Letterism 1947-2014 Vol. 1

The Future is Unwritten: Letterism 1947-2014 Vol. 1

Catalog 17 Division Leap 6635 N. Baltimore Ave. Ste. 111 Portland, OR 97203 www.divisionleap.com [email protected] 503 206 7291 “Radically anticipating Herbert Marcuse, Paul Goodman, and their Letterism is a movement whose influence is as widespread as it is unacknowledged. From punk to concrete poetry to experimental film, from the development of youth culture to the student uprisings of 1968 and epigones in the 1960s new left, Isou the formation of the Situationist International, most postwar avant-garde movements owe a debt to it’s rev- produced an analysis of youth as olutionary theories, yet it remains largely overlooked in studies of the period (some notable exceptions are listed in the bibliography that follows the text). an inevitably revolutionary social sector - revolutionary on its own This catalog contains over one hundred items devoted to Letterism and Inismo. To the best of our knowl- edge it is the first devoted to either of these movements in the US. It contains a number of publications terms, which meant that the terms which have little or no institutional representation on these shores, and represents a valuable opportunity for of revolution had to be seen in a future research. new way.” A number of the items in this catalog were collected by the anarchist scholar Pietro Ferrua, who was closely associated with members of both Letterism and Inismo and who has written a great deal about both movements. Ferrua organized the first international conference on Letterism here in Portland in 1979 [see #62]. Beginning with his work as a teenager for the resistance in Italy during WWII, he’s had a long history of Greil Marcus, Lipstick Traces p. 269 activism, for which he has been kicked out of more countries than many of us have visited. It is an honor to deal with the collection.

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All items subject to prior sale. Please call or email to reserve. Payment due with order. Institutions gladly billed according to their needs. All items returnable within two weeks of receipt; advance notice is appreciat- ed. Usual terms to the trade. 1. Isou, Isidore. Introduction a une Nouvelle Poesie et a une Nouvelle Musique.

Paris: Gallimard, 1947. 12mo, 414 pp, printed wraps. Mention of 3eme edition at title page. A fair only copy, missing over half of the back strip, and extensively chipped, with several clumsy cellotape repairs.

A battered copy, but formerly the copy belonging to the anarchist and scholar Pietro Ferrua. There are scattered check marks and underlining throughout the text, possibly Ferrua’s. Isou’s first book, which was at first turned down by Gallimard just after Isou got to Paris, but was later accepted after he quickly began to develop a certain notoriety, especially after disrupting denouncing events on behalf of other writers and artists. The book contains Isou’s manifesto of Lettrist poetry; the latter portion is printed on coated paper and prints a number of visual and sound poems, including the text of “CRIS POUR 5,000,000 DE JUIFS EGORGES”, his important poem about the Holocaust, in which echoes of Yiddish and other European languages are atomized in reaction to the horrors of the war from which he himself was a recent fugitive. 100

2. Lemaître, Maurice [Jean Isidore Isou]. Le film est déjà commencé ? Séance de cinéma.

Paris: Encyclopédie du Cinéma, 1952. First edition. 12mo, 181 pp, wraps and illustrated dust jacket. Illustrat- ed with reproductions of film. With a preface by Isidore Isou.

The script and related texts of Lemaître’s first film, and the second film from the movement, which he had made the year prior at the age of 25. Lemaître’s film included writing and other interventions directly on the 2 film. The screenplay includes much off-screen material, such as playing Griffith’sIntolerance an hour prior to showing the film, and for not letting the audience enter until an hour after the announced opening time and subjecting them to ice water dousings, etc. The opening of the film ended in fights and was closed by police- which had already been written into the scenario of the film. The usual toning, else a fine copy in a near fine example of the striking dust jacket. 75 Go home Mister Chaplin!

