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  • [Poetry] Patchen, Kenneth, Bukowski, Charles; Kelly, Robert; Knowles, Alison; and others, contributors. Webb, John Edgar and Louise (Gypsy Lou) Webb, editors. Richard Shelton, signed.
    THE OUTSIDER Volume 2, No. 4/5 Winter, 1968-69.

    Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.

    Tucson: Loujon Press, 1969. dj. SIGNED first edition - The final issue of this unique and impressive journal - "handset, mostly, and hand bound at Loujon's Desert Printery in Arizona" (included on the table of contents is a small note that the editors sold their house and workshop to get this issue out and at the end is the editor's bit & obit, which details their troubles.) This double issue is dedicated to Kenneth Patchen and features a 46- page homage to him with contributions from Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Kenneth Rexroth, Harold Norse, David Meltzer, Henry Miller and many others. The frontispiece is poem painting by Patchen and the cover of the dust jacket is a photograph of…

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    Tucson: Loujon Press, 1969. dj. SIGNED first edition - The final issue of this unique and impressive journal - "handset, mostly, and hand bound at Loujon's Desert Printery in Arizona" (included on the table of contents is a small note that the editors sold their house and workshop to get this issue out and at the end is the editor's bit & obit, which details their troubles.) This double issue is dedicated to Kenneth Patchen and features a 46- page homage to him with contributions from Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Kenneth Rexroth, Harold Norse, David Meltzer, Henry Miller and many others. The frontispiece is poem painting by Patchen and the cover of the dust jacket is a photograph of Patchen in his last illness. SIGNED by Richard Shelton at his poem "the crossing." Also includes contributions by Allan Kaprow, Charles Plymell, Russell Edson, Simon Perchik, Clarence Major, Larry Eigner, Charles Bukowski, Diane Di Prima, Denise Levertov, John Haines, Robert Kelly, Ted Enslin, Keith Wilson, Gene Frumkin, d. a. levy, Thomas Merton, Robert Bly, Dick Higgins, David Antin, Anselm Hollo, Ruth Krauss, Lenore Kandel, Alison Knowles, Margaret Randall, Jay Wright, Douglas Blazek, Emmett Williams, Jackson Mac Low, Ray Johnson, Al Hansen, and more. Illustrated with photographs, art and a section of comics by Kelsie Harder. 191 pp.

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    Condition: Very good+ in plain stiff cream colored wrappers in a very good+ dust jacket with a photograph of Patchen on the front cover, and a photograph of a black woman by Florence Mars on the back cover. Interestingly, this wrappered issue is much more uncommon than the hardcover (corners slightly bumped, some toning to the pages, one page foxed).

    Book ID: 56506
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