DOWN HERE: A MAGAZINE FROM THE EAST VILLAGE - VOL.1, NOS.1-2
New York: Larry Pool / Tompkins Square Press, 1966-1967. First Editions. Item #7997
Two octavo issues (22.75cm-24cm); pictorial card wrappers; [iv],76; [iii],101pp; illus. Wrappers on issue no.1 are gently sunned, as usual, else Near Fine. No.2 has a faint forward lean, some finger-soil along the spine, with a diagonal crease to upper left corner of rear wrapper; Very Good+.
Complete run of this East Village little magazine. Contains the first appearance of Bukowski's letters to Tom McNamara, and McNamara's introduction to these (pp.8-38), as well as two poems - "Down to 2 Bottle of Beer and Smoking Old Cigar Stubs" and "Green." With contributions by Gene Bloom, Ray Bremser, Will Inman, Jack Micheline, Gerard Malanga, William Wantling, Ted Berrigan, and John Wieners, et al. Dorbin C377a-b, D42, E49.
Price: $150.00