BEAT AND BEATIFIC

Published by the Three Penny Press, Studio City, CA 1959, Grover Haynes (editor), Rosie Haynes (hand-lettering), first edition, "Superbly decorated bi John Fox II." Uncommon production from the Three Penny Press featuring early poetry by Lenore Kandel and Walter C. Brown. Another 1959 Three Penny Press production "Beat and Beatific II" is the second volume of this collaboration. From Grover Haynes epilogue "The THREE PENNY PRESS, inspired by the abundance of poetry on the lips of local barefoot bards, was conceived from the inky womb of a battered mimeograph machine to become the Boswell of our own "don't give a damn" poets." ... Our booklets of poetry are experiments." Softcover. First edition. Illustrated wraps, 8.5" x 5.5", 2pp, 20 leaves, 2pp, mimeographed sheets, side staple bound, text printed on recto of 20 leaves, except for first and final leaf, which contain text on recto and verso. The work of Lenore Kandel printed on blue, yellow and pink paper and is illustrated with a full page b&w drawing of her. GOOD Condition: age, wear and coffee rings to the covers, former owners name penned to inside front cover, internally some edge wear and a few light stains, otherwise tight, bright, clean and unmarked.

Lenore Kandel (1932-2009) Beat Poet, Digger, Visionary, quintessential San Francisco Hippie, Beatnik, Counterculture activist, girlfriend of Lew Welch and Jack Kerouac's lover whom he immortalized in his 1962 novel Big Sur. She bridged the gap between early Beat poetics and the psychedelic counterculture, famous for her "The Love Book," a cause celebre in the Haight Ashbury scene when it was banned as obscene in 1966. In 1970 Kandel was in a horrific motorcycle accident from which she never fully recovered.

Walter C. Brown (b.1935), Poet, Naval Officer and San Francisco Giants sports commentator.