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30/10/2012 – 14/11/2012 1030-1630 BY APPOINTMENT. 1. A2 ANARCHIST GROUP. (Design, print, distribution). [Revolutionary Praxis is the Enemy of Revolutionary Ideology and Knows It]. Original flyer. 28 x 21.5 cm., 1l., photomontage in red and blue on pale green stock offset, typescript on verso. Ann Arbor, A2 Anarchist Group, n.d., circa 27-28 December 1974. £75 Near fine. Very rare in both commerce and institutions with no copies on OCLC. A copy in IISH, part of the Steef Davidson collection of posters illustrated on their website. Their copy presumably not annotated. A2, on the verso, describe this as “The first leaflet done on our press; the second pro- situ leaflet we published”. A collage of the marques of various radical newspapers such as 'Workers' Power', 'Yipster' is accompanied by a photograph of Stalin's broken statue head from the Budapest insurrection in 1956. In turn, Debord's Thesis 124, from Society of The Spectacle is below in red with the substitution of 'theory' for 'praxis'. The bottom right corner has two appropriated vignettes of Dr. Seuss's archetypal pranksters Thing 1 and 2 with an incomprehensible equation below. The typed note adds that “This is the first copy. Nick [Totton], ever sent to the U.K. that I know about---for whatever that's worth!”. As with many US pro-situ productions it is lyrical and beautifully designed.
2. ALDRIDGE (Alan). The Chelsea Girls. Original film poster, a reprint issued two years after the first issue. 50.5 x 76cm., photomontage design, on thin paper stock. Harlow, Motif, Shenval Press, 1970. £5000 Signed and dated: “October 1971 Alan Aldridge” on the lower right corner. Some restoration work on a few closed tears and creases. A very good or better copy. A desirable Warholian ephemeron. An unsigned copy in the Nourmand collection. Styled as an 'anti-Advent' calendar, the poster depicts the very beautiful sixteen year old actress, model and artist Claire Shenstone's body inset with nine windows of the Chelsea Hotel with dolls peeking out of them. Aldridge created this poster for a film premiere in October nineteen sixty-eight at Drury Lane's Arts Lab, a pioneering avant garde institution of sixties' London. Warhol and Morrisey's nineteen sixty-six film used split screen, out of focus, improvisation and a cast of wild and speeding characters who hung out at Andy's Factory. These included Gerard Malanga, Marie Menken, International Velvet, Ondine, Brigid Berlin and of course the very beautiful Nico, who appears in the film cutting her beautiful peroxide hair. Aldridge, lived and worked in the heart of 'Swinging London' which made his vision of the film very different to Warhol's original intentions. His creative sources were also very different and included Magritte, Escher and Dali. The design was well received by Warhol (who is said to have rung Aldridge and commented on how it was better than the film) and the Design and Art Directors Club who bestowed a Silver Award on him. It wasn't appreciated very much by the legal establishment, who issued a warrant for his arrest under the pornography laws. 3. [ANIMAL LIBERATION FRONT, SUPPORTERS GROUP.]. (Attributed to). Nuneham Courtney Cat Colony, Oxford Christmas Eve 1990. Original poster. 29.6 x 41.4., 6 b&w photographs, titles in black, on glossy white paper. N.p., n.p. [Animal Liberation Front, Support Group], n.d., c. 1990. £200 Very good, clean and crisp copy. Slight wear on the lower edge. Very rare in both commerce and accessible institutions. Rather inevitably, there is no copy on OCLC, indeed there is very little material on the ALF at all listed therein. The Animal Liberation have not come in from 'the cold' yet and deposited their printed material in archives and institutions. Indeed, this cataloguer has not seen ALF items since the '80s and '90s. An interesting poster from a 'new wave' of urban (suburban?) direct action groups and guerrillas who were concerned with 'speciesism', the role of vivisection and animal rights. The poster is virtually a clandestine printing and is more of a communiqué that documents an 'action' than agitational-propaganda. The internet suggests that the 'Cat Colony' was a breeding cattery for laboratory work. The photos depict cuddly, scared cats and kittens in cages or being released by activists wearing balaclava helmets. They are caught in the harsh glare of pre-digital flash photography done under pressure.
4. [BIG FLAME]. Big Flame. Merseyside's Socialist Newspaper. Original poster. 50.5 x 38.5 cm., silkscreened or part stencilled[?] in black and red on newsprint. N.p. [Liverpool], n.p. [Red Flame], n.d., 1970-1973. £200 Browned and creased, central horizontal fold. Surely very rare, no copy on OCLC as a named item though copies surely exist in vertical files. 'Big Flame' was a constantly changing revolutionary socialist social movement that included feminism, Italian style Autonomism, Trotskyism and Libertarian traditions and aimed to be of the working class not The Party. They seem to have been largely based in the North of England. The name is reputed to come from Ken Loach's play of the same name that was broadcast in televsion by BBC in 1969.
