The Floating Bear, no. 27. November 1963.
Item #4195
Corner-stapled, mimeograph. The final issue of di Prima's influential little magazine and newsletter before she adopted the practice of including a cover. Per the mailing address on the front, this copy from the library of Danny Moore, likely the poet Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore, who would convert to the Sufi tradition of Islam in 1970. Someone, presumably Moore, has drawn a doodle in pen on the first page, under Lewis Welch's name in the title of Philip Whalen's poem. This copy was obtained by the bookseller Laurence McGilvery during the publication process of his facsimile edition of The Floating Bear. 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. This issue produced by di Prima in collaboration with William Linich, better known as Billy Name.
Contributors include: Philip Whalen (whose work comprises the majority of the issue), "aquarian," Ray Johnson, Alan Marlowe, Michael Rumaker, John Daley, and a contribution from "The Journal of an I.R.S. Agent."
Good, with the expected fold from mailing, toning, some stains on the back cover, and a 1 in. closed tear at the top left-hand corner of the first page.
Price: $100.00