Various (Creeley, Robert; Crozier, Andrew; Dalton, Roque; Dawson, Fielding; Eigner, Larry; Kelly, Robert; Levertov, Denise; Loewinsohn, Ron; Olson, Charles; Wieners, John; Zukofsky, Louis et al.)

Granta 1/6 (March 7, 1964)

Cambridge, England: Granta, 1964. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. (Butterick & Glover Section C, No. 140, p. 53). The April 7, 1964 issue of Granta, a famed student publication associated with Cambridge University in the UK. Granta was particularly influential in helping launch the careers of noted Confessional poets like Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath. This issue of Granta, which advertises itself as featuring both “PORNOGRAPHY” and “AMERICAN POETRY,” features works by Robert Creeley (1926-2005); the noted Salvadoran poet, Roque Dalton (1935-1975); Fielding Dawson (1930-2002); Larry Eigner (1927-1996); Robert Kelly (b. 1935); Denise Levertov (1923-1997); Ron Loewinsohn (1937-2014); Charles Olson (1910-1970); John Wieners (1934-2002); Louis Zukofsky (1904-1978); & several notable others. As it states near the top of this section of the magazine, the poet, Andrew Crozier (1943-2008) was responsible for selecting & collating this part of Granta 1/6. A unique, suggestively advertised issue of Cambridge University’s Granta. From the collection of Richard Cupidi (b. 1945), our esteemed mate in the UK who was the manager of the fabled Unicorn Bookshop in Brighton, England founded by Bill Butler (1934-1977, the famed American-expatriate poet, bookseller & publisher). From the late 1960s through the early 1970s, Unicorn proffered & published many outstanding productions by William S. Burroughs, 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 which is also now closed, & he still resides there. We have been privileged to obtain what Cupidi has termed "The Last Hurrah," all the remaining gems of Unicorn & Public House, including this. Third Mind Books proceeds to reverently curate & incrementally present the Butler-Cupidi-Unicorn-Public House Legacy which is in our custodial hands- until it passes to yours. Magazine in Stapled Wrappers: the First-&-likely-only Printing of the March 7, 1964 edition of Granta. In Good-Very Good condition with mild-to-enunciated shelf-wear, some light bumping & occasional bump-creasing to fine-edges & corners of front, back covers & spine-edge; moderate-to-enunciated rubbing & age-toning (yellowing, spotting, foxing, & artifacts related or similar to these) present variously, throughout; some rusting, bleeding to staples at interior & exterior; some use-based creasing (of the vertical & horizontal varieties) & related crinkling present at page leaves throughout; torn remnant of missing page leaf at center-middle of interior just before p. 1 (which may have been the contents page, although we can't be sure, as we haven't had another copy of this magazine come in); otherwise, generally clean with interior unmarked. Good-Very Good. [Item #9535]

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