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[Poetry] [Beats] [Signed] Reflections From Chapel Hill: Vol. 1, No. 3 (November-December 1961)

[Ferlinghetti] Brown, Robert V.N. (Editor)

Chapel Hill, North Carolina: Reflections From Chapel Hill, 1961. First Edition, First Printing.

Small Quarto (9 7/8 x 6 1/4 inches; 250 x 160 mm), 101, [3] pages, in illustrated wrappers with yapp edges (soft cover).

SIGNED by Lawrence Ferlinghetti on the first page of this scarce literary and political journal based in North Carolina. It features the text of Ferlinghetti's hilarious "One Thousand Fearful Words for Fidel Castro," which the North Carolina graduate read at a Cuba rally in San Francisco in January 1961. Beautiful, striking cover by Katharine Strong.

Other contents include a long editorial decrying anti-Red hysteria, photographs by William Rezek, who, at age 21, had been killed in a motorcycle accident, an article on Latin America by Paul M. Sweezy, a photo feature on sculptures by Robert Howard, an article reprinted from The Atlantic: The Last White Family on the Block by Marvin Caplan, an article on "The Poverty of Liberalism," by Elizabeth Tornquist, and more.

Copies of this journal signed by Ferlinghetti are scarce to the market.

CONDITION: Some wear and creasing to the yapp edges of the covers but internally clean, bright, and unmarked. A Near Fine copy. Item #2625

Price: $200.00