New York: Hacker Art Books 1963. First Edition. Collects all 9 issues - unabridged - of this remarkable journal (1948-1951) edited by Jay Landesman and Gershon Legman. Interesting work by Marshall McLuhan, Allen Ginsberg, Larry Rivers, John Clellon Holmes, Chandler Brossard, Lawrence Durrell, Kenneth Patchen, Theodore Reik, and many others. Examines controversial topics such as sexuality, Freudian psychology, perversion, with a somewhat subversive drift overall. 8vo boards, ca. 500 pages (unpaginated). A remarkable collection of mid-century documents that paved the way to the revolutionary 1960's. Owner's neat bookplate front flyleaf, else near-fine in a very good dj with several edge-tears and some chips - though largely complete.

Price: $150.00