United Artists, no. 1. No. 1977.
Item #4164
Side-stapled, mimeograph. The first issue of Mayer and Warsh's little magazine, edited and published from Lenox, Massachusetts following the couple's departure from New York. Mayer recalls "We were living in relative isolation in Lenox, Massachusetts, and editing a magazine put us in touch with poets and friends we had left behind in New York. We managed to buy an inexpensive mimeo machine in Pittsfield and we produced the magazine in the living room of our large apartment on the main street of Lenox. The beauty of mimeographing is that we could control every aspect of production ourselves, that I could stay up all night and produce a new issue by morning if I wanted" (FASL). Though not stated, this copy is from the library of the poet Ron Padgett.
Contributors include Bernadette Mayer, Clark Coolidge, Lewis Warsh, Paul Metcalf, and a collaboration by Mayer and Warsh.
Very good, with scuffing and toning to the covers but a clean interior.
Price: $100.00