Caesar by Mcclure Michael (2 results)

Condition: Very Good. (San Francisco): (Dave Haselwood), (1965). A non-commercial publication, with most copies given away to friends of the author and printer. Hand-sewn in printed wrappers, 6.5â x 4â , 24 pages, circa 60 copies. The first publication from Dave Haselwood after he left Auerhahn Press in the hands of his partner, Andrew Hoyem. This copy inscribed "For Allen", signed "Michael", and dated Halloween, 1965. Additionally, McClure has added a self-portrait drawing. Although not definitively established, it seems likely that the recipient is Allen Ginsberg . Ginsberg and McClure both lived in San Francisco at the time, and the famous photograph of them with Bob Dylan and Robbie Robertson in the alley behind City Lights Books was taken shortly after the date of the inscription. A very good copy, front wrap unevenly and lightly tanned, rear wrap with one light crease, spine a little rubbed, some interior pages don't quite align to wraps (potentially as issued).

(24)pp. Oblong 12mo. Letterpress gilt-marbled self-wraps. Though unstated, one of 60 copies. The beat poet Michael McClure moved to San Francisco as a young man, and was one of the five poets who read at the famous San Francisco Six Gallery reading in 1955, which was rendered in barely fictionalized terms in Jack Kerouac's The Dharma Bums. He was also a close friend of Jim Morrison of the Doors, whom he promoted as a poet.After the dissolution of the Auerhahn Press, which had published many key poets of the San Francisco Renaissance, "Haselwood returned to hand-made books, producing a series of exquisite booklets by the authors closest to him. Printed on dampened hand-made papers and exotically bound, they are his finest work. They were a non-commercial venture and evoked criticism for being deliberate rarities. Most copies were given away by poet and printer." -Bibliography of the Auerhahn Press. Small area of sunning on front cover. Back cover slightly soiled.