Lotto 471
Evergreen Review/ Evergreen.
No.1-98 [all published]. Ed. B. Rosset. New York, Grove Press, 1957-1984, 98 issues, num. ills., orig. not unif. wr., 8vo (34x)/ large 4to (64x). - WITH: col. offset poster after I. IVANOV, publ. together w. issue no.67.
- Lotto
- 471
- Stima
- 800 € – 1.000 €
- Foto
- 1 foto
Condizioni
Rare complete set in a good/ fine condition with the following minor defects: no.35 and 55 wrapper (partly) loose; a few issues w. some minor soiling on wrappers and some minor dam. spots. The poster is rolled and lacks sm. piece of lower left corner; some tiny marginal tears.
Note
The magazine of the Beat-Generation with contributions by i.a. Henri Miller, L. Ginsberg, Albert Camus, Jack Kerouac, Samuel Beckett, J.P. Sartre, Eugène Ionesco, Karl Jaspers, Tennessee Williams, Malcolm X, Vladimir Nabokov, Boris Pasternak, interviews with Bernadette Devlin, Fernando Arrabal and Ingmar Bergman. Several issues were banned. The second issue (the famous "San Francisco Scene" issue) SIGNED by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI, MICHAEL MCCLURE and GARY SNYDER in black pen and ink on their respective entries. Clay and Phillips, p.103: "In 1957, with the backing of Grove Press, Barney Rosset and Donald Allen began editing Evergreen Review, whose early issues reveal "preoccupations with European philosophical and political debates, an enthusiasm for relatively accesible forms of American and European mainstream literary expreimentalism and a compulsion to challenge censorship by publishing ols and new 'great outlaw masterpieces'". SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XIII.