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The Outsider 4 & 5
(Tucson), (Loujon Press), (1969). Extravagantly produced double issue of this avant garde underground literary magazine, which published many of the Beat and counterculture writers in the 1960s when they were still far outside the mainstream. Contains a nearly fifty-page "Homage to Kenneth Patchen" by writers such as Allen Ginsberg, Henry Miller, Brother Antoninus, Kenneth Rexroth and Lawrence Ferlinghetti, among others, and includes an interview with Patchen. Also includes writings by Bukowski, Charles Plymell, William Wantling, Diane di Prima, Denise Levertov, and others. Tape shadows on pastedowns from the original tape that held the fragile rice paper dust jacket in place (tape still present); pages 61-76 are of a different paper than the rest of the text block (a typical feature of Loujon Press books) and the pages facing them, 60 and 77, are substantially darkened from offsetting; otherwise near fine in a very good dust jacket chipped at the corners and the spine ends, including the bottom 2" of the spine. Laid in is the prospectus, and a copy of a newspaper article describing the press having been flooded when 25 of the 160 pages of this issue had been printed (the issue as published has closer to 200 pages). The last issue of the journal, one of 500 copies in hardcover, and quite uncommon with the fragile jacket present. [#033351] SOLD

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