towards (here titled simply, Straight), Wednesday Paper, &amp; I Dreamt I Shot Arrow in My Amazon Bra, and Year.Condition as described in catalogue note. For further information on the condition of this lot please email <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="mailto:info@boo-hooray.com">info@boo-hooray.com</a>. All lots are sold on an "as is" basis at the time of sale. Images form a part of the condition description for each lot, though images online may represent hues and shades which differ from the actual item.

Piero Heliczer — Folding Chair of the Printing Master ...

Joseph BeuysAppeal by Joseph BeuysDüsseldorf: Free International University, 1979. Offset. Side-stapled. 11 x 8 1/2 in. [24] pp. Toning and minor soiling.A collection of texts by Joseph Beuys, including two translations of his "Appeal for an Alternative," alongside his text on "The Shape of a Free Social Organism," and his short piece, "What Can We Do Now to Bring About the Alternative?" The pamphlet was published by the Free International University, the experimental support-cum-pedagogy organization founded by Beuys and others as an "organizational place of research, work, and communication" to study the future of society and political-economy.Along with Beuys, The Free International University was founded by Heinrich Böll, Caroline Tisdall, and Robert McDowell, among others, in Beuys’ Düsseldorf studio on April 27, 1973. The vision of the FIU was one where students and faculty lived communally, and students did not achieve degrees, but rather focused on interdisciplinary research and the fostering of creative potential. It also served as an advocacy group for equitable education in Europe.Condition as described in catalogue note. For further information on the condition of this lot please email <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="mailto:info@boo-hooray.com">info@boo-hooray.com</a>. All lots are sold on an "as is" basis at the time of sale. Images form a part of the condition description for each lot, though images online may represent hues and shades which differ from the actual item.

Joseph Beuys — Appeal by Joseph Beuys

Gabriel PomerandSt. Ghetto des PrétsParis:&nbsp;O.L.B., 1950.&nbsp;In wraps. 121 pp. 47 illustrations. 11 ½ x 9 in. Last two leaves unopened. A good, presentable copy; hinge weakened, some shelfwear.The magnum opus of the Gabriel Pomerand (b. 1925 – d. 1972), a poet and artist whose brief star waxed under the sign of the Lettrist movement in the 1950s.In this book, Pomerand uses the techniques of lettrism to translate his poems into graphic scores: a "bilingual" text, each page features his dynamic illustrated signs on one page, with the poems in French on the opposite page. Deriving his technique from memories of "old grimoires and luxurious incunabulums," Pomerand created what is, to our minds, one of the great intermedia works of the century. It is a moving expression of the great flowerings of avant-garde culture in Saint-Germain-des-Prés.Pomerand's introduction, translated by M. Kasper, states:“I want it understood that only the avant-garde of intelligence preoccupies me, and not all the schools this avant-garde fits into. I dread the day when the name of the invention–which is a phenomenon of commodification–overshadows the reals search for transgression.I love perpetual effort and risk of every kind, whether it is fighting against rules or against the nature of things. Throughout my life, I have had no other goal than to be an extremist, at that battlefront which alarm clocks suggest even as they lure us into the traps of life.”Scarce.Condition as described in catalogue note. For further information on the condition of this lot please email <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="mailto:info@boo-hooray.com">info@boo-hooray.com</a>. All lots are sold on an "as is" basis at the time of sale. Images form a part of the condition description for each lot, though images online may represent hues and shades which differ from the actual item.

[Charles Bukowski, Jackson Mac Low] — Abyss Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 1

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