Item #40420 THE FLOATING BEAR #5 (NY: The Floating Bear, 1961). William S. BURROUGHS, contributes.
THE FLOATING BEAR #5 (NY: The Floating Bear, 1961).

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THE FLOATING BEAR #5 (NY: The Floating Bear, 1961).

Ed. Diane di Prima and LeRoi Jones. 4to. Four mimeographed sheets, stapled at top corner, printed recto and verso.

Burroughs contributes a cut-up text, “Out Show Window and We’re Proud of It”, and a letter to Allen Ginsberg, dated June 21, 1960, in which he instructs Ginsberg to cut the letter up and rearrange the sections (“Now read aloud and you will hear My Voice”), and writes that “The Cut Up Method is explained in Minutes To Go. Which is already out in the States” (precedes the same letter’s publication in “The Yage Letters”).

Also: Venice Beat poet, John Thomas); a LeRoi Jones letter to di Prima.

Edge-toning to first page, esp. r/h margin, o/w Very Good plus.

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