The Gyroscope

Palo Alto, California: Yvor Winters, 1929-1930.

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Softcover. Four issues. May 1929 - February 1930 complete. Mimeographed sheets in stapled mimeographed wrappers. Chipping to the yapped edges, and the front wrap of the November, 1929 issue is detached but present, a good or better copy. A complete set of this short-lived but influential California literary quarterly edited by Winters – along with Janet Lewis, and Howard Baker, who were the principle contributors – for his classes at Stanford in 1929 and early 1930. Caroline Gordon and Katherine Anne Porter also contributed. *The Gyroscope* is considered one of the earliest, if not the earliest, mimeograph literary magazines. An extremely fragile format with a limited print run that never grew beyond 180 subscribers, many of those the top literary figures of the day. Finding individual issues is quite difficult and putting together a complete set doubly so. The grandfather of the mimeograph revolution.

Item #319943

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Item #319943 The Gyroscope. Yvor WINTERS.