5. BURNE-JONES FAMILY. Six golden doves on blue, a large découpage, approx. 39.5 x 53.5 cm., a multimedia work with ms. additions and hand drawn illustrations; composed of fragments of early nineteenth century prints, scraps, gilt decoration, gold, cobalt blue, red paint and sepia ink, c. 1850s. £4000 Bright, crisp condition, a fragile survival. Provenance; Burne Jones family by tradition. British. The Harry Ransom Centre holds a volume of these so called Victorian 'bloody books' in the Evelyn Waugh collection. Asssociate Director and Hobby Librarian, Richard Oram has discovered that the Texan volume was commissoned as a wedding gift by John Bingley Garland, a Victorian businessman and founding father of Newfoundland, to his daughter, and was presented to her on September 1st 1854. http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/enews/2009/february/bloodbook.html Thronged with Old Testament and apocalyptic imagery, the crucifixion, angels, writhing snakes, flowers, fruit and six golden doves on a vivid cobalt flying down upon crucifixes. Stylized tears of blood drip from the wings of five, with the sixth dripping gold.
6. [BURROUGHS (William S.).]. The British Museum Aztec crystal skull, Pair of small photographs, £100 When Burroughs took these photographs the crystal skull was thought to be a genuine Aztec carving, however, research in the 1990s showed that it was in fact a late nineteenth century European forgery, probably French, and not a pre-Columbian artifact. (The same research showed that the similar skull in the Smithsonian collection was made in the 1960s.) The skull is now displayed in the 'Living and Dying' gallery in room 24.
7. [BURROUGHS (William S.).]. Three large photographic portraits of John Brady. Colour. Recent prints from the negative, one shown, c. 2008 £125 When WSB was living in Mayfair, Brady was his main squeeze, probably found on the 'Old Main Drag' of the nearby 'Dilly'.
8. [BURROUGHS (William S.)]. LEIBOVITZ (Annie). William Burroughs, Lawrence Kansas. Original gelatin silverprint, 310 x 395 mm., a signed inscribed presentation copy, conservation framed and glazed. 1995. £5750 Unexamined out of the frame, a fine copy. The full inscription on lower margin of the photograph in black ink, thus: “William Burroughs Lawrence Kansas 1995 ap 12 for Bruce love Annie Leibovitz”. Exhibited: Annie Leibovitz Retrospective, Brooklyn Museum of Art, 2006.
9. [CAMPAIGN FOR NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT.]. CND Peace Train. Original poster. 50 x 38 cm., titles and Gerald Holtom's peace symbol in green on white. N.p. [London], n.p. [Campaign For Nuclear Disarmament], Willsons Printers (Nottingham) Ltd., n.d., c. 1960-1964. £200 Crisp, bright, clean copy. Dried mildew on verso. Rare in both institutions and commercially, we can find no copies on OCLC or listed as a named item in the LSE archives.
10. [CAMPAIGN FOR NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT]. What Can One Person Do About The Bomb? Join The Easter March From Aldermaston. Original poster. 50.5 x 76.5 cm., printed in violet on white, titles in reverse white, photographically illustrated, with a contemporary anti-Vietnam War bombing sticker in black on yellow. London, Campaign For Nuclear Disarmament, n.d., c. 1960s. £2000 Expertly restored, splits, pin holes on head, horizontal creases, mounted on card, recently laid down on Japon. The poster is arranged with the text running down the left hand side, with imprint details at the foot, and a long vertical panoramic photograph of The March on the right. The sticker is in an area of colour space on the top right of this.
11. [COUM TRANSMISSIONS.]. COUM. L'Ecole de L'art Infantile. Opportunity Knocks for Genesis P-Orridge Tom Puckey Cosey Fanni Tutti. International Art Centre, 107/111, Newington Butts, Elephant and Castle, London SE1. 01 703 0784..... Performance begins at 8.00 p.m. 15th October. Original flyer. A4., 1l., [1p.], line drawn illustrations and text in black on white paper. N.p. [London], n.p. [Coum Transmissions/International Arts Centre]., n.d., 1974. £100 In very good, clean and crsip condition. Cited in Ford 12.7. Very rare with no copies in OCLC, though others may exist in vertical files and archival deposits. Ford does not elaborate on this performance in Wreckers of Civilization though the naive and erotica imagery on the flyer of strange desembodied boy heads and an ingenue posing may provide clues. 'Opportunity Knocks' was a very popular British television, talent contest show hosted by Hughie Green (a household name).
12. [DAVIS (Angela).]. MORNING STAR. Save Angela Davis. A Morning Star Poster. Original poster. 76 x 50 cm., in burgundy on off white, colour offset litho on coated paper. N.p. [London], Morning Star, n.d., c. 1972. £75 In very good condition. Scarce, no copies on OCLC. Depicts the head and shoulders of Davis in profile, with her distinctive Afro hair, and in full flow with opened mouth ready to speak. The Morning Star is a daily socialist newspaper that is traditionally associated with its orgins in the Communist Party of Great Britain and its previous incarnation as the Daily Worker. A simple but beautifully designed poster.
13. [DISCORDIANISM]. [REITH (Gerry)]. The Edwards Hotel 530 No. Main Drunks and Pyschotics Welcome. You'll Feel at home among your peers. Original flyer/poster. 1l., 27.9 x 21.6 cm., one illustration and text, in black on eyllow paper stock, offset. N.p. [Sheridan, Wyoming], n.p.[Minitrue], n.d., c. 1980s. £35 Very good or better, two old horizontal folds. Rare, no copy in OCLC. 14. [DISCORDIAN SOCIETY]. [REITH (Gerry)]. Proclamation! Emperor Norton. Live Like Him. Original flyer, a reprint of a poster. 1l;, 28 x 21.6 cm., found portraits and détourned images, various fonts, offset in black on salmon coloured stock. N.p.[Sheridan, Wyoming], Minitrue, n.d., 1980s. £35 Very good or better, old fold. Very rare, no copies in OCLC.
