[Item #57079] The Lark No. VI [October 1895] [SIGNED]. Gelett BURGESS, eds.

The Lark No. VI [October 1895] [SIGNED]

San Francisco: William Doxey, 1895. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (20cm). Stapled pamphlet in white wraps, printed in black; 16pp; ad for The Purple Cow to rear; 2 plates and cover illustration. Signed by Frank Gelett Burgess in pencil below his illustration. Lightly toned, with chips to edges, small hole to front cover, else Very Good.

Single issue of perhaps the most whimsical and iconoclastic of the "little magazines" that appeared in the 1890s, with contributions from Ernest Peixotto, Bruce Porter, and Karl Howard. 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: $175.00

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