7 volumes bound in 5, complete run. Nos. 1-3 in original pictorial wrappers (No. 1 with noted editor/publisher "Don Allen" signed in pencil on front free tissue page); and 2 copies of Nos. 4-5: Embracing…homage to Patchen, bound together in pictorial boards, illustrated hand-made tissue dust jacket with red woodcut design on cover (1 of 500 each). 8vo. Illustrated from drawings, photographs, etc., including of and by most of the contributing authors. First and only printings, each in a small limitation.
Jon and Gypsy Lou Webb’s short lived but highly important literary quarterly publication series, with numerous contributions from most of the Beat Generation and/or Avant-Garde authors: Charles Bukowski, Henry Miller, Jack Kerouac, Kenneth Patchen, Ginsberg, Levertov, di Prima, Ferlinghetti, Durrell, William S. Burroughs, Corso, Charles Olson, Creeley, McClure, LeRoi Jones, Jean Genet, Gary Snyder, John Corrington, etc. * Includes laid-in paper items (as issued) for Nos. 4-5: 2 sheets of pressed flowers with stems (intact) placed in between special handmade paper prepared by Gypsy Lou along with printed description note (special gift included with Outsider 4-5), order form for each copy, and publisher’s copied article about the flooding of Jon and Lou Webb's Print shop.