Little Magazines & Zines

Lawrence, KS: Abingdon Book Shop, 1966. 1st edition. Soft cover. Good /No Jacket (as issued). Good+. 4to, 36pp, printed wrappers. Eighth issue of one of the most consistently rewarding counterculture-era literary magazines; includes Allen Ginsberg's "Wichita Vortex Sutra" and a centerspread photo of Ginsberg in Lawrence. This copy has an original mailing label to poet Clive Matson at a St. Mark's Place address. Minor cover spotting and 3/4" tear at top of spine.

Boy Scouts Of America, New Brunswick, NJ, 1959; First Edition; Quarto. Full twelve month run of Boys’ Life Magazine for 1959, bound together in BSA publisher’s binding of blue cloth boards with silver titles and bearing the official Boy Scout emblem on the front. All original covers bound in. Includes the February Norman Rockwell cover and August Mickey Mantle. Hundreds of feature and how-to articles of interest to growing boys to aid them in becoming honorable, responsible, mature, self-reliant, and patriotic men, of the kind so threatening to the cynical nihilist crowd of the present day. An added feature of each issue are such serial comic strips as "Pee Wee Harris," "America’s Heritage," "Tracy Twins," "Scouts In Action," etc. Loads of illustrated ads for products and services of interest to boys: Daisy BB guns, Revell and Aurora scale models, Wilson, MacGregor and Spalding sporting equipment, Schwinn bikes, fishing and hunting equipment, etc., plus… Read More

Risley, England: Exit Publications, ca. 1966. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. 8vo, 12pp, stapled wrappers (with insert SIGNED by editor John Hall in rear pocket). Nice copy of this rare sixties underground magazine from the UK, this issue including cover and interior images by artist Ian Breakwell, poems by future underground music legend Kevin Coyne, and other work from the period. Light staple rust (mainly on interior), nice overall.

Risley, England: Exit Publications, ca. 1965. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. 8vo, 12pp, stapled wrappers. Beautiful copy of this rare sixties underground magazine from the UK, this issue including cover and interior images by artist Ian Breakwell, with poems and drawings by future underground music legend Kevin Coyne.

San Francisco: (romax) 1980-82. Fine. 1980. Softcover. 7" x 4.5"; illustrated, stapled wrappers; Special Benefit Issue (1980) with photo-illustrated plain paper wrapper. No. 19 with inserted booklet by Takuya Kanno; No. 21 with 4 "attached" pieces glued, bound and 'stabbed' in. Special Benefir Issue with cover showing photos of first 9 issues; includes a 'thank you' editorial of 2 1/4 pages; double page drawing by Mona Beaumont with text, Old bird Phoenix never done with curtain calls . . ." by William Beaumont; many advertisements including an inserted small piece on yellow stock for Peacock Sandwich Co. .

Blackburn, England: Screeches Publications, 1964. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 4to, 58pp, stapled wrappers. Seventh issue of this important sixties underground poetry mag from the UK, containing work by an intense blend of contributors at the leading edge of sixties experimentalism. Unmarked copy with a corner bump and a bit of light wear and soil.

Cambridge, England: Prospect, 1960. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. 8vo, 40pp, stapled wrappers. Scarce fourth issue of this little magazine from 1960 Cambridge, with work by Diane di Prima and others. Unmarked copy, minor wear.

Lawrence, KS: Abingdon Book Shop, 1966. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). Near VG. 4to, 40pp, printed wrappers. Ninth amazing issue of this classic 1960s little magazine; includes poems by Charles Bukowski and others, very early underground comix work by S. Clay Wilson and a Gerard Malanga centerfold. This copy is addressed to poet Fielding Dawson and has a bump at top edge, original staple holes, and soiled covers with small cover tears and holes (no writing in interior).

