New York, NY, USA: Stroker, 1981. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. This number of the literary-art-cultural journal edited by NYC St. Marks Place underground denizen Irving Stettner (1922-2004) features three letters by Mohammed Mrabet, the legendary Moroccan storyteller (translated, as ever, from the Moghrebi language into English by the great Paul Bowles), one written to Henry Miller (1891-1980), the great American author & artist whose earlier works were an influence &..... More

Shavertown, PA: Stroker Magazine, 1991. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. “What is popularly called Transcendentalism among us, is idealism. The materialist insists on facts, on history, on the force of circumstances and the animal wants of man: the idealist, on the power of Thought and of Will, on inspiration, on miracle, on individual culture. The Transcendentalist believes in miracles, in the perceptual openness of the human mind to new influx of..... More

New York, NY, USA: Stroker Magazine, 1985. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. This number of the literary-art-cultural journal edited by NYC St. Marks Place underground denizen Irving Stettner (1922-2004) features a beautiful, surrealist ink drawing by Mark Ari; the poem “The Gift” by Allan Kaplan (b. 1932) American writer and author; the poem “On Strokers 10th” by Seymour Krim (1922-1989) American author, editor, and literary critic; “Man Ray–Recollections,” “Advice to a...... More

New York, NY, USA: Thomas Birchard & Irving Stettner, 1991. First Edition, First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. "..Otherwise, I could live anywhere, even in jail I believe, and be friends with the guard...Because for me, my only enemy is myself." (Henry Miller, "Interview with Georges Belmont", pg. 27). This number of the literary-art-cultural journal edited by NYC St. Marks Place underground denizen Irving Stettner (1922-2004) features (as does almost every issue..... More