15. DRAFT HELP. (we are broke) prEsents: the committee laff-packed show! .plus. Congress of wonders &: committee theater 836 montgomery sunday sept. 28 9 p.m. 2.50 donation a beneFit for... drAft Help tiCKets at perFormance ticKets at draft Help 3684 18th st. SF. Original poster. 25.5 x 35.5 cm., in orange, grey and burgundy on white paper. N.p. [San Francisco], draft Help, 1969 £175 16. [DRAG QUEEN]. Francis Renault, original studio portrait photograph, 24 x 19 cm, in a thin white border, a contemporaneously signed, inscribed and dated presentation copy from the subject, the inscription in a strong hand vertically across the lower right portion of the photo. New York, Herbert Mitchell, 1930. £250 In very good, clean and crisp condition. Scarce. Francis, later Freddie, Renault was for a time the compere at the famed drag club Finnochio's. This potrait is more akin to Cocteau than Vaudevillestyle drag. 17. [EJÉRCITO ZAPATISTA DE LIBERACION NACIONAL.]. EZLN. Original flag. 32.38 x 40.64 cm., doubled sewn black silk fields, original ties, appliquéd five pointed star and lettering in red on each side. N.p. [Chiapas, Mexico], n.p. [Ejército Zapatista de Liberacion Nacional], n.d., January c. 1994. £750 Very faded silk, a handful of tears. In very good condition for such a fragile and contraband artefact. The Zapatista National Liberation Army is the military wing of 'Zapatismo' a militant social movement that rose up against the regional effects of a loss of autonomy in the wake of the neoliberalist, de-regulatory policies of the Mexican government in the nineties. 'Zapatismo' is a mixed bag of anarchist ideas of regional autonomy, marxism, the indigenous community activism of Chiapas and the revolutionary socialist guerrilla warfare theory of Guevara and others.
18. [EJÉRCITO ZAPATISTA DE LIBERACION NACIONAL]. EZLN/ Commandancia. Original flag. 29.5 x 43 cm., black cloth doubled and sewn together with appliquéd titles and one red star apiece; with 'EZLN' on one side and 'Commandancia' on the other, with the two original post/halyard loops. N.p. [Chiapas, Mexico], n.p., [[Ejército Zapatista de Liberacion Nacional], n.d., c. 1990s. £275 In very good, crisp and clean condition. 19. GAMELIN (Jacques) (after). A Plate from his great work 'Nouveau Recueil d'Ostéologie et de myologie: dessiné d'après nature' depicting a skull, & two jawbones. engraving, 35.5 x 23.4cm, 35 x 23 cm. plate edge, on a folio sheet of rag paper. N.p. [A Toulouse], n.p., [l'Imprimerie de J.F. Desclassan], 1779. £1500 A bit dusty, a very good, crisp copy. 20. [GAY LIBERATION ALLIANCE]. A Demonstration for Equality for Gaypeople “Help sew up Anita's big mouth!” Original handbill/poster. 1l., 28 x 21.5 cm., text, decorations in black, one b&w photoportrait, printed on one side only, date in pencil. N.p., [San Francisco], n.p., [GLA], n.d., 1977. £35 A trifle browned on the edges. The portrait is of Bryant in front of a group of posters for her organisation “Save Our Children From Homosexuality Inc.”.
21. GUERRILLA GIRLS. Guerrilla Girls' Code of Ethics For Art Museums. Original poster. 43.5 x 56 cm., titles and illustrations in black on white, folded. New York, Guerrilla Girls Conscience of The Art World, n.d., copyright 1989. £200 Crisp, clean copy, folded as issued?. On www.guerrillagirls.com which notes that “The events portrayed in this poster bear direct resemblance to real events at U.S. art museums. It's the only poster we have ever done in Old Testament language. Copies of it have been spotted hanging in museum offices all over the country.” The ten commandments are listed on a pair of tablets with trompe l'oeil or photographic marbling and cracking. 22. [GYSIN (Brion).]. Danger I-IV. a group of 4 b&w landscape prints, 15.3 x 25.4 cm. image on 16.5 x 12 cm. paper. October 1959, printed [2008]. £1000 Burroughs is depicted in the act of lighting up a cigarette in front of a construction hoarding that reads 'Danger'. These portraits were taken not too far away from the Beat Hotel on Rue Git le Coeur.
23. [GYSIN (Brion).]. Portrait of William S. Burroughs on rue de Seine, Paris. image 24.2 x 35.4 cm., large margins, b&w photo. Paris, October 1959, printed [2008]. £250 Burroughs is posed outside the café 'Palette' on rue de Seine and rue Callot, an establishment, was a major centre of drug dealing at the time.
24. [GYSIN (Brion).]. William S. Burroughs in Paris, image 35.4 x 24.3 cm. on large margins, b&w photo. Paris, October 1959, printed [2008]. £200 Burroughs posed in front of a pair of drunken bench dwellers. standing in front of the door of The Institute on Place de L'Institute, rue de Seine near to Rue Git le Coeur and the 'Beat Hotel'.