New York: Longview Foundation, Inc, 1963. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. Square 8vo, 100pp, printed wrappers. Lavish art and literature mag with cover and article by Larry Rivers. Donald Barthelme was the Managing Editor, Harold Rosenberg was Co-Editor. Includes work by Kenneth Koch, Robert Rauschenberg, Saul Steinberg, Marshall McLuhan, Willem de Kooning, Saul Bellow, Peter Yates, et al. Unmarked copy, light wear and soil, minor patch of cover abrasion.

Cambridge, England: Prospect, 1964. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. 4to, [ii]+46pp, stapled wrappers. 1 of 500 stated copies. Very nice copy of this scarce elegantly designed and printed magazine edited by J.H. Prynne, with work by him and by Charles Olson, Ed Dorn, Robert Creeley, and others. No markings, very minor wear.

New York: Genesis : Grasp, 1969. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 8vo, [iv]+40pp, printed wrappers. Second issue of this rare avant-garde literary journal co-edited by Richard Meyers prior to his musical exploits as Richard Hell. Includes dedication "This issue is for Thomas Merton and Marcel Duchamp alive," plus work from a range of contributors. Library stamp to cover (no other markings), sound overall.

Braamfontein, South Africa: Ravan Press, 1978. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 4to, 60pp, stapled wrappers. Scarce second issue (3000 copies printed) of this important multiracial South African literary magazine. Includes letters on the banning of the first issue by the apartheid government. Plus the work of over 50 writers. Unmarked copy, clean with corner bumps.

Workers Party of the U.S., Pioneer Publishers, and Socialist Workers Party, 1938. War and the Workers: Workers Party of the U.S., 1935. Wrappers, 5 x 7.5 inches, 47 pp. Near-fine. Why Did They "Confess"? A Study of the Radek-Piatakov Trial: New York: Pioneer Publishers, 1937. Wrappers, 5.25 x 7.25 inches, 31 pp. Some rubbing and spotting to wrappers. Very good. The People's Front: The New Betrayal: New York: Pioneer Publishers, 1937. Wrappers, 5 x 7.5 inches, 64 pp. Toning to wrappers, very good. How to Fight War: Isolation? Collective Security? Relentless Cass Struggle?: New York: Socialist Workers Party and Young Peoples Socialist League (4th Internationalists), 1938. Wrappers, 5 x 8 inches, 15 pp. Very good. Let the People Vote on War!: New York: Pioneer Publishers, ca. 1938. Wrappers, 5.25 x 8.5 inches, 14 pp. Previous owner's stamp to verso of front wrap, very good. Five pamphlets by James Burnham (1905-1987) published during his Trotskyist years. Prior to Burnham's participation in the… Read More

New York: John T. Flynn, 1945. Second edition, revised; a follow-up to his privately-printed pamphlet The Truth About Pearl Harbor (1944). Pamphlet. Stapled newsprint, 6 x 9 inches, 15 pp. An uncommon privately printed pamphlet. Browning and offsetting to newsprint wrappers with chipping to corners, else very good.. A privately printed pamphlet published by John T. Flynn (1882-1964) as a follow-up to his 1944 pamphlet The Truth About Pearl Harbor. Flynn, an anti-war journalist and staunch critic of President Roosevelt, was among the first to publicly question the events surrounding the Pearl Harbor attack on December 7, 1941. In September 1944, Flynn privately printed a pamphlet, The Truth About Pearl Harbor, in which he argued that President Roosevelt's administration had advanced knowledge regarding a possible Japanese attack on the US. Flynn's The Truth About Pearl Harbor was also published in the Chicago Tribune in October 1944 and spurred other journalists to critically evaluate the events… Read More

Kampala, Uganda: Transition Ltd, 1968. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 4to, 64pp, stapled wrappers. Rare 1968 issue of this seminal African magazine, then published in Uganda. The article in this issue by Picho Ali triggered letters in the next issue and a court case that resulted in the jailing of editor Rajat Neogy and the departure of the magazine from Uganda. Issue also includes a full-page caricature of Enoch Powell by Ralph Steadman, a cartoon referencing the assassinations of JFK, MLK and RFK, writing by Chinua Achebe and Peter Enahoro, other interesting content. Unmarked copy, some bumping and wear.