Argosy All-Story Weekly Volume CLVII Number 5: February 2, 1924 by Burroughs, Edgar Rice; Various others - 1924

Cambridge, England: Prospect, 1961. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 4to, 32pp, stapled wrappers. Scarce issue of this little magazine from 1961 Cambridge, with work by J.H. Prynne and others. Subscription slip bound in. Unmarked copy, outer stain to one corner, light outer soil.

New York: John T. Flynn, 1946. First edition. Pamphlet. Stapled wraps, 6 x 9 inches, 8 pp. Printed on newsprint. Small closed tears to tail edge and chipping to edges. Browning to newsprint. Very scarce, with only four showing in OCLC institutions (Northwestern University, University of Tulsa, University of Oregon, and Stanford University). Very good.. A scarce pamphlet written and published by journalist, author, and polemicist of the "Old Right," John T. Flynn (1882-1964). Flynn began his career as a journalist at the New Haven Register before becoming an editor at the New York Globe specializing in finance. During the 1920s and 1930s Flynn would grow into a prominent social and political commentator, contributing columns to national publications such as the New Republic, Harper's Magazine, and Collier's Weekly. Flynn was an early supporter of President Roosevelt, but was soon disillusioned by the New Deal's centralization of federal power, bureaucratic expansion, and reliance upon debt to finance… Read More

Leeds, England: Location Press, 1966. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 4to, 20pp, stapled wrappers. Scarce joint issue of two important sixties little magazines of avant-garde writing. Cover by John Furnival. A few scattered marginal checkmarks to publications list pages and library stamp to cover (no other markings), horizontal mailing folds, a bit of general wear and soil.

New York: Beatitude Press, Inc, 1961. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 8vo, 40pp, stapled self-cover. INSCRIBED on the back cover by contributor Carol Berge in 1962. The scarce East Coast extension of the classic San Francisco Beat-era magazine Beatitude. This edition, printed offset in New York, includes a Joseph Byrd cover and writing by a range of significant contributors. Unmarked copy, light cover wear and toning.

New York: The Floating Bear, 1962. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 4to, 12pp (mimeographed), corner-stapled. Scarce early issue of the seminal sixties underground mimeo revolution mag, distributed by mailing list. Includes an excerpt from Happiness Bastard by Kirby Doyle (6 years before its book publication). Unmarked copy, horizontal mailing crease (but not addressed or mailed), some minor soil and wear.

Maidstone, England: Paul Buck, 1971. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. Oblong 8vo, 64pp, stapled wrappers. Number 13 of 400 numbered copies of the rare first issue of this important avant-garde UK review, printed at Strange Faeces Press. Title written to back cover and spine and hand-drawn curtains and price to title page, plus box to one text page and hole punches to back cover (presumably all added by the publisher). Aside from some light foxing to the cover and lap edge of first page, a sound copy of this monument of 1970s experimentalism.

San Francisco: Beatitude Press, 1977. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 4to, 46pp (plus plates), stapled wrappers. Rare mid-seventies issue of the classic San Francisco underground Beat magazine, includes a great range of luminaries (including one poem by Dale Pendell). A curious 1976 leaflet entitled The Grant Getter's Gazette by Michael Weiner is laid in. Unmarked copy with a bit of reading wear (front cover has some printing offset, as observed with other copies).

Cambridge, England: Prospect, 1961. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 4to, 32pp, stapled wrappers. Scarce issue of this little magazine from 1961 Cambridge, with work by J.H. Prynne and others. Subscription slip bound in. Unmarked copy, outer stain to one corner, light outer soil.

San Francisco: Jack Spicer, 1959. 1st edition. Soft cover. Poor/No Jacket (as issued). Incomplete copy (missing front wrapper and first 5 interior leaves). 4to, 13 leaves, corner-stapled. The rarely seen first issue of Jack Spicer's seminal and groundbreaking mimeo mag. The missing portion of this copy comprises James Alexander's The Jack Rabbit Poem; remainder of issue, with work by Spicer, Richard Brautigan, Kay Johnson, Robin Blaser, Robert Duncan, et al., is present. Has been restapled. Missing content supplied in photocopy. A rare opportunity to obtain a totemic piece of countercultural history.

New York: Open Road Integrated Media, 2014. Trade paperback. Near Fine. Minor shelf and handling wear to cover and tiniest bit of rubbing to corners and spine edges, otherwise clean, tight, bright, and unmarked. Beautiful copy of a rare title. Photo is of the copy here at Barbed Wire Books.