Collection of the First 42 Titles in the Hanuman Books Series (Series I-VII)
New York and Madras: Hanuman Books, 1990.
1986-1990. 42 Volumes. Series I-VII. First edition. The first forty-two volumes published by Hanuman Books. All are first editions, except for volumes 14 and 21, which are second impressions. Volume 26 is signed by the author (1969 by Eileen Myles.) Bound in publisher's wraps with dust jackets, ranging from Very Good to Near Fine. Hanuman Books was founded by American art critic Raymond Foye and Italian painter Francesco Clemente, and the name and format was influenced by prayer books collected on a 1985 trip to India. Published out of the Chelsea Hotel in New York City, this series features some of the biggest names in avant-garde culture of the day, including figures from the beat poetry world, gay and transgender culture, Warhol's Factory, music, film and art.
Comprised of 1. John Wieners, A Superficial Estimation; 2. David Trinidad, November; 3. Eileen Myles, Bread and Water; 4. Taylor Mead, Son of Andy Warhol; 5. Francis Picabia, Who Knows; 6. Henri Michaux, By Surprise; 7. Amy Gerstler, Primitive Man; 8. John Ashbery, The Ice Storm; 9. Herbert Huncke, Guilty of Everything; 10. Manuel Rosenthal, Satie, Ravel, Poulenc; 11. Rene Daumal, A Fundamental Experiment; 12. Bob Flanagan, Fuck Journal; 13. John Wieners, Conjugal Contraries & Quart; 14. Willem de Kooning, Collected Writings [second printing]; 15. Cookie Mueller, Fan Mail, Frank Letters, and Crank Calls; 16. Sandro Penna, Confused Dream; 17. Vincent Katz, Cabal of Zealots; 18. Alain Danielou, Fools of God; 19. Edwin Denby, Willem de Kooning; 20. Max Beckmann, On My Painting; 21. Gary Indiana, White Trash Boulevard [second printing]; 22. Jean Genet, What Remains of a Rembrant Torn Into Four Equal Pieces and Flushed Down the Toilet; 23. David Trinidad, Three Stories; 24. Allen Ginsberg, Your Reason & Blake's System; 25. Rene Guenon, Oriental Metaphysics; 26. Eileen Myles, 1969 [Signed]; 27. Gregory Corso, Mind Field; 28. Rene Daumal, The Lie of the Truth; 29. Elaine Equi, Views Without Rooms; 30. Ronald Firbank, Firbankiana; 31. David Hockney, Picasso; 32. St. Teresa/Simone Weil, On the Lords Prayer; 33. Jack Smith, Historical Treasures; 34. Cookie Mueller, Garden of Ashes; 35. Beauregard Houston-Montgomery, Pouf Pieces; 36. Bob Dylan, Saved! The Gospel Speeches; 37. Richard Hell, Artifact; 38. Henry Geldzahler, Looking at Pictures; 39. Francis Picabia, Yesno; 40. Robert Creeley, Autobiography; 41. Dodie Bellamy, Feminine Hijinx; 42. Jack Kerouac, Safe in Heaven Dead.
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