New York, NY: Evergreen Review, Inc., 1962. First Printing. Softcover. This vintage number of the legendary literary, cultural & arts journal chiefly edited by Barney Rosset features a lengthy, impassioned article by Donovan Bess on the obscenity trial of Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller (1891-1980), the great American author & artist whose earlier works such as this were influential precursors to the Beat Generation. The first American edition thus..... More

New York, NY: The Poetry Project, 1967. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Offered here is an especially alluring issue (No. 9) of the Anne Waldman-edited, co-parented Brainchild of St. Mark’s Poetry Project, “The World.” The poets at the famed Poetry Project started “The World” in part to showcase how wide a breadth of creative ferocity was coursing through the veins of literary New York at that time. Similar to the Editorial..... More