Description
Society for Creative Anachronism, Published 1972-1976. Wraps, six issues: 54; 41; 33; 49; 51; 51 pp.; 28 cm; each side-stapled, typewritten and offset on colored stock; black-and-white illustrations, calligraphy and music throughout.
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Condition & notes
In Very Good condition. Plain colored paper covers (red, cream, blue, orange, red and yellow) with illustrated cover drawings, mild shelf and edge wear; issue numbers written in ink at top corner of all but No. 38; staples on Nos. 32, 33 and 35 lightly rusted. Rear covers printed as self-mailers with the Society's Registry return address: No. 25 with a subscriber's mailing label; No. 33 with a mailing label, postal return stamps and postage-due marking; No. 38 with a return stamp and no label; Nos. 32, 35 and 36 with the address box blank, never mailed. Otherwise unmarked. Six issues from the first decade of the quarterly magazine of the Society for Creative Anachronism, produced at 90 El Camino Real in Berkeley when the Society was still a single mailing list of a few hundred members and each issue was typed, hand-lettered and stapled. No. 25 (Winter 1972) has the Marshal's technical critique of its own cover drawing, plans for a Viking tent from the Imperial Master of Sciences, and the assizes of medieval chess. No. 32 (Fall 1974) has an Old English lesson, an aromatic garden, home-grown herbs, the pitfalls of building a lute, bread, and how to make a pavilion from a parachute, with the Society's 1974 statement of monies. No. 33 (Winter 1974) covers pomanders, medieval and Renaissance games, sweet dishes, Anglo-Saxon women's clothing, Saracen ladies, and the 1974 by-law amendments. No. 35 (Summer 1975) has faster mailmaking, edible flowers, King Arthur, metal forming, firearms in medieval Europe, the song "Up the Middle" on the Pennsic War, and the 1974 financial statement. No. 36 (Autumn 1975) has writing forsoothly, raising children in the Current Middle Ages, ancient medicine, kites, Latin names, cups and balls, and women who took up the sword. No. 38 (Spring 1976) has Tudor pomanders, composing skaldic poetry in English, the Ptolemaic system and the medieval equatorium, Pennsic War III, and the Board of Directors' announcement of the Great Decennial Festival at Kalamazoo, April 30 to May 3, 1976, marking ten years since the backyard tournament of May 1966; with the pre-publication order form for the facsimile reprint of Tournaments Illuminated volume I.