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Faust Foutu
(Stinson Beach), (Enkidu Surrogate), (1960). One of 750 copies printed of the third edition, but first full trade edition, of this play. (The first edition was privately printed; the second edition printed only Act I.) Near fine in stapled wrappers. Laid in is a mimeographed program for a reading of the play at the "6," listing the cast, which included Duncan, Jack Spicer, "Mike" McClure, Jess Collins, Helen Adam and others; folded in fourths, else fine. A nice copy of this play, with scarce ephemera laid in. The Six Gallery was, among other things, the location of the first reading of Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl." It had started as the King Ubu Gallery, co-founded by Duncan, Jess and Harry Jacobus. It became The Six Gallery in 1954 and ended its life in that incarnation in 1957. So the mimeograph sheet for the performance places it in the 1954-57 period, after the publication of the privately produced version of the play and several years prior to the publication of this edition. From the library of Pauline Kael, longtime New Yorker film critic but at this time the operator of an art film theater in San Francisco and a close friend of Duncan, Jess and the others in that crowd. [#016186] SOLD

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