Illuminations 3 by Moser, Norman, ed - 1967

Boulder, CO: The, ca. 1967. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 4to, 13 leaves (printed one-side), stapled wrappers. A scarce early issue of this magazine edited by Jack Collom in Boulder. A typed letter from the editors to poet Ron Loewinsohn is laid in. Unmarked copy, light edge wear to construction-paper wrappers, which have some toning.

San Francisco: Illuminations Press. G: in Good condition without dust jacket as issued. Cover detached, rubbed and darkened. 1965. First Inaugural Edition. Cream card folder with paste down illustration containing 11 laid in individual sheets. 450mm x 290mm (18" x 11"). 11pp. B/w drawings. Illuminations is a first of a series of collections to be issued under the imprint Illumination Press. 'Illuminations is founded to faithfully record the work of professional and apprentice writers, poets, painters dramatists, philosophers of any persuasion or nationally..' The editor's preface states; '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… Read More