Published by The Readers' Subscription, New York, 1961
Seller: Bloomsbury Books, Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: VG+. First Edition. A stapled digest containing 24 internal pages. With articles: "Words, Music, and History" by James Lyons (a review of "The Folk Songs of North America" by Alan Lomax); "The Love of Persons" by Mark Van Doren (a review of "The Characters of Love" by John Bayley). Covers lightly age-browned; light wear along outer narrow spine fold.
Published by The Readers' Subscription, New York, 1961
Seller: Bloomsbury Books, Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. A stapled digest containing 24 internal pages. With article "To Understand All Is Not to Forgive All" by Peter Gay (a review of "The Inquisition of the Middle Ages" by Henry Charles Lea); a one-page review of recording "[Edith] Piaf Sings in French and English" (with full-page photograph of Edith Piaf on stage). Scuffing along outer narrow spine fold; tiny scuff to front cover; three tiny chips to left rear edge.
Published by The Readers' Subscription, New York, 1962
Seller: Bloomsbury Books, Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Good. First Edition. A stapled digest containing 20 internal pages. "Contemporaries" by Alfred Kazin reviewed by Howard Mumford Jones; article on Billie Holiday by Ralph Gleason; "The New Golden Bough" by James George Frazer reviewed by Arnold Toynbee. Staples rusted (no bleeding); in moderately age-soiled covers; covers show light edge and corner wear in places.
Published by The Readers' Subscription, New York, 1962
Seller: Bloomsbury Books, Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: VG+. First Edition. A stapled digest containing 24 internal pages. With articles: "The American Experience in Art" by Alfred Kazin (a review of "Art and Life in America" by Oliver Larkin); "The World in a Book" by Richard Howard (a review of "Degrees" by Michel Butor). Front cover shows the lightest of age-soil; tiny corner chip.
Published by The Readers' Subscription, New York, 1961
Seller: Bloomsbury Books, Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. A stapled digest containing 24 internal pages. With articles: "Big Chips Off the Old Block" by Alfred Kazin (a review of "The Collected Stories of William Faulkner"); "The Structure of Impulse" by Sam Hunter (a review of "Jackson Pollock" by Bryan Robertson). Staples lightly rusted (no bleeding); scuffing along outer narrow spine fold.
Published by The Readers' Subscription, New York, 1962
Seller: Bloomsbury Books, Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Good. First Edition. A stapled digest containing 24 internal pages. With articles: "Negative Clamours and the Hope of Reprieve" by Harold Clurman (a review of "Seven Plays of the Modern Theater"); "What a Real Person He Is!" by Irving Kristol (a review of "The Thought and Character of William James" by Ralph Barton Perry); "The Last of the Yahis" by Joan Meyers (a review of "Ishi in Two Worlds" by Theodora Kroeber). Staples rusted (no bleeding); light to moderate scuffing along outer narrow spine fold; very small corner chip to front cover; light corner crease to upper right corner of front cover and first few inside pages.
Published by The Readers' Subscription, New York, 1963
Seller: Bloomsbury Books, Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. A stapled digest containing 20 internal pages. "The Tin Drum" by Gunter Grass reviewed by Kay Boyle (with full-page photograph of Gunter Grass). Staples lightly rusted (no bleeding); tiny chip to right edge of front cover and first several pages; covers show light corner wear.
Published by The Readers' Subscription, New York, 1962
Seller: Bloomsbury Books, Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. A stapled digest containing 12 internal pages. Issue is devoted to short reviews of "Past Selections & Bonus Books." Covers lightly age-soiled.
Published by The Readers' Subscription, New York, 1961
Seller: Bloomsbury Books, Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. A stapled digest containing 24 internal pages. With article "Toynbee and his Critics" by William Barrett (a review of "Reconsiderations" by Arnold J. Toynbee). Scuffing along outer narrow spine fold.
Published by The Readers' Subscription, New York, 1961
Seller: Bloomsbury Books, Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. A stapled digest containing 24 internal pages. With special cover feature "On Henry Miller" (on the "Tropic of Cancer" with contributions from George Orwell, Lawrence Durrell, Karl Shapiro, Philip Rahv, and Harry T. Moore). Staples lightly rusted (no bleeding); very short closed tear to upper outer narrow spine fold; a few short scuffs along outer narrow spine fold.
