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SEMI-COLON Vol. 1 No. 6

SEMI-COLON Vol. 1 No. 6 by MYERS, John Bernard (Editor)

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Title
SEMI-COLON Vol. 1 No. 6
Author
MYERS, John Bernard (Editor)
Seller
Brian Cassidy Bookseller at Type Punch Matrix (United States)
Condition
Very good.
Description
New York: Tibor De Nagy Gallery, 1954. First Edition. Very good.. Sixth issue of this "poets' newsletter" edited by Myers and published by his gallery, Tibor De Nagy. Contributors include Tennesee Williams, W.H. Auden, Kenneth Koch, and James Laughlin. Tibor De Nagy Gallery was in many ways ground zero not just for the abstract expressionist movement but for the first generation New York School as well. The gallery published early books from Frank O'Hara, John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, James Schuyler, and Barbara Guest and encouraged collaborations between them and the painter the gallery represented. SEMI-COLON, which ran ten issues, served as something of a semi-private mode of communication between these New York writers, not unlike the way FLOATING BEAR would a decade later. The dates of these newsletters are somewhat in dispute. Clay and Phillips date the first issue to 1950, but Tibor De Nagy was not founded until the following year. O'Hara's and Ashbery's bibliographers both suggest "[1955?]" for Vol. 1, No. 1. Most likely correct, however, are the dates 1953-ca. 1956 provided by the inventory and catalogue of the Myers' archive (on deposit at the Smithsonian Museum of American Art), and our date follows their lead. Issues, especially early ones, are scarce. Wraps. 4to. 8.5" x 11". Single sheet folded once to make four pages. Very good. Trace soil, handling wear; tiny tear to one edge. Else sound.
(Anti-Japanese WWII-era poster) The Japs are killing Alaska's fish industry

(Anti-Japanese WWII-era poster) The Japs are killing Alaska's fish industry by Anonymous

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(Anti-Japanese WWII-era poster) The Japs are killing Alaska's fish industry
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Anonymous
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Burnside Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
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Portland, OR: Np, 1942. Good. Original 10 3/4" x 14" poster printed in orange and black on cardboard with a racist caricature of Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo stabbing a salmon. Text reads in its entirety: "The Japs are killing Alaska's fish industry / vote 311 X no against this infamous proposition / closing Oregon's coastal streams will kill Oregon's salmon industry / our boys in service need every case of salmon Oregon can produce!" Good with five small holes and a creased scrape, crease down middle from being mounted on a stick either for picketing or as a yard sign, verso toned and soiled. Colors still very bright. A rare political sign opposed to The Oregon Prohibition of Net Fishing on Coastal Waters Bill, also known as Measure 6, with striking graphics, typically anti-Japanese in the wake of Pearl Harbor and America's entry into WWII; although a cursory contemporary glance at the bill makes any connection to Japan highly dubious. "The measure would have prohibited all net fishing in coastal streams and bays, except those exempted," according to Ballotpedia. It was soundly defeated.
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An introductory lecture, delivered at the Massachusetts Medical College, November 3, 1847 by HOLMES, Oliver Wendell

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An introductory lecture, delivered at the Massachusetts Medical College, November 3, 1847
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HOLMES, Oliver Wendell
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Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts (United States)
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Boston: William D. Ticknor & Company, 1847. FIRST EDITION. Original printed wrappers, spine chipped, top wrapper detached. Ink stamp of the Rhode Island Historical Society to top wrapper and title. Presentation inscription from Usher Parsons on wrapper. First edition, second or third state of wrapper, with the publisher’s advertisements printed on the bottom wrapper. Holmes gave this lecture to the medical class of Harvard University. Usher Parsons (1788-1868) began his career as a naval surgeon. After retiring from the Navy, he was professor of anatomy at Dartmouth, professor of anatomy and surgery at Brown University, became president of the Rhode Island Medical Society, and served as the first vice-president of the American Medical Association. BAL, 8746; C&T, p. 40; Osler, 2991.

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