ILLUMINATIONS 1. Summer 1965.
(San Francisco): Illuminations Press, 1965. 1st printing. 11 leaves (printed recto only). Intratextual b/w illustrations and images. 17-1/2" x 11-1/2". Leaves housed inside stiff printed folder, Color illustrated printed paper title label to front cover. Sheets of blue and beige. Modest wear to folder and papers (some rubbing to edges). Withal, a VG+ example. Item #41447
"Most of the writers and artists whose work fills out this inaugural edition of Illuminations would not be considered publishable by professional magazines that make up what has elsewhere been called the Establishment. Many have yet to reach thirty. Most do not, I gather, consider themselves Beat. Many are simply acquaintances with whom I read on the weekly series at the Blue Unicorn coffeehouse in San Francisco... Some of you may be dead, not excluding established artists and editors. We are not. We are all growing. We are intensely alive as people, and hopefully as artists." This the first publication of a 1960s poetry and art magazine of a post- "Beat Generation" San Francisco crowd.
Price: $95.00