25. [GYSIN (Brion).]. William S. Burroughs on the Pont des Arts. image 35.4 x 24.3 cm. within a large white border, b&w photo. Paris, October 1959, printed [2008]. £300 26. [GYSIN (Brion). William S. Burroughs walking with Maurice Girodias on Rue Git-Le-Coeur, 35.4 x 24.3 cm., b&w, October 1959, printed in 2008. £200
27. [GYSIN (Brion).]. William S. Burroughs standing in front of the Beat Hotel, 9 rue Git le Coeur, Paris, b&w photograph, the image 6 x 6 inches printed on 8 x 10 paper. October 1959, printed [2008]. £200 The name of Madam Rachou, the 'Beat Hotel' manageress is written on the door.
28. [HINGESTON (John).]. An anatomical study of a Skeleton, 72 x 37 cm., drawing and 49 point list in sepia, on Whatman paper, unsigned, 3 old horizontal folds, no date c. 1823. £350 In very good condition, dusty, a few small tears, bumped corners. We have it from the auction trade that the drawing was produced by Hingeston around 1823. The Public Record notes that a surgeon of Lyme Regis of the same name had a will entered into probate in Canterbury on 23 March 1832 and another of the same name from Ipswich in 1754. Presumably they were father and son. A beautiful, practical and technical drawing that bears out the evidence that this was produced by a member of the professions and not a professional artist. We can find no trace of an artist of the same name working in the period. 29. I WAS LORD KITCHENER'S VALET. HANS (Poster designer). I Was Lord Kitchener's Valet. Original poster. 43 x 34.2cm., in black on blue watermarked paper. London, Treble M Productions, n.d., c.1972. £225 Felt pen scribble on verso, Sellotape marks on all corners, two top corners with loss, areas of thinning from moths. Rare, no copy in NAL or V & A. Rare, there are few references to the shop in OCLC and no posters. This is more of a psychdelic Lord Kitschener made for tourists than the Lord Kitchener of Swinging London and Jimi Hendrix. The figure is dressed in rising sun shades and a military coat with braid and cap. Titles in reverse blue enmeshed in a column of paisley swirls, flowers and waves. Robert Orbach, in conversation with this cataloguer, has suggested that Hans was a Carnaby Street, pavement artist employed by his former business partners.
30. [LAMBDA ASSOCIATION, INC.]. Lambda Association Inc. presents “Here to Stay” The Seventh Annual Gay Pride Rally & Faire Featuring The Furies and The Choral Majority. Sunday, June 20, noon, City Plaza Park (Market and San Carlos). Original poster. 21.5 x35.5, three colour blended photomontage, photo credited to Honey Lee Cotterell. N.p. (San Jose), n.p., n.d., c. 1982. £35 31. [L'ATELIER POPULAIRE.]. (after). Une Jeunesse Que l'Avenir Inquiète Trop Souvent. Pirate poster. 59 x 40 cm., graphic and titles in reverse white and red, University of Sussex Library rubberstamp on reverse. N.p., n.p., n.d., c. 1968-1970s. £65 Old folds, pinholes on corners, bright, fresh colour, a few spots, a trifle browned. Reproduces the famous image from the walls of Paris in 1968 of a bandaged head with safety pin.
32. LEON (Jim). R.D. Laing The Politics Of Experience. Original maquette for a bookcover? 56 x 42 cm., pen and ink and watercolour on board, arranged as two illustrated panels and a smaller strip with handwritten titles and epigram in black, framed and glazed, signed and dated by the artist. N.p. [London], March 1970. £1000 Endemic browning, rubbed edges and corners, apparently very good, unexamined out of frame. Leon died in 2002, he did illustrations for Oz and other underground papers, and, in this cataloguer's opinion, is in the same front rank as Martin Sharp though not as well known or highly regarded (he wasn't even charged with obscenity like Sharp). 33. LOGAN (Andrew). Andrew Logan March 14 - March 24. Daily 10-6. The New Arts Centre Sloane St, SW1. Original poster. 38.5 x 30 cm., photographic image in purple, titles in black, on white paper stock. N.p. [London], n.p. [The New Arts Centre], n.d., 1973. £45 Old central and horizontal folds. Rare, no copies on OCLC. Poster depicts Logan smilling a cheesy smile with a star glistening from his teeth. This is presumably for his 'Plants, Flowers for All Occasions and Friends' show.
34. LOGAN (Andrew). BEECHE (Robyn) (Photographs). Andrew Logan presents Reflections 77. 14 June .I. July. Mon . Sat 10.6. Patrick Searle Gallery 2 Motcomb St. S.W.1. Original poster. 42 x 27.5 cm., b&w photographic poster on white paper stock with blue, yellow and red 'Mondrian' colour additions, titles in red facsimile holograph lettering, mirror writing, and white. London, Patrick Seale Gallery, Walkerprint, n.d., 1977. £125 Good, clean, crisp copy, 3 old horizontal folds (probably from mailing), light creasing on the edges, an unknown hand has added '13 June' in blue felt pen on verso. Rare, no copies in OCLC.
