Berman wallace michael mcclure (3 Ergebnisse)

First Edition. One of 350 copies. Slim photo-illustrated card portfolio (4 7/8" x 7 3/8"), containing 18 loose hand-printed inserts of various sizes (and on various types of stock) housed in an interior pocket. Portfolio is lightly edgeworn, showing some trivial dust-soil and a few faint foxed spots to covers, with a tiny split at base of spine-fold; Very Good+. A few inserts show some of the usual faint offsetting, else Near Fine. A well-preserved of the "Mexico Issue" of Wallace Berman's literary and arts magazine, which he published nine issues of (in very small numbers) between 1955-1964. This issue features contributions by Antonin Artaud, Berman (writing as Pantale Xantos), Charles Brittin, Kirby Doyle, Philip Lamantia, Lawrence Jordan, Robert Kaufman, Michael McClure, David Meltzer, John Wieners, and others.…

First Edition. Folded pictorial covers with interior printed manila pocket housing 18 loose poems and images. 18.5x12 cm (7 1/2" x 5"). One of 350 copies. Contents complete. Near Fine, light wear and soiling to wrappers; some pieces with toning or offsetting, a few with creases at corner tips The fifth installment of Wallace Berman's legendary artist's magazine. Contributors include Berman, John Wieners, David Meltzer, Ruth Weiss, Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz, Christopher Maclaine, Anne McKeever, Antonin Artaud, Larry Jordan, Kirby Doyle, Philip Lamantia, John Chance, Bob Kaufman, Michael McClure, John Reed, Wm. Margolia, and John Hoffman. Semina was published for nine issues, between 1955 to 1964. All are now rare.…

Unbound. Zustand: Fine. Poster. Photographically illustrated on thin card stock printed in red, black. Approximately 8½" x 14½". A bit skinned on the verso where tape has been removed, else very near fine. Poster for the 1968 Los Angeles premiere of the play, where it had migrated after productions had been shut down in both New York and San Francisco for the simulated oral sex scene in the play. The cast of the L.A. production were arrested 14 nights in a row. In a letter to Stan Brakhage in September 1968, McClure complained, "I'll have to return to L.A. for the opening of the trial of Beard, which starts September 16." The poster was designed by Wallace Berman, publisher of *Semina* and considered by some as the "Father of Assemblage Art," who also provided the photograph of his bare-breasted wife Shirley seen holding a worn pair of boots which graces the poster. Jim Morrison of The Doors attended the L.A. performance and apparently expressed interest in playing the lead in a film version, but alas that contribution to film history was not to be.…