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Le Petit Sphinx / The Coffeehouse Review – 4 issues
4 of 5 issues published
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Hollywood, Le Petit Sphinx, 1958, Stapled wrappers
1st printings, Very Good
Le Petit Sphinx / The Coffeehouse Review – 4 issues
5.5x8.5”, stapled wrappers, 50 pp each.
Los Angeles – 1958 -- for the city's emerging counterculture/beat scene, a variety of coffee houses served as essential gathering spots for conversation, poetry readings, folk music, improvisational jazz, stand-up comedy, and experimental theater. E.g: Club Renaissance, Pandora’s Box, The Bastille, Café Frankenstein, The Troubadour, Cosmo Alley
This scarce magazine provided news and reviews of the scene, announcements of performances and gallery openings, music reviews, chess, fiction, poetry, art, etc. Present here are four of the five issues published, lacking issue no. 1. Most of the content is the Los Angeles scene, but with occasional references to San Diego, Monterey, SF, and points east.
Artwork and articles by muralist Flavio Cabral, folk artist Marcus Crandall, story by Anais Nin, early works by visionary artist Burt Shonberg,
Scarce: Worldcat shows only 2 issues in 4 libraries.
CONDITION: Very good; light wear to spine, edges. Pages lightly toned.
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