- Sm. tear in upper joint at top of spine.
= Contributions by i.a. Allen Ginsberg, Tuli Kupferberg, Jeff Nuttall, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Gerard Malanga and Michael Horovitz.
= All published. Contributions by i.a. Bart Auerbach, Peter S. Beagle, George Bowring, John Coltrane, Rick Foster, Leland S. Meyerzove and Philip Whalen.
- Fine set.
= The Institute of Further Studies was founded during the fall of 1965 in Buffalo, NY, when George Butterick, John Clarke, Albert Glover, and Fred Wah decided to continue their work with Olson after he had left SUNY-Buffalo and returned to Gloucester, Massachusetts. One result of their efforts was The Magazine of Further Studies, six issues of which appeared between 1965 and 1969. All issues were printed offset from stencils typed on an IBM Selectric typewriter on 8½ x 11 white stock and stapled within heavy paper covers cut from a roll of packing material. Contributions by i.a. Robert Duncan, John Wieners, Ed Sanders, Duncan McNaughton, Ruth Fox, Stephen Rodefer, Harvey Brown and David Tirrell. Also including a seventh and eighth issue which were prepared but were published under a different title and incorporated in different periodicals: The Western Gate and Brittania, both edited by D. Zimmerman in 1970.
- The final issue published as: "The Complete Poems" by J. Genet (2nd printing).
- Upper outer corner first leaf of 2nd issue creased and chipped. Otherwise both fine.
= Published by Sander's Fuck You Press (although the Fuck You imprint does not appear). Prints a long text by Burrough. "William Burroughs Answers Jim Bishop!" as well as articles on marijuana. One of the scarcest underground magazines of the sixties, desirable as a rare Burroughs appearance, an early marijuana reform item, and a publication from Sander's notorious press. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XV.
- Without the 9th issue. Final issue w. 2 portions cut-out from colophon affecting frontwrapper.
= The Marijuana Review was the first periodical in the U.S. devoted to cannabis culture and information. It featured information on legalization efforts, advocacy campaigns, cannabis pricing, psychedelic imagery, poetry and much more. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XV.
- Backstrip of vol.3, no.3 sl. dam.
= D.A. Levy was born in Cleveland in 1942 and died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound on November 24, 1968. An iconic small press publisher and poet, during the 1960s he prolifically produced handmade publications, and along with publishers like Ed Sanders, helped to define the aesthetic of the Mimeo Revolution. Founding Renegade Press in 1963 he printed and edited journals like the Marrahwanna Review and the Buddhist Third Class Junk Mail Oracle.
Vol. 1, no 2: concrete and visual poetry, typewriter poetry; vol. 2, no. 1: alternative title: The Mary Jane Quarterly. Issue dedicated to guru Ronald Jump, imprisoned for poverty. With a book review of Charles Bukowskis Confessions of a Man Insane Enough to Live with Beasts; vol. 2, no 2: alternative title: The Marijuana Quarterly. This issue is dedicated to John Sinclair. On the cover: "Do not Smoke the Marijuana Quarterly as a Religious Sacrament"; vol. 2, no. 4: On frontcover: "T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agent. God is on our Side." Contributions by Levy, Allen Ginsberg, D.R.Wagner and T.L.Krys; vol. 3, no. 3: with orig. watercoloured outer wrapper by d.a. levy. The concrete issue, with statements by B.P. Nichol and d.a. levy, followed by contributions by T.L. Kryss, levy, Julian Kallander, David W. Harris, Russell Atkins, B.P. Nichol, Adam Kadmon, "Linda", E.S. Harmon, Bill Bissett, E.R. Baxter, Robert J. Sigmund, D.R. Wagner and Mara; vol. 3, no 4: incl. poetry by T.L. Kryss, Al Bell, S.M. Kane, a drawing by Steve Ferguson and a silk-screen cover by Kryss; vol. 4, no 2: contains poems by Don Thomas, BJT, E.R. Baxter, frontcover by Toni Thomas and backcover by Sandy-Jo Hickel. Very rare. Clay and Phillips, p.285. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XVI.
= From the collection of Mary Caroline Richards w. her owner's entry on each title-p. Clay and Philips, p.76: "The three simple, almost starkly working-class issues of Measure followed glorious and overlooked "underground" poet John Wieners from Black Mountain College home to Boston, across country to San Francisco (issue 2), and back to Boston again". Contributions by i.a. Charles Olson, Jack Spicer, Robert Duncan, Robert Creeley, Jack Kerouac, Jonathan Williams, Edward Marshall and Stephen Jonas.
- Wrappers occas. sl. sunned/ trifle soiled.
= Some issues with a different cover title, i.a. no.3: "Young poets of India" and no.8: "Nightlatch" by Laura Chester. Contributions by i.a. David Meltzer, David Curry, Douglas Blazek and John Brandi.
