periodical
pictorial wrappers
letterpress
tipped in image[s]
duotone
18.7 x 12.2 cm.
[18] pp.
edition size 350
unsigned and unnumbered

Semina

Name: Semina / No. 5
Author: Wallace Berman, Charles Brittin, John Wieners, David Meltzer, Ruth Weiss, Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz, Christopher Maclaine, Anne McKeever, Antonin Artaud, Larry Jordan, Kirby Doyle, Philip Lamantia, John Chance, Robt. Kaufman, Michael McClure, John Reed, Wm. Margolia, John Hoffman

No. 5

Wallace Berman, Charles Brittin, John Wieners, David Meltzer, Ruth Weiss, Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz, Christopher Maclaine, Anne McKeever, Antonin Artaud, Larry Jordan, Kirby Doyle, Philip Lamantia, John Chance, Robt. Kaufman, Michael McClure, John Reed, Wm. Margolia, John Hoffman

Issue number five of Semina, published and edited by Wallace Berman. Issue five features folded covers housing a printed manila pocket housing 18 loose poems and images. Artists include Wallace Berman, John Wieners, David Meltzer, Ruth Weiss, Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz, Christopher Maclaine, Anne McKeever, Antonin Artaud, Larry Jordan, Kirby Doyle, Philip Lamantia, John Chance, Robt. ... [details]

[Los Angeles], [CA]: Wallace Berman, 1959

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$8,000.00

Condition: Very Good. Complete copy featuring all 18 inserts. Rubbing and bumping off cover edges. 4.8 cm. dog-ear to bottom left corner of verso, 2.4 cm. crease to bottom right corner of verso, and 12 inch long crease parallel to bottom edge of verso. Very light creasing to 3 of the 18 inserts, 2.1 cm. dog-ear to top right corner of uncredited illustration of a woman, and light yellowing to Peyote Poem by John Wieners. Contents otherwise clean and unmarked.
[Object # 38524]

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$4,000.00

Condition: Poor / Good. This copy contains 17 of the 18 inserts: missing photograph of Philip Lamantia injecting heroin by Wallace Berman (aka Pantale Xantos). Includes a two-sided handwritten letter by Wallace Berman to previous owner introducing the issue. Significant rubbing and wear to covers (as noted by Berman himself in his letter noting it had even been through mudslides). Rubbing, staining, and creasing across covers, 8 mm. fold/surface tear to bottom right corner of recto. 1.5 cm. crease to bottom left corner of verso. Wear to edges of contents with staining, dog-ears, and handling wear.
[Object # 38522]

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periodical
pictorial wrappers
accordion
tipped in image[s]
black-and-white
25 vol. : 24.1 × 20.3 cm. (cover) ; 24 vol. [various sizes] (loose inserts)
25 vol. : 1 vol. [4] pp. (folded covers) ; 23 vol. [1] pp. each (loose inserts) ; 1 vol. [6] pp. (loose Berman insert)
edition size unknown
unsigned and unnumbered

Semina 4

Wallace Berman, Philip Lamantia, Charles Brittin, Ron Loewinsohn, William Blake, William S Burroughs, David Meltzer, W.B. Yeats, Beverly Collins, Allen Ginsberg, Judson Crews, John Chance, Ray Bremser, I.E. Alexander, Stuart Z. Perkoff, Charles Foster, John Wieners, Pierre Jean Jouve, Robert Kaufman, Michael McClure, Idell T. Romero, Jules Supervielle, Qian Sima, Pantale Xanthos, John Reed, Howard Shulman, Charles Guenther

Issue four of the periodical Semina, edited Wallace Berman. Issue four includes 23 loose inserts with poems Philip Lamantia, Charles Brittin, Ron Loewinsohn, William Blake, William S Burroughs, David Meltzer, W. ... [details]

[Los Angeles], [CA]: Wallace Berman, 1958

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ephemera
pictorial wrappers
mimeograph
black-and-white
21.6 x 14.1 cm.
unpaginated
edition size unknown
unsigned and unnumbered

Judson Poet's Theater Presents Asphodel by John Wieners and What Happened by Gertrude Stein

John Wieners, Gertrude Stein, Andy Warhol

Single sheet, four page, program for double presentation of "Asphodel, In Hell's Despite" by John Wieners and "What Happened" by Gertrude Stein. Program indexes participants in "Asphodel" as production by Jerry Benjamin, music by John Herbert McDowell and design by Andy Warhol. ... [details]

New York, NY: Judson Poets Theater / Judson Memorial Church, 1963

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artists' book
pictorial wrappers
offset-printed
glue bound
black-and-white
25.7 x 20.2 cm.
[unpaginated]
edition size unknown
unsigned and unnumbered

Best & Company

Bill Berkson, Joe Brainard, James Schuyler, William Burroughs, Kenneth Koch, Anne Waldman, Gerard Malanga, Pierre Reverdy, Jim Brodey, Larry Fagin, Robert Creeley, Carter Ratcliff, Harry Mathews, Trevor Winkfield, Sotere Torregian, David Shapiro, Tony Towle, Lewis Warsh, Thomas M. Disch, George Schneeman, Peter Schjeldahl, John Wieners, Ron Padgett, Clark Collidge, Martha Diamond, Tom Veitch, Jim Carroll, Tom Clark, Ted Berrigan, Frank O'Hara, Jim Dine, Kenward Elmslie, John Giorno, Michael Brownstein, Donna Dennis, Dick Gallup, Steve Carey, John Ashbery, Lewis MacAdams, Henry Pritchett, John Godfrey

Anthology of poetry and prose edited by Bill Berkson, with contributions by Berkson, Joe Brainard, James Schuyler, William Burroughs, Kenneth Koch, Anne Waldman, Gerard Malanga, Pierre Reverdy, Jim Brodey, Larry Fagin, Robert Creeley, Carter Ratcliff, Harry Mathews, Trevor Winkfield, Sotere Torregian, David Shapiro, Tony Towle, Lewis Warsh, Thomas M. ... [details]

New York, NY: Best & Company, 1969

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periodical
pictorial wrappers
screenprint
staple bound
black-and-white
36 x 22.5 cm.
[unpaginated]
edition size unknown
unsigned and unnumbered

C : A Journal of Poetry

Vol. 1, No. 4 (September 1963)

Andy Warhol, Gerard Malanga, Edwin Denby, Frank O'Hara, John Wieners, Ted Berrigan

"The cover of this issue was designed by Andy Warhol from photographs of poets Edwin Denby and Gerard Manlanga." -- from colophon page. This project is Warhol's first screenprint utilizing Polaroid photographs. ... [details]

New York, NY: Lorenz Gude & Ted Berrigan, 1963

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fiction / literature
wrappers with dust jacket
offset-printed
sewn bound
black-and-white & color
10.5 x 7 cm.
44 pp.
edition size [1500]
unsigned and unnumbered
ISBN 0937815004

A Superficial Estimation

No. 1

John Wieners

Collection of 6 poems fictionalizing the lives of Elizabeth Taylor, Rita Hayworth, Lana Turner, Barbara Stanwyck, Dorothy Lamour, and Bette Davis. Edited by Raymond Foye & Francesco Clemente. [details]

New York, NY: Hanuman Books, 1986

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$90.00

Condition: Used

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