3. Debord, Guy et al. Finis Les Pieds Plats.

[Paris]: l’Internationale Lettriste, [1952]. 8 1.2 x 11”, mimeographed from typescript on recto only. Signed in plate by Serge Berna, Jean-L. Brau, Guy-Ernst Debord, and Gil WJ. Wolman.

Perhaps the most notorious Lettriste manifesto, a salvo against Charlie Chaplin, which was distributed by hurling the leaflet out at the crowd of people attending a press conference by Chaplin on October 29, 1952. As one might expect, Isou took umbrage at this handbill, prompting the split amongst the party and the formation of Lettriste Internationale, which would in turn lead to the formation of the Situationist Inter- national. In the tract Chaplin is attacked for emotional blackmail and mercenary interests; as Greil Marcus points out in Lipstick Traces, the sentiment of the broadside would be echoed a few months later in Pauline Kael’s first film review. Paper toned, with several closed edge tears to left margin, not affecting text. Very good. Rare. The first copy we’ve handled; OCLC locates only one holding, the Yale copy. [Berreby p. 147] 2000 3 4. Lemaître, Maurice. Qu’est Que Le Lettrisme? Et la Mouvement Isouien.

Lourdes: Fischbacher, 1953. First edition. Paris: Fischbacher, 1954. First edition, one of 770 regular paper copies (of an entire edition of 950). 12mo. 158 pp. Bound in quarter red crushed morocco titled in gilt with four raised bands at spine, and marbled boards, with the original photographically illustrated wraps bound in.

One of the foundational texts of the movement in a handsome binding. Originally issued in wraps, this appears to be a regular paper copy that has been rebound. Very good, with boards rubbed through at extreities and a; 1” closed tear to front wrap. 250 5. Lemaître, Maurice. Isidore Isou: Base critique de l’ouvrage ou Introduction à une biogra- phie créatrice.

Paris: Le Cheval Marin, 1954. First edition. 4to, 31 pp, original printed wraps. One of 200 numbered copies. With Centre de Créativité sticker to rear panel and title page. This overview and introduction to the thought of Isou is a relatively early Lettriste publication. 2” tear to paper at foot of spine, some toning, else very good. 150

6. Isou, Isidore. Initiation a la Haute Volupte.

Paris: Escaliers de Lausanne, 1960. First edition. 8vo, 496 pp, printed wraps. Profusely illustrated with erotic drawings. Entirely uncut. Wraps a bit soiled, with a touch of tide marking to lower margins of front panel and spine only, not penetrating into the interior; very good. 4

The erotic aspects of this work led to it being banned by French authorities until 1977. 200

7. Lemaître, Maurice. Carnets D’Un Fanatique Tomes I et II. Dix Ans de Lettrisme. Edition Augmentee.

Paris: Centre de Créativité / Jean Grassin, 1960. First edition thus. Two volumes. 8vo. 248 + 67 pp. Each volume bound in glossy wraps and housed in a printed folder. This copy still sealed, with the original printed belly band still intact, and scarce thus. Near fine with a small hole to shrinkwrap and small resulting tear to belly band. 100

8. Lemaître, Maurice and Isidore Isou. La Danse at Le Mime Ciselants. Lettristes et Hyper- graphiques. 6

Paris: Grassin, 1960. First edition. 8vo. 64 pp. Printed wraps. Illustrated with 4 duotone reproductions of photographs of Lettrist performances. Signed by Lemaître at the first blank. “Centre de Créativité” stamp to rear cover and first blank, some faint toning but a presentable very good copy, completely uncut. 125

9. [Spacagna, Jacques, ed.]. Nouvelle Generation no. 2. La Jeunesse Interroge Le Lettrisme.

Paris: Nouvelle Generation, 1962. First edition. 4to, eight leaves mimeographed on rectos only and stapled once in the upper left hand corner. 9 The second issue, of only two published, of this review which was written and published by students, most of them still in their teens, with the aid of Isou and Lemaître. The aim of the review was to promote Letterist ideas in regard to modern literature, and this issue is largely taken up with questions of Letterist poetry. Near fine. 300 10. Lemaître, Maurice. Poésie nouvelle, Second supplément au No. 20: La dictature lettriste.

