jon edgar webb (11 Ergebnisse)

First Edition. Stapled wrappers; 21 pp. Number 267 of 368 copies. Publisher address changes in Sward's handwriting. Introduction by Frederick Eckman. Odyssey Chapbook 1. This copy inscribed by the poet to Jon Edgar Webb, best known for publishing (with his wife Gypsy Lou) Charles Bukowski and others at their Loujon Press. Staples corroded, covers a bit soiled, about very good.

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: dj. First Edition. Cloth-backed marbled paper-covered boards; 8vo. 32 pp. Inscribed "For Jon Edgar Webb and/The Outsider/with warmest regads and best wishes/Bob Sward/ McDowell Colony/Peterborough, NH/July 1962." Poet's second book, no U.S. equivalent. Bottom edges and tips of the fragile paper covers worn; Very Good. Dustjacket bright yellow; lightly worn and soiled (small brown spot on back panel); Very Good. Webb and his wife "Gypsy Lou" edited the Loujon Press and published five issues of The Outsider, one of the most (elaborate) and important mid-century literary magazines. The contributors to The Outsider, Miller, Bukowski, The Beats, and other anti-establishment writers were not generally invited to The McDowell Colony, and no other connection found between Sward and Webb. An interesting association copy. Signed.

Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. No. 4/5 (double issue), softcover issue. Tall octavo. 191pp. Unprinted wrappers with integral dust jacket (tipped-on inside the front cover), printed on several paper stocks. Jacket and early (exposed) foredges foxed, and wrappers soiled, middle 20 or so pages (on tan stock) with light but unobtrusive staining, sound and near very good. (Without the fragile outer jacket and sealed flowers, but we are unsure if they were issued with the softcover edition.) Contributions by William Wantling, Charles Bukowski, Diane Di Prima, Denise Levertov, Lawrence Durrell, Michael Hamburger, Douglas Blazek, d. a. levy, Thomas Merton, Robert Bly, Jackson Mac Low, Jean Cocteau, and many others. Also prints an "Homage to Kenneth Patchen" with contributions by Bro. Antoninus, Allen Ginsberg, Hugh MacDiarmid, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Henry Miller, and others. A cool magazine, "Handset, Mostly, & Hand Bound At Loujon's Desert Workshop Printery, Arizona U.S.A. .".

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. Good copy in softcover. Rubbing and creasing to covers with chipping to paper at spine ends. Pages are toned.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Illus.; photos, 10.25 x 7", pict boards, 191pp + pp, covers rubbed and spotted, extremities bumped and fraying, hinges loose, one section of textblock badly toned but still a nice copy; including remnants of original dustjacket and pressed flower page from Geronimo's grave (with instruction page) paperclipped to first page. Includes works by Charles Bukowski, Diane DiPrima, Lawrence Durrell; and a large section entitled "Homage to Kenneth Patchen".

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Illus., photos; art by Kenneth Patchen, 9.25 x 6", pict wraps, 112pp, covers a bit rubbed, extremities worn, pp toned, but still a rather nicely preserved copy. Includes works by Charles Bukowski, Edward Dorn, Gregory Corso, Jack Kerouac ("Sept. 16, 1961" poem), etc.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Photos; illus., 9.25 x 6", pict wraps, 138pp, covers rubbed with a diagonal crease through front cover, extremities worn, bumped and with some tiny edge-tears, contents unevenly toned with some minor, scattered finger soil, ink note from former owner on front hand-stamped tissue guard; still a nicely preserved copy. Includes Gary Snyder, Michael McClure, William Burroughs, Henry Miller, and Charles Bukowski (portrait on cover), with his poetry and drawings, and photos of him.

Brossura. Zustand: Molto buono (Very Good). In this issue: Gregory Corso, Ann Giudici, Allen Ginsberg, Cid Corman, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Charles Bukowski, William S. Burroughs etc. . 8vo. pp. 102. . Molto buono (Very Good). Pagine brunite ai margini (Pages slightly browned to edges). . . Book.

