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Published by The Black Mountain College, 1956
Seller: The Book Exchange, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Book
Soft cover. Condition: Good. Light bumping to front corners. See photos.
Published by Black Mountain College, Black Mountain, North Carolina, 1954
Seller: johnson rare books & archives, ABAA, Covina, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Wraps. Condition: Very good. First Edition. The second issue of this seminal literary and art journal, which made an impact on artistic circles in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and beyond. Includes a selection of verse by Antonin Artaud translated by Kenneth Rexroth, a study of Herman Melville's poetry by Ronald Mason, and an essay on The Desert Music of William Carlos Williams by Robert Creeley, as well as contributions by Toda Tomoya, Irving Layton, Paul Blackburn, Douglas Woolf, Kizu Toyotaro, and Lucy Lapp. Printed in Mallorca, Spain. Octavo, 64 p. with 8 black-and-white photographs illustrating Charles Olson's piece on Mayan heads. Original printed paper wrappers. Period ink bookseller's stamp (The Phoenix - Books, Berkeley, California) to the rear endpaper. Some moderate toning to the wrappers, with a small tear to the bottom edge of the rear panel; otherwise very good.
Published by Black Mountain College, 1954
Seller: Magus Books Seattle, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Trade Paperback. Condition: VG-. 1st Edition. Used edition of the Spring 1954 first Black Mountain Review in very good- condition. Age has had some foxing effect to edges of wraps and pages. Very small (sub 1mm) tears to a few places on wraps, but unnoticable during reading or while shelved. Small amount of wear to spine which slightly affects the R in review, there is also a small dark marking near the R. Overall volume is in very good- condition with no markings to the text or wraps and strong binding.
Published by Black Mountain College, Black Mountain, North Carolina, 1955
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
First Edition
Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Octavo. Perfectbound decorated wrappers. Name stamped twice on first couple of leaves ("R. Shroyer"), overall age-toning, a bit of light staining on the wrappers, crease on spine, an about very good copy. Fifth issue of this important progressive literary and art journal with contributions by Charles Olson, Irving Layton, Robert Creeley, Denise Levertov, Joel Oppenheimer, Robert Duncan, Jonathan Williams, James Purdy, William Bronk, Aaron Siskind, and others. Scarce.
Published by Black Mountain: Black Mountain College, 1954
Seller: Mast Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Book
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 8vo, wraps. The second issue of this important literary and art journal with contributions by Charles Olson, Irving Layton, Kenneth Rexroth, Robert Creeley, Paul Blackburn, Toda Tomoya, Irving Layton, Douglas Woolf, Kizu Toyotaro, Lucy Lapp, and Ronald Mason. The Black Mountain Review developed out of a correspondence between Robert Creeley and Charles Orson, the rector of Black Mountain College. With these journals they aimed to generate an understanding of the emerging poets of the generation and to attract some attention to the college itself. It spanned just 7 volumes, running from 1954-1957. A few of this issue's features include Antonin Artaud, Toda Tomoya, and reproductions of Mayan Sculpture. The cover was designed by Japanese artist and poet Katue Kitasono. In Very Good condition with some age toning and foxing to the covers and bumping and wear to spine ends. Back cover has spotted wear and some markings to the lower right corner. Interior pages are unmarked with occasional minor foxing. Pages are lightly creased to the upper and lower right corners. Still, a well preserved copy of this fragile publication.
Published by Black Mountain College, Black Mountain, North Carolina, 1954
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
First Edition
Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Octavo. Perfectbound decorated wrappers. Corners bumped and a little worn, a small stain on the front wrap and first couple of leaves, very good. The second issue of this important progressive literary and art journal with contributions by Charles Olson, Irving Layton, Kenneth Rexroth, Robert Creeley, Paul Blackburn, Toda Tomoya, Irving Layton, Douglas Woolf, Kizu Toyotaro, Lucy Lapp, and Ronald Mason. Scarce.
Published by Black Mountain College, Black Mountain, North Carolina, 1954
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Paperback. Condition: Fine. First Edition. The Second Issue of the revived periodical. Edited by Robert Creeley with Contributing Editors listed as Paul Blackburn, Erving Layton, Charles Olson and Kenneth Rexroth. Contributors include Blackburn, Olson, Creeley, Layton, Rexroth and Douglas Woolf. A Fine copy just a trifle toned at edges. 64pp. Printed in Mallorca. Scarce. Q12563.
Published by Black Mouhntain College, 1954
Seller: Lime Works: Books Art Music Ephemera Used and Rare, Toronto, ON, Canada
Book First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 64 p. From the library of Eli Mandel. Sound clean unmarked copy wth very minor toning to the edges and a hint of handling wear. M1.
