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[Prague: self-published], 1989. Quarto (28.8 × 20.5 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; ca. 300 pp. of reproduced typescript; with occasional illustrations from photographs. Small crease to lower front wrapper affecting first few leaves; small crease to upper corner of final portion of block; else very good. The final unofficial "samizdat" issue of this cult journal of the Czechoslovak underground, which appeared in 1985-1989 with varying subtitles, including "tzv. "nezávislý" tiskový orgán," "Nezávislé kulturní periodikum," and "Off ghetto magazine." The early double issue 3-4 is only titled "Jednou nohou" (With one foot), but from no. 5 the issues also featured the title "Revolver Revue" and the small "RR" stamp to titles. "Revolver Revue" was in part a response to the suppression of the important underground samizdat journal "Vokno" that could not appear in 1981-1984. The first issue included here features an original linocut print cover design by artist Viktor Karlík, who was among the original editorial team. The contributions included works by Egon Bondy, Charles Bukowski, Jimi Hendrix, Magor, H .P. Lovecraft, I. B. Singer, Petr Placák, Jan Bene?, Ivan Wernisch, L. F. Celine, Henry Miller, Susan Sontag, Ji?í Wolf, Tom Shephard, Tolkien, Samuel Beckett, Jáchym Topol, Paul Wilson, Plastic People, Václav Havel, Andy Warhol, John Updike, Hannah Arendt, Eduard Limonov, Stephen Brook, and numerous others. This issue with texts by Richard Ford, Harry Hass, Vít Kremli?ka, Petr Král, Ján Potok, Václav Rambousek, Elie Wiesel, Josef ?kvorecký, Timothy Garton Ash, Harold Pinter, Robert Stone, Wolf Biermann, Jacques Rupnik, Fadia Faqir, Anthony Hartley, and others. For more on this important publication, see the lengthy articles in P?ibá?, ?eský literární samizdat 1949-1989, pp. 407-410. The journal continues to be published today, but the early issues in particular (prior to no. 13) are rare and sought after collector's items.
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