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New York: Jack Green, 1960. First Edition. Good.. Original issue of one of the rarest and more unusual journals of the mimeo revolution. Newspaper published 15 issues between 1957 and 1965 and is best remembered today for almost single-handedly establishing the reputation of William Gaddis's THE RECOGNITIONS through Green's thorough and devastating deconstruction of the novel's negative reviews (originally published in Newspaper 12-14, reprinted as FIRE THE BASTARDS in 1992), as well as (most infamously) his 1962 full-page ad in the Village Voice extolling the work's virtues. "[P]art conceptual art, part political tract, and part 'zine [...] 'Green' [a psuedonym] used his underground tabloid for cultural commentary and deliciously satirical (yet superbly well-documented) assaults" (Clay and Phillips p. 77). A very fragile production of which not many survived. Indeed, the first copy we've handled in many years of looking. Wraps. Tall 4to. Top-stapled legal-sized mimeo. Heavily toned. Fairly brittle.…
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