Locus Solus, no. 1. Winter 1961.
Item #4179
Smyth-sewn. The first issue of Ashbery, Koch, Mathews, and Schuyler's essential little magazine, published out of Lans-en-Vercors, France, across five issues between 1961 and 1962. The editors alternated responsibility across issues, with Schuyler editing this first issue. Schuyler would edit the fifth issue as well. This is from an unspecified regular edition; there was also a limited edition of 100 copies. This copy is from the library of the poet Ron Padgett, with his neat pencil signature on the title page.
Contributors include: Kenneth Koch, Barbara Guest, James Schuyler, Anne Porter, Ebbe Borregaard, John Ashbery, Harry Mathews, Frank O'Hara, Edwin Denby, Robin Blaser, George Montgomery, R. [Rudy] Burckhardt, and Fairfield Porter.
Very good, with toned covers and shelf wear, especially along the bottom edge of the covers where the wrappers extend beyond the text block, likely from being stored upright.
Price: $125.00