Bulletin from Nothing

1. BULLETIN FROM NOTHING, No. 1, edited by Claude Pelieu and Mary Beach
San Francisco: Beach Books, 1965

First edition, saddle-stapled in printed and illustrated wrappers, 8.5” x 11”, 28 pages, offset-printed by Charles Plymell.

Contributors include: Claude Pelieu, Mary Beach, Jeff Nuttall, Antonin Artaud, William S. Burroughs, Charles Plymell, Roxie Powell, Benjamin Peret, Ed Sanders, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Bob Kaufman, David Omer Bearden, Leland S. Meyerzove, Norman O. Mustill.

2. BULLETIN FROM NOTHING, No. 2, edited by Claude Pelieu and Mary Beach
San Francisco: Beach Books, 1965

First edition, gathered and folded but unbound in printed and illustrated wrappers, 8.5” x 11”, 28 pages, offset-printed by Charles Plymell.

Contributors include: William Burroughs, Roxie Powell, Claude Pelieu, Jeff Nuttall, Chano Pozo [aka Claude Pelieu], Jean-Jacques Lebel, Bob Kaufman, Charles Plymell, Norman O. Mustill, Ed Sanders, Peter Orlovsky, Mary Beach.

3. BULLETIN FROM NOTHING, No. 3, edited by Claude Pelieu and Mary Beach
San Francisco: Beach Books, Texts & Documents, 1969

First edition, single sheet of paper stock printed on both sides and folded to make 4 pages, 8.5” x 11” (folded). 

According to BeatBooks: “A collage of texts, drawings and photographs (including Allen Ginsberg, Taylor Mead and Viva, Joe Dallesandro, and Jean-Jacques Lebel), printed in purple and titled Bulletin From Nothing #3 along left edge (since this issue is more of a flyer publicising Beach Books than a magazine, the previous two issues from 1965 are usually considered to be the only two published). A statement printed along the right edge reads, ‘This Issue Is Dedicated to: Albert Fine, Wallace Berman, Janis Joplin, Harry Smith, the Motherfuckers, Super Love & Bradly-Martin…’”

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