first edition Softcover
1960 · Chicago
by (BURROUGHS, William S., Jack Kerouac, Edward Dahlberg, Gregory Corso, Allen Ginsberg, Antonin Artaud, Paul Bowles, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Robert Duncan, John Ashbery, Norman Mailer, Robert Creeley, Jack Spicer, Jack Kerouac, LoRoi Jones, Charles Olson, Jo
Chicago: Big Table, Inc, 1960. Softcover. Very Good. First edition, complete in 5 volumes. Perfectbound wrappers. The issues are moderately soiled with a modestly toned spine on Volume 1, light foxing on the cover of Volume 2, and a small tear on the spine of Volume 4, overall very good. Included is the notorious first issue which reprints the complete contents of the suppressed *Winter 1959 Chicago Review*, which consisted of "Ten Episodes from *Naked Lunch*" by William S. Burroughs, "Old Angel Midnight" by Jack Kerouac, two pieces by Edward Dahlberg and three poems from Gregory Corso. *Maynard and Miles* C6. The remaining issues feature contributions (truncated)