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Original Wraps. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, as Issued. First Edition. First impression of the true first edition. Printed at Bill Horton's Sun Press, Santa Barbara. Inserted to the rear is a detailed announcement of Menashtash by Alvaro Cardona-Hine - a small bilingual book of short poems in Spanish and English on facing pages by the well-known Los Angeles poet, Alvaro Cardona-Hine. ***Near fine in olive card wrappers. No inscriptions. Pages clean. No tears. Spine tight. ***150 mm x150 mm. 35 pages plus a list of back issues to the rear. ***Contents: An Apology for this issue; Floyce Alexander: A Preface; Poems: Storm at Mazatlan, Near the Sea Wall, The First Day, Sections from Wine Blood, Elegy for Morning Glories, A Snake's Song, Los Angeles, The Last Hour. ***Robert A. Davies: A Note; Poems: Balloons, Overnight the Walnut, Morning Glory, Night-Blooming Cereus, Aunt Dolorus, Poetry Reading, The Bums, In a Field of Queen Anne's Lace / Wild Carrot, A Particular Landscape, A Dandelion for Sunyata, Visit to the Place. ***Tom Artin: A Note: Poems: Flight, Nude with a Lemon, Ephemera, Sea, The Cenotaph, Splices, The Northmen, Sequence, Love Song, Chemistry, Names. ***The Little Square Review ran for ten numbers in eight issues as follows: the first four issues each featured the work of a single poet: 1) Walter Clark, 2) Robert Peters, 3) Edwin Fussell, and 4) Barry Spacks. The joint 5th/6th joint issue featured work by and about Native Americans. The 7th issue featured "Three Poets of the Inland West" - Robert Brandts, F. R. Bresgal and Dick Strong. The 8th issue was the "Flying Fingers" issue and featured Floyce Alexander, Robert Davies and Tom Artin. The final issue was the joint 9th/10th issue, the "Waving hands" issue, and contained 49 poems by seven poets. ***First impression of the true first edition of number eight of The Little Square Review in very nice collectable condition. *** Of interest to collectors of 1960s and 1970s American poetry first edition small press and magazine titles. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.