- Folded; sl. dustsoiled along fold.
= Edited and largely written by Ed Sanders, although it does not carry the Fuck You imprint. Contributions by i.a. Ted Berrigan and Michael McClure. Clay and Phillips, p.167.
= First and only issue published. With num. photographs by i.a. Peter Moore. Contributions by i.a. William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, Gregory Corso (Notes on the Lenny Bruce obscenity trial), Leroi Jones, Norman Mailer, Kenneth Patchen, Michael McClure, Kenneth Rexroth, Robert Bly, Tuli Kupferberg and John Wieners.
= Complete run in fine condition of this little poetry magazine. Contributions by i.a. Joseph Ceravolo, Ruth Krauss, David Shapiro, Clark Coolidge, Ted Berrigan. Clay and Phillips, p.274.
- No.2 lacks the "Beat Nickel Bag".
= Complete run of the little poetry magazine in four issues with an anthology published as the Winter 1967-1968 issue of The Human Voice, Vol. III No. 4. Contributors included many of the most prominent Beat Poets: Charles Bukowski (in three issues), Douglas Blazek, D.R. Wagner, William Wantling, Harold Norse, The Willie and Steve Richmond as well as d.a. levy, Tuli Kupferberg, Ted Berrigan, Clarence Major and Lyn Lifshin.
- Rare complete set in a good/ fine condition with the following minor defects: no.35 and 55 wrapper (partly) loose; a few issues w. some minor soiling on wrappers and some minor dam. spots. The poster is rolled and lacks sm. piece of lower left corner; some tiny marginal tears.
= The magazine of the Beat-Generation with contributions by i.a. Henri Miller, L. Ginsberg, Albert Camus, Jack Kerouac, Samuel Beckett, J.P. Sartre, Eugène Ionesco, Karl Jaspers, Tennessee Williams, Malcolm X, Vladimir Nabokov, Boris Pasternak, interviews with Bernadette Devlin, Fernando Arrabal and Ingmar Bergman. Several issues were banned. The second issue (the famous "San Francisco Scene" issue) SIGNED by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI, MICHAEL MCCLURE and GARY SNYDER in black pen and ink on their respective entries. Clay and Phillips, p.103: "In 1957, with the backing of Grove Press, Barney Rosset and Donald Allen began editing Evergreen Review, whose early issues reveal "preoccupations with European philosophical and political debates, an enthusiasm for relatively accesible forms of American and European mainstream literary expreimentalism and a compulsion to challenge censorship by publishing ols and new 'great outlaw masterpieces'". SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XIII.
- Backwr. discoloured. Otherwise fine.
= First and only issue of this rare work devoted to avant-garde theatre. Features "On The Everyday Theatre" by Brecht, "Liner Notes From Howl and Other Poems" by Ginsberg plus work by Baby Jane Holzer, James Waring, Alan Solomon and Burgess Meredith. Very rare.
= Libertarian journal and important 60's publication. The magazine was notable for having been sued by Barry Goldwater over a 1964 issue entitled "The Unconscious of a Conservative: A special Issue on the Mind of Barry Goldwater". In Goldwater v. Ginzburg, a federal jury awarded Goldwater $1 in compensatory damages and $75,000 in punitive damages, to punish Ginzburg and the magazine for being reckless. It put the magazine out of business. Cover designs by Herb Lubalin.
- Wrappers sl. frayed.
= Contributions by i.a. Ed Sanders, Ted Berrigan, Edward Dorn, Charles Olson, John Wieners, Robert Creeley, Michael McClure, Robert Duncan, Frank O'Hara, Vincent Ferrini, Gerard de Nerval, Lewis MacAdams, Albert Glover, John Temple, Joe Dunn, Fred Wah, Aram Saroyan, Michael Rumaker, Imamu Amiri Baraka and Tom Raworth. Issue 3 is devoted to John Clarke. Clay and Phillips, p.274.
- Boards trifle yellowed.
= An anthology with i.a. J. Kerouac, Among the Iroquois; W. Burroughs, I am dying, meester?; A. Ginsberg, In India; T. Joans, Afrique Accidentale.
Hansen, A. A Primer of Happenings & Time/ Space Art. New York, Else Press, 1965, (10), 1st ed., 145p., num. ills., orig. cl. w. dustwr. (previous owner's entry on first free endpaper). - AND 9 others, mainly on/ by the Beat generation, i.a. A. GINSBERG, Kaddish and other Poems (San Francisco, 1974, 14th ed., orig. cl. sm. 8vo) and IDEM, Death & Fame (New York, 1999, orig. boards w. dustwr.).
