Various (Rosset, Barney (Editor); Abramov, Fyodor; Adelman, Bob; Beckett, Samuel; Bowles, Paul; Charhadi, Driss Ben Hamid; Coleman, Ornette; Lorca, Federico Garcia; Nims, John Frederick; Reavey, George; Schuller, Gunther; Trocchi, Alexander; Williams, Martin et al.)

Evergreen Review Vol. 7 No. 30 (May - June 1963)

New York, NY: Evergreen Review, Inc., 1963. First Printing. Softcover. This vintage number of the legendary literary, cultural & arts journal chiefly edited by Barney Rosset features an entire short novel (The New Life: A Day on a Collective Farm) by the acclaimed Soviet-Russian novelist & critic Fyodor Abramov (1920-1983), translated into English by George Reavey & preceding the issue proper beginning with copyright page. Also in this issue are a short play-monologue by Samuel Beckett ("Cascando"); prose including a short story-memoir ("The Whore") by the Moroccan storyteller Driss Ben Hamid Charhadi, recorded & transcribed into English by Paul Bowles; poetry by the canonical Spanish Master-Martyr Federico Garcia Lorca ("The Unfaithful Wife" translated by John Frederick nims), Beat-&-Beyond elusive spectre Alexander Trocchi & others; a portfolio of contemporary civil rights-era front line photographs by Bob Adelman (also on front cover); & a critical musical article featuring the works of Gunther Schuller & Ornette Coleman by Martin Williams. With letters, notes on contributors & contemporary ads (including for John Rechy's breakthrough first novel City of Night & Henry Miller's Black Spring, both published by Rosset's Grove Press, & for Thomas Pynchon's novel V.). Trade-format softcover in glued binding, complete with subscription promotion with sheet of removable cards. Another dizzyingly varied, rich & all-important issue in this most highly collectible series. In relatively near-fine condition with mild rubbing, browning, light creasing & occasional small spot-stains to front, back covers & spine; mild wear & some tiny bumps, creases at thin edges & corners of same; rather pronounced crease across length of spine; very light rubbing & occasional scratching to edges of text block. Interior near-fine with exposure to binding between ad pages (pgs. 8-9 of issue proper) coinciding with spine-crease noted above (but with these & all leaves fully attached); one asterisk in deep pencil at margin of an ad made by an enthusiastic former owner (pg. 2 of issue proper); small, faint creases & tiny bumps at corners of some page leaves. Near Fine. [Item #4476]

Price: $35.00