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384pp. Profusely illustrated with facsimiles and from photographs, in color and b&w. (4to) pictorial boards. First Edition.

The book is signed  by Berman's son, Tosh Berman, and editor Michael Duncan. The volume is also signed or inscribed by poets Diane DiPrima, Jack Hirshman, Michael McClure, and David Meltzer, all of whom have dedicated sections in the book. Laid in are four promos for events associated with the book. Wallace Berman was an American visual and assemblage artist. He has been called the "father" of assemblage art and a "crucial figure in the history of postwar California art".  His larger community is the subject of "Semina Culture: Wallace Berman & His Circle", the hardbound catalogue to a traveling exhibition organized by the Santa Monica Museum of Art, including previously unexhibited works by fifty-two artists. Anchoring this publication is "Semina", a free-form art and poetry journal that Berman published in nine issues between 1955 and 1964. Although privately made and distributed to a mere handful of friends and sympathizers, it was a brilliant compendium of the most interesting artists and poets of its time.