[Item #57078] The Lark no. 4 [August]. Gelett BURGESS, ed.

The Lark no. 4 [August]

San Francisco: William Doxey, 1895. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (19cm). Stapled pamphlet in white wraps, printed in blue; 16pp; publisher's ads to rear; 1 plate, plus cover illustration by Florence Lundborg. Contemporary note to p.15. Lightly browned, with moderate edge wear: Very Good.

Single issue of perhaps the most whimsical and iconoclastic of the "little magazines" that appeared in the 1890s. The Lark was dedicated to "sincerity, spontaneity, and gaiety," and featured nonsense verse and illustrations printed on thin (and frequently brittle) bamboo paper, with a deliberately informal aesthetic (Chielens, American Literary Magazines 208-9). With contributions from "fin-de-siecle San Francisco's most promising writers and artists," it helped to establish the city as "the literary center of the Pacific Coast" (209, 212). More commonly found in the bound two-volume issue.

Price: $75.00

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