[Photographs of 20th century American authors] /
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| Format: | Photo |
| Language: | English |
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| Item Description: | Title devised by cataloger. Individual titles from annotations written on verso of each print. Hand not identified. Photo of Creeley taken at the University of Buffalo. Photo of Olson taken at his home in Gloucester, Massachusetts. Typed invoice, dated 30 Dec. 1967, from Robert A. Wilson, Phoenix Book Shop, New York, N.Y., selling the Creely and Olson photos (plus Thomas notebooks) to a collector, Gabriel Pustel, Brooklyn, N.Y. Handwritten envelope, postmarked July 8, 1966, from "Jones, 24 Echant Ave, Newark, N.J." to Bob Wilson at Phoenix Book Shop, New York, N.Y. LeRoi Jones was co-editor and publisher, along with Diane Di Prima (at the time Marlowe's wife), of the literary zine Floating Bear. Di Prima and Jones were known to pay their debts to Wilson, who helped support the zine, with manuscripts and photographs that Wilson would sell at his bookshop. The Cushing Library/Area Studies/Africana copies form part of the Imamu Amiri Baraka Collection in the Africana Section of the Area Studies Collection. The Cushing Library/Area Studies/Africana copy contains a bookseller's description. |
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| Physical Description: | 8 photoprints : black and white ; 21-26 x 21-26 cm + 1 invoice (28 cm) +1 envelope (23 x 31 cm) |