Various (Ginzburg, Ralph (Editor); Meredith, Burgess; Price, Vincent; Russell, Bertrand; Sorel, Edward et al.)

Fact: Vol. 1 No. 1 (January- February 1964)

New York, NY, USA: Fact Magazine, Inc., 1964. First Printing. Bound in Wrappers. "Fact is dedicated to the proposition that a great magazine, in its quest for truth, will dare to defy not only Convention, not only Big Business, not only the Church and the State, but, if necessary, its readers." (editors' statement, pg. 1) The inaugural issue of the magazine edited & published during 1964-1967 by Ralph Ginzburg (1929-2006), the muckraking & risque American editor, publisher, journalist & photographer. With bravery & irreverence, Fact attempted to break through the lies & conventionality of American media exemplified by TIME magazine- right around the time that William S. Burroughs, Founding Father of the Beat Generation-&-Beyond & the very Icon-Patron of our enterprise, made his own (successful, in our estimation) efforts to subvert the controlling Establishment of TIME-LIFE-FORTUNE with his own cut-up productions, particularly his version of TIME (1965). The issue begins with tirades against TIME by a dizzying array of many of the most famous contemporary authors, journalists, intellectuals, artistes & performers- everyone from Bertrand Russell, Vincent Price & even Burgess Meredith, who opines: "I have been aware of inaccuracies in Time for longer than I care to remember." (pg. 14) Ginzburg contributes an interview conducted by him & his wife with George Lincoln Rockwell (1918-1967), the American Nazi who would be assassinated by a disgruntled member of his own organization (not) soon enough. Speaking of assassinations, we speculate that this issue was produced in advance of the murder of President John F. Kennedy, as no mention is made of this catastrophic event which surely would have caught Ginzburg & Co.'s attention. With other provocative pieces, & satirical illustrations throughout by "Guest Illustrator" Edward Sorel. Large-format magazine in wrappers, presumed first-&-only printing. From the collection of Laurence Goldstein (1943-2023), a renowned American author, film critic, poet, editor & academician here at the University of Michigan. On several pages of the TIME-Jeremiads compilation, Goldstein has highlighted, bracketed or occasionally drawn asterisks in blue ink at various passages. A unique American literary-cultural collectible that retrospectively resonates with Third Mind contrarians, in its singularly rarest original form & with distinguished provenance. In relatively good-to-near-fine condition with mild-to-moderate rubbing, scratching, creasing, browning & occasional spotting, spot-staining to front, back covers & spine; light wear & some tiny bumps, creases at/from edges & corners of same; moderate rubbing, browning to edges of text block; series of four numbers & one letter hand-written in blue ink at blank area near upper right corner of front cover. Interior generally near-fine with moderate browning to blank inner covers & page leaves; small chip with slight loss of paper at lower corner of one leaf (pgs. 13-14); closed tears at lower inner edges of same & a few other leaves; tiny bumps, creases, chips at corners & edges of some leaves; marginalia noted above (an enhancement from a learned source here). Good-Near Fine. [Item #7032]

Price: $40.00