- Fine.
= This rare expatriate one-shot magazine was edited and compiled by Ira Cohen in Morocco. He first arrived in Tangier in 1961 where he met William S. Burroughs, Brion Gysin, Paul Bowles, and others in the Morocco expat community. Three years later he produced the classic one-shot magazine Gnaoua with contributions by i.a. William Burroughs, Ian Summerville, Brion Gysin, Harold Norse, Allen Ginsberg, Michael McClure, Jack Smith, Marc Schleifer, Mohammed Ben Abdullah Yussifi, J. Weir, Stuart Gordon, Tatiana and Alfred Jarry.
- Without the 5th issue.
= With contributions by i.a. Robert Creeley, Norman Macleod, Charles Olson, Kenneth Rexorth and George Hitchcock.
- We have been unable to determine if any issues were published between no.3 and series 3. No. 3 formerly folded.
= Early literary magazine that helped consolidate the literary underground scene. With contributions by i.a. Robert Creeley, Charles Olson, Amy Middleton, Leslie Woolf Hedley, Harold G. Miller, Martin S. Dworkin, Philip Murray, Meade Harwell, Kenneth Patchen and Henry Rago. Series 3 no.4 is a special Norman McCleod issue.
- Sl. sunned around edges. Clay and Phillips, p.279.
= With contributions by i.a. Alan Bernheimer, Ted Berrigan, Michael Brownstein, Tom Clark, Larry Fagin, Dick Gallup, Gerard Malanga, Anne Waldman, Lewis Warsch and Joe Brainard. Clay and Phillips, p.279.
= Important early Beat anthology with contributions by i.a. Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Frank O'Hara, John Ashbery, Peter Orlovsky and photographs by Robert Frank. Includes a facsimile edition of Fitz Hugh Ludlow's The Hasheesh Eater, the first full-length work of American drug literature.
- Lacks no.6 and 8. No.1 w. library stamp on frontcover.
= No.1-9 with subtitle: "A vehicle used to convey the dead". With contributions by i.a. Charles Bukowski, Joel Oppenheimer, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Robert Creeley, Kenneth Lawrence Beaudoin, E.V. Griffith (visual poetry), Mercy Penni Hyman, Farley Gay (photocollages), Kenneth Rexroth, Ben Tibbs, David Cornell de Jongi and Robert Kelly. Clay and Phillips, p.280.
= A magazine with en emphasis on translated poetry.
- Fine.
= One of Tom Clark's one-shot magazines: he edited the poetry magazines with the subtitle "A One Shot Magazine". Though that title was carried through in other issues, the magazine, which was called "Once", was published under a different name every issue (except where noted): Twice, Thrice, Thrice and a 1/2, Frice, Ice, Nice, Vice, Slice (two issues had this title) and Spice. Clay and Philips, p.288.
- Wrappers sl. frayed along edges.
= "Most of the writers and artists whose work fills out this inaugural edition of Illuminations would not be considered publishable by professional magazines that make up what has elsewhere been called the Establishment" (preface, no.1). Contributions by i.a. Charles Foster, Judson Crews, David Sandburg, Gene Fowler, Ed Bullins, Doug Palmer, Jim Thurber, John Montgomery, Blazek, Holland, Meltzer and Wild Major.
- Sm. ticket on frontcover "Signed Copy".
= Rare one-shot Beat magazine with AUTOGRAPH SIGNED DEDICATION on title by Lawrence Ferlighetti. With contributions by i.a. Allen Ginsberg ("Two Entries One Day's Journals" and "Henri Michaux "), Bob Kaufman, Spyros Meimarias, Jean-Jacques Lebel, Carl Salomon, Claude Pelieu, Mendes Monsanto, etc. Editorial policy is "Fuck for Peace, Legalize Marijuana, Rock Folk, Demystify Human Violence, Super-Impose Images of Ecstasy. 'What is here is Elsewhere, what is not here is Nowhere."
- Frontwrapper dam. in upper corner near joint and lacks lower right corner; upper joint splitting at foot of spine.
