Lot 444

Big Sky.

No.1-11/12 [all published]. Ed. B. Berkson. Bolinas, Big Sky, 1971-1978, 12 issues in 11 vols., num. ills., orig. not unif. (col.) wr. by i.a. G. IRONS, A. KATZ, C.A. COOLIDGE, P. GUSTON, G. SCHNEEMAN and N. BLUHM.

Lot: 444
Auction: Auction 80, 13-17 May 2024
Section: AMERICAN LITERARY AVANT-GARDE BLACK MOUNTAIN, SAN FRANCISCO RENAISSANCE, BEAT GENERATION and NEW YORK POETS
Estimate: €400 – €600
Result: €400
Photos: 2 photos

Condition

Very fine set.

Notes

Mostly featuring work of the second wave of New York poets. Edited by the poet Bill Berkson, who also published books under the imprint Big Sky. Contributors include Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Anne Waldman, James Schuyler, Philip Guston, Tom Clark, Aram Saroyan, Joe Brainard, Robert Creeley, David Meltzer, David Antin, Clark Coolidge, Kenneth Rexroth, Philip Whalen, Allen Ginsberg, etc. No. 3 is the all-Clark Coolidge issue, no. 6 features a suite of 19 photographs by Rudy Burckhardt, no. 10 with drawings by Gordon Baldwin and no. 11/12 is a "Homage to Frank O'Hara". SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE X.