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Heading: (Bukowski, Charles)
Author: Bryan, John, Gary Grimshaw, et al., editors
Title: Notes from Underground - Issues 1 and 3
Place: San Francisco
Publisher: Underground Press
Date: 1964
Item # : 168675
Sale Number   327
Lot Number   35
Sale Name    
The Edwin Blair Collection of Beat Literature, plus Modern Literature
Sale Date   03/09/2006
Price realized   $ 287
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Description:
2 volumes. Issue Nos. 1 and 3. Illustrated from photos, drawings, etc. 11x8½, original pictorial wrappers; issue one with black cloth strip over spine; issue three covers illustrated in color by Grimshaw. First printing.
No. 1 with "A Murder" and four poems by Bukowski; also "The First Third" by Neal Cassady, "Letter from Jack" by Kerouac, and contributions by Bob Kaufman, Kenneth Patchen and others. No. 3 with Bukowski's important first appearance of "Should We Burn Uncle Sam's Ass?," which was never reproduced due to its strong political content; also contributions from Jerry Rubin, Ginsberg, Ferlinghetti, Harold Norse, William Burroughs, Diane di Prima, Jack Micheline and others.
Condition:
Light age and edge wear; No. 1 with light foxing; tear with crease to bottom front cover of issue No. 3; very good or better. Scarce; seldom seen in better condition due to the fragile nature of the printed production.
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