Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First edition. First issue of this small press poetry magazine edited by Robert J. Richkin and Ira Cohen. 87 pp. A clean very good copy in thick bound wrappers. Cover illustration by Jack Smith. Interesting lineup of contributors includes Heliczer, Ray and Bonnie Bremser, Ginsberg, Clive Matson, Andrew Heath and others.
Published by Gnaoua, Tangier, Morocco, 1964
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Number One, Spring 1964. 103 pp. Illustrated magenta wraps. Very Good with sunned and faintly stained wraps, creased spine, old price written on front free endpaper. The first and only issue of a mostly expatriate literary journal compiled in Tangier, Morocco. It features the photos of Jack Smith (stills from his film Flaming Creatures), as well as work from famous Beats Allen Ginsberg, Michael McClure, and William S. Burroughs. The latter's influence on Bob Dylan was profound. This literary magazine was featured on Dylan's mantelpiece on the front cover of the album Bringing It All Back Home as per Dylan's request, which is a testament to that influence that also made this one-off production an instant cult favorite.
Published by Gnaoua, Tangier, Morocco, 1964
Seller: The Poetry Bookshop : Hay-on-Wye, Hay-on-Wye, POWYS, United Kingdom
Magazine / Periodical First Edition
Card Wrappers. Condition: Near Fine. Rosalind (cantharides beetles) (illustrator). First Edition. 103pp.: Burroughs' Pry Yourself Loose and Listen, Notes On Page One, Ancient Face Gone Out, Just So Long And Long Enough (10pp.); Sommerville Mr & Mrs D (2 foldout photographic pp.), Gysin The Pipes of Pan (5pp); Norse Sniffing Keyholes (6pp.) Ginsberg A Dream & A Writing (3pp.); McClure The Beast Sound: Nine Poems (9pp.); Smith Superstars of Cinemaroc (10 photographic pages printed rectos only); Rosenthal (as Sheeper) Style, Drugs, Skin, Rubies And Diamonds, Armies of Fat Black Doctors (26pp.); Schliefer Goodbye, I Love You (1p); Yussufi The Three Alis, The First Turban, The First Mirror (5pp.); Weir Poem (1p); Gordon Crab Hermits Develop Language; Shall it Freely Be? (4pp.); Tatiana A Rock of Ectoplasm from Thunder Island ((2pp.); Jarry The Other Alcestis (10pp.) Also Christopher Wanklyn's translation of The Gnaoua Song (1p). Front cover & spine sunned; an otherwise exceptional copy of The Seminal Beat Anthology! Even Bob Dylan used it for hip code; propped on the mantelpiece behind him, for his Bringing it All Back Home album cover. Book.