London: Calder and Boyars, 1967. First edition. 166pp; 8vo; blue textured-paper boards; gilt spine titles; dust jacket. Textblock edges lightly toned, with a few spots of light foxing to rear endpaper. Price-clipped jacket with foxing to fore-edge of rear flap, light rubbing to rear panel. Very good or better in a like jacket.
A tidy copy of the fourth entry in this important anthology series. This volume dedicated entirely to plays and (experimental) performance pieces—notable among them "Five Happenings" by Allan Kaprow. With an introduction, "Happenings in the Theatre" by publisher John Calder, who later described New Writers as an effort to "combine different kinds of literature, experimental or not, occasionally poetry, short stories, work in progress of extracts from work we liked, but not enough to publish as a book on its own."
