Susan Sontag from Philip Smith, Bookseller

New York: American Committee for Cultural Freedom, Inc, 1967. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 8vo, 160pp, printed wrappers. Contains the first appearance of Susan Sontag's classic essay The Pornographic Imagination (Poague & Parsons B30; reprinted with minor emendations in Styles of Radical Will). Issue also includes a play by Warhol collaborator Ronald Tavel and writing… Read more about this item

New York: American Committee for Cultural Freedom, Inc, 1968. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 8vo, 160pp, printed wrappers. Contains the first appearance of Susan Sontag's classic essay Godard (Poague & Parsons B34; reprinted with some changes in Styles of Radical Will). Issue also includes a discussion of Black Power featuring Abbie Hoffman, Norman Mailer and… Read more about this item

Cambridge, MA: Boston Critic, Inc, 1975. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. Tabloid, 32pp (self-cover). Rare literary tabloid, includes an interview (mainly on photography) with Susan Sontag (Poague & Parsons F21). Also a cookbook review by Julia Child. Library stamp and underlining to cover, else an unmarked copy, horizontal fold, typical toning.

Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 8vo, 120pp, printed wrappers. Issue leads with In Memory of Their Feelings by Susan Sontag (this appearance not in Poague & Parsons, but reprints their D35). Also includes a symposium entitled Ages of the Avant Garde, with contributions from Meredith Monk, Richard… Read more about this item

New York: The Second Coming Magazine, 1962. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 4to, 64pp, stapled wrappers. Uncommon sixties cultural magazine, includes the original appearance of Susan Sontag's review of Pavese, "Death and Art and the Utility of Despair" (Poague & Parsons D4; later reworked slightly as "The Artist as Exemplary Sufferer" in "Against… Read more about this item

Saratoga Springs, NY: Skidmore College, 1990. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 8vo, 380pp, printed wrappers. Thick double issue, includes a symposium on Kitsch with Susan Sontag (Poague & Parsons G107; includes a memorable photo of Sontag with Gary Indiana). Also includes work from other prominent contributors. Unmarked copy, a bit of light cover… Read more about this item

New York: Provincetown Review, 1961. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 4to, 84pp, printed wrappers. Includes "Dreams of Hippolyte" by Susan Sontag (Poague & Parsons G23), comprising material from a draft of "The Benefactor." Issue also includes Beat writers and Abstract Expressionist artists. Tight, unmarked copy, typical rubbing to covers, light bump to one… Read more about this item

Evanston, IL: TriQuarterly / Northwestern University Press, 1972. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. 8vo, [iv]+644pp, plain wrappers with printed dustwrapper. Massive issue on Literature in Revolution, includes Leo Marx on Susan Sontag (Poague & Parsons H29). Also a 45-page article on Underground Comix by Paul Buhle, with reproductions of work by Robert Crumb,… Read more about this item

Toronto: The Tamarack Review, 1966. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 8vo, 96pp, printed wrappers. Includes review essays on Against Interpretation by Susan Sontag (Poague & Parsons H3) and Beautiful Losers by Leonard Cohen. Unmarked copy, a bit of reading wear.

New York: The Hudson Review, Inc, 1969. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. 8vo, 192pp, printed wrappers. Classic late-1960s issue, includes a Raymond Durgnat essay on Symbolism and the Underground that quotes two songs from The Velvet Underground and Nico. Also a Vernon Young essay on Susan Sontag's Styles of Radical Will (Poague &… Read more about this item

London: Villiers Publications Ltd, 1969. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 8vo, [viii]+216pp, printed wrappers. This thick issue of James Boyer May's important review includes an essay on Susan Sontag by Hugh Fox (Poague & Parsons H18). Faint library stamp to front cover (no other markings), solid overall.

London: The London Magazine, 1979. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 8vo, 144pp, printed wrappers. Includes an interview with Susan Sontag (Poague & Parsons F50). Unmarked copy, sunning and some wear to spine.

Saratoga Springs, NY: Skidmore College, 1975. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. 8vo, 316pp, printed wrappers. Thick 10th Anniversary Issue, includes an interview with Susan Sontag (20pp; Poague & Parsons F23). Also includes work from other prominent contributors. Unmarked copy, light outer toning and soil.

San Francisco: San Francisco Review of Books, 1978. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 4to, 48pp, stapled wrappers. Scarce 1978 issue, with Susan Sontag on the cover (issue includes an account of a 1978 Sontag talk and two reviews of her work). Also a Stan Rice interview and pieces on Bataille's Story of the… Read more about this item

Berkeley, CA: The Threepenny Review, 1981. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. Tabloid, 28pp (self-cover). Rare early issue, includes a short 1981 interview with Susan Sontag (Poague & Parsons F67). Solid unmarked copy, horizontal fold, mailing label, typical toning.

Mexico City: Dialogos, 1965. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). Near VG. 4to, 64pp, stapled wrappers. Publisher's statement laid in. Rare Mexican cultural magazine, includes work by Susan Sontag (not in Poague & Parsons), Malcolm Lowry, LeRoi Jones, Robert Duncan, et al. in Spanish. This unmarked copy from Duncan's collection has a vertical crease (as… Read more about this item

New York: Chelsea Associates, Inc, 1980. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. 8vo, 256pp, printed wrappers. Ambimedia Issue, includes material relating to two Susan Sontag films (Poague & Parsons G55). Also work by Vito Acconci, Paul Bowles, John Cage, et al. Unmarked copy, light cover wear.

Evanston, IL: TriQuarterly / Northwestern University Press, 1968. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. Tall 8vo, 260pp, printed wrappers. Contains Susan Sontag's essay "On Cioran" (Poague & Parsons D19; reprinted with minor emendations in "Styles of Radical Will" as "'Thinking Against Oneself': Reflections on Cioran). Issue also includes a text by Cioran and writing… Read more about this item