periodical
pictorial wrappers
letterpress
tipped in image[s]
duotone
18.7 x 12.2 cm.
[18] pp.
edition size 350
unsigned and unnumbered

Semina

Name: Semina / No. 5
Author: Wallace Berman, Charles Brittin, John Wieners, David Meltzer, Ruth Weiss, Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz, Christopher Maclaine, Anne McKeever, Antonin Artaud, Larry Jordan, Kirby Doyle, Philip Lamantia, John Chance, Robt. Kaufman, Michael McClure, John Reed, Wm. Margolia, John Hoffman

No. 5

Wallace Berman, Charles Brittin, John Wieners, David Meltzer, Ruth Weiss, Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz, Christopher Maclaine, Anne McKeever, Antonin Artaud, Larry Jordan, Kirby Doyle, Philip Lamantia, John Chance, Robt. Kaufman, Michael McClure, John Reed, Wm. Margolia, John Hoffman

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Issue number five of Semina, published and edited by Wallace Berman. Issue five features folded covers housing a printed manila pocket housing 18 loose poems and images. Artists include Wallace Berman, John Wieners, David Meltzer, Ruth Weiss, Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz, Christopher Maclaine, Anne McKeever, Antonin Artaud, Larry Jordan, Kirby Doyle, Philip Lamantia, John Chance, Robt. Kaufman, Michael McClure, John Reed, Wm. Margolia, and John Hoffman. Cover photo by Charles Brittin. Type was handset and done on 5 x 8 inch handpress. All images in it are in Cancun Mexico. Verso features a portrait of Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz.

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$8,000.00

Condition: Very Good. Complete copy featuring all 18 inserts. Rubbing and bumping off cover edges. 4.8 cm. dog-ear to bottom left corner of verso, 2.4 cm. crease to bottom right corner of verso, and 12 inch long crease parallel to bottom edge of verso. Very light creasing to 3 of the 18 inserts, 2.1 cm. dog-ear to top right corner of uncredited illustration of a woman, and light yellowing to Peyote Poem by John Wieners. Contents otherwise clean and unmarked.
[Object # 38524]

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$4,000.00

Condition: Poor / Good. This copy contains 17 of the 18 inserts: missing photograph of Philip Lamantia injecting heroin by Wallace Berman (aka Pantale Xantos). Includes a two-sided handwritten letter by Wallace Berman to previous owner introducing the issue. Significant rubbing and wear to covers (as noted by Berman himself in his letter noting it had even been through mudslides). Rubbing, staining, and creasing across covers, 8 mm. fold/surface tear to bottom right corner of recto. 1.5 cm. crease to bottom left corner of verso. Wear to edges of contents with staining, dog-ears, and handling wear.
[Object # 38522]