newspaper #9
Original issue of one of the rarest and more unusual journals of the mimeo revolution.
Good.
Price: $400.00
newspaper #9
Newspaper published 15 issues between 1957 and 1965 and is best remembered today for almost single-handedly establishing the reputation of William Gaddis's THE RECOGNITIONS through Green's thorough and devastating deconstruction of the novel's negative reviews (originally published in Newspaper 12-14, reprinted as FIRE THE BASTARDS in 1992), as well as (most infamously) his 1962 full-page ad in the Village Voice extolling the work's virtues. "[P]art conceptual art, part political tract, and part 'zine [...] 'Green' [a psuedonym] used his underground tabloid for cultural commentary and deliciously satirical (yet superbly well-documented) assaults" (Clay and Phillips p. 77). A very fragile production of which not many survived. Indeed, the first copy we've handled in many years of looking.
The Object
First Edition. New York: Jack Green, nd [ca. 1960]. Wraps. Tall 4to. Top-stapled legal-sized mimeo. Heavily toned. Fairly brittle. Folded in half with some splitting at the fold. First page separated from staple. Bit of chipping at edges here and there. About good. [22].
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