- Without issue no. 5. Four issues w. library stamp on frontwrapper; annot. in ballpoint on frontwr. no.10; no.15 sl. yellowed around edges.
= Very rare large collection of The Miscellaneous Man. "The miscellaneous man is the individual man, the human being who, as a dynamic entity, never quite fits under any label and is constantly bulging out of categories. He stands alone, but not aloof; self-sufficient, and yet co-operative. He is searching constantly for a closer approach to truth; criticizing those things which, to his mind and to his animal nature, are false. He is seeking and testing creative approaches to the problems that face individual men and women, that limit their humanity and chain them in a cage of mere existence." (No.1, p.1). No. 11/12 devoted to Gil Orlovitz's Statement of Ericka Keith. Contributions by i.a. James Boyer May, S.E. Laurila, Bern Porter, Jay Pell, John Henrik Clarke and S.Z. Perkoff. Incl. a duplicate of no.4. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XVI.
- Sl. soiled.
- Each issue w. owner's entry of Tom Clark on frontwrapper and sticker w. address on backwrapper.
= With contributions by i.a. Paul Blackburn, Allen Ginsberg, Diana di Parma, Toby Olson, Paul Metcalf and John Wieners. Clay and Phillips, p.287.
WITH: four broadsides, all publ. by Mulch Press, New York, 1971, in orig. publisher's envelope.
= Published as an appendage to the periodical.
= One of the most important of the several little magazines edited by Crew, each number printed in a relatively small edition (with a circulation of between 100 and 200 copies). For distribution among allied poets, editors and associates. Contributions by i.a. Robert Creeley, Henri Miller, Charles Bukowski, Michael McClure, Le Roi Jones and Diane di Prima. Illustrations and photographs by i.a. Mildred Tolbert, Cordray Hearne and Hyacinthe Hill.
- Issue no. 2 w. some sm. marginal tears in left of frontwrapper; wrappers of Supplement to Now sl. waterstained.
= Magazine with a focus on studying the craft of poetry and prose, for example proper use of American idiom and natural speech. Clay and Philips, p.287. "Today "The Black Mountain Poets" have far less trouble getting their work published: and their counterparts in unfashion among more recent generations of poets have such a variety of mimeographed (sometimes even glossy) outlets, that it's hard to recall the lack of reputation and lack of publishing opportunities characteristic of the literary scene during those damp, encased, mid-fifties McCarthyite years. Yes, there had been Origin - and after The Black Mountain Review folded in 1957, there was again to be an outlet for innovation: Gil Sorrentino's Neon, LeRoi Jones's Yugen, Ron Padgett's White Dove Review. But not until the early sixties - coincidentally with the breaking open of so many areas of American life - was there to be a variety, happily almost a tumult, of corresponding energies and outlets" (M. Duberman, Black Mountain: an Exploration in Community, 1972).
- Backstrips rubbed/ worn/ occas. sl. waterstained.
= Neurotica served as an outlet for young writers and gained a reputation for publishing edgy material dealing with sex, the arts and neuroticism. This edginess was the magazine's downfall with issue 9, titled "The Castration Complex" gaining the attention of censors. Contributors i.a. Kenneth Patchen, Leonard Bernstein, Richard Rubenstein, Marshall McLuhan, Allan Ginsburg, William Steig, Lawrence Durrell, Henri Michaux and even a poem by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Including a 2nd printing of the first issue.
- All issues sl. soiled and backstrips worn.
= The journal reflects the influence of the Beat Generation in Britain and was important for considering poetry as a performing art. No. 4 is a special issue on jazz and poetry. Contributions by i.a. Samuel Beckett, William Burroughs, Kurt Schwitters, Stefan Themerson, John Cage, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Raymond Queneau and Eugene Ionesco. The publication was revived in 1970.
- Wrappers sl. rubbed.
= Contributions by i.a. Charles Olson, Le Roi Jones, Piero Heliczer, Robert Creeley, Herbert Huncke, Robert Duncan, Edward Dorn, Gary Snyder, John Wieners, George Butterick and Ezra Pound. Clay and Phillips, p.287.
- Fine set.
= Complete run of this little magazine. Contributions by i.a. William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Charles Bukowski, Kenneth Rexroth, Judson Crews, Carl Larsen, Jack Micheline, Gil Orlovitz, John Reed, Clarence Major, Emilie Glen, Ben Tibbs, Robert Creeley, Gregory Corso, Louis Zukofsky, Gary Snyder, Denise Levertov, LeRoi Jones, and Lew Welch. Designs for the covers by i.a. L. Peffer, R. Langendorf, M. Todd and D. Factor. The final issue is titled "Nomad New York" and presents work by the poets of the New York scene. Clay and Philips, p.286.