A Martian Passport (Charles Bigelow and Jack Stauffacher [maybe])

$125.00

Of this weird little item, Charles Bigelow commented on page 12 of this

Yeah, I learned to set type by hand and print it on a press. I printed a little book of poetry that I had written. It was called “A Martian Passport.” It was about some future in which the early colonists of Mars had a new vision of how society would work. They were short, little anecdotes about them and they had funny names.

I made up names from anthropology—one of the characters was called Xenon Leonardo and another was called Tharsus Chairmount and they had little wisdoms and they felt that traffic, that congestion had destroyed the essence of Mars and so these were remarks about a revolution that had changed the way things were done. 

Now, Google Books says that Jack Stauffacher was a coauthor, but there are no names or credits in this. Bigelow would have been hanging around The Greenwood Press at this time. WorldCat says John Laursen was a coauthor—and that only Reed College and the University of Oregon have copies. 

  • Authors: Charles Bigelow and maybe others
  • Size: 5 × 7 inches in a 5.5 × 7.5-inch manila envelope
  • Pages: 12 + 5 loose items
  • Binding: Unbound
  • Condition:

    Some wear to the envelope, otherwise fine.

  • Publisher: The Foot [?], 1970