Editor's Choice: Literature & Graphics from the U.S. Small Press, 1969--1977

Paper Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Not a First. Paperback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 501 pages; "Poetry, Fiction, Essays, Graphics selected from nominations by editors of independent, non-commercial presses & magazines; with 50 pages of autobiographical notes from the presses/magazines & authors/visual artists; Number 2 of The contemporary Anthology Series"; illustrated; from the (c) page:"First edition, cloth bound & perfectbound: (1 of 100, signed) Dec. 1980;" this book is not designed a first-paperbound on the (c) page; Two quotes put before the pre-title Page: "The Small Press publishes 97% of the poetry and fiction being published in the United States today." Leonard Randolph, former Dir. of the Literature Progam of the National Endowment for the Arts; "The publishing business, formerly one of the last strongholds of the independent entrepreneur, is rapidly being swallowed up by corporate capitalism.Today, the censorship of ideas has entered American life through the back door. The economics of centralization and standardization threaten to achieve what could not be achieved, in a country officially committed to liberal principles, by governmental repression: uniformity of thought." Christopher Lasch, in The New York Times. …