HAMSA
Full title:
- HAMSA – An Organ of Wholeness Dedicated to the Upholding of the Ideal of Harmonic Cooperation and Synthesis and to the Establishment of a Living Civilization Animated by the Conscious Realization in Every Individual of the Living God (all issues held)
Editor: Rudhyar, Dane (all issues)
Publication credits:
- Rudhyar, Brookline, Mass. (all issues held)
Holdings:
- Number One[1]. (Former owner’s pink-pencilled underlining and marginal notes to pp. 12-14.) [Front cover] + 16 + [rear cover]
- Number Two, 1932. (Later stamp of HAMSA PUBLICATIONS, 2725 Tesla Ave., Los Angeles, Calif. to foot of title page.) [Front cover backed with literary citation] + [1] + [pp. 18-32] + [rear cover backed with ‘Mantram’]
- Number Three.[2] [Front cover backed with statement about publication] + [1] + [pp. 34-48] + [rear cover backed with literary citation]
- Number Four. [Front cover backed with change of address notice[3]] + [1] + [pp. 50-64] + [rear cover backed with literary citation]
- Number Five, 1932. (Marked foxing and some staining to covers.) [Front cover backed with symbolic discussion] + [1] + [pp. 66-80] + [rear cover backed with literary citation]
- Number Six, 1932. [Front cover backed with editorial notice[4]] + [1] + [pp. 82-96] + [rear cover backed with advertisements]
- Number Seven, 1932. [Front cover backed with editorial notice] + [1] + [pp. 98-112] + [rear cover backed with advertisements]
- Number Eight, 1932. [Front cover backed with editorial notice] + [1] + [pp. 114-128] + [rear cover backed with advertisements]
- Number Nine, 1932. [Front cover backed with editorial notice] + [1] + [pp. 130-144] + [rear cover backed with advertisements]
- Number One, 1933. [Front cover backed with editorial] + [1] + [pp. 2-16] + [rear cover backed with advertisements]
- Number Two, 1933. [Front cover backed with editorial] + [1] + [pp. 18-32] + [rear cover backed with advertisement]
- Number Three, 1933. [Front cover backed with editorial] + [1] + [pp.34-48] + [rear cover backed with advertisement]
- Number Four, 1933. [Front cover backed with editorial] + [1] + [pp.50-64] + [rear cover backed with article]
- May 1933. (Tearing down lower three-fifths of spine, with remainder weak.) 8 pp.
- July 4, 1933. [Pp. 9-16]
- August, 1933. (Separation to lowest inch of spine.) [Pp. 17-24]
- Fall Equinox, 1933. [Pp. 25-32]
- November 1933. [Pp. 33-40]
- Christmas 1933. [Pp. 41-8]
- January – February 1934. [4]
- March 1934. [4]
- Easter 1934. Two copies. Both copies: [4]
- May 1934. [4]
- June 1934. (3mm tear to foot of spine.) [4]
- July – August 1934. 8pp
- September – October 1934. 8pp
- November – December 1934. (Short tear to foot of spine.) [4]
Binding format and presentation notes:
- All issues to Number Four, 1933 in original separate oversized lightly textured paper covers. Staplebound pamphlets
- All issues from May 1933 as original looseleaf pamphlets without covers, as issued
[1] This issue is undated. According to library records, it was published in late 1931
[2] Although this and the following issue revert to being undated, it is clear from the pagination and consistent cover colour that they belong in this first year of publication
[3] This declares a ‘temporary’ move of the managerial office to South California, the temporary address being given as: Rudhyar, 384 Griffith Park and Los Feliz Boulevards, Hollywood, California
[4] This gives another change of address notice, to 2725 Tesla Avenue, Los Angeles, California