80/ 453 C. A journal of Poetry. No.1-14 [all published]. Ed. L. Gude and T. Berrigan. New York, the editors, 1963-1967, 13 issues (as published), ills., entirely mimeographed, orig. not unif. (pict.) wr. by i.a. JOE BRAINARD and ANDY WARHOL, folio. - TOGETHER WITH: C-Comics. No.1-2 [all published]. Ibid., C Press, 1964/ 1966, 2 issues, no pagination, ills., entirely mimeographed, orig. not unif. pict. wr., folio.

- Ad 1: without no.12 which was never published; occas. sl. dustsoiling. Ad 2: sm. tear in frontwrapper of C-Comic no.1.

= A very fine, complete run of this landmark Beat publication, one of the cornerstones of the 1960's mimeo revolution and poetry scene. Clay and Phillips, p.160ff: ""C" Press and its mimeograph-produced magazine and books provided an important early outlet for the writings of younger poets and their immediate predecessors. The first issue printed work bij the core group of Dick Gallup, Ron Padgett, Joe Brainard (who was also a visual artist), and Ted Berrigan (...) Berrigan's "C" magazine published poems, plays, essays, translations, and comics by a growing number of writers and artists, but always bore the distinctive imprint of its charismatic editor". No.4 was dedicated to Edwin Denby. The cover was designed by Andy Warhol and has on the covers the famed silk-screened images of Denby with Gerald Malanga. It marked the first time Warhol based a silkscreen on a polaroid, a technique that would become one of his defining methods in the 1970's. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XI.