Migrant [FULL RUN Issues 1-8] includes Migrant Press Bibliographical History and inserts

Scarce full run of important postwar poetry magazine edited by Gael Turnbull. Printed in Worcester, England and Ventura, CA (July 1959-September1960). Includes uncommon booklet published by Migrant Press: "Bibliographical History" in 1965 on the occasion of Roy Fisher and Michael Shayer joining forces to continue the press. Represents a complete listing of publications up to 1965. Issue 7 features A Poem in Nine Parts by Matthew Mead; a Migrant Pamphlet (Summer 1960) included as a tipped-in supplement to the issue. Issue 8 also features tipped-in page announcing What I See in the Maximus Poems by Edward Dorn available for sale. Notable contributors by issue: 1.) Edward Dorn; 2.) Robert Creeley, Cid Corman, Robert Duncan; 3.) Creeley, Denise Levertov, Larry Eigner, Dorn; 4.) Charles Tomlinson; 5.) Levertov, Creeley, Corman; 6.) Mitchell Goodman, Eigner, Alan Brownjohn; 7.) Hugh Kenner ("The Drama of Utterance"), Ian Hamilton Finlay, Raymond Federman ("Clown" from the French of Henri Michaux); 8.) Charles Olson ("Cashe's"), Anselm Hollo, Eigner, Finlay, Duncan, Federman, among others. All issues feature toning and occasional spotting with shelfwear evident. All bindings intact. Printed on yellow paper (see image) with powder blue wrappers. Some spotting in the gutter around staples which have rusted. The full run is in comparatively consistent good to very good condition and free of internal markings. Bibliographical History in very good condition. The cover of issue 4 bears some white spotting. Cover of issue 5 has a pencil mark. More images to assess condition available upon request.…