Lot of 1960s Mimeographed Poetry Journals. Eight Issues (Wild Dog / Synapse / Out of Sight).
Paperback. Slim quarto [28 cm] Printed wraps with side-stapled binding. With general light wear. One of the issues has several stains to the wraps. A couple of the issues are chipped at the edges. The front wrap of Out of Sight is partially detached, and the rear wrap completely detached, but present. Two of the issues are ex-libris American folk singer-songwriter Rosalie Sorrels, with her name along the top edge of the front wraps.
This lot includes the following:
Wild Dog # 6, Volume 1, February 29, 1964 (Pocatello, ID)
Wild Dog #11 (Salt Lake City, UT)
Wild Dog # 13, January 15, 1965 (San Francisco, CA)
Wild Dog #16, April 30, 1965, "2nd Year" Anniversary Issue (San Francisco, CA)
Wild Dog #17, June 8, 1965 (San Francisco, CA) - edgewear to wraps.
Wild Dog #19 & #20, December 8, 1965 (San Francisco, CA)
Synapse 4, San Francisco Issue, May, 1965 (Berkeley, CA)
Out of Sight, A Magazine of Literature, Volume 1, Number 1, 1966 (San Francisco, CA: Kamikaze Press). Item #67889
A collection of mimeographed underground literary magazines featuring contributions by David Meltzer, Diane Wakoski, Edward Dorn, Charles Bukowski, Allen Ginsberg, Charles Potts, Charles Olson, R. Buckminster Fuller, Philip Whalen, and Robert Creeley, among many others.
A lot featuring Wild Dog, the brainchild of Ed Dorn, and a magazine that was published in 21 issues, first in Pocatello, and then in Salt Lake City and San Francisco. The magazine featured students as editors and contributors. Many of its contributors were associated with the San Francisco Renaissance, the beat generation, and the New York School. The other two journals highlighted in this lot were only produced in very small runs- Synapse and Out of Sight Volume 1, Number 1, a journal which only released 2 issues.
Price: $500.00