Title: Semina 1955-1964
Description: This collection contains facsimile copies of all pages of all issues of Semina. Semina 1 (Los Angeles, 1955; edition of 150), "First and final printing" ; Semina 2 (Los Angeles and San Francisco, December 1957), "handset with miscellaneous available type and papers" ; Semina 3: Peyote poem (San Francisco, 1958; edition of 200); Semina 4 (San Francisco, 1959), "Type handset on beat 5 x 8 Excelsior handpress" ; Semina 5: Mexico issue (San Francisco, Winter 1959; edition of 350) ; Semina VI: The clown (Larkspur, 1960; edition of 335), "Type handset on warped 5 x 8 inch handpress") ; Semina 7: א [Aleph], A gesture involving photographs, drawings & text (Larkspur, 1961; edition of 200) ; Semina 8 (Los Angeles, 1963; edition of 149) ; Semina 9 (Los Angeles, Summer 1964; unspecified edition).
Subjects: Semina, Exhibitions, Artists' books, Avant-garde (Aesthetics), History, Periodicals, Poetry, Beats (Persons), American poetry, Beat generation
Places: California
People: Wallace Berman (1926-1976)
Time periods: 20th century