Neurotica (Complete Set, 9 Volumes)
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23.5cm x 15cm. 9 volumes. Illustrated saddle-stapled wrappers.
A complete set of the proto-beat literary journal dedicated to expressions and explorations of art, sex, and neuroticism. The first 8 issues edited by Jay Irving Landesman, the final 9th “castration” issue by Gershon Legman. Featuring contributions by Kenneth Patchen, David Cornel De Jong, Rudolph Friedmann, Henri Michaux, Richard Rubenstein, Douglas P. Rodewald, Nathaniel Thornton, Marc Brandel, Ellis Foote, Justine Krug, Leonard Bernstein, William Krasnet, Gerald W. Lawlor, Harry Karetsky, John Clellon Holmes, Hubert Crehan, Carol Hall, William Stern, Lila Rosenblum, Alistair Kahn, J. B. Smith, John Goldston, Judith Malina, Lawrence Durrell, Winston Weathers, Joanne de Longchamps, Themistocles G. Hoetis, Herbert Benjamin, Norman Maclaine, Osmond Beckwith, Ralph Gilmer, Mortimer Slaiman, Louis Triefenbach, Joseph Kyeff, Sidney E. Porcelain, Ray H. Zorn, Marshall Mcluhan, Charles L. Newman, Jean B. Welch, H. Phelps Putnam, Allen Walker Read, Theodor Reik, Thelma J. Levy, John Del Torto, Alfred Towne, Anatole Broyard, Peter Viereck, Chandler Brossard, Allen Ginsberg, Alfred Towne, Wallace Markfield, Carl Gentile (Goy), William Barrett, Anatole Broyard, Lawrence Rivers, Hy Sobiloff, William Steig, John Del Torto, Victor Tausk, Christopher Maclaine, Jacques Schnier, Maurice M. Shudofsky, Herbert Wolf, Ella Freeman Sharpe, Rudolph Friedmann, Otto Fenichel, James Clark Moloney, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Herman Melville, and Mason Jordan Mason. Cover illustrations by Alvin Lustig. All first printings, except for No 1, which is the second printing.
Some issues with minor tanning or discolouration, and minor wear to edges. Nos. 1 and 3 with crease to wrappers lower panel. No 8. with a small indent line to upper panel. No. 4 with a very small chip to spine at upper staple. No. 1 with a very small chip to crown fore-edge corner of wrappers upper panel, the same panel with a couple of light soil marks. Very Good Condition.
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