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

Semina

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,
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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]
$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]
Semina 4
  • periodical
  • pictorial wrappers
  • accordion
  • tipped in image[s]
  • black-and-white
  • 25 vol. : 24.1 Ă— 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,
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  • periodical
  • wrappers
  • staple bound
  • tipped in image[s]
  • black-and-white
  • 21.5 x 14 cm.
  • [unpaginated]
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and unnumbered

Semina Two

Semina, Wallace Berman, Herman Hesse, Paul Eluard, Jack Anderson, Mike McClure, Zach Walsh, Eric Cashen, Pantale Xantos, J.B. May, Charles Baudelaire, Lynn Trrocchi, Idell T. Romero, Charles Bukowski, Peder Carr, Judson Crews, John Reed, Walter Hopps, Marion Grogan, Paul Valery, John Altoon, Marcia Jacobs, Cameron, Rabindranath Tagore, Charles Brittin

Artists' periodical compiled by Wallace Berman with contributions by Berman, Herman Hesse, Paul Eluard, Jack Anderson, Mike McClure, Zach Walsh, Eric Cashen, Pantale Xantos, J.B. May, Charles Baudelaire, Lynn Trrocchi, Idell T. ... [details]

[Los Angeles], [CA]: W. Berman,
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