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77.
FRUIT CUP #0 (NY: Beach Books, 1969).
Ed. Mary Beach. 4to. Stapled wrps. (unpaginated).
SIGNED by Burroughs at his contribution (“Abstract” + a reprint of “Post Script to The Invisible Generation” from Klacto/23 International).
A one-shot magazine named by Miles using the Dada name-finding technique with Claude Pélieu and Mary Beach when he pointed randomly at the El Quijote’s menu at the Hotel Chelsea bar. Later, on December 4, 1969, Burroughs wrote to Beach and Pélieu congratulating them on their publication: “Fruit Cup very good, a nice battery of writers and materials.”
Also: Allen Ginsberg; Ed Sanders; Tuli Kupferberg; Ken Weaver; Peter Orlovsky; Lawrence Ferlinghetti; Wallace Berman; Carl Weissner; Claude Pélieu (including numerous collages); Mary Beach; Joyce Mansour; Jeff Nuttall; Janine Pommy-Vega; Carl Solomon; George Andrews; Abbie Hoffman; Jerry Rubin; Charles Plymell (“Reba ‘69”, heavily revised in brown ink, presumably by Plymell); full-page photo of “Sunlove, Happening with The Soft Machine, 1967”; more.
Wrappers slightly rubbed, o/w Very Good plus.
