CIRCLE (1944-1948) the Bay Area's seminal literary journal. A synthesis of the surreal, eclectic, pacifist, and anarchist ideologies that formed the radical basis of the San Francisco Renaissance and was an influential precursor of the Beat Movement.

CIRCLE Vol. 1, No. 3. Published by Circle, Berkeley, printed by The Greenwood Press, San Mateo, California, 1944. George Leite Editor, Assistant Editor, Bern Porter. First edition. Softcover, illustrated wrappers, 9" x 6.25", staple bound, 61 pages, illustrated with some headpiece decorations printed in brick red, and a Max Ernst painting reproduced in b&w. GOOD CONDITION: covers pulled from rear staples and disbound, spine is age toned with small tearing/wear at the ends, shelfwear, and a few light coffee droplets, internally, signs of age and use, otherwise bright, clean and unmarked and the red and black Kenneth Rexroth printed cover remains very bright. Circle number 3 is very scarce and hardly ever found.

Cover by KENNETH REXROTH (1905-1982) Poet, Artist, Godfather of the San Francisco Renaissance.

George T. Leite (1920-1985) controversial author, publisher, poet, taught experimental literature at UC Berkeley, owned an important bookstore and gallery space on Telegraph Ave in Berkeley, daliel's. He was friends with and published the works of Robert Duncan, Kenneth Rexroth, Henry Miller, William Everson, Philip Lamantia, Anais Nin, Jack Spicer and a devotee of the renegade Freudian Wilhelm Reich and his Orgone theory.