THE SAN FRANCISCO PHOENIX; A Magazine of News, The Arts, and Informed Dissipation. Vol. 01, No. 01 | for the period ending September 13, 1972.
San Francisco: The San Francisco Phoenix, 1972. Premier Issue. Saddle-stapled tabloid magazine. Light shelfwear; a few minor stains to covers. Very good.
Item #77120
28 pp., including covers. 11 x 15". Newsprint interiors, covers printed on heavier plain white stock of better quality. Premier issue. Edited by John Bryan. Why The Phoenix is ring to take a unifying role (editorial & statement of intent). Psycho Surgery. Bicycles making political pathways. Digging Market Street, by Susan Netzorg (tunnelling for BART). Jane Fonda in peace rally flop. Reagan-Moretti tax deal collapses. Will bank destroy old Mint? by Charles A. Fracchia. Forty Odd Questions for the New Greek Regime and One Cry for Freedom - new poem by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Enrico Tells It Straight! by Deborah Begel (on North Beach club owner and promoter Enrico Banducci, famous for the hungry i). SF consumers shafted - as usual! I was a teenage vampire for Richard Nixon, by Paul Marlowe. Guru George advice column. Acupuncture in San Francisco, by Neil Riofski. Poetry column by Andrei Codrescu. Film, music and art reviews (includes a review of Raymond Barnhart sculpture). Bum busts draw suit from ACLU (the origin: Lawrence Ferlinghetti arrested in error). Note: small item announcing Charles Bukowski's first SF reading (at Telegraph Hill Neighborhood House). Down comes the station - plans to demolish the Southern Pacific station at 3rd and Townsend. Comics by J. Gorman, T. Waldo Buck.
Price: $350.00