[Rarebooks] FS - The Paris Review

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/THE PARIS REVIEW/ A broken run of seventeen issues from #27, 
Winter/Spring, 1962, to #51, Winter, 1971. Card covers show minor edge 
wear and light soiling, spine ends sl. pulled, spines a bit creased; 
else g/vg condition. Published by The Paris Review, 17 rue de Tournon, 
Paris, France. 8vo. Missing are issues #33, #36, #38, #40, #42, #44, 
#45, #47. Sold as a lot of seventeen issues - no individual title sales.

/The Paris Review/ is an "International Quarterly" which was founded in 
Paris in 1953 by George Plimpton, Peter Matthiessen, and Harold L. 
Humes. Its mission was to "..emphasize creative work - fiction and 
poetry - not to the exclusion of criticism, but with the aim in mind of 
merely removing criticism from the dominating place it holds in most 
literary magazines". As William Styron said in a letter published in the 
first issue: "I think 'The Paris Review' should welcome these people 
into its pages; the good writers and the good poets, the non-drumbeaters 
and non-axe-grinders. So long as they're good." The journal is still in 
existence today.

Each of the issues in this lot contains original works of fiction and 
poetry, as well as interviews and original articles. Jack Kerouac was 
first published in its pages, as were Philip Roth, V. S. Naipaul and 
others. Some of the many contributors whose stories appear in this lot 
include Mary McCarthy, Robert Bly, Samuel Beckett, Ezra Pound, Malcolm 
Lowry, Jorge Luis Borges, Warren Miller, James Dickey, Jack Kerouac, 
Allen Ginsberg, and Pablo Neruda.

The "Writers at Work" interview series offered authors an opportunity to 
discuss their work at length. Subjects of these interviews to be found 
in these issues include Ezra Pound, Henry Miller, Katharine Anne Porter, 
Evelyn Waugh, S. J. Perelman, Norman Mailer, Jean Cocteau, William 
Carlos Williams, Simone de Beauvoir, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, William 
Burroughs, Dizzy Gillespie, Allen Ginsberg, Harold, Pinter, Edward 
Albee, Vladimir Nabokov, Jack Kerouac, John Dos Passos, E. B. White, and 
Pablo Neruda. Many issues contain a "chronicle" or "diary", such as Jim 
Caroll, "Basketball Diaries" (the first appearance in print - issue 
#50). In the words of one critic, [/The Paris Review/] is "one of the 
single most persistent acts of cultural conservation in the history of 
the world."

Price: $350.00.

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