Semina 5 (Winter, 1959)

[San Francisco: Wallace Berman, 1959]. First Edition. One of 350 copies. Slim photo-illustrated card portfolio (4 7/8" x 7 3/8"), containing 18 loose hand-printed inserts of various sizes (and on various types of stock) housed in an interior pocket. Portfolio is lightly edgeworn, showing some trivial dust-soil and a few faint foxed spots to covers, with a tiny split at base of spine-fold; Very Good+. A few inserts show some of the usual faint offsetting, else Near Fine. A well-preserved of the "Mexico Issue" of Wallace Berman's literary and arts magazine, which he published nine issues of (in very small numbers) between 1955-1964. This issue features (truncated) contributions by Antonin Artaud, Berman (writing as Pantale Xantos), Charles Brittin, Kirby Doyle, Philip Lamantia, Lawrence Jordan, Robert Kaufman, Michael McClure, David Meltzer, John Wieners, and others. (Inventory #: 81300)