Published by Black Mountain College, Black Mountain, North Carolina, 1956
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. A Very Good copy in cream wrappers printed in black and tan. Very light overall wear, with faint tide-mark to lower edge of front cover. Text clean with no dog-ears or writing. Binding and covers tight. 223pp. Contributors include Robert Duncan, Louis Zukofsky, Paul Goodman, Denise Levertov, Jess Collins, Charles Olson, Lorine Niedecker, Fielding Dawson, and Jonathan Williams, among others. Scarce. Q13228.
Published by np, 1957
First Edition Signed
Provenance: acquired by Peter Howard of Serendipity Books from Robert Creeley. The immensely talented Laubies was a visual artist associated at different times with the Tachisme, Art Informel, and Nuagisme movements. He was also the first translator of Ezra Pound into French, and it was Ezra Pound who introduced Creeley to Laubies in Paris in 1951. They would become close friends and collaborators, and it was via Laubie and the Galerie Fachetti that Creeley was first exposed to Abstraction Expressionism (for a discussion of this period, see the interview with Creeley in John Wilson's A Sense of Increment). Laubies contributed the iconic cover to the first edition of his The Gold Diggers, published under Creeley's own Divers Press imprint in 1954, and also on The Immoral Proposition for Jargon Press the year prior. The second drawing here, "The Party", was published in the [ ] issue of the Black Mountain Review, making this a very rare chance to acquire original artwork published in the most important American avant-garde periodical of the postwar period. According to Peter Howard's notes - preserved on the cardboard backing of the cheap plastic frames in the drawings were discovered - these drawings for gathered for an unrealized, illustrated edition of the book, and are dated by the artist in 1957, three years after the first edition was published. Creeley's book would acquire a cult following in subsequent years, and was republished several times, yet never with these illustrations. Laubies died in 2006 under mysterious circumstances in the city of Mangalore, in Southern India, after being admitted by a stranger. It is our hope that these images might be incorporated into a future edition of The Gold Diggers. All the drawings are ink on paper, each sheet tipped onto a sheet of card stock, which has been titled in Laubie's hand at verso, signed, and dated in 1957. a) 3 of Three = Three Fate Tales. 13 1/2 x 15". b) The Party. 11 3/4 x 15 1/2". c) In the Summer. 11 3/8 x 15 1/2". d) The Blue. 12 1/2 x 15 1/2". e) The Face. 12 1/2 x 15 1/2". The mattes upon which the drawings are matted are toned, stained, creased, and tidemarked along margins, with numerous tackholes at tips. The drawings themselves show no visual evidence of being affected by the marginal tidemarking, with the occasional crease and a couple closed tears to margins.
Published by Black Mountain Review 1954-1957, Black Mountain, NC, 1954
Seller: James S. Jaffe Rare Books, LLC, ABAA, Deep River, CT, U.S.A.
First Edition
Small 8vo, illustrated, 6 ½ x 8 1/2 and 4 ¾ x 6 5/8 I inches, original wrappers. Vols. 1 - 7 (complete). 1954-1957. Several issues sunned, with some soiling, otherwise a very good set. Several issues sunned, with some soiling, otherwise a very good set First Editions. A complete run of The Black Mountain Review, the literary organ of Black Mountain College. Issue 1: Spring 1954: Contributors include Charles Olson, Paul Blackburn, Larry Eigner, WilliamBronk. Issue 2: Summer 1954. Contributors include Kenneth Rexroth, Douglas Woolf, Creeley, Irving Layton. Issue 3: Fall 1954. Contributors include Robert Duncan, Denise Levertov, Charles Olson. Issue 4: Winter 1954. Contributors include Joel Oppenheimer, Paul Carroll, Franz Kline, Jess Collins. Issue 5: Summer 1955. Contributors include Louis Zukofsky, Jonathan Williams, James Purdy, Paul Goodman. Issue 6: Spring 1956. Contributors include Fielding Dawson, LorineNiedecker, Michael Rumaker, Hilda Morley. Issue 7: Autumn 1957. Contributors include Edward Dahlberg, Jack Kerouac, Philip Whalen, Gary Snyder, Hubert Selby Jr., Edward Dorn.
Published by Black Mountain Review, Palma de Mallorca and Black Mountain, North Carolina, 1957
First Edition Signed
Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Seven volume complete set of perhaps the most distinguished and sought after small press poetry magazine. Edited by Robert Creeley with assists variously by Charles Olson, Irving Layton, Allen Ginsberg and others. The house organ of Black Mountain College in the waning years of the school's existence. Featruing a who's who of mid-century American poets and artists. each of the first four issues featured illustrations by a different artist in each issue. Condition varies slightly between issues, but all are in very good condition. Issue 6 is signed by poet Charles Tomlinson. Issue 5 has a couple of small ink underlinings on one page. Issue 7, perhaps the rarest of the bunch is in particularly high condition and is distinguished by the fact that it has been SIGNED by Allen Ginsberg at his contribution. Issue 7 also features William Lee (a.k.a. William S Burroughs) who contributes a section from Naked Lunch. Scarce as a set.