Hollo, Anselm

St Texts & Finnpoems with: Ephemera

London, England: Migrant, 1961. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. “The trees fell / Crashing / And the birds / SCREAMED / Covering the sun / With webbed feet / Thus I saw the world was a good place to be in / Full of mighty mirth / I tumbled off the lizard’s back / Into a ferntree” (from “The Ride,” p. 9) A volume of poems by Anselm Hollo (1934-2013), the Finnish-American poet of the Mimeograph Revolution who moved to the United States in 1967 to teach at various institutions of higher learning (SUNY Buffalo and Naropa Institute, among them). Inside this copy, we have found & have retained a separate sheet (folded at center, as issued) containing an update from the publisher, Migrant Press, regarding “a change in emphasis” that was coming to the Mimeograph Revolutionary publishing house. See pictures attached to this listing for more on this, but suffice it to say the tipped-in mimeographed sheet is itself every bit as interesting as anything in this chapbook. An early, vital Hollo collectible with a little something extra, to boot. Chapbook in stapled wrappers: the first (& likely only) printing of St texts & Finnpoems. From the collection of Richard Cupidi (b. 1945), our esteemed mate in the UK who managed the fabled Unicorn Bookshop in Brighton, England with Bill Butler (1934-1977, the famed American-expatriate bookseller & publisher). From the late 1960s through the early 1970s, Unicorn proffered & published many outstanding productions by WSB, J.G. Ballard et al., some of which have become the scarcest, all-but-unobtainable Beat-&-Beyond collectibles (see for example our item no.s 8217, 8366). After prevailing against censorious harassment efforts, Unicorn closed & Butler died in short order. Cupidi went on to found the Public House Bookshop in Brighton, which had a long & successful run but is also now closed, & he still resides there. We have been honored to obtain what Cupidi has termed "The Last Hurrah," all the remaining treasures of Unicorn & Public House, some of which have become the stuff of myth. Chapbook in near fine condition with only mild-to-moderate shelf-wear, light bumping & select, low-visibility exhibits of bump-creasing to fine-edges & corners of front, back covers & spine-edge; similarly mild rubbing & age-toning to same; some spotting, foxing, & artifacts related or similar to these present variously, throughout; some rusting, bleeding to staples at interior & exterior, otherwise generally clean. Near Fine. [Item #8565]

Price: $50.00