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[32] pp., including covers. Each leaf (except front cover) with mounted pieces of paper of various size with text or illustration. (8vo) original self wrappers. First Edition.

Includes contributions by Hermann Hesse, Paul Eluard, Jack Anderson, Mike [Michael] McClure, Eric Cashen, Charles Bukowski, Paul Valery, David Meltzer, John Altoon (signed print) etc. Slip announcing Berman's leaving Los Angeles to publish elsewhere following a conviction stemming from the 1957 raid on his exhibit at the Ferus Gallery and his arrest on obscenity charges is mounted on the rear. Berman's small magazine Semina, was a series of limited edition, sent or given to his friends, generally consisting of collages mixed with poetry by various writers including Michael McClure, Philip Lamantia, David Meltzer, Charles Bukowski, William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Jean Cocteau, John Kelly Reed and by Berman himself (under the pseudonym Pantale Xantos). Semina was published for nine issues, between 1955 to 1964. All are now rare. No copies of this issue appear in auction records and only a single copy of any issue appear (Semina VI, sold at PBA in 2015, $2,700).