35. MAYTAG (Ken). Prayer For Kif. First edition. 49 x 31 cm., an illustrated broadside poem, conservation framed and glazed. Santa Barbara, Unicorn Press. 1967. £75 In fine condition. Institutionally and commercially rare with one only on O.C.L.C.. With a beautiful stylized illustration of a Kif plant in green on creme coloured stock.
36. [MILK (Harvey)]. [MAY 21ST DEFENSE FUND.]. Original leaflet .8vo., unpaginated, bifolium, [4pp. including upper and lower panels], 1 line drawn illustration, 1 b&w photograph, offset printed in black and red on off white paper. N.p. [San Francisco], n.p. [May 21st Defence Fund], n.d., 1979. £85 Upper panel slightly creased, a bit dusty and slightly browned. Very rare in both commerce and instititutions with one copy only OCLC at UC, Davis. An incendiary pamphlet by a support fund set up to legally defend those charged with criminal offences and to mount claims against the San Francisco police. A series of political demonstrations/police raids and riots at Civic Centre, Elephant Walk Bar and Castro areas of San Francisco emerged after a voluntary manslaughter verdict and a 7 2/3 year sentence for Dan White's assassination of Harvey Milk was perceived as being too light and part of a police “ultra right” conspiracy. The cover depicts a burning police car and the photograph depicts a line of them in a similar state.
37. [NATIONALES VIETNAMKOMITEE]. Alles Für Den Sieg Des Kämpfenden Vietnamesischen Volkes [Everything for the Struggling Vietnamese People]. 68 x 49 cm., photomontage in black, red, yellow and blue on white, titles in reverse white and black within a white box, German text. N.p. [Köln], n.p. [Nationales Vietnamkomitee/KPD/K. Weilland?], n.d., 1972. £100 Old horizontal and vertical folds, creased with a few tears on the ends of the folds.Presumably very rare, no copy in OCLC. The Vietnamkomitee was a front organisation for the West German remnants of the banned KPD. Depicts Ho Chi Minh in profile immersed in the wash like colours of the Vietnamese flag. The poster advertises events and demonstrations in Bonn and Berlin. A 42 page booklet with the same slogan as the title was produced by the Komitee in1973.
Power to the Passive!! 38. [NEGATION]. CENTRAL COMMITTEE CHRISTIAN WORLD LIBERATION FRONT . Christian World Liberation Front. Jesus Loves You- Kill Yourself. Original broadside/poster. 43 x 28 cm., Gothic header and section titles, historiated initial, détourned map and two other vignettes, in a box, offset in black on white stock. N.p. [San Francisco], Christian World Liberation Front a.ka. [Negation], n.d., c. 1972. £200 Central horizontal fold, slight edgewear. A good to very good copy. A piss take of the Jesus Freak, Berkeley based Christian World Liberation Front by a Situ group.
39. P-ORRIDGE (Genesis P.), FANNI TUTTI (Cosey) & CAZAZZA (Monte). Gary Gilmore Memorial Society. Original mail art? A4., 1l., one illustration, funeral border, Xerox?printed in black on recto only, 49/100 signed in pencil by Genesis P-Orridge. N.p. [London?], n.p. [Terroristes Genetiques], 17 Jan. 1977. £200 Three old vertical folds, many small tears on the edges, creases, some browning. Very rare with one copy only on OCLC in Tate Britain's COUM archive. The illustration is an appropriated portrait of Gilmore taken from a clipping of a newspaper announcement of his execution.
40. [REITH (Gerry)]. RUN FOR OMNIPHOBIA. Sponsored by the Committee to Encourage Timorousness. We're Gaining On You. Original flyer. 1l., text and a vignette in black on off white paper, offset. Sheridan Wyoming, Minitrue, n.d., c. 1980s. £35 Very good or better, old horizontal folds. Rare, no copy in OCLC. The flyer mocks joggers, thus: “Running is the acme of passivity”.
41. [REITH (Gerry)]. Warning! You have just entered an Advanced Sector of the city. Less Gentrification More Insurgentifrication. Original flyer. 1l., 28.3 x 21.5, text and photomontage illustration in black, on yellow paper stock, offset. Sheridan, Wyoming, Minitrue, n.d., c. 1980s. £45 Old horizontal folds, crisp, clean, bright copy. No copy in OCLC. Depicts a caveman superimposed on a street map lighting a fire on North Main Street, Wyoming. A mocking list of archetypal gentrifiers such as “hip businessmen” and “musicians, artists, and fakirs in other media”.
42. [RICHARD HELL & THE VOIDOIDS]. BAYLEY (Roberta) (Photograph). Richard Hell & The Voidoids with the ERASERS and the GHOSTS at CBGB's, NYC, April 20-22. Original poster. 43x28cm., b&w group photo-potrait, titles in black on white stock, offset?, boldly signed by Hell and Richard Quine the guitarist in black pen. N.p. [New York], n.p. [CBGB's], n.d., 1978. £550 In good, clean and crisp condition, slight browning. Rare, no copy in OCLC, though a copy presumably in the Hell papers at NYU. A quotation from Lautréamont's 'Maldoror' that has been détourned with “The Voidoid” is directly below Bayley's portrait. The trade informs us that this poster was designed by Hell. 43. [ROXY]. Roxy Club 41-43 Neal Street London W.C.2. Tel: 836 8811. The Heart-Breakers Wed 2nd March. Wayne County Friday 4th March. Cherry Vanilla Thursday 3rd March. Original flyer. 29.5 x 21.5 cm., photos and line drawn portraits, facsimile handwritten and Letraset titles on collages of the FT[?], Xerox [?] on pink stock. N.p. [London], n.p. [Roxy Club], n.d., 1977. £100 Very good, clean, crisp copy, old central horizontal fold.
