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The Outsider, Nos. 1-5, complete, Jon & Lou Webb

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Title: The Outsider, Nos. 1-5, complete
Author: Webb, Jon Edgar and Louise "Gypsy Lou" Webb, editors
Description: 5 volumes bound in 4, complete run. Nos. 1-3 in original pictorial wrappers; and Nos. 4-5: Embracing…homage to Patchen, bound together in pictorial boards, illustrated hand-made tissue dust jacket with red woodcut design on cover (1 of 500 each). Illustrated from drawings, photographs, etc., including of and by most of the contributing authors. First and only printings, each in a small limitation.Jon and Gypsy Lou Webb's short lived but highly important literary quarterly publication series, with numerous contributions from most of the Beat Generation and/or Avant-Garde authors: Bukowski, Kerouac, Patchen, Ginsberg, Levertov, di Prima, Ferlinghetti, Durrell, Creeley, McClure, Burroughs, Corso, Henry Miller, Charles Olson, LeRoi Jones, Jean Genet, Gary Snyder, John Corrington, etc. * Includes laid-in paper items (as issued) for Nos. 4-5: 2 sheets of pressed flowers with stems (intact) placed in between special handmade paper prepared by Gypsy Lou along with printed description note (special gift included with Outsider 4-5), order form for each copy, and publisher's copied article about the flooding of Jon and Lou Webb's Print shop.
Heading: Place Published: New Orleans & Tucson
Publisher: Loujon Press
Date Published: 1961-69