Prospectus Mesa (1 results)

broadside. Hammer, Victor (illustrator). small 4to. broadside. NOTE: THIS IS FOR THE PROSPECTUS ONLY. Slight creases, else a near fine copy. Mesa, a limited edition literary periodical (ULS 2615). The first issue had a run of 300 copies and the last a run of 280 copies. The first two issues were printed by Victor and Jacob Hammer at the Wells College Press, and the last issue by Jacob Hammer in Lexington, KY, in association with the Anvil Press. The editor and copyright holder of Mesa was Herbert Steiner, who was first at Wheaton College and later at Penn State at State College. Mesa was an eclectic but certainly not avant-garde literary journal which printed short literary works, excerpts, letters, and criticism, either in the original language or in translation. Many items were previously unpublished or excerpted from publications then in preparation. Some contents: An English translation of an ancient South American Indian play of Rabinal, letters of Hugo von Hofmannsthal in German, an article in French on an unknown rough draft by Valery, and poems in Spanish by Miguel de Unamuno.