{"product_id":"herman-jan-jacob-editor-the-san-francisco-earthquake-issues-1-5","title":"HERMAN, [Jan] Jacob ( editor ). The San Francisco Earthquake: Issues 1–5.","description":"\u003ch3 style=\"font-variant: small-caps\"\u003eShaking Up San Francisco\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHERMAN, [Jan] Jacob (\u003ci\u003eeditor\u003ci\u003e).\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e The San Francisco Earthquake: Issues 1–5. \u003ci\u003eSan Francisco: City Lights Bookshop\u003c\/i\u003e. Autumn 1967–1968.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFive volumes, 8vo. Publisher’s illustrated wrappers (vols 3 and 4 designed by Roy Lichtenstein), advertisements on verso of wrappers for City Lights and other counterculture publishers (such as the Unicorn Press); No. 1: pp. 63, [1 (City Lights advertisements)]; No. 2: 77, [3 (advertisements)]; No. 3: 78, [2 (advertisement and copyright page)]; No. 4: pp. 96; No. 5: three broadsheets loosely inserted; No. 1–4 have some light toning especially to whites of wrappers; No. 5 has expected toning to the cheap paperstock of the broadsheets, one broadsheets has some small holes to fold lines, previous owner’s note; near fine; ‘For your [?] - best Jacob’ (most likely the editor, Jacob Herman) to title page of No. 3; loosely inserted into the first three volumes is a subscriber’s advertisement.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst editions, a complete run of the short lived, literary and arts magazine which was distributed by Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s City Lights Bookshop, and featured many of the greatest Beat Generation writers such as William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Herbert Huncke, and Claude Pélieu.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt the time of publication, Jacob Herman was Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s assistant, and worked alongside him at what was the epicenter of literary counterculture in San Francisco, the City Lights Bookshop. \u003ci\u003eThe San Francisco Earthquake\u003c\/i\u003e published many of the writers which had a connection with the store. William Burroughs contributed to all five issues. In the first, his piece, ‘Word Authority More Habit Forming than Heroin’ explores his belief that language operates as a form of social control. What follows his introduction is an experimental piece of prose interspersed with grammatical symbols which criticises police brutality and nuclear weapons.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished towards the end of the 1960s this counterculture production bridges the gap between the different movements of  the Beats, Post-Beats, and Fluxus writers. The magazine also served as a literary and artistic meeting point; collages by Carl Weissner are reproduced in the broadsheets, and Roy Lichtenstein, a leading figure in the pop-art movement, designed the covers for issues No. 3 and No. 4.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU: \u003c\/strong\u003e2125179\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Henry Sotheran Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64400337240441,"sku":"2125179","price":750.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0045\/2178\/7426\/files\/2125179.jpg?v=1787936836","url":"https:\/\/sotherans.co.uk\/products\/herman-jan-jacob-editor-the-san-francisco-earthquake-issues-1-5","provider":"Sotherans","version":"1.0","type":"link"}