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LOCUS SOLUS #I-V (in 4 volumes) - all published.
Lans-en-Vercors (Isère): Winter 1961-1962. First trade editions. 12mo. Original printed wrps., pagination varies (168pp.-294pp.). Edited by Harry Mathews, James Schuyler (#1 and #5), John Ashbery (#3/4), and Kenneth Koch (#2).
Issue #I (Winter 1961): Contributors include John Ashbery; Harry Mathews; Kenneth Koch; Frank O’Hara; and Ebbe Borregaard. Some age-toning to wrappers, esp. spine panel (light spotting and faint creasing), o/w Very Good.
Issue #II (Summer 1961): “A Special Issue of Collaborations”, including William Burroughs’ cut-ups of Rimbaud’s poem “To a Reason” (“Everywhere March Your Head” and “Sons of Your In”, both arranged with Gregory Corso). Other collaborations include Éluard and Péret, Breton and Tanguy, Ashbery and Koch, Marinetti and Cangiullo, and many others, plus “The Conversions II” by the periodical’s publisher, Harry Mathews. Light age-toning to wrappers and faint creasing to spine, o/w Very Good.
Issue #III-IV (Winter 1962) – “New Poetry” double issue. Includes contributions from LeRoi Jones; Larry Rivers; Diane di Prima; Daisy Aldan; Gerard Malanga; Alan Ansen; Anselm Hollo; Robert Lax; Frank O’Hara; and others. Light wear to spine panel, o/w Very Good.
Issue #V (1962): Includes contributions from John Ashbery; John Wieners; Harry Mathews; Chester Kallman; Frank O’Hara; Gerard Malanga; Ted Berrigan; Piero Heliczer; and Raymond Roussel, whose novel the magazine was named after. Light bumps to head and tail of spine panel, o/w Very Good.
Complete sets are scarce, since the final issue was printed in an edition of only 500 copies.