= One-shot magazine with contributions by i.a. Andy Warhol, John Ashbery, Allen Ginsberg, Paul Katz, Kenneth Rexroth, Anne Waldman, Lewis Warsh, David Meltzer, D.A. Levy and Charles Bukowski. Clay and Phillips, p.281.
- Issue 5 sl. dampstained.
= The first 24 and the final issue of newsletter Intrepid. The first 4 issues are ±20p. each without wr. No. 14/ 15 is the special William Burroughs issue. The final issue ("Bill Williams & Flossie's Special") from the library of Denise Levertov w. her signature on title-p. "The purpose of this newsletter is to exist as a microphone for established poets to express views of the relevant nature of living and growing and to allow young poets a similar chance (...) This is not a competitive newsletter but a supplement to periodicals, such as FUCK YOU, FLOATING BEAR, and YOWL, that are doing an excellent job of blasting dogmatism." (Issue 1). Clay and Philips, p.281.
- First 2 issues wr. sl. stained.
= Clay and Phillips, p.97: " The Journal for the Protection of All Beings was one of the first radical ecology journals. The brainchild of Michael McClure and David meltzer, it melded the anarchist thought of the 1950s (The ArkI) with the pacifism evidenced in the very early mimeo journal The Illiterati, published in the late 1940s by Kermit Sheets and Kemper Nomland at the camp for conscientious objectors in Waldport, Oregon. The newest element in the mix was work from the San Francisco Renaissance poets."
= Contributions by i.a. Gary Youree, Maurice Abramson, Anselm Hollo, Howard Ant, Carlo Bergé and Denise Levertov.
= Kulchur maintained the character of a magazine of high seriousness and wide-ranging interest and investigation, in this sense resembling the compendious Guide to Kulchur by Ezra Pound. Kulchur included commentary or criticism (rather than poetry or fiction) by most of the writers of the avant-garde, and in a variety of areas, including literature, film, theater, books, politics, and music. Contributions by i.a. Gregory Corso, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Paul Bowles, Jack Kerouac, Charles Olson, Denise Levertov, Frank O'Hara, Robert Creeley, Gary Snyder, Nicholas Calas, Michael McClure a.o. Covers with work by Arthur Freed, Franz Kline, Larry Rivers, Kenneth Eisler, Joe Brainard, Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol (i.a. a picture portfolio from his film "The Kiss" in no.13 and Disaster series in no.17), Al Held and Robert Indiana. Clay and Phillips, p.84ff. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XIV.
= All vols. SIGNED by C. BUKOWSKI on title-p. (first issue also signed by H. Norse and N. Cherry). This short-lived literary magazine was essentially Charles Bukowski's manifesto, attacking the poets of the Black Mountain school. On frontcover of no.1: "In Disgust with Poetry Chicago, with the dull dumpling pattycake safe Creeley, Olsons, Dickeys, Merwins, Nemerous and Merediths". Contributions by i.a. John Thomas, William Wantling, T.L. Kryss, Gerda Penfold and Douglas Blazek.
- Wrappers sl. sunned.
= Rare complete run of this little magazine. Contributions by i.a. William Burroughs, Charles Olson, Fielding Dawson, Andy Warhol, Ted Berrigan, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Tom Veitch, Philip Whalen and Dick Gallup. Clay and Philips, p.210f: "The strikingly simple covers and the carefully composed pages make Lines among the most elegant of all the 1960s mimeograph magazines". SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XIV.
- All vols. w. bookplate of R. Duncan designed by Jessie Collins on verso frontcover; no.5 w. sm. stain on fore-edge. Otherwise a fine, complete set.
= Clay and Philips, p.169: "(...) Locus Solus could be called the overseas wing of the New York School (...) The magazine was definitely "no non-sense" from the beginning, presenting no manifestoes or editorial statements, just high-quality literature - simply and elegantly presented with care and respect." With contributions by i.a. Frank O'Hara, Barbara Guest, André Breton, William S. Burroughs, Joseph Ceravolo, Gregory Corso, Gerard Malanga, Diane Di Prima, LeRoi Jones, Kenward Elmslie, John Wieners and Barbara Guest. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XIII.