Paris: Poésie Nouvelle, 1962. First edition. 4to, 5p stapled in upper left corner, mimeographed on rectos only. On pink paper. Text in French.

Supplement to issue 20 of the Lettrist magazine, comprising an essay by Lemaître titled “Attention!” This is the last of a set of eight supplements to issues 17-20, all published with the subtitle “La dictature lettriste: bulletin du mouvement lettriste et hypergraphique et du soulèvement de la jeunesse.” Some toning and edgewear, with a few tiny tears and chips to corners. Very good. 100

11. Isou, Isidore. Oeuvres de Spectacle.

Paris: Gallimard, 1964. First edition. 8vo, 325 pp. + epilogue; French fold wraps. Very good with creasing to spine and a couple of slight droplet stains. 150

12. Altmann, Roberto & Roland Sabatier, Jacques Spacagna. Bulletin du Centre de la Recher- che Lettriste Nos. 1-29, 33.

Paris: Centre de la Recherche Lettriste, 1965-1970. 4to, mimeographed from typescript and drawings, most issues stapled once at the upper left hand corner, with a couple of stab-stapled issues.

A substantial run of one of the scarcest and most ephemeral Letterist zines, which ceased publication with no. 33. The bulletin printed theoretical texts, poetry, and artwork, the latter painstakingly reproduced by some advanced mimeograph stencil mastery. No. 23 is devoted to Lettrist architecture. No. 27 is a manifesto which accuses the Situationist International of being neo-Nazi’s with reference to Nanterre. Several of these issues have detached leaves, and no. 10 is missing an approximately 3” chunk of the letterhead, and has only the cover sheet, and is apparently incomplete. It is possible that some other issues may be incomplete - collation is difficult given the scarcity of bibliographical information and lack of issues for comparision. A tattered accumulation, but given the rarity, a significant one. 1000 12

13. Isou, Isidore. La théorie nucléaire de la planification: conception éconucléaire de la pro- grammation (externe, interne et créative) pour la réforme de la planification actuelle.

Paris: Isidore Isou, 1966. First edition. 12mo, 91 pp, printed wraps and unprinted glassine jacket. Very good, with some minor toning and rubbing to extremities; the glassine jacket shows some small tears at spine, else very good.

One of a series of works in which Isou developed his theory of youth as a separate economic, and there- fore social class - one of the most enduring legacies of the movement. Rare. 450

14. Lemaître, Maurice. Kréach ou le phare de l’homme-colombe, polygogue à impliques.

Paris: Centre de créativité, 1966. First edition. 4to, mimeographed and stab-stapled into mimoegraphed wraps. Wraps rather toned at extremities; very good. 250 The future is unwritten

15. Guymer, Christiane and Maurice Lemaître. Catalogue Christiane: Bibliographie Supertemporelle du Mouvement Lettriste.

Paris: Centre de Créativité, 1967. First edition. Oblong 8vo, mimeographed leaves in orange card covers ringbound into a rigid cardboard folder, with printed spine label. One of only 50 copies (of 300 total) numbered and signed by Guymer and Lemaître at the title label.

The bibliography consists of four pages of mimeographed prefatory text, followed by approximately 100 blank pages. A brilliant artists’ book as a catalog, which has always been rare; it seems unlikely that many copies were produced. The covers are somewhat bent and toned, and the rings have dented partially through the cover, with some minor soiling to the title label, else very good. 750

16. Lemaître, Maurice. Entre Libre / De Gaulle et le Sexe. 15 (COver) Paris: Centre de Créativité, 1967. First edition. Oblong wraps, printed dust jacket. Artist book by Lemaître; after the printed preface, the book consists entirely of appropriated pages from various popular culture and erotic magazines, all bound up together without alteration. 200

17. Lemaître, Maurice. Les Bases idéologiques de l’Union de la jeunesse et de son candidat Maurice Lemaître: aux elections législatives de mars 1967.

