The Great Society - Ira Cohen and Robert Richkin

Ira Cohen, Robert Richkin (eds), The Great Society, Heddaoua, New York, USA, 1967. 240 x 185mm. 90pp. Offset printed in black and red on grey stock with red free endpapers. Perfect bound in white glossy wraps.

The second of two issues of Ira Cohen and Robert Richkin’s literary publication, featuring important International avant garde poets, artists and writers of the 1960s. Born in the Bronx in 1935, Cohen first met Burroughs, Bowles and other poets in the Morocco expat community in Tangier in 1961. 

Contributions by: Peter Birnbaum, Paul Bowles, Ray Bremser, William S. Burroughs, Alfred Chester, Melvin Clay, Kip Coburn, Aymon de Roussy de Sales, William Devore, Edward Field, Robert Frank and Conrad Rooks, William Heine, Piero Heliczer, Hakim Khan, Jean-Jaques Lebel, Paolo Lionni, Edward Marshall, Clive Matson, Erin Matson, Mohammed Mrabet, Harold Norse, Robert O’Driscoll, Michael Perkins, Janine Pommy-Vega, Diane Rochlin and Sheldon Rochlin, Panama Rose, Jack Smith, Alexandra Spingarn, John Wieners. Cover design by Jack Smith, featuring a 16th century satirical portrait by Flemish artist Quinten Massys.

Condition: 1mm paper loss on inner back cover, creasing to edge of contents page. Slight crease to right hand pages from handling. Occasional marking from the original printing ink on five pages. Very Good overall.