Los 477
The Floating Bear.
No.1-38 [all published]. Ed. by D. Di Parma and L. Jones. New York, The Floating Bear, 1961-1971, 38 issues, ills., entirely mimeographed, printed in a lim. numb. edition, orig. not unif. pict. wr., 4to.
- Los
- 477
- Auktion
- Auction 80, 13-17 May 2024
- Schätzpreis
- 3.000 € – 4.000 €
- Zuschlag
- 3.000 €
- Fotos
- 4 Fotos
Zustand
No. 33 backwrapper loose.
Anmerkungen
Very rare complete run of this seminal publication, one of the most influential little magazines of the 1960s. Distributed by mailing list, Floating Bear served as an important venue for the poets of the Beat and New York schools, as well as other experimental and avant garde writers of the decade. From no.28 the issues have pictorial wrappers. Contributing writers included Charles Olson, Robin Blaser, Robert Creeley, Philip Whalen, Paul Blackburn, and Ed Dorn, while Ray Johnson and Wallace Berman were among the many visual artists whose work was presented. No.1-30 addressed to "Tram Coombs Books" or "Tram Combs Books".Tram Combs, writer and bookseller. Combs lived in the San Francisco Bay Area in the late 1940s and was associated with many well-known writers. In 1951 he moved to St.Thomas, Virgin Islands, where he owned and operated a bookstore. Combs was active in gay literary circles and contributed to early gay periodicals such as the Mattachine Review and One. Also with a duplicate of issue no. 31 with the address for William Burroughs. The fugitive nature of The Floating Bear and the very small editions of some issues make complete, original sets virtually unobtainable. Clay and Phillips, p.74f: "This tremendous output was due at least in part to Jones's experience as editor at Yugen and Totem Press and to his oracious working habits. Di Prima recalls, "LeRoi could work at an incredible rate. He could read two manusripts at a time, one with each eye (...)"". SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XII.