Zephyrus Image Dorn (2 results)

These are two leaves from this final book of the press: the title leaf and the Dinner Menu. Measurements are 7 x 10 & 7/8 inches. Fine condition. The book was comprised of 4 leaves, and was issued in a plastic wood-grain binder like you would get in a greasy spoon; we offer here just the two leaves, an incomplete copy. Text is composed of puns relating to printing and printers, written by Teter, Myers, and Ed Dorn. Johnston: Zephyrus Image: A Bibliography, pg. 155 - 156, 210. …

First edition. [8] pp. Folded sheets, bible paper issue. Folded twice; fine copy. Johnston notes, "While it looks like a newspaper, Bean News is full of in-jokes that are hard to decipher." The Zephyrus Image archives at the University of Delaware: Bean News is "an unconventional newspaper that combined letters, articles, poems, puns, and rebuses while experimenting in art, typography, and layout. Poets Ed Dorn, Tom Raworth, Tom Clark, Jeremy Prynne, Michael McClure, Luis Garcia, and others submitted copy, and Bean News became an item of intrigue in the San Francisco small press community." Johnston, Zephyrus Image, pp. 76, 177. Streeter, Ed Dorn, B22.…