Circle nine

Leite, George, ed

Published by Circle, Berkeley, 1946

About this Item

8vo, pp. [4], 96, [8]; 6 plates, 1 folding; pictorial paper wrappers designed by the Palestinian artist Bezalel Schatz; wrappers toned, text clean, very good. An influential California literary mag. "Simultaneously with the arrival of Henry Miller in Big Sur (1940s), a new intellectual tendency had emerged in Berkeley, in a little magazine called Circle. Edited by George Leite, who became one of Miller's associates, Circle produced ten issues beginning in 1944, with what Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Nancy Peters described as antiwar, anarchist, or antiauthoritarian, civil libertarian attitudes, coupled with a new experimentation in the arts." (Schwartz, From West to East) This issue with contributions by Lawrence Durrell, C. F. MacIntyre, William Everson, Henry Miller, Alex Comfort, et al.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Circle nine
• Publisher: Circle, Berkeley
• Publication Date: 1946
• Seller catalogs:
  • American Literature
  • Literature
  • Poetry