Published by The Readers' Subscription, New York, 1962
Seller: Bloomsbury Books, Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Fair. First Edition. A stapled digest containing 20 internal pages. "Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary" reviewed by J. Christopher Herold; the "Letters of Dostoevsky" reviewed by Alfred Kazin; two Folkways recordings reviewed by Nat Hentoff. Staples rusted (no bleeding); front cover nearly detached; covers moderately soiled; small corner chip.
Published by The Readers' Subscription, New York, 1961
Seller: Bloomsbury Books, Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Good. First Edition. A stapled digest containing 24 internal pages. With articles: "Supermarket Politics and Private Daydreams" by William V. Shannon (on "The Real Bohemia: A Sociological and Psychological Study of the 'Beats'" by Francis J. Rigney and L. Douglas Smith, Jr.); "An Evening with Leadbelly" by Nat Hentoff (a review of the recording "Leadbelly's Last Sessions"). Covers moderately age-browned; light to moderate scuffing along outer narrow spine fold.
Published by Big Table Inc, Chicago, 1959
Seller: Riverrun Books & Manuscripts, ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
8vo. Original printed wrappers. First edition of this infamous first issue of Big Table - founded after editors Irving Rosenthal and Paul Carroll resigned from The Chicago Review in protest to harsh criticisms of their printing portions of the then-unpublished novel Naked Lunch by William S. Burrough. This first issue of Big Table, founded in the wake of this episode, was impounded by the U.S. Post Office. A court trial resulted in its favor, and the journal continued through another 5 issues. Rosenthal's novel Sheeper is a classic of the era, and one of the great minor novels of American literature. See Clay & Phillips, A Secret Location on the Lower East Side, p. 45. Slightly leaned, some pale staining to wrappers.
Published by Big Table, 1959
Seller: Glands of Destiny First Edition Books, Sedro Woolley, WA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Publisher: Big Table, Chicago, Spring 1959.NEAR FINE in lightly soiled paper wraps, as issued. Features Jack Kerouac's "Old Angel Midnight" by Kerouac, and "Ten Episodes From Naked Lunch" by William S. Burroughs.
Published by Chicago Review, Chicago, 1958
Seller: Riverrun Books & Manuscripts, ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
8vo. 88 pages. Printed wrappers. Containing chapter two of 'Naked Lunch.' This was the second appearance of any section of the novel in print, following the Spring issue of the journal. For those keeping track, the headline above the text contains the misprint "William C. Burroughs." "The 1958 appearance of a Naked Lunch excerpt in the Chicago Review created a scandal that ended in the resignation of the magazine's two editors, Irving Rosenthal and Paul Carroll. The controversy was initiated when an editorial review by Chicago Daily News columnist Jack Mabley, appeared under the title 'Filthy Writing on the Midway.' Mabley objected to what he called "'obscene' writing in the University of Chicago's literary magazine. Published alongside Burroughs in the Chicago Review were Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and other young and unconventional writers of the period" (Columbia University exhibition). Rosenthal went on to write one of the great (woefully unheralded) novels of the era, 'Sheeper,' in which Burroughs and the Beats appear. Some light wear and toning at extremities, but a very good copy.
Published by Big Table, Inc, Chicago, 1959
Magazine / Periodical First Edition
Magazine. Condition: Very Good+. First Edition; First Printing. This is the first of five issues published by the magazine Big Table. It conatins the complete contents of the suppressed *Winter 1959 Chicago Review*, which consisted of "Ten Episodes from *Naked Lunch*" by William S. Burroughs, "Old Angel Midnight" by Jack Kerouac, two pieces by Edward Dahlberg and three poems from Gregory Corso. *Maynard and Miles* C6. Conditon is VG+ withlight wear to edges and corners and a small crease aross the lowere right corner.A subscription card is laid in. ; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 152 + ads pages.
Published by Chicago Review, Spring 1958, 1958
Seller: Longhouse, Publishers & Booksellers, Brattleboro, VT, U.S.A.
First Edition
First edition, first printing Here are Burroughs, Doyle, Duncan, Ferlinghetti, Ginsberg, Kerouac, Lamantia, McClure, Whalen, Wieners. A seminal Beat Generation issue edited by Irving Rosenthal. Very good with some darkening and gentle use wraps. An original price of 75 cents.
Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Tall 8vo. One of the more famous issues of this long running literary magazine. This issue contains Chapter Two of Burroughs' Naked Lunch. A handsome near fine copy with cover artwork by Robert Natkin. Uncommon in this condition.
Published by Spring 1959 / Summer 1959 / Spring 1960, 1960
Seller: Longhouse, Publishers & Booksellers, Brattleboro, VT, U.S.A.
First Edition
First edition, first printing On Christmas Day 1958, co-editors from the University of Chicago, Irving Rosenthal and Paul Carroll founded the highly influential Big Table. Rosenthal edited the premiere issue which we are offering here along with Issues No. 2 and No. 4. Only five issues in all and these three are offered here as a set. The first issue published the then highly controversial "Naked Lunch" by Burroughs (in excerpts) and Jack Kerouac's "Old Angel Midnight" which were originally to be published in The Chicago Review. The US Post office impounded over 400 copies and refused to deliver the first issue because of what they called "obscenity and filthy contents". That decision was appealed by none other than Judge Julius Hoffman of the later Chicago Eight trial fame, reversing the initial decision and stating that Big Table was not obscene. Paul Carroll took over the helm and edited the next four issues from 1959 to 1960. Big Table published works by John Ashbery, Robert Creeley, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg ,LeRoi Jones, Denise Levertov andmany others. Legend has it Jack Kerouac gave the name "Big Table" to the editors. The issues are very good to near fine wraps with the usual toning of the acidic paper stock.
Published by Big Table, Inc, Chicago, 1959
Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Mss, ABAA, Galena, IL, U.S.A.
First Edition
Paperback. First four issues (Volume I, Nos. 1-4). Small 8vo. Stiff pictorial wrappers. 152pp, (6pp ads); 122pp, (2pp ads); 120pp; 141pp, (3pp ads). Illustrations (one foldout). Very good to near fine. Handsome, tight and near complete (4 out of 5) set of this short-lived Beat quarterly that begins with the premiere issue (Spring 1959) and the first appearance of Jack Kerouac's "Old Angel Midnight" and William S. Burroughs' "Ten Episodes from Naked Lunch," along with contributions from Edward Dahlberg and Gregory Corso -- these first two of which brought obscenity charges from the U.S. Postal Service. Three following issues likewise feature a "Who's Who" of contributors that include Leon Golub, Paul Bowles, Brother Antoninus, Andre Breton, Paul Blackburn, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allen Ginsburg, Robert Duncan, John Ashbery, Aaron Siskind, Robert Creeley, Norman Mailer, Peter Orlovsky, Jean Genet, Richard G. Stern and many others. Subscription form laid into first volume along with 23 June 1959 "Chicago Daily News" clipping "Call Beatnik Magazine Obscene." A superb grouping.
Published by Big Table Inc, New York, 1959
Seller: Brenner's Collectable Books ABAA, IOBA, Manasquan, NJ, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Digest Size, wraps. 158(4)pp. Sharp First Issue of this periodical of beat literature founded by Rosenthal and born out of academic censorship by the University of Chicago. This first volume includes the first ten episodes from Burroughs' Naked Lunch, predating the release of the book. Square, tight and clean throughout with very mild edge-wear and just a hint of toning. Still bright with no chipping, creases or tears. Signed and inscribed by Burroughs on the first page of his contribution, "For Roger Richards, William S. Burroughs. Hotel Chelsea, N.Y.C. October 15". Roger Richards was the owner of the iconic Greenwich Books and The Rare Book Room in Greenwich Village and a close associate of Burroughs and several other Beat writers. The story goes, and this directly from the third party involved, is that Rogers was supposed to have this book inscribed to one of his good clients along with a few other Burroughs pieces. However, when Richards arrived at the Chelsea Hotel, where Burroughs was living at the time, they decided to get stoned and Burroughs ended up inscribing it to Rogers instead of the client. The client was still happy to receive it in addition to the couple of piece that Burroughs did manage to inscribe to him. Laid in is a 16-page catalog from The Rare Book Room from 1986, (the good ol' days when a Very Fine first of The Old Man and the Sea could be had for $250), which was addressed to the above "client", though his name has been blacked-out for privacy as he is still very much alive. A very pretty collectable copy and a neat association. Signed copies of this digest are very uncommon.
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.