Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
SNYDER, Gary. [Broadside]: Nanao Knows. Four Seasons Foundation], [San Francisco, 1964.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Broadside. Measuring approximately 9½" x 12½". Very good or better with some creasing, some of it in the form of horizontal lines. One of 300 copies Signed by Snyder. A broadside sold at the "Free Way Reading" at the Longshoreman's Hall in San Francisco on June 12, 1964.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
SNYDER, Gary. Nanao Knows. [Four Seasons], [San Francisco], 1964.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: Broadside. 12 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches. Matted. FIRST EDITION. The broadside reproduces Snyder's calligraphy and includes his date and signature in the print. One of 300 copies sold at a reading by Snyder, Lew Welch and Philip Whalen at Longshoremen's Hall is San Francisco on 12 June 1964. McNeil A7. Fine
Seller: Riverrun Books & Manuscripts, ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.
Welch (Lew). Step out onto the Planet .. [San Francisco: Four Seasons, 1964]. First edition., 1964.
Price: US$325.00 + shipping
Description: A broadside poem on a single sheet, measuring about 9.5 x 12.5 inches. Printed in black on cream stock. Signed by Welch at the bottom. 300 copies were printed. This is one of a set of three broadsides issued in 1964; the other two were by Gary Snyder (Nanao Knows) and Philip Whalen (Three Mornings). The broadsides were available individually or in a set. Some faint wear, slightly faded (it was in a frame), tiny piece of tape on the back at the top, but quite a nice copy. Uncommon.
Seller: William Matthews/The Haunted Bookshop, Sidney, BC, Canada
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Signed by the poets, the Reed College Beat triumvirate. Three 12 1/2 x 9 5/8 inch broadsides, black photo-offset of the poets' holograph poems on white textured stock. These broadsides were sold at the legendary June 12, 1964 "Freeway Reading" at Longshoreman's Hall in San Francisco, which is perhaps second in SF Beat mythos only to the seminal Six Gallery Reading. Gary Snyder was just back from Japan, which was in part the impetus. Produced by Donald Allen at the beginning of his editorial career, the broadsides represent the first Four Seasons Foundation" publications; Allen went on to found Grey Fox Press and edit the influential The New American Poetry anthology which touted the Beats (Allen also became Lew Welch's literary executer, so named in Lew's suicide note). Each from an edition of 300 signed by the poets. The titles are "Nanao Knows" (honoring Snyder's great friend Nanao Sakaki, the Kyoto poet dubbed "the godfather of Japan's hippies") "Three Mornings," and "Step Out on the Planet"--the last one by Lew Welch the hardest to come by. Light handling to Gary Snyder's broadside, but all still fine with no toning.
Seller: Rural Hours (formerly Wood River Books), La Grande, OR, U.S.A.