44. [SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES.]. MARCH ARTISTS. Siouxie and the Banshees. Original press kit. 4to., 1l., folded once [4pp.], titles and a portrait of Sioux on upper cover, facsimile news clippings on three other pages, containing an 8” x 10” March Artists glossy promotional sheet with two b&w inset photos of the band performing. N.p. [London], n.p. [March Artists], n.d., 1978. £75 Near fine.
Page four reproduces a Daily Mail article on the Coum Transmissions show with a portrait of an outraged Nicholas Fairbairn and another of Siouxsie Sue in the audience in full make up, kinky gear and exposed décolletage. “The most spectacular came from the Daily Mail [19 October 1976] with its photograph of Soiuxsie and Steve Severin and its description of Tory M.P. Nicholas Fairbairn having to fight his way through Hell's Angels...” (Simon Ford -Wreckers of Civilization). 45. [STRUMMER (Joe)]. [101ERS]. The 101ers. Elgin Avenue Breakdown. andalucia! Records. Out Now. Long-playing and 101 Distributed by Virgin. Original poster. 42 x 57.5 cm.,titles and line drawn graphics in black and reverse white, offset lithography, framed and glazed. One of two varients. N.p., [London], n.p., [andalucia records], n.d., 1981. £500 In very good condition, unexamined out of the frame. A cash in poster posthumous to the group
46. [STRUMMER (Joe)]. [101ERS]. The 101ers. Elgin Avenue Breakdown. andalucia! Records. Out Now. Long-playing and 101 Distributed by Virgin. Original poster. 42 x 57.5 cm.,titles and line drawn graphics in black and reverse white, offset lithography, framed and glazed. One of two varients. N.p., [London], n.p., [andalucia records], n.d., 1981. £500 In very good condition, unexamined out of the frame. A cash in poster posthumous to the group
47. SURVIVAL RESEARCH LABORATORIES. Original poster. 27.7 x 33.3 cm., photomontage in black on white, revserse white and black titles, pasted on card. N.p. [San Francisco], n.p. [Survival Research Laboratories], n.d., c. 1990. £75 Browned and turned edges, clean and crisp copy. The poster depicts a King James Bible spiked on Lucifer's trident with an inset photoportrait of “David Midland executive director of Artpark and lackey of the religious right”. Four line drawn fists lash out at the Holy Book. Earl W. Brydges Artpark State Park is in Lewiston Village, Niagara County, New York, it hosts Land Art work such as Robert Smithson and Dennis Oppenheim.
48. [SYMBIONESE LIBERATION ARMY]. Tania. Original poster. 66 x 40.6 cm., offset, black and white. N.p.[Berkeley], n.p., n.d., c. 1974. £50 One tear apiece on head and tail, the lower extending into the main picture. Good, clean copy. Depicts Patty Hearst, in her Tania persona, with gun in hand in front of an SLA banner. 49. TEENAGE JESUS AND THE JERKS. Teenage Jesus and The Jerks Max's Jan 9 Mon. Original poster. 43 x 28 cm., titles and ruling printed in black on lurid green. N.p. [New York], n.p., n.d., 1978. £275 Old vertical and horizontal folds, Sellotape on both lower and top edges, very bright colour, the folding must have preserved this very fugitive colour. Very rare, no copies on OCLC. The simplicity and rawness of this early poster design, with oversized lettering on an eye peeling green, matches the abrasive music and posturing of Lydia Lunch and James Chance's short lived No Wave group. 'Max's Kansas City' was, along with CBGB's, one of the centres of New York punk and new wave. The punk trade informs us that The Contortions opened this gig although they are not listed here.
50. [TURF LODGE WOMEN.]. Protest!! Original poster, second version. 43.2 x 30.4 cm., text in a Gill Sans font and facsimile hand printed in black on white, offset. N.p. [Belfast], n.p. [Turf Lodge Women], n.d., 1977. £75 In near pristine condition. Rare in both commerce and institutions with no copy on OCLC, in NLI. One copy in Linen Hall Library (though with slightly smaller dimensions). A stark, no-nonsense demand citing the deaths of teenagers Norney, and Stewart allegedly killed by British soldiers. Internet discussions suggest that Sandy Lynch was thought by some to be an infomer for the Special Branch, demonstrating perhaps the tangled webs of intrigue and counter intrigue woven at the time of The Troubles. The form of the poster is very reminiscent of the minimal black on white anti-war posters produced by John Lennon and Yoko Ono produced in the previous decade. 51. UPSHOT. Observer. The Nightmare of a Dream Deferred. Original flyer. 21.5 X 35.5, Il., text in columns and a box, two détourned style vignettes, photocopy/offset printed in black on recto only, on fuchsia stock. S[an].F[rancisco], Upshot, n.d., 1978. £35 A trifle faded, one closed tear on a margin, an old waterstain on the margin of the fore-edge. Not in Ford. No copy in OCLC. Composed of juxtapositions of faux and found/appropriated news articles. An eighteenth century illustration depicts cuddly looking pigs turning the pitchfork on the farmer (shades of Orwell). The world is described as “totally unnatural” and it is rather messianically “crumbling.”. The author is John Zerzan a prominent anti- civilization theorist and supporter of the Unabomber's worldview (but not his methods).
