Gnaoua Number One Spring 1964 by Cohen, Ira [Editor]; Smith, Jack [Photography]; Burroughs, William S.; Ginsberg, Allen; McClure, Michael; Gysin, Brion; Norse, Harold - 1964

San Francisco: Auerhahn Press, 1961. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author. McClure, Michael. DARK BROWN. Signed 1/25cc. First edition. Unpaginated. Fine in full leather with gilt-stamped spine & upper cover. One of only 25 copies [the entire hardbound edition] on Alexandra Japan paper. SIGNED by McClure. An evocative, sensual masterpiece of American poetry. Fine.

[No place: no publisher, no date]. Unbound. Very Good. Broadside. Measuring 11" x 17". Very good or better with general wear. One of 161 copies Signed by MacAdams. This is number 100. A poem written in honor of the shared October 20th birthdays' of Philip Whalen and Michael McClure. *OCLC* locates one copy; they state it was published in 1996 but we feel the actual date is a bit earlier.

Oakland: Archer Press, 1977.. Folio. sheets loose as issued in paper chemise. With 5 lithograph broadside poems, printed from the original handwritten texts of the poets for publication: Clone 3.01 by Gregory Corso; The Rune by Allen Ginsberg; Politics Starts with the Barrel of a Gun by Michael McClure; The Tundra & the Waves by Anne Waldman; and For Clark Coolidge by Philip Whalen. Each 22½x17¼". "Archer Press" embossed in each broadside as issued; includes all original tissue-guards. Housed together in original portfolio (limitation and title on cover). One of 50 numbered portfolios for the public editions printed on French Rives BFK by Charles Gill and John Doane, in red, green, and black, signed by each of the five poets. First Edition.Provenance: Peter Howard, Serendipity Books, Berkeley.

Berkeley and Burnaby, Canada: 1972-1974.. A collection of signed contracts and correspondence relative to the sale of McClure's archive to Simon Fraser University, together with annotated lists of the collection.

[Los Angeles]: Warner Playhouse, 1968. Unbound. Fine. Poster. Photographically illustrated on thin card stock printed in red, black. Approximately 8½" x 14½". A bit skinned on the verso where tape has been removed, else very near fine. Poster for the 1968 Los Angeles premiere of the play, where it had migrated after productions had been shut down in both New York and San Francisco for the simulated oral sex scene in the play. The cast of the L.A. production were arrested 14 nights in a row. In a letter to Stan Brakhage in September 1968, McClure complained, "I'll have to return to L.A. for the opening of the trial of Beard, which starts September 16." The poster was designed by Wallace Berman, publisher of *Semina* and considered by some as the "Father of Assemblage Art," who also provided the photograph of his bare-breasted wife Shirley seen holding a worn pair of boots which graces the poster. Jim Morrison of The Doors attended the L.A. performance and apparently expressed interest in playing… Read More

San Francisco: Auerhahn Press, 1961. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author. McClure, Michael. DARK BROWN. Signed 1/25cc. First edition. Unpaginated. Fine in full leather with gilt-stamped spine & upper cover. One of only 25 copies [the entire hardbound edition] on Alexandra Japan paper. SIGNED by McClure. An evocative, sensual masterpiece of American poetry. Fine.

[No place: no publisher, no date]. Unbound. Very Good. Broadside. Measuring 11" x 17". Very good or better with general wear. One of 161 copies Signed by MacAdams. This is number 100. A poem written in honor of the shared October 20th birthdays' of Philip Whalen and Michael McClure. *OCLC* locates one copy; they state it was published in 1996 but we feel the actual date is a bit earlier.

Oakland: Archer Press, 1977.. Folio. sheets loose as issued in paper chemise. With 5 lithograph broadside poems, printed from the original handwritten texts of the poets for publication: Clone 3.01 by Gregory Corso; The Rune by Allen Ginsberg; Politics Starts with the Barrel of a Gun by Michael McClure; The Tundra & the Waves by Anne Waldman; and For Clark Coolidge by Philip Whalen. Each 22½x17¼". "Archer Press" embossed in each broadside as issued; includes all original tissue-guards. Housed together in original portfolio (limitation and title on cover). One of 50 numbered portfolios for the public editions printed on French Rives BFK by Charles Gill and John Doane, in red, green, and black, signed by each of the five poets. First Edition.Provenance: Peter Howard, Serendipity Books, Berkeley.

Berkeley and Burnaby, Canada: 1972-1974.. A collection of signed contracts and correspondence relative to the sale of McClure's archive to Simon Fraser University, together with annotated lists of the collection.

[Los Angeles]: Warner Playhouse, 1968. Unbound. Fine. Poster. Photographically illustrated on thin card stock printed in red, black. Approximately 8½" x 14½". A bit skinned on the verso where tape has been removed, else very near fine. Poster for the 1968 Los Angeles premiere of the play, where it had migrated after productions had been shut down in both New York and San Francisco for the simulated oral sex scene in the play. The cast of the L.A. production were arrested 14 nights in a row. In a letter to Stan Brakhage in September 1968, McClure complained, "I'll have to return to L.A. for the opening of the trial of Beard, which starts September 16." The poster was designed by Wallace Berman, publisher of *Semina* and considered by some as the "Father of Assemblage Art," who also provided the photograph of his bare-breasted wife Shirley seen holding a worn pair of boots which graces the poster. Jim Morrison of The Doors attended the L.A. performance and apparently expressed interest in playing… Read More