Telephone, no. 12. 1976.
Item #4085 Saddle-stitched wrappers, 14 x 8 1/2 in. Cover and centerfold drawing by Hugh Kepets. “Botchcat” cartoon by David Sharbrough. List of contributors on title page, with colophon on the verso (the first appearance of this shift). Copyright notice credits “Telephone Books Press” for the first time, with note of thanks to “Ted, and Pat, and Ulysses, and Barbara.” Colophon indicates that funding sources continue, as does the temporary suspension of unsolicited manuscripts. Select contributors include: David Bearden, Lyn Hejinian, Melinda E. Pittman, Jack Collom, Mary Ferrari, Patricia Jones, Frances Whyatt, Sandy Berrigan, Paul Violi, Joan Colby, Tom G. Berliner, Archie Anderson, Margaret Kaminski, Yuki Hartman, Steve Levine, and U. Rammol (with a visual and typographic piece). Near fine, excepting back cover which features four pronounced tears, likely from adhesive (see photographs).
Price: $40.00