Shig's Review, Nos. 1-3 (first three issues [later issues were published much later])

MURAO, Shigeyoshi

Published by Adler Press / Issue #3 published by City Lights, (San Francisco, 1969

About this Item

First editions. First three issues; all that were published before 1984. Small quartos. Stapled printed wrappers. Slight age-toning at the extremities of the wrappers, else near fine. Slim poetry journal edited by Japanese-American Shig Murao, longtime factotum at City Lights Books who was arrested for selling a copy of *Howl* to the police. City Lights owner Lawrence Ferlinghetti contributes poems under a pseudonym in issues #1 and #2. Issue #3, published nine years after the first, is satiric, listing Shig as ALL of the contributors, and consisting entirely of variations on the same photograph by Beth Bagby, of Shig holding a toy wooden bird on a stick. Early sets of this ephemeral little magazine are very uncommon.

Seller Inventory # 553328

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Shig's Review, Nos. 1-3 (first three issues [later issues were published much later])
• Publisher: Adler Press / Issue #3 published by City Lights, (San Francisco
• Publication Date: 1969
• Binding: Softcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Poetry