52. [VIENNA ACTIONISTS]. [NITSCH (Hermann)]. [TR - A reading: Nitsch from “Orgienmysterien Theater” (Marz Verlag), Friday 20 February 1970, 20: 00, Montanus bookshop, Leopoldstrasse 23.This lecture is an introduction to the 7th Abreaktionsspiel on Friday, February 27, 1970 (adults only) in Aktionsraum 1 Waltherstr Munich 5. 2 RGB. Tel 53 61 44] . Original poster. 51.5 x 37.5 cm., titles in red on white with a pasted on b&w central panel, offset, German text. N.p. [Munich], n.p. [Aktionsraum/Marz Verlag/Buchhandlung Montanus], n.d., February 1970. £400 Rolled, minor creases, some curling from glue seepage. Rare. An example of integrated marketing, flyer or small poster for a bookshop reading showing Nitsch and others performing has been pasted on to the familiar red on white exhibition poster. 53. [VIETNAM WAR.]. This Is Where Your Blood Goes Help The 'Poor' Fight The 'Rich' Give A Pint of Blood For The N.L.F. Areas in South Vietnam. Original poster. 33 x 20 cm., printed in white on thick white stock, titles and illustration reverse white, conservation box framed and float mounted. N.p. [New York?], n.d., c. 1969. £80 Very good and crisp condition, old central horizontal fold. No copy on OCLC, The rather blobby illustration is of a Vietcong field hospital.
54. [WOMEN'S LIBERATION MOVEMENT]. Sisterhood is Powerful! Original poster. 56.5 x 38.3 cm., silkscreen [?], red and green on white paper, titles in reverse white. N.p. [Berkeley or Boston?], n.p. [Berkeley or Boston Political Poster Workshops?], n.d., c. 1970. £200 Near fine condition. Seems rare, we can find no copies on OCLC. Depicts a jubilant group of white college going 'sisters' wearing bandanas with some linked arm in arm. Robin Morgan edited an influential anthology of feminist writings entitled 'Sisterhood is Powerful' in 1970, thereby dating this poster. Harlem's Free Press “Revolt! Buy Shotguns! Declare All-Out War” says Madman Head of P.B.A.. 55. [X. (Malcolm).]. KENYATTA (Charles). Death “A Rumour in Our Communities”. Original street tract. A4., 5ll., unpaginated, [3pp.], mimeographed in black rectos only,in the original paper wrappers illustrated with facsimile newsclippings, loose sheets stab stapled twice. N.p. [New York], n.p. [Harlem Mau Mau ?], n.d., c. 1971. £275 Endemic but light browning. Commercially and institutionally very rare with no copies in OCLC. The upper and lower wrappers are culled from The Sunday News, a New York 'Picture Newspaper and the Long Island Press respectively. The former has the headline ““Harlem's Free Press “Revolt! Buy Shotguns! Declare All Out War” says Madman head of P.B.A”“. This is followed by a photograph of policemen holding down an “alleged shoplifter” who was shot and later died. The back cover shows heavily armed police. A strident attack by Charles Morris aka Charles 37X Kenyatta aka Charles Kenyatta on the “judicial conspiracy” of a “white ruling class” and the “police state” with the “local neighbourhood police” seen as “..the army of the American Government” that 'allows' drug addiction and alcoholism to go unchecked and 'stifles' black social mobility. Internet sources suggest that this street orator and preacher was also Malcolm X's bodyguard. Spike Lee, in conversation with Henry Louis Gates, noted that Kenyatta was consulted for his 1992 film 'Malcolm X' along with Alex Haley, William Kunstler, Betty Shabazz and others (p-180 'Generation X, Transition 56, 1992). 56. [X. (Malcolm).]. KENYATTA (Charles). Where Did The Black Church Fail? Original broadside. A4, 1l., [1p.], text on verso and b&w photocollage on recto, meimographed in black on thin white stock. New York, Charles Kenyatta, n.d., c. 1969-1970. £120 A bit browned, slight creasing. Very rare with no copies in OCLC. The Harlem orator, preacher, friend of Malcolm X and founder of the Harlem Mau Mau is portrayed in full 'African' dress with a decorative fetish or staff in his hand.
57. [YOUNG LORDS ORGANIZATION]. MOVE with the LORDS. Rally! Action! Do it! 11:30 AM TODAY COLUMBIA U (116 St. + Broadway)... All Power To The People! Original flyer. Foolscap, 1l., facsimile handwritten titles, mimeographed in black on one side only. N.p. [New York], n.p. [Young Lords Organization], n.d., c. 1969- 1970. £50 A bit browned on two edges, a crisp, clean copy. Rare, no copy on OCLC. The YLO was a former Puerto Rican streetgang that became politicized and occupied empty property such as in this instance a Spanish Methodist Church, in a bid for a venue to, quoting the flyer, provide “Free breakfasts for Children”, “Liberation Schools”, “Day Care Centers” and “Medical Services”. 58. [ZAPPA (Francis “Frank”).]. IMAMURA (Yoshi). Original glossy black and white photographic portrait of Frank Zappa, 38.2 x 30.5 cm., signed by the photographer, dated and inscribed on reverse. N.p., [London], 1977. £200 Very good condition. Zappa is depicted in a fish eye view in a sitting room smoking a cigarette and drinking coffee with another man. A beautiful cloud of smoke has risen to the light source above him.