Paris: Front de la Jeunesse, 1967. First edition. 4to, 6 pp [mimeographed on rectos only, with the exception of the final leaf], stab-stapled into mimeographed card covers. 16 The program for Lemaître’s candidacy for legislative office in ‘67. Among Lemaître’s scarcest publications, laying out his positions as a candidate for political office in that year. OCLC locates only two holdings. Covers toned, with a couple of faint droplet stains to top margin; very good. 450

18. Isou, Isidore. Les Manifestes du Soulevement de la Jeunesse (1950-1966).

Paris: Centre de créativité, 1967. 4to, mimeographed on rectos only and stab-stapled into cloth card covers. Touch of damp staining to top edge of rear cover, with slight warp, but clean within and otherwise very good. 250

19. Isou, Isidore. Quelques anciens manifestes lettristes et esthapeïristes (1960-1963). 17 Paris: Centre de créativité, 1967. 4to, offset printed and mimeographed and stab-stapled into card covers. Out of an edition of 53 copies plus an unspecified number of copies reserved for the press, this copy is unnumbered and out of series. Color transfer from orange covers onto the margin at lower tip throughout from prior exposure to mois- 18 ture, else a very good copy. 200 20. Perich, Antoine., ed. Slovo No. 1 [All Published].

Paris: Slovo, 1967. First edition. 8vo, four unbound, folded sheets. Illustrated by the editor. One of 1500 copies printed on Hercule Gris.

The first and last issue, featuring poetry by Joel Fremiot, J. P. Gillard, and Francois Poyet, and texts by Poyet and Jaffrenou. The Croatian-born Perich was allied with the Lettristes during his five year stay in Paris, from 1965-1970, before he moved to New York and became a busboy at Max’s as well as an associate of Andy Warhol who did some photography for Interview. 200

21. Lemaître, Maurice, ed. La Lettre.

Paris: Centre de Créativité, 1967-1991. First edition. 4to, stab-stapled, offset and mimeographed with later issues photocopied. [48 issues]. No. 13, vol. 3: nos. 1-31, 33-35, 37-45, 48-50, [1989]: 26, [1991]: 42. A 20 broken run of this journal which collected the writings of Lemaître, this includes an early issue of the first series (no. 13), and a nearly complete run of the third series (1978-1983). Note (3)16 has two issues, a Febr. and a March. 600

22. Lemaître, Maurice. L’Ascension du phénix M. B.: Polylogue a impliques; suivi de Dit Lemaître et Répétition: ouvre ouvertes, supertemporelles, d’art du public.

Paris: Centre de Créativité, 1969. First edition. 4to, stab-stapled in wraps, mimeographed on rectos only. One of 100 “environ” copies from a mimeographed “pre-édition,” (reprinted in 1978 in an “augmented” edition). Cream wraps and text pages, with a catalogue of Lettrisme on bright white stock bound in at the

end. Text in French. Some toning to and light creasing to wraps; lightly bumped in lower forecorner; one 21 1mm closed edge tear to lower edge of first few pages. Very good. 250

23. Poyet, François. Poïesis: Roman Hypergraphique Nos. 1-2 [Complete in Two Volumes].

[Paris]: F. Poyet, 1969. First edition. Two volumes, each 8vo, offset printed with spot color and perfect bound in printed wraps. Each volumes is one of 200 ordinary copies (there were also ten copies of each numbered, with original drawings). The second volume also bears a separate title, Champs Panhellesiques.

Both volumes published of this accomplished, erotic Hypergraphique novel. Rarer even than the small limitation would suggest; only the second copies we’ve handled in ten years. OCLC locates only one holding of each volume. Volume 1 is overopened slightly at the limitation page, otherwise a clean and near fine set. 450

24. Isou, Isidore. Les Demons Me Dechirent! 23

Paris: Les Presses Noires, 1969. First edition. 12mo. 249 pp. Wraps.

