The Floating Bear, no. 34. November 1967.
Item #4192
Side-stapled, mimeograph. Cover by Michael Bowen on lavender paper. The 34th issue of di Prima's influential little magazine and newsletter. Per the mailing address, this copy was sent to Lawrence [sic] McGilvery. Laurence McGilvery and his wife, Geraldine McGilvery, founded The Nexus, a bookshop in La Jolla, California that would wage an influential legal battle against censorship to establish their right to distribute the work of Henry Miller. McGilvery would also go on to publish the facsimile edition of The Floating Bear in 1973. To create the facsimile, McGilvery removed the staples of the issues used, though this issue remains bound, suggesting it was not used to produce the facsimile.
Contributors include: Jack Spicer, "a computer at M.I.T., which was fed the elements of English Grammar," Keith Wilson, Gary Snyder, Emily Bronte, Stuart Perkoff, Rajkamal Chowdhury, Lorenzo Thomas, "Arcane School, N.Y.C.," George Stanley, Bertolt Brecht (Jack Collom, trans.), Frank O'Hara, Johannes Koenig, Yukio Matsuda (Syunichi Nikura, trans.), Yu Suwa (Syunichi Nikura, trans.), Atushi Sekiguchi (Syunichi Nikura, trans.), Philip Lamantia, Jack Kerouac, David W. McKain, and the Newark Black Survival Committee, along with a final page containing "notices."
Very good plus, with the expected center fold from mailing, toning on the front cover, especial at edges, light soiling to the upper edge of the text block, and some wrinkling.
Price: $150.00