george leite (53 resultados)

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. Jacket design by RBMM. Ilustrador. 1st Edition. Includes Five Poems by E.E. Cummings, Neptune by Dane Ruhdyar (or possibly Rudhyer), Henry Miller's "Preface for the Power Within Us," etc. 89 pp. Reduced from $37.

Soft cover. Condición: Good. 1st Edition. CIRCLE (1944-1948) the Bay Area's seminal literary journal. A synthesis of the surreal, eclectic, pacifist, and anarchist ideologies that formed the radical basis of the San Francisco Renaissance and was an influential precursor of the Beat Movement. CIRCLE Vol. 1, No. 3. Published by Circle, Berkeley, printed by The Greenwood Press, San Mateo, California, 1944. George Leite Editor, Assistant Editor, Bern Porter. First edition. Softcover, illustrated wrappers, 9" x 6.25", staple bound, 61 pages, illustrated with some headpiece decorations printed in brick red, and a Max Ernst painting reproduced in b&w. GOOD CONDITION: covers pulled from rear staples and disbound, spine is age toned with small tearing/wear at the ends, shelfwear, and a few light coffee droplets, internally, signs of age and use, otherwise bright, clean and unmarked and the red and black Kenneth Rexroth printed cover remains very bright. Circle number 3 is very scarce and hardly ever found. Cover by KENNETH REXROTH (1905-1982) Poet, Artist, Godfather of the San Francisco Renaissance. George T. Leite (1920-1985) controversial author, publisher, poet, taught experimental literature at UC Berkeley, owned an important bookstore and gallery space on Telegraph Ave in Berkeley, daliel's. He was friends with and published the works of Robert Duncan, Kenneth Rexroth, Henry Miller, William Everson, Philip Lamantia, Anais Nin, Jack Spicer and a devotee of the renegade Freudian Wilhelm Reich and his Orgone theory.

octavo, printed wrappers. octavo, printed wrappers. (106) pp. An important Bay Area magazine. Circle 9 was issued with four different covers each designed and hand printed in five color silk-screen by Bezalel Schatz. This issue was dedicated to the memory of Gertrude Stein "dead now this July of 1946." Contains prose and poetry by Lawrence Durrell, William Everson, Henry Miller and others. This cover feature red paper with a decorative square printed in green, blue, yellow and cream. Back wrapper missing.

Trade Paperback. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. A Near Fine copy in paper covers. Book.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. A lovely crisp clean softcover copy in very good condition, light age toning, small stains to rear of cover, mild rubbing.

Trade paperback. Condición: Very good. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 112 p. Audience: General/trade. No previous owner's name EB 35.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. 1st edition. Near VG. 8vo, 88pp, printed wrappers. The final issue of the essential 1940s Berkeley little magazine. Includes an article by Harry Partch with photographs of his instruments, the Whitney Brothers on their experimental animation, Robert Duncan, etc. Unmarked copy with general wear and reading creases to both covers. Not Signed.

Soft cover. Condición: Good. A lovely crisp unmarked softcover copy in good plus condition, rubbing to cover and spine, light age toning and price written in ink on front cover.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good Minus. Issue number 9 of the Journal Circle. Very Good Minus. Softcover, pictorial wraps, 96 pp. plus ads at end, b&w photos, moderate edgewear with creasing to covers and bumping to corners, else a clean and tight copy.

Trade Paperback. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Paperback. A Very Good or better copy in stiff pictorial paper covers. Light cover wear, sound binding, clean/unmarked within. (Not ex-library.). Book.

Softcover. Condición: Very good. No jacket. binB. Contributors include Mary Fabilli, Giuseppi Ungaretti, Harry Partch, Robert Duncan, et al. Shelfworn.

octavo, printed wrappers. octavo, printed wrappers. (106) pp. An important Bay Area magazine. Circle 9 was issued with four different covers each designed and hand printed in five color silk-screen by Bezalel Schatz. This issue was dedicated to the memory of Gertrude Stein "dead now this July of 1946." Contains prose and poetry by Lawrence Durrell, William Everson, Henry Miller and others. This copy has the cover of mainly blue with eye.

Softcover. Condición: Very Good. Periodical. Octavo. 96pp., advertisements. Pictorial wrappers designed and hand printed in one of four different color silk-screen variants by Palestinian artist Bezalel Schatz. Rubbing on wraps, very good. Includes contributions by: Lawrence Durrell, Jim Fitzsimmons, Walker Winslow, Hilaire Hiler, and more. Containing part two of "Rimbaud Opus: by Henry Miller. This issue dedicated to Miss Gertrude Stein including a photographic reproduction of the 1906 portrait by Pablo Picasso.

Softcover. Condición: Very Good. Number 5. Pictorial wrappers. Wraps and spine toned, faint crease on the cover, very good. Includes contributions by: E.E. Cummings, Henry Miller, Weldon Kees, Jess Cloud, Albert Clements, Paul Radin, and more.

Trade Paperback. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. A Near Fine copy in paper covers. Book.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Very Good in stab bound red card covers with Fetus. Contributors include Lawrence Durrell, William Everson, Harold Norse, and Henry Miller. 96pp 8vo.IB.

