The Outsider, Complete Run 1-5 with Additional Mockup and Bukowski ALS

Complete run of the legendary Loujon Press magazine so profusely signed it seems like an avant-garde poetry yearbook with an additional mockup of the last issue and an ALS from Bukowski to the Loujon Press editors. The Outsider was first run out of the Webb's apartment in New Orleans and later at their place in Tuscon. Ornately designed and letterpressed, the installments are themselves audacious art objects produced in small runs. The first volume is signed and inscribed by publisher Gypsy Lou Webb on the front tissue-guard and is additionally signed by Bukowski on the first page and a number of authors at their contributions: Gary Snyder, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Amiri Baraka, Michael McClure, Robert Creeley, Gene Frumkin, John Ashbery, and Diane di Prima. The second volume is also signed by Gypsy Lou plus Anselm Hollo and Gene Frumkin. Volume 3 also signed by Gypsy Lou plus Robert Creeley, Michael McClure, and Anselm Hollo. Vols. 4 and 5 signed by Gypsy Lou plus Anselm Hollo, Gene Frumkin, David Meltzer, and Doug Blazek. The mockup of the last issue includes a hand-written note on the front jacket, likely in the hand of Jon or Lou Webb, discussing the progress of the issue and mentioning delays due to flooding and is signed by Gypsy Lou, Anselm Hollo, and Gene Frumkin. All volumes on the lower end of very good or better, with edgewear and toning to the early volumes and some foxing on the last volume, previous owner signatures on some of the volumes. Bukowski letter is signed, original mailing envelope with his LA address present as is a handwritten letter of provenance (only for the letter) from a previous seller. Letter is near fine. A dream Outsider lot, likely without equal.…