Minicab, First Edition (3 results)

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Stapled wrappers. Spine slightly sunned, a few faint creases, near fine. Anonymously printed pamphlet devoted to the battle between established cab companies and minicabs with interviews, probably fabricated, with T.S. Eliot, John Betjeman, and others. 250 copies printed in either white or blues wrappers (priority unknown), this is the issue in blue. *Wilson A7.*.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo. Issues 1 and 2 stapled wrappers, 'The Minicab War' folded sheets loosely held in wrappers (though some copies were stapled). Unpaginated (16pp.-52pp.). A rare complete set of 'Outburst', the second issue being notably hard to find, with 'The Minicab War' present in both white and blue wrappers. That publication, ostensibly by 'de la rue', 'sykes', and 'o'moore', is in fact a collaboration between Raworth, Anselm Hollo, and Gregory Corso. Probably dating from late 1961, it 'was done with the hope that it might give a benevolent lift to the satirists of the Establishment', and was occasioned (in Raworth's words) by 'a war that was then going on between minicabs (gypsy cabs) and the official black London taxis'. Other contributors to the magazine include Charles Olson, Allen Ginsberg, Edward Dorn, Piero Heliczer, Larry Eigner, LeRoi Jones, Denise Levertov, Fielding Dawson, Gary Snyder, Philip Whalen, Robert Creeley, Gael Turnbull, Paul Blackburn, David Meltzer, Douglas Woolf, Carol Berge, David Ball, Chao Tze-Chiang (translations of Tu Fu), Christopher Logue, Michael Horovitz, Pete Brown, ruth weiss, Pentti Saarikoski, Alan Sillitoe, and Barry Hall. Some basic annotations in pen to issue 1 (mainly just ticks) and a small splodge to the cover, but a Very Good collection overall, that issue outwardly somewhat rubbed and marked/toned, both sets of staples slightly rusty, issue 2 and 'The Minicab War' spotted in (generally peripheral) places. A flyer for the first issue is also included.

Condition: Near Fine. Gregory Corso, Outburst: The Minicab War, The Matrix Press, London, 1961. 205 x 132mm. 16pp. Booklet. Printed blue, red, brown and black on white stock, staple bound. First edition. Gregory Corso, Anselm Hollo and Tom Raworth under the pseudonyms "de la rue, sykes and o'moore" co-author this issue with the aim to "show the true side of the Class Struggle - both sides, not just the working-class side" by investigating mini cab vs. taxi debates. This is formed through sometimes satirical interviews with imagined responses by George Barker, John Betkeman, T.S. Eliot, Harold Macmillan and Bertrand Russell. According to his bibliographer, Robert Wilson, "Corso wrote the larger portion of the articles". Cover photo by Steve Fletcher. Condition: The best copy we have had, Near Fine.