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THE SAN FRANCISCO EARTHQUAKE, Spring Issue 1968, Vol. 1, No. 3, edited by Jacob Herman and Claude Pelieu, softcover, first edition, first printing, 1968. ITEM CONDITION: fair. The text block is in near fine condition, with no tears, dogears, or marks (except for marginal lines on the first four pages). No signature or bookplate of a prior owner. Not a library book or remainder. The wraps are in good condition (some cover wear), but they have become unglued from the text block (no loose pages, however). 8 ¼ x 5 ½, 80 pages, 5 ounces XX Contents: In Answer to Questions from J.J. Lebel (Jacob Herman), Solution H or The Second Imagined Voyage of Mr. H (Jean-Pierre Duprey), Hotel Nirvana (Harold Norse), Star-Gut (From a novel by The Billy Shakespeare Conspiracy), Tom Veitch/Ron Padgett; Shockumentary (Norman Ogue Mustill), Mankind International 2000 (Gerard Simon Belart), The Last Procession (Sinclair Beiles), Elegy for Jack Spicer (Robert Duncan) XX [2017 information about the journal by Jan Herman] We should have named it Earthquake, plain and simple. but we were in love with San Francisco, with the city as it was then in the mid-1960s. William S. Burroughs [and others] were the heart and soul of the magazine through the entire run of five issues. Burroughs lived in London. My chief collaborators were a German living in Heidelberg, Carl Weissner; a Frenchman who had recently moved to San Francisco, Claude Pélieu; an American expat who arrived with Claude after living for decades in Paris, Mary Beach; and a Canadian from Montreal who lived in Marin County: Norman O. Mustill. My other close associates were Nanos Valaoritis, who fled from Athens when the Greek military junta took over?he was living in Oakland?and Liam O?Gallagher, the one native Californian in the whole mishpucha [family], who lived in San Francisco?s Chinatown. So it really would have been more accurate to call the magazine just plain Earthquake. But my original coeditor, Gail Dusenbery, a poet living in Berkeley, who chose the name for the magazine, decided that a photo of the city engulfed in flames during the 1906 earthquake belonged in that first issue. It was captioned ?SAN FRANCISCO A BLAZING FURNACE.? Which more or less explains how the magazine got its full moniker. Admittedly, we published the usual suspects of the Bay Area lit scene (Ferlinghetti, Robert Duncan, Michael McClure, Charles Plymell); the not-so-usual (Stephen Schneck, Bob Kaufman, Herbert Huncke, Janine Pommy Vega, Bill Bathurst, Doug Palmer, Clemens Starck); but many more from elsewhere? The roster of Beat, post-Beat, Fluxus, and otherwise-inclined contributors may have had something to do with the magazine?s wide recognition at the time. But it?s more likely the result of being included in the City Lights catalogue, which made the magazine available nationally and internationally. (I was Ferlinghetti?s assistant at the time.). Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 002182
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