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[ii], 28, [2] pp., 4to, stapled pink self wrapper. The first of only two issues published. Between those two, Rabies has been described thus: "This is a magazine which takes its bearings from Dada and Surrealism. There are swipes at Barry MacSweeney (against his poetry and against his chairmanship of the Poetry Society), Marina Vaisey (the art critic of The Times), an unnamed poet ("a blubbering mess such as the Quartermass of Yorkshire [who] turns its clumsy attention to the task of crying more copiously in verse than any one else and getting away with it"), Emma Tennant and Bananas ("the Illiterary Newspaper"), Kingsley Amis (his imaginary answers to an Intelligence Test), and the forty poets, many of them conventionally regarded as avant-garde, attending the Cambridge Poetry Festival 1977" (Miller & Price, E673). An uncommon survival. Good copy; some small stains and creases to wrapper; minor edgewear; lower corner of rear wrapper panel and preceding four pages show small amount of (insect?) damage, not touching any text. Seller Inventory # 4130
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