Black and white illustrations inside from art and photographs Ilustrador. Intellectual literary journal from the 40s published in Berkeley. [iv], 96, [8] pp. Moderately heavy wear and fading to wrappers, with some small chips with loss, owner name penciled to front and date to back. Gentle toning throughout, minor stains to outer leaves. Good Wrappers illustrated in five color silkscreen by Bezalel Schatz.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. 1st edition. VG+. 8vo, 88pp, printed wrappers. Fifth issue of this essential 1940s Berkeley little magazine (co-edited by Bern Porter). Includes "Neptune, Evocateur Extraordinary" by modernist astrologer Dane Rudhyar (as "Dane Ruhdyar"). Unmarked copy, light wear and toning. Not Signed.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. 1st edition. Near VG. 8vo, 94pp, printed wrappers. Sixth issue of this signal 1940s Berkeley little magazine (co-edited by Bern Porter). Includes the short play "Flannel Night Shirt" by Leonora Carrington and a short piece by Robert Barlow that includes a passing reference to H. P. Lovecraft (this appearance not noted in Abrams's bibliography). Unmarked copy (from the collection of contributor Lawrence Hart), patches of toning to back cover and a bit of general wear. Not Signed.

Important Bay Area magazine of art and literature edited by George Leite and Bern Porter. Contributions by Everson, Fabilli, Harold Norse, Lawrence Durrell, Henry Miller, George Leite, and others. Silk-screen cover illustration by Bezalel Schatz (this cover was done in 4 different color variants---this is the red version). Illustrated with photographs and drawings. Near fine.

Berkeley: Circle, 1948. 110, [2]pp. 9 x 6 inches. Pictorial wrappers. Very minor abrasion to rear cover; very good. With articles by John & James Whitney, Mary Fabilli, Harry Partch, Robert Barlow, Robert Duncan, et al.

Softcover, stapled. Condición: Very Good to Near Fine. Bezalel Schatz Ilustrador. First Edition. First Edition. Octavo, stapled softcover in original red wrappers, hand silk-screened, black and white plates throughout, including a fold-out photo set. Issue #9 of Circle Magazine, a literary and art journal published in Berkeley, CA from 19441948 for a total of 10 issues; cover art by Palestinian artist Bezalel Schatz, one of four different variants. Very Good to Near Fine, light shelf wear and fading.

Softcover. Condición: Very Good. Number 6. Illustrated with black and white plates. Glossy pictorial wrappers. One plate loose and laid in, light foxing on wraps and spine, very good. Includes contributions by: Henry Miller, James Laughlin, Thomas Parkinson, Leonora Carrington, and more.

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. B/W Photographs and Illustration Ilustrador. First Edition. CIRCLE: NO. 7-8. Berkeley, Circle, 1946. Edited by George Leite. B/w illustrations. Bibliographical references. Includes advertising matter. Stiff white pictorial wrappers, printed, green black and purple (slight toning and shelfwear to wrappers). Uncommon. contains contributions by, Edwin Ver Becke, Gil Orlovitz, kenneth Patchen, Jacke Jones, Hennry Miller, et al. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. 1st edition. VG. 8vo, 110pp (plus inserts), silkscreened wrappers. Ninth issue of this vital 1940s Berkeley little magazine. Includes a full-page still from Maya Deren's Meshes of the Afternoon opposite an advance notice of the groundbreaking Art in Cinema film series. A sound copy of the eye cover variant (1 of 4) of this important issue, epitomizing the avant-garde of its day. Neat period ownership signature and Berkeley address to inside cover, else unmarked with 1" closed tear to base of cover and minor wear. Not Signed.

Paperbound. Very Good +. First Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Condición: Good. Softcover. 8vo. 6 x 9 inches. 90 pp. Article by Henry Miller on painter Knud Merrild, poems by James Laughlin, Thomas Parkinson, a play by surrealist painter Leonora Carrington. Interesting issue of this important little magazine. Cover scuffed and creased, some foxing on edges. Top half inch of spine torn, previous owner signature on endpaper, tear on endpaper. Binding still sound, no loose pages. Good.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. 1st edition. VG. 8vo, 160pp (plus plates), printed wrappers. An important issue of this mid 1940s Berkeley little magazine. Includes the work of a wide range of artists of the period, including Henry Miller, Robert Duncan (Bertholf C33), Anais Nin, Paul Radin, and Darius Milhaud. Also includes a foldout Map of Joyce's Life by Bern Porter, and samples of experimental photographic work by Porter and George Barrows. Unmarked copy with some general wear. Not Signed.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. 1st edition. Near VG. 8vo, 80pp (plus plates), printed wrappers. Early issue of this signal 1940s Berkeley little magazine (co-edited by Bern Porter), an elegantly designed early production of Jack Werner Stauffacher's Greenwood Press. For a brief span of years in the mid-forties this was one of the most important American outlets for Surrealist-influenced modernism. Miller's name is penciled on the first interior page (does not appear to be a signature). Otherwise-unmarked copy with toning at edges, and some tearing to spine. Not Signed.

Soft cover. Condición: Good. 1st Edition. 8vo. Wrappers. [iv], [162]pp. + foldout leaf. Illustrated. Contributors include Robert Duncan ('The Years as Catches'), Henry Miller, Anais Nin, Bern Porter (map of James Joyce's life), Kenneth Patchen, W. S. Graham, George Barrows (plus the cover), Yvan Goll, Gil Orlovitz, and more. Outwardly spotted and rubbed, the spine chipped and scuffed, and the internal staples rusty, the text generally clean however.