contact san francisco journal new de kentfield calvin william ryan george (8 résultats)

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. 1st edition. VG+. 8vo, 180pp, printed wrappers. High-quality cultural magazine published in the Bay Area in 1959). Contents include poetry by Lew Welch; an address by Aldous Huxley; fiction by John Updike; and a lot more. Unmarked copy with reading wear to spine and covers. Not Signed.

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. 1st edition. VG. 8vo, 160pp, printed wrappers. High-quality cultural magazine published in the Bay Area in 1958 (the year of Hitchcock's "Vertigo"). Contents include "How to Be Sane Though Negro" by S. I. Hayakawa; "Zen and the Problem of Control" by Alan Watts; portfolios of photographs of Gerry Mulligan and Van Gogh drawings; fiction by Ray Bradbury; "The Contact Story" by William Carlos Williams; and a lot more. Unmarked VG copy with a bit of reading wear; front cover adhered on inner edge to first interior page. Not Signed.

Paperback. 178p., illustrations, photos, lightly worn, good first edition trade paperback literary journal in pictorial wraps. Special photo spread on The Human Condition. Huxley on "The Final Revolution". Gorelik on Theatre. "Genesis" a novella by Stegner. Updike parody "What is a Rhyme?".

Paperback. 160p., illustrations, photos, lightly worn, good first edition trade paperback literary journal in pictorial wraps. Prepublication excerpts from "Mrs. Bridge" and "Medicine for Melancholy".

Soft cover. Etat : Good. 6 Issues, all in fairly good shape. No writing. except for Number 2, which has a previous owner name plus a fair amount of staining - perhaps water damage. Covers on all show wear, bindings sound. Names include Ray Bradbury, Evan S. Connell, William Saroyan, William Carlos Williams, Huxley, Stegner, Updike, Nelson Algren, Alvah Bessie, etc. A reading set. M02906.

Softcover. First Edition; First Printing. Very good in wrappers.

Paperback. Etat : Good. Photos available upon request. Covers have moderate rubbing, smudging, and shelf wear. Spine has moderate reading creases, wear, and a 1/4" tear at bottom spine corner. Textblock has moderate toning. Previous owner's name is wrtten in black marker at bottom of front acknowledgment page. Otherwise the journal is in good condition for its age. Text and art pages are sharp, bright, clean, and unmarked. Binding is decent. Overall a solid copy.

Softcover. Etat : Very Good Minus. First issue of a seminal literary quarterly. Card covers (9 in. x 6 in.) with black and white photograph of a child staring at a fierce looking fish, who is staring back at her. Sewn signatures. Minor shelfwear and a small crease on the rear panel. This premier issue features writing by Ray Bradbury, Evan S. Connell, S.I. Hayakawa ("How to be Sane Though Negro") William Saroyan (reproduction of his working drafts of a new play) ;Alan Watts (a10-page essay entitled: "Zen and the Problem of Control"); William Carlos Williams, who offers "The Contact Story", in which he writes about the original CONTACT magazine in the 1930s, and mentions that in its pages "the American idiom dared at last to challenge Oxford English until T.S. Eliot deserted to the old rules with his ways of writing. He won an overwhelming, if short-lived victory with his verse, and threw us back on our heels for another 30 years, maybe, nearer 40 years." Only today are we beginning to get our feet under us again, finally rid of the Eliot influence." "Contact, in its newest incarnation, is not a San Francisco magazine except that it is puyblished here. We expect to publish work by anybody from anywhere as long as it meets our standards and is written approximately in the English language. Also, Contact does not intend to take sides -- not lilterary sides, not political sides, not moral sides -- except that we are on the side of Humanity, whatever that means. Presumably, however, we would publish an inhuman author should he present us with a magnificent work of inhumanity." (p. 79).