Various (Duerden, Richard; Duncan, Robert; Malanga, Gerard et al.)

The Rivoli Review Vol, 0 No. 2 (1964)

San Francisco, CA: The Rivoli Review, 1964. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Offered here is the second (of two) issues of the rare-&-elusive Rivoli Review, edited by the Utah-born San Francisco Renaissance poet, Richard Duerden (1927-2000). While comparatively unknown among those frequently associated with the San Francisco Renaissance, Duerden bears the echoic Beat-historical distinction of having once served in the Merchant Marines (e.g., like Jack Kerouac [1922-1969], among several other great Beat eminences once famously did). As inferred above, next to nothing has been written about Duerden, but he must have been quite well-sourced — as the first issue of his magazine contained art from the fascinating, talented, & evasive Jess Collins (a.k.a., the artist also known as “Jess,”; most well-known [in Beat-literary contexts] for his association with the San Francisco Renaissance eminence, Robert Duncan [1919-1988]), and features a contribution from the great American surrealist, Charles Henri Ford (1908-2002). This issue, while more ‘localized’ in its sourcing of talent, is no less luminous: featuring, as it does, work by the American poet-publisher, James Koller (“The People Are Coming”); Ron Loewinsohn (“A Place to Go”); a rare poetic contribution from the aforementioned Jess Collins (“Song of the Pied Parrot”); two poems by the great Robert Duncan (“Passages III”; “Passages 3-4” [sic]); two poems by the Editor, Duerden (“Silence, And Katharsis” [sic]; “The Sonata”); and a fine contribution (“Final Sonnet XO”) by Gerard Malanga, perhaps the greatest of all Warholians & the onetime prince of the New York underground. For a full list of contents and contributors, view the photos attached to this listing. A phenomenal chance to secure one of the most evasive and little-known of all SFR mimeos with astounding provenance, as you’ll see below. Oblong, large-format literary journal in stapled wrappers: the first and only printing of the second (of two) issues of the rare-&-elusive Rivoli Review. From the collection of Robin Eichele (b. 1941), noted Mimeograph Revolutionary & co-founder (with John Sinclair) of the Detroit Artists’ Workshop, who has hand-written his name in a calligraphy-adjacent script near top right-hand corner of front-facing leaf. Eichele signature, in medium-bold, black fountain pen ink, reads: “Robin Eichele.” In Very Good condition with only moderate-to-enunciated shelf-wear, some bumping, bump-creasing, & related (mild) horizontal, as well as vertical creasing to, at & near fine-edges & corners of front, back covers & spine-edge; age-toning, yellowing & artifacts similar to these occurring throughout in low-to-medium-impact clusters; minor-to-enunciated constellations of rubbing, sunning, to same; lone enunciated stain to bottommost fine-edge of front cover near center-middle (whose imprint extends onto the first few page leaves) & some bleed from Eichele’s owner signature to topmost fine-edge of front cover verso at/near center-middle, otherwise clean & (importantly) complete. Very Good. [Item #6943]

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