The first edition of this erotic novel by the founder of Lettrisme, featuring a truly lurid cover, even by the publisher’s standards, of a bare breasted woman, mouth open in ecstasy or pain, with the cross hairs of a ri- fle sight delicately centered on her tense neck. Despite relatively late date of publication, rare - oclc locates a bare 3 copies. The cheap paper is toned, as might be expected, with a touch of foxing to the prelims, but the spine remains uncreased, and the binding sound and tight. In much better condition than might be expected given the publisher’s production values. 75 70’s

25. Sabatier, Roland. Poster for the 1er Festival International d’Art Infiniteseimal et Sup.

The World: 1970. 12 x 19”, offset lithograph on orange paper. The poster was designed by Roland Sabatier, and prints his signature along the right margin.

The poster for the first event devoted to infinitesimal art, taking place “all around the world.” It notes the participation of Arkitu, Berreur, Broutin, Canal, Curtay, Gillard, Hachette, Isou, Lemaître, Poyet, Sabatier, Satie, Sarthou, Spacagna, Tarkieltaub, and Rignaud. Folded twice, else a sharp, fine copy. OCLC locates only one holding. 300

26. Lemaître, Maurice. Huit films lettristes.

Paris: Centre de créativité, 1970. First edition. 4to, fourteen leaves mimeographed from typescript and holograph on rectos only; stab-stapled into mimeographed card covers, with the Centre de Créativité sticker affixed at rear. The program for this screening of Lettriste films at the American Center for Students and Artists in the year prior. Very good. 150

25 27. Lemaître, Maurice. Le Lettrisme dans le Roman et les Arts Plastiques devant le Pop-Art et la Bande Dessinee.

Paris: Centre de Créativité, 1970. First edition. 8vo, 46 pp, French fold printed card wraps. One of 1050 copies. With Centre de Créativité stamp to first blank and rare wrap. 45

28. [Lemaître, Maurice]. Paris Theatre Paris Spectacles No. 270.

Paris: Paris Theatre, 1970. First edition. 4to, wraps. Illustrated in b/w. This issue of the long-running film periodical includes a review of two books by Isou, by “Maurice Mercier”, who also contributes a lengthy piece entitled “La Chronique Dramatique”. Mercier was a pseudonym for Maurice Lemaître. Very good. 75

29. Lemaître, Maurice. Socrate jugé par Esculape : spectacle ouvert, supertemporel, d’art du public.

26 Paris: Centre de créativité, 1970. 4to, mimeographed on rectos only and stab-stapled into card covers. With Centre de créativité rubberstamp to cover and sticker to rear panel. Published as a special number of Let- trisme, Nouvelle Series no. 16. Very good with some creasing and toning to margins. 150

30. Isou, Isidore. Reflexions sur Andre Breton.

Paris: Lettrisme, 1970. Second edition. 8vo, 23 [9] pp, wraps. The second edition, one of 1000 copies, originally published in a very rarely seen edition of 50 copies in 1948. Address change errata pasted down to rear 30 wrap; fine. 45 this record could be your life

31. Lemaître, Maurice. Poemes at Musique Lettristes.

Paris: Lettrisme , 1971. First edition. 4to. Saddle-stapled in pocket-fold wraps, with three 45 r.p.m. 7” pho- nograph discs enclosed. 4p. Records in original wax paper sleeves, with plastic adaptor.

