The Spero, Volume 1, Issue 2

Douglas and Kathy Casement (eds), The Spero, Volume 1, Issue 2, Fenian Head Centre Press, 1966. 205 x 130mm. 90pp. Stapled book, printed black on white stock with woodcut and silkscreen illustrations. Numbered edition 23 of 900 copies. The ‘drug issue’, edited by Douglas and Kathy Casement. Includes contributions by John Ceely, Carl Larsen, James Peterson, Steve Guarino, Frank Deffry, Norman Moser, Al Young, Carl Linder, Rene Michel-Trapaga, D. A. Levy, Bonnie Bremser, Ray Bremser, Michael Fleischer, John Randle, Norman Moser, Irma Cerese, John Sinclair, John Randle, Michael Brown, Murray Mednick, G. W. Van der Leun, James Reid, Erin Matson, Clive Matson, Alan Plan, Richard Krech, Bill Holley and John Ceely. Includes a ‘Pouchbook’ stapled to the back cover, Heroin Haikus by William Wantling, illustrated by Ben Tibbs.

Condition: slight indentation of back cover ‘Pouchbook’ staples on preceding pages, and on cover from production. The tipped in woodcut and silkscreen illustrations have come away from the original glue, but are all intact. Toning to spine and edge of cover and gentle chipping to edges. Very Good only.