Four volumes. First three numbers fine in illustrated wrappers, the fourth issue fine in boards and very near fine fragile dust jacket. A terrific little mag, with contributions from all the bright lights: Bukowski, Burroughs, Lamantia, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Henry Miller, Patchen, Dick Higgins, Levertov, d.a. levy, Tom Kryss, and a many of others., Volume three features Bukowski as "The Outsider of the Year." Volume 4 & 5 features a 46 pp "Homage to Kenneth Patchen." Wormwood Review editor Marvin Malone's set. Laid into #2 is a holograph note from Jon Webb on Outsider letterhead thanking Malone for "your words on Buk," which were printed in #3, and promising to send that issue when published. Promo flyer for IT CATCHES MY HEART IN ITS HANDS laid into issue #3. Three pieces of press ephemera laid into 4/5, upon which is penned the note, "Dear Mr. Malone - Thank you for your wonderful patience & hope you drop us a line - Gypsy Lou." For the run:

Zustand: Fine. - sc Small quarto [9-3/4 inches high by 8-1/2 inches wide]. 1-1/3 single-spaced typed pages on olive green Loujon Press letterhead. Dated "5/13/67". Boldly signed in red ink "Jon (& Louise) Webb". Folded twice for mailing. Near fine. A wonderful letter addressed to a writer, in which Webb regrets that he cannot include the scripts which he has sent him in his literary review Outsider #4. Webb then launches into a poignant description of the terrible financial difficulties facing the press: ".We went broke doing a few books from going overboard on format, and now hope only from the Miller book to get a press to replace the one we've got which has done its last job. / We need an angel, and we know one will pop up eventually, but we need one now. We feel pretty sure we'll have enough to make the initial payment on the press, but there'll be a lot of paper, ink and new type, and other things that cost plenty, for we use the best stock in our printing, best everything. That always kills profit. / Rare book dealers are now making dough on our productions. Gotham Book Mart and others sell first 3 issues of the Outsider for 17.50 for the set of 3, and we're out of #1 and #3, so can't sell a set to any one."Jon Edgar and "Gypsy Lou" Webb founded the Loujon Press in the French Quarter of New Orleans in 1960. The press's literary review the Outsider was hailed by the Village Voice and the New York Times as one of the best of its day and featured such authors as Charles Bukowski, Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Robert Creeley, Denise Levertov and Walter Lowenfels. Outsider #4, referred to in the letter, was eventually combined with Outsider #5 and was the last issue published. The press also published two collections of early poetry by Bukowski, and books by Henry Miller. The Miller book mentioned in the letter is "Insomnia", published in 1970.

Includes the sheet of flowers picked near Geronimo's grave. First edition. 5 volumes in 4, #1-3 8vo., #4/5 tall 8vo., [4pp.], pp-5-112., [2pp.], pp-2-138, [4pp.], pp-4-101, [1p.], signed by poet Robert Kelly on a tissue guard in black felt pen. All three in original illustrated card wrappers. #4-imprint leaf, blank sheet of pink paper, red paper dedication leaf, contents/illustration, illustrated title/publisher details, 2pp. publisher's catalogue on salmon paper, donor list, [1p.], pp-2-60, [16pp.], pp-77-93, [plate bound between p-82-83, [45pp.], pp-138-178, [1p.], p-180, [1p.], p-182-191, [7pp.], pink blank, illustrated acknowledgement leaf, loose leaf of flowers with printed leaf attached by paperclip, loose folded facsimile sheet. Tucson, Loujon Press, 1961-1969. £635One of 500 in the original white paper covered boards with titles in black and reverse white, one dutone photoportrait apiece on each portion, textured paper dustjacket with titles and illustration in red on upper portion. With a loose folded publishers' prospectus for #1 with a brief initialed holograph note from Webb & a single leaf publishing an extract of Corso's poem in #1, all four volumes profusely illustrated.#1-3 with very slightly worn wrappers, #2 with a tear on backstrip, jacket of #4 detached from boards with a few tears on backstrip and loss. The flower in perfect condition. A very clean and tight set. Contributors includes Charles Bukowski, William S. Burroughs, Robert Creeley, William Wantling, Henry Miller, Iain Hamilton Finlay, Denise Levertov, Gregory Corso, Lenore Kandel, Carl Solomon, Al Hansen, Ray Johnson, Allen Ginsberg, Langston Hughes, Charles Olson, Ed Dorn et al . A labour of love.121859.