Circle Editions

{{short description|American publishing company}} {{Use mdy dates|date=June 2016}} {{Use American English|date=June 2016}}

George Leite began '''Circle Editions''' in 1945 as an outgrowth of ''Circle Magazine'', which was published from his Berkeley, California bookstore and gallery, daliel's (stylized with lowercase 'd').<ref>{{cite web |url = http://daliel.leitefamily.net/nancy-memories-1.txt |title = Oral history interview with Nancy Leite |date = May 5, 2015 |accessdate = June 11, 2015 |website = daliel.leitefamily.net }}</ref> Producing avant-garde, experimental work, the volumes included pamphlets, hardbound books, and two phonograph recordings by creative talents such as Henry Miller, Lawrence Hart (poet), Lawrence Durrell, Albert Cossery, Harry Partch and others.<ref>{{cite book |title = The San Francisco Renaissance: Poetics and Community at Mid-Century |authorlink = Michael Davidson (poet) |last = Davidson |first = Michael |page = 39 |year = 1991 |publisher = Cambridge University Press |isbn = 978-0-521-42304-5 }}</ref> More editions were planned, but with the suspension of publication of ''Circle Magazine'' after Issue 10 in 1948, and the later closure of daliel's in 1952, the enterprise ended.<ref>{{Cite journal |first = Mildred |last = Brady |authorlink = Mildred Edie Brady |date = April 1947 |title = The New Cult of Sex and Anarchy |journal = Harper's Magazine }}</ref>

<gallery class="center"> File:Ideas of Order in Experimental Poetry - Circle Edition.jpg|Lawrence Hart (poet) group  File:Recording of Henry Miller reading from his novel The Tropic of Capricorn, published by Circle Editions in 1946.jpg| Henry Miller reading Tropic of Capricorn  File:Lawrence Durrell's Zero and Asylum in the Snow, published by Circle Editions 1947.jpg|Lawrence Durrell's Excursions into Reality </gallery>

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