59. [ZAPPA (Francis Vincent “Frank”).]. IMAMURA (Yoshi). Three original large, glossy black and white photographs in a series produced for an unidentified book or magazine, approximately 38.2 x 30.5, signed by the photographer in felt pen, with annotations and date on rectos, framed and glazed. N.p. [London], 1977. £300 2 & 3 in very good condition, 1 a bit marked. From scattered references on the web Imamura is well regarded for his use of experimental camera technology. Not long after these photos were taken he appeared in a German camera magazine called Zoom, kishin Shinoyama appeared in the same issue. In the first picture in the series, shot with a fish eye lens, Zappa reclines in a large overstuffed armchair. In the second he holds a box of Ex-Lax up to the camera and narrates into a microphone. The third shows him in the same chair from the viewpoint of his right shoe.
60. ZEPHYRUS IMAGE. MYERS (Michael). Help Your Local Junkie K.ick. Original fly poster or placard, second state. 16.4 x 25.2 cm., titles and linocut illustration in black on white 'Kromekote', float mounted, glazed and framed. San Francisco, Zephyrous Image, n.d., posted in Berkeley 1970. £125 Endemic browning not effecting image, a crisp copy. Very rare commercially and institutionally with no copies on OCLC. In Johnston p-185, the original block illustrated on p-59, the dustjacket illustration is Bob Rusk`s contemporary photo of this posted on a telegraph pole. The titles are written in a weird 'growing' tentacular font that is echoed by the finely executed and detailed, phantasmagoric illustration below of two symmetrical feminine long-haired flower people (damozels of sleep?) with forehead in hand and stunted, vestigial wings. They are plugged, or perhaps 'stemmed', into a bizarre double hypodermic syringe with a large pendulous drop or pearl suspended in a network of angular and very elegant tendrils. Johnston quotes Rusk on the meaning and intent of this still shocking and strange ephemeron: “Holbrook said he thot [sic] MM knew this could be read both ways” (p-185) Johnstone.
61. ZEPHYRUS IMAGE. MYERS (Michael). Hides Ugly Blemishes Embarrassing Spots Vanish - Won`t Fade, Peel or Crack Send 1$ to Acme Beauty Aids, Box 1526, White Plains, N.Y. . Original broadside, proof. 20.1 x 27.6 cm., text and linocut illustrations in black, on newsprint, float mounted, conservation framed and glazed with perpspex. San Francisco, Zephyrous image [Zephyrus Image], n.d., 1972. £125 Browned, large circular chip out of top left, a small chip out of left edge. A very rare drug ephemeron, no copies on OCLC. In Johnston p-185 with illustration, records a blue imprint. Myers` linocut cartoon depicts “Before” and “After” scenes of a junkie`s arm in the style of an acne cream advert.
62. ZEPHYRUS IMAGE. MYERS (Michael). Liberate Berkeley. Reissue of the first state. 16.6 x 22.1 cm., broadside/handbill, linotype and elaborate linocut in black on white stock, float mounted, conservation framed and glazed with perspex. S.[an] F.[rancisco], Zephyrous Image [Zephyrus Image], n.d., 1970. £100 Fine. In Johnston (p-184. iv) ); who locates this as an early work, because of the 'o' in Zephyrous, and states that it may even be the second item produced by the press. The image was reprinted in the “Berkeley Tribe”, 26th June 1970 and modified for use in the second state “Detonate Sutro Tower”. This may have been printed anew, or was left over from the first tranche, Johnston also notes that copies were circulated at Michael Myers`s wake in nineteen-eighty-two. The linocut depicts a revolutionary clenched fist with sinews connected to the dynamite sticks of an elegant time bomb, rocks lay scattered around this, a primed Molotov stands either side and two sub- machine guns (with unfolded stocks) frame the tableau. Holbrook Teter said of this work; “That was the time when Berkeley was liberating the world so we thought we`d work on Berkeley too” (ibid).
63. ZEPHYRUS IMAGE. MYERS (Michael). [LNS]- Representatives of the Red Rockets in Berkeley have revealed the completion of important negotiations with the People`s Republic of China. An Agreement was made to trade an unspecified amount of psychedelics for Communist weapons. ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! Third state of 'Liberate Berkeley'. Approx. 16.4 x 25.3 cm., broadside/handbil, one elaborate linocut in red with text in black, on off white stock. San Francisco, Zephyrous Image [Zephyrus Image], n.d., c. 1970. £200 Fine copy. Commercially and institutionally very rare with no copies on OCLC. In Johnston p-184 (iii) who collates for orange and not red. The linocut depicts a revolutionary clenched fist with sinews connected to the dynamite sticks of an elegant time bomb, rocks lay scattered around this, a primed Molotov stands either side and two sub-machine guns (with unfolded stocks) frame the tableau.
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