= The first 4 issues are general numbers, featuring Allen Ginsberg, Charles Bukowski, Andrei Codrescu, Fielding Dawson, William Burroughs, Janet MacAdams, Robert Creeley, Charles Olson, Gerard Malanga and Tom Raworth. The final issue was published as a book by Bill Pearlman, Inzorbital. Clay and Phillips, p.151.
- No. 33 backwrapper loose.
= Very rare complete run of this seminal publication, one of the most influential little magazines of the 1960s. Distributed by mailing list, Floating Bear served as an important venue for the poets of the Beat and New York schools, as well as other experimental and avant garde writers of the decade. From no.28 the issues have pictorial wrappers. Contributing writers included Charles Olson, Robin Blaser, Robert Creeley, Philip Whalen, Paul Blackburn, and Ed Dorn, while Ray Johnson and Wallace Berman were among the many visual artists whose work was presented. No.1-30 addressed to "Tram Coombs Books" or "Tram Combs Books".Tram Combs, writer and bookseller. Combs lived in the San Francisco Bay Area in the late 1940s and was associated with many well-known writers. In 1951 he moved to St.Thomas, Virgin Islands, where he owned and operated a bookstore. Combs was active in gay literary circles and contributed to early gay periodicals such as the Mattachine Review and One. Also with a duplicate of issue no. 31 with the address for William Burroughs. The fugitive nature of The Floating Bear and the very small editions of some issues make complete, original sets virtually unobtainable. Clay and Phillips, p.74f: "This tremendous output was due at least in part to Jones's experience as editor at Yugen and Totem Press and to his oracious working habits. Di Prima recalls, "LeRoi could work at an incredible rate. He could read two manusripts at a time, one with each eye (...)"". SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XII.
= Facsimile edition of all issues of the magazine The Floating Bear (1961-1971).
= A publishing gap of 15 years between Foot no.2 and Foot no.3. With contributions by i.a. Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, Richard Brautigan, Philip Whalen, Lawrence Kearney and Kenneth Rexroth.
- Fine.
= Richly illustrated one-shot magazine w. numerous photographs and illustration w. use of photomontage. With contributions by i.a. Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Claude Pelieu, Tuli Kupferberg, Peter Orlovsky and Robert Owens.
- First issue w. a few handwritten corrections in ballpoint (by the editor?).
= Contributions by i.a. Charles Olson, Ed Dorn, Leroi Jones, Robert Kelly, Fileding Dawson, Denise Levertov, Robert Creeley, John Wieners and Gregory Corso. Clay and Phillips, p.276.
- Backwrapper lacks upper right corner.
= This is the very rare original first issue of this songbook which has had multiple reprints. Includes table of contents and list of the Fugs' then-current band lineup: Tuli Kupferberg, Ed Sanders, Len Weaver, Steve Weber, Peter Stampfel, Vinny Leary and Moe Mahoney. "The FUGS are an emanation or hallucination of the culture of the Lower East Side. (...) The real meaning of the FUGS lies in the term BODY POETRY, to get at the frenzy of the thing, the grope-thing; that is, to use the enormous technical proficiences of modern poetry (the revolutions of Ginsberg, Robt [sic] Creeley, W.C. Williams, Ez Pound, & the Big O Charles Olson) in musical presentation" (p.1). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XIII.
- Fine.
- Without no.7 (?). First 3 issues spines sl. sunned.
= First six issues of this little magazine. The first issue is a "Celebration of Jack Gilbert." No.5 celebrates Ken Kesey. Contributors include Grace Paley, Paul Bowles, Cid Corman, James T. Farrell, Rolfe Humphries, Carol Bergé, Diane Wakoski, Denise Levertov, Harvey Swados, William Stafford, Gregory Corso, Jackson MacLow, Tuli Kupferberg, Donald Barthelme, Paul Blackburn, Philip Whalen and Gil Orlovitz.
- Sl. waterstained; sl. rubbed.
= SIGNED by the editor on title. Stand-alone literary magazine with contributions by i.a. Robert Creeley, Joel Sloman, Fred Dorn, Robert Kelly, Dan Clark, Scott Cohen, Anne Waldman, Clayton Eshleman, Jim Brodey and Ted Berrigan. "The title became more pertinent when we in the Poetry Project at St. Marks Church in-the-Bowery began to realize that no real purpose would be served by a glossy little magazine and that, in fact, we would serve ourselves and our hoped-for public much better by concentrating on a mimeographed magazine already in publication called THE WORLD, A New York City Literary Magazine. This then will be the first and last issue of THE GENRE OF SILENCE. The editor hopes that it is indeed to some extent a presentation of things they dont want us to write and also a measure of where good writing is today. It is not easy to produce a magazine in these circumstances i.e. when you are not sure why the money is being given at all. The tendency is to cop out to either side. One falls back then on the old and valid concept of the poet as gadfly and lets him bite where he will." (p.5). Clay and Phillips, p.278.