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SOME/THING #1-4/5 (all published).
NY: Hawk’s Well Press, Spring 1965-Summer 1968). 8vo. Wrps., 64pp.-120pp. Ed. David Antin and Jerome Rothenberg.
A complete set of this important avant-garde little magazine, featuring Andy Warhol’s cover art for the third issue (Winter 1966), a sheet of 12 real glue-backed stamps printing the pro-Vietnam war slogan ‘BOMB HANOI!’ as a series of lapel buttons or wall stickers, his response to David Antin’s request that he should take one of the American warmongers’ “idiot slogans and fuck it up any way he likes for our cover”. Antin later recalled that when he gave Allen Ginsberg his copy “Allen’s jaw dropped and he said ‘What’s this?’. Then he turned it over, saw his name on the back and said, ‘It’s all right, I'm in it’.”
Issue #1 (Spring 1965): front cover by Amy Mendelson (a painter later better known as the art critic Amy Goldin). Contributors include Paul Blackburn; Jackson Mac Low; Diane Wakoski (whose first poetry collection was published by Hawk’s Well in 1962); Rochelle Owens; Armand Schwerner; Anselm Hollo; the editors, and others. Wrappers slightly rubbed, o/w Very Good plus. Illustrated order form loosely inserted.
Issue #2 (Winter 1965): front cover reproduces a photograph of a sculpture by Robert Morris. Contributors include Ted Berrigan; George Brecht; Clayton Eshleman; and Carolee Schneemann’s “Meat Joy”, with pictures from the performance at the Judson Memorial Theatre in October 1964. Minor wear at tail of spine panel, o/w Near Fine.
Issue #3 (Winter 1966): “A Vietnam Assemblage”, with yellow perforated sticker cover by Andy Warhol. Contributions from Allen Ginsberg (“Who Be Kind To”, a poem written in Miles’s flat in Hanson Street); Charles Bukowski; Dick Higgins; Denise Levertov; Gerard Malanga; Philip Corner; Jackson Mac Low; Carolee Schneemann; Robert Duncan; Jess; Carol Bergé; Paul Blackburn; and others. Very short edge-splits to perforations, o/w cover unusually intact, without the covers stuck to the first and last pages. Overall, Very Good plus, with Some/Thing subscription card laid in. Issue
#4/5 (Summer 1968): double issue, with front cover by George Maciunas. Wrappers slightly soiled and stained, with lower corner creasing. Contributors include Allan Kaprow; Hans Arp; Gary Snyder; Gerard Malanga; Eleanor Antin; Larry Eigner; Jackson Mac Low; Armand Schwerner; and Philip Corner.