This selection of Lemaître’s sound works is the first installment of Lettrisme’s “Anthologie sonore de lettries,” and number 24 of the “Nouvelle serie.” Commentary by Isidore Isou. Third disc is entitled “cro- chet”, or “hook”, and is blank and labeled with the instruction: “L’auditeur est invite a graver ici son propre disque” - conceptually a proto-punk exhortation to DIY, foreshadowing a punk meme towards the end of the decade in which three chords were printed in several first wave fanzines with the exhortation to start a band. Slight discoloration to wraps and inner pages, else near fine. 250

32. Isou, Isidore and Maurice Lemaître. Les Psychiatres et les Psychanalystes sont tous des Dements Dangereux pour Eux-Memes et pour Autrui. des Malades Atteints de Psychiatropathie et de Psychanalystopathie.

Paris: Centre de créativité, 1971. 15 x 22” poster, printed in black on newsprint. 31

Anti-psychiatry poster published as issue 3 of La Revue de Psychokladologie et de Psychotheie. One of a number of publications by Isou and Lemaître aimed at modern psychiatry, an antipathy that was probably spurred following Isou’s treatment by Gaston Ferdiere, the controversial psychiatrist to the avant-garde who was best known for administering shock treatment to Artaud. A good overview to the controversy surrounding Ferdiere and his war with the Lettristes was published by Kevin Repp in the checklist which accompanied his exhibition The Strange Case of Dr. Ferdière at the Beinecke. The newspaper is toned, with a portion of offsetting, and several closed tears to margins, not affecting the text; good to very good. 250

33. Lemaître, Maurice, ed. Le Bonheur Mental.

Paris: Centre de créativité, 1971-79. three issues, each a stab-stapled 4to; the first issue is mimeographed from drawing and typescript on newsprint, the two later issues photocopied on rectos only and stab-stapled. The earlier issue subtitled “Bulletin de l’Assocation de Defense des Victimes de la Psychiatre, de la Psychanalyse et de l’Anti-Psychiatrie; the two later issues subtitled “Bulletin de la Société de Psychokhadol- ogie et de Psychothéie ; s.l. : Association de Défense des Victimes de la Psychiatrie, de Psychanalyse et de l’Anti-psychiatrie.”

Three issues of an unknown number of issues of this periodical devoted to attacks on psychiatry. The first is described as an “extrait du no. 1, edite specialement pour Le Congres de Royan”. The two latter issues are nos. 1 and 5 from the Nouvelle Series. The earlier issue with a short tear to one tip and toning, the latter two issues fine. 200 32 34. Isou, Isidore & Maurice Lemaître. Introduction au Cours des Createurs precede de Mau- rice Lemaître Le Bouleversement Total de L’Education. Lettrisme Mensuel Nouvelle Serie No. 23 [with] Front de la Jeunesse No. 1 & La France Etudiante No. 3].

Paris: Maurice Lemaître, 1971. 4to. Offset printed and saddle-stapled in wraps. With errata slip tipped onto title page, with the two facsimile items laid in (a reproduction of Front De La Jeunesse No. 1 and La France Etudiante No. 3). Contents fine, wraps near fine with some light toning. 45

35. Isou, Isidore. A Propos d’Alain Satie: ou, Pourquoi un artiste qui abandonne un mouvement novateur perd de sa valeur et de son importance que reprend un inédit explorateur de cette tendance.

Paris: Editions Psi, 1971. First edition. Square 8vo, 9 pp, saddle-stapled in card wraps. Illustrated with a single b/w plate. Near fine with a light indent to rear wrap. 125

36. Lemaître, Maurice. Les Existentialistes: Roman a Faire.

Paris: Centre de Créativité , 1972. First edition. 4to, mimeographed, photocopied and offset printed on various colors and sizes of paper stock, and bound with unused or cannibalized covers and a red belly band into printed wraps. With an oversized poster folded and laid into an interior folder. One of 200 ordinary copies, of 220 total (there was also a signed and numbered edition of 20).

