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No 1. Winter 1965. (R A Bone on J Baldwin's Novels;
Articles on Zen by L Stryk who has translated Zen poems & anecdotes. The Case of J T Farrell with articles on him & contributions by him. Poems by M Kumin, Sherwood Anderson,
P Viereck, J Rothenberg, F Pollak, R Johnson, S Beal, etc.) £12.00

No.4. 1965. Double issue celebrating The W B Yeats Centenary with articles on him by P Colum, R Ellmann, S Spender, B Rajan, Coulton Johnson,(Editor), W P Fay, C Cruise O’Brien, R McHugh, etc &
A Symposium on Poetry since Yeats with S Spender, P Kavanagh,
W D Snodgrass & T Kinsella. Second section is devoted to New French Writing with articles on G Appolinaire by M Butor & C Boultenhouse with Four Calligrams by Boultenhouse; other contributors include,
E M Cioran, J-P Aron, L-P Fargue, R Kempf, R Barthes, etc. 200pp. Illustrated. £17.50

No 8. Winter 1967. (J Joyce-A Selection of letters with articles on Joyce by R Ellmann, K Boyle, V Mercier, F Budgen & H Straumann.
R Greeman on Victor Serge & the Tradition of Revolutionary Literature with bibliography. Translations by B Belitt & R Bly of
P Neruda; by M Lebeck of G Trakl. Story by B Brower. Poetry by H Nemerov, C Bode, P Viereck, W Brown, R Loewinsohn,etc.) £17.50

No 9. Spring 1967. (Fiction by T Dery, W Gombrowicz, M Hlasko. Poetry by A Jozsef, L Nagy, M Holub, V Popa, C Milosz, J Pilinzky.
L Goldmann on The Early Writings of Georg Lukacs. A Sandor on Attila Joszef. Z Najder on Jerzy Andrzejewski. K A Jelenski on Witold Gombrowicz. V Blackwell on Vera Linhartove. D Puvacic-Tradition
& Change in Serbian & Croatian Prose. T Terlecki on Polish Poetry in a double spectrum. Polish Drama by J Kott.etc.) £15.00

No 10. Fall 1967. Under 30 Issue. (Poems by M D Browne, D Lunde,
S Whitney, T Clark, D Hine, J Tate, D Shapiro, D Schmitz, M Bell,
A Viereck, etc. Fiction by M Malkas, J Penner, J Carol Oates,
J Strong, S Wilkinson, etc. Commentary by S Koch, C Newman,
J Perreault, etc.) £10.00

No.11. Winter 1968. (S Sontag on Cioran with a contribution him; Poems by W D Snodgrass, G Orlovitz, K Shapiro, J Hollander,
J F Nims, T Gunn, etc. Articles on Antonioni, Asian Poetry in Translation, H James & H Adams, Swift's humour…) £16.00

No. 13/14. Fall/Winter 1968/69. Special issue on Contemporary Latin American Literature with contributions by O Paz, R Monegal,
F Lucas. Fiction by E Sabato, G Sainz, M V llosa, Borges, J J Arreola, G G Marquez, J L Borges, B Papastamatiu, D Trevisan,
J J Hernandes, M A Asturias, C M Moreno, L T-Nilsson.
Poetry by C Vallejo, O Paz, P Neruda, J J Borges, R Pineda, E Molina, P A Fernandez, J Ortego, M Simpson, J Banuelos, etc.
Photo and text illustrations. £16.00

No. 15. Spring 1969. (J Carol Oates-story, R Ellmann, Forrest Read(“Storicamente Joyce”-Pounds first Italian essay);
Ezra Pound(Historically Joyce[and censorship] translated by Forrest Read) etc. Contains the supplement to Contemporary Latin American Literature featured in the previous issue with C Fuentes, J Cortazer, etc.) Approx 280pp. Upper wrap and little foxed otherwise very good. Illustrated. £17.50

No 16. Fall 1969. (Fiction by R Chatain, C Blaise, J McNeice. B D Wolfe on Leon Felipe, A R Cirillo on Romeo & Juliet. Unpublished sections of Kierkegaard’s Journals. Poetry by J Tate, J Carole Oates, D Wagoner, J Ashbery, W S Merwin, etc. Translations of C P Cavafy,
J L Borges, A B Casares, etc.) Illustrations. £12.00

No 30. Spring 1974. A Context for Ongoing American Fiction with contributions by A J Guerrard, D Caute, R Pearce, T Tanner,
J Hawkes, P Stevick, etc. £6.00

No.31. Fall 1974. A fascinating issue devoted to Contemporary Asian Literature with foreword by Lucien Stryk. There are poems & stories from China, Japan, Indonesia, Vietnam, Korea& India. 244pp. £12.00.

No.50. Winter 1981. (A Sillitoe-A Scream of toys-signed by Author;
T McGuane-To Skin a Cat; B Kiely-"Oh dear, what can the matter be?"; R Stern-Extracts from a Journal...) £10.00

No.64. Fall 1985. Contributions include Alan Shapiro, Stephen Berg, Donald Davie, Charles Simic, etc. Photo illustrations.
Approximately 280pp. £8.00

No. 12. Spring 1968. (R Duncan on H D; F Ponge on Giacometti; Beardsley, Burroughs, decadence & the Poetics of Obscenity by
P Michelson; F Pollak on Pornography; R H Michaux by R Ellmann; Poems by Roethke, Berrymann, Hitchcock, S Berg, etc.) £600

No.26. Winter 1973. (C Newman on the uses & abuses of death-a little rumble through the remnants of literary culture; S Elkin,
A Greenberg, J Baumbach, A B Paulson, J Carol Oates; R Cooper on the Rosenbergs; A Robbe-Grillet....) £6.00

No.43. Fall 1978. Articles on The Little Magazine in America: A Modern Documentary History; Essays, Memoirs and Photo- documents by M Anania, C Robinson, M Olson, R Boyers, L P Simpson-The Southern Review, R Whittemore-Furioso, R Macauley-The Kenyon Review, J Conroy-Anvil, W Phillips- Partisan Review, K Shapiro-Poetry, C Corman-Origin, R Creeley-The Black Mountain Review, L Hornick-Kulchur, Leroi Jones-Yugen, J B May-Trace, and many others with an annotated bibliography of selected little magazines by P Martin,etc. £35.00