Leila LeiteBiblio.com
Leite George (1920-1985)Biblio.com
Menelik Rey. First edition of the broadside.
16-5908Washington DC: The Black Sun Press 1947. Letterpress in red on paper. 23 x 13cm. As published in Portfolio V edited by Caresse Crosby. .George Leite was an American author poet publisher and bookstore and gallery owner active in California"s San Francisco Bay Area in the 1940s and 1950s.Born in Providence Rhode Island in 1920 he was raised in the then Portuguese-American enclave of San Leandro California and died in 1985 in Walnut Creek California. Many of the important regional writers of the period such as Kenneth Rexroth were published by him and daliel"s Gallery was the site of concerts by composer Harry Partch and exhibitions by artist Jean Varda. He lived for a while near Henry Miller"s cabin on the Big Sur coast.Leite was the founder of daliel"s Bookstore always with a lowercase "d" on the 2400 block of Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley California where he published Circle Magazine and published books pamphlets and audio recordings under the Circle Editions imprint.Circle Magazine was published from 1944 to 1948 by George Leite initially with poet Bern Porter. Produced at Leite's Berkeley California bookstore daliel's stylized with a lowercase 'd' it featured poetry prose criticism and art from many of those whose creative works and their successors would later come to be called the San Francisco Renaissance. In addition to the magazine Circle Editions published contemporary authors such as Albert Cossery and Henry Miller a personal friend of Leite's. Washington, DC: The Black Sun Press, 1947 unknown
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