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Heading: (Big Table)
Author: Rosenthal, Irving & Paul Carroll, editors
Title: The Big Table, Nos. 1-5, complete
Place: Chicago
Publisher: Big Table
Date: 1959-60
Item # : 181689
Sale Number   377
Lot Number   211
Sale Name    
Fine Literature; Beats, Bukowski & the Counter Culture; Sci-Fi & Detective Fiction
Sale Date   04/03/2008
Price realized   $ 180
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Description:
5 volumes, complete. Illustrations, including one folding plate. 8vo. Pictorial wrappers.
Important quarterly publication that only ran five issue numbers, containing several significant Beat Generation author contributions: Old Angel Midnight by Jack Kerouac; Ten Episodes from Naked Lunch & In Quest of Yage by William S. Burroughs; Kaddish by Ginsberg. Also: Paul Bowles, Brother Antoninus, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Robert Creeley, Jean Genet, Norman Mailer, Harold Norse, Robert Duncan, McClure, Corso, Gary Snyder, etc.
Condition:
Mild soiling and shelf wear, other light wear; mostly very good.
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