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New York: The Floating Bear. 1971. First edition.. Trade paperback. Very good. light shelf wear, mild general toning, errata sheet included. Includes illustrations. . From Zine Wiki: The Floating Bear was a newsletter that ran from 1961 to 1971, edited in New York, NY, U.S.A., first by Diane di Prima and Leroi Jones and then later, by issue 25, by Diane alone. Published nearly every month and distributed by mailing list only, it was a fantastic platform for several schools of writing to come together, including the Beat writers, the New York School, Black Mountain and other revolutionary writers of that time. Later, after issue 28, when di Prima relocated to Topanga, CA, it featured some of the San Francisco Renaissance writers. This weighty carrier of words held the works of Frank O Hara, Michael McClure, Ed Dorn, Charles Olson, Joel Oppenheimer, Diane Levertov, Phillp Whalen, Jack Spicer, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, William S. Burroughs, John Wieners and both the editors, plus… Read More

New York: Floating Bear, 1967. First edition. Paperback. Good +. Tall, side-stapled wrappers. Handsome very good example of issue 34 of Di Prima's great small press mimeo poetry magazine. Cover art by Michael Bowen. This copy not folded. With some odd chipping to the front cover and lacking the blank rear cover page. Some edgewear and light toning to covers.

New York: The Floating Bear, 1966. First Edition. Quarto (28cm.); stapled mimeographed pictorial self-wrappers illustrated by Robert Branaman; [16]pp. Previous mail folds, wrappers a bit toned and lightly worn from handling, else Very Good overall. Postally addressed to James Laughlin with return address of the Poets Press in New York. Issue guest edited by Kirby Doyle with contributions Michael McClure, Di Prima, and others.

New York: Floating Bear, 1966. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Tall, side-stapled wrappers. Handsome very good example of issue 33 of Di Prima's great small press mimeo poetry magazine. Paper toned more than other issues of this magazine, as often seen. Rear page loose from staples. Otherwise a solid very good copy. Includes work by Wieners, Jack Spicer, John Reed, Sanders Russell and more. This issue printed at the Detroit Artists' Workshop Press. This copy not folded. Address sticker on final page mostly peeled away.

New York: The Poets Press, 1965. PB. good, side stapled mimeographed sheets (softcover). Designed for mailing when folded over. Paper for covers a tad acidic. This copy mailed to Remy Charlip, artist, writer, theater director and designer. unpaginated.

New York: The Floating Bear, 1964. First Edition. Quarto (28cm.); stapled mimeographed pictorial self-wrappers illustrated by Jeanne Marlowe; [20]pp. Previous mail folds, wrappers a shade toned along extremities, rear cover starting to separate, else Very Good overall. Postally addressed in manuscript to Gary Snyder with return address of the American Theatre for Poets in New York. Contents includes a lengthy contribution by Gilbert Sorrentino describing various contemporary poets: Kerouac, "Enormously talented"; Burroughs: "he is not a writer, he merely writes"; Olson, "Solid, declamatory prose," etc. etc.

New York: The Floating Bear, 1961. First Edition. Quarto (28cm.); side-stapled mimeographed self-wrappers; [12]pp. A Fine and unfolded (possibly unissued) copy, as the magazine sold only through its mailing list. Contents chiefly devoted to the poetry of John Ashbery, and provides a notice on p. [12] that the poet "is now looking for manuscripts (poems) for Locus Solus 3." Concludes with the plea "We are, as ever, badly in need of money for Bears. This isn't addressed to those of you who have done more than your share, but to you guys who have as yet done nothing: PLEASE SEND WHATEVER YOU CAN, AS SOON AS YOU CAN.

New York: The Floating Bear, 1961. First Edition. Quarto (28cm.); side-stapled mimeographed self-wrappers; [12]pp. A Near Fine and unfolded (possibly unissued) copy, as the magazine sold only through its mailing list. Contributions include Allen Ginsberg's essay "History of the Jewish Socialist Party in America," and Frank O'Hara's long poem "For the Chinese New Year & For Bill Berkson.

New York: Floating Bear, 1961. Original wraps. Very Good +. The March 1961 issue #7 of "The Floating Bear", Diane Di Prima's and LeRoi Jones's first-rate poetry newsletter and mimeo issued out of New York's Lower East Side (at 309 East Houston Street). Crisp and VG+ to Near Fine in its stapled wrappers. Contributors to this issue include Bill Berkson and Charles Olson.

New York: The Floating Bear, 1965. First Edition. Quarto (28cm.); stapled mimeographed pictorial self-wrappers illustrated by Jess Collins; [16]pp. Previous mail folds, wrappers a bit toned, else Very Good overall. Postally addressed in manuscript to James Laughlin with return address of the Poets Press in New York. Contributors include John Wieners and Robert Duncan.

NY: Diane Di Prima & LeRoi Jones, 1961. Issue #9. Six pages, heavy paper stock with single staple at upper corner. Includes "From "The System of Dante's Hell: The Eighth Ditch is Drama (Your Tongues Are Fire and Your Strategies Hell Itself)" by LeRoi Jones; "Roosevelt After Inauguration" (subject of a famous obscenity trial) by William Burroughs; "Itchy" (poetry) by Philip Whalen. Folded for mailing with staple removed from lower end in order for newsletter to be read by recipient; address label and stamp bits remain at upper front; date scribbled out from postal stamp in pencil at same; tanning, particularly at edges and fold; a little soiling; creasing; minor edge nicks and tears. An original and ephemeral item.. Stapled Pages. Good+.