[Item #4566] Evergreen Review Vol. 13 No. 64 (March 1969). Barney Rosset, Herbert Gold, Jon Hendricks, Nat Hentoff, John Lahr, Charles Plymell, William Rowe, Leo Skir.
Evergreen Review Vol. 13 No. 64 (March 1969)

Evergreen Review Vol. 13 No. 64 (March 1969)

New York, NY: Evergreen Review, Inc., 1969. First Printing. Glued Wrappers. This vintage number of the legendary literary, cultural & arts journal chiefly edited by Barney Rosset features the poem "In San Francisco" by none other than our good friend, mentor & Ultimate Literary Outlaw Charles Plymell. Lavishly illustrated & with border-motifs by William Rowe, the poem describes Plymell's experiences with & impressions of Neal Cassady et al. during his famous 1960s SF residency- a nexus-bridge from the late Beat Generation into the flowering psychedelic counterculture (pgs. 41-43). Also in this issue: Fiction by Herbert Gold & others; intense & illuminating reportage by Nat Hentoff on American urban community activism, & Leo Skir on his visit to Jerusalem less than two years following the Six-Day War; a musical reminiscence by the great Jazz singer-composer Jon Hendricks; an early critical article on contemporary art in comparison to theater by the now-venerable critic & biographer John Lahr (son of Cowardly Lion Bert) & much more. With many other far-out graphics, illustrations & risqué cartoons throughout; letters; & contemporary ads (including a two-page subscription promotion for Evergreen Club with now-collectible Grove Press productions of "...powerful adult books..."). A deep & desirable issue, so exemplary of the final bright-sunset year of the 1960s decade, in this highly collectible & significant series. In relatively fine condition with mild rubbing, scratching & faint creasing to front, back covers & spine; mild wear, tiny bumps & creases at thin edges & corners of same; moderate rubbing, browning & spotting to edges of text block. Interior very fine with light browning to mostly blank margins of page leaves; tiny bumps at corners of a few of same. Fine. [Item #4566]

Price: $35.00