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Big Table 3; [Fall] 1959 by Carroll, Paul, editor, Allen Ginsberg, John Rechy, John Ashbery, Robert Duncan, Norman Mailer, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Jean Genet et al - 1959

by Carroll, Paul, editor, Allen Ginsberg, John Rechy, John Ashbery, Robert Duncan, Norman Mailer, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Jean Genet et al

Big Table 3; [Fall] 1959 by Carroll, Paul, editor, Allen Ginsberg, John Rechy, John Ashbery, Robert Duncan, Norman Mailer, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Jean Genet et al - 1959

Big Table 3; [Fall] 1959

by Carroll, Paul, editor, Allen Ginsberg, John Rechy, John Ashbery, Robert Duncan, Norman Mailer, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Jean Genet et al

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Chicago: Big Table, 1959. Paperback. 120p., good first edition trade paperback literary journal in pictorial wraps. The white front and back covers (by Aaron Siskind) are worn and soiled, with a short unobtrusive tear at the head. The journal contains the first publication of excerpts from Alan Ginsberg's Kaddish. Big Table was created as a response to the University of Chicago suppressing the Winter 1959 issue of The Chicago Review due to worries about obscenity. That issue would contain excerpts from "Naked Lunch" and Kerouac's "Old Angel Midnight" In Spring of 1959 the entire staff had abandoned the Review and published the suppressed issue as "Big Table 1
  • Bookseller Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB US (US)
  • Format/Binding Paperback
  • Book Condition Used
  • Quantity Available 1
  • Binding Paperback
  • Publisher Big Table
  • Place of Publication Chicago
  • Date Published 1959
  • Keywords Fiction, Novels, Prose, Literature Poetry Serials, journals, magazines Gay Studies Beatniks, Beats, Beat Generation