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The Black Mountain Review. No.1-7 [all published]. Ed. R. Creeley....
The Black Mountain Review. No.1-7 [all published]. Ed. R. Creeley. Black Mountain, Black Mountain College, 1954-1957, 7 issues, num. ills. by i.a. FRANZ KLINE and RENÉ LAUBIÉS, orig. unif. wr. w. the same ill. in different colours on frontwr. by K. KITASONO (4x)/ orig. unif. wr. by J. ALTOON, D. RICE and E. CIRBETT.
- Bookblock issue 7 broken and wrappers sl. smudged/ spine cracking; issue 3 and 4 sm. stain on wrappers. Otherwise a fine, clean set of this rare, complete periodical.
= With contributions by Robert Creeley (publisher of Divers Press in Palma de Mallorca), Charles Olson (who was the College Rector), Kenneth Rexroth, Paul Blackburn, Robert Duncan, Denise Levertov, William Bronk and Larry Eigner. The final issue was devoted to Beat authors and contains work by Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, Philip Whalen, and published a pre-publication excerpt from "Willam Lee's" Naked Lunch (William S. Burroughs). Clay and Phillips, p.106ff: "The Black Mountain Review, printed in Palma de Mallorca where Creeley was producing his Divers Press books, developed from the friendship in daily correspondence between Creeley and Black Mountain rector Charles Olson, who thought a quality literary journal might help increase enrollement". SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XI.
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The Black Mountain Review. No.1-7 [all published]. Ed. R. Creeley. Black Mountain, Black Mountain College, 1954-1957, 7 issues, num. ills. by i.a. FRANZ KLINE and RENÉ LAUBIÉS, orig. unif. wr. w. the same ill. in different colours on frontwr. by K. KITASONO (4x)/ orig. unif. wr. by J. ALTOON, D. RICE and E. CIRBETT.
- Bookblock issue 7 broken and wrappers sl. smudged/ spine cracking; issue 3 and 4 sm. stain on wrappers. Otherwise a fine, clean set of this rare, complete periodical.
= With contributions by Robert Creeley (publisher of Divers Press in Palma de Mallorca), Charles Olson (who was the College Rector), Kenneth Rexroth, Paul Blackburn, Robert Duncan, Denise Levertov, William Bronk and Larry Eigner. The final issue was devoted to Beat authors and contains work by Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, Philip Whalen, and published a pre-publication excerpt from "Willam Lee's" Naked Lunch (William S. Burroughs). Clay and Phillips, p.106ff: "The Black Mountain Review, printed in Palma de Mallorca where Creeley was producing his Divers Press books, developed from the friendship in daily correspondence between Creeley and Black Mountain rector Charles Olson, who thought a quality literary journal might help increase enrollement". SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XI.