One of Lemaître’s essential works, a glorious assemblage and one of the key Lettriste works. Bumped and 36 creased at extremities, with a dampstain affect the lower margins and fore edge of the rear cover and lightly affecting the lower margins of the last quarter of the book, else a very good copy. 450

37. Lemaître, Maurice. Les Existentialistes: Roman a Faire.

Paris: Centre de Créativité Editions Lettristes, 1992. 4to, bound in laminated pictorial French wraps; xeroxed on rectos only. With two folded posters housed at rear, as issued. One of an unspecified number of b/w copies of this reprint of number 36. Near fine with a 1” closed tear at foot of front panel. 125

38. Tarkieltaub, Jacqueline, ed. Ligne Creatrice: Revue Lettriste Nos. 7-12.

Paris: Ligne Creatrice, 1972. First edition. Two volumes, each a triple issue, mimeographed and stab-stapled into card covers, and illustrated with reproductions, one artist multiple and a lithograph. Each volume limited to 120 copies, the entire edition.

Six numbers in two volumes of this important Lettriste periodical. The first volume is notable for including a lithograph by Sabatier, as well as a striking punch-card multiple stapled to one page - an early comput- ing reference in an artists’ periodical. With contributions across these numbers by Isidore Isou, Maurice Lemaître, Jean-Paul Curtay, Alain Satie, Arkitu, Myriam Darrell, Francois Poyet, and Antoine Grimaud. Very good with some moderate bumping and creasing to extremities. 300 38 39. Poyet, Francois, ed. L’Irreductibilite Lettriste No. 1 [All Published].

Boulogne: Editions CICK, 1973. First edition. 8vo, saddle-stapled wraps. One of 1000 copies of the trade edition. The first and last issue of this Lettriste zine, which consists entirely of three hypergraphique novels, by Gerard Philippe Broutin, Jean Paul Curtay, and Jean Pierre Gillard. OCLC locates but 3 holdings. Fine. 150

40. [Isou, Isidore] Sabatier, Roland and Gerard-Phiippe Broutin, eds. Front de la Jeunesse: Or- gane de l’Union de la Jeunesse & de l’Externite. Nos. 25/26/27.

Paris: Front de la Jeunesse, 1974. 4to, mimeographed from typescript and holograph and tapebound at spine. This issue is taken up with Isou’s manifesto against the F.A.P. (Front des Artistes Plasticiens). Laid in is a leaflet, mimeographed from typescript, which on the recto asks that fellow painters vote for Lettriste candidates in the next elections for the group; the verso announces the present publication and notes that it is for sale “in the lobby”.

A late, but scarce issue of Front de la Jeunesse, which began in 1950 and was devoted to the theorization of youth as a separate economic class; rare, especially with the accompanying leaflet. A bit battered at the spine 40 ends, with some toning and light creasing to extremities, still a sound, very good copy. 300 39

41. Lemaître, Maurice. Les fautes, ignorances ou impuissances d’André Breton: les erreurs ou les échecs du surréalisme, reconnus par André Breton lui-même.

Paris: Centre de créativité - Editions Lettristes, 1974. First edition. 4to, photocoped from typescript and holograph on rectos only, stab-stapled into cannibalized card covers with title pastedown to front panel. The first separate publication of a text which originally appeared in Lettrisme 28-30 that same year. Fine. 150

42. Isou, Isidore et al. Groupe Lettriste.

Marseille: Association Internationale des Arts - Galerie de Marseille, nd. First edition. 8vo, 6 loose black and white plates with four pages of text, one of which prints a foreward by Michel Hoog about the group in French, all housed in a pebbled folder printed with a reproduction of a work by Isidore Isou.

A beautifully printed and presented catalog for this group exhibition - it includes reproductions of works by Isidore Isou, Maurice Lemaître, Francoise Canal, Genevieve Tasiv, Jean-Paul Curtay, and Albert Dupont. Undated, but as the last date listed on the bibliography is 1973, likely from thereabouts. OCLC locates no 41 42 holdings. Near fine with minor rubbing to extremities. 200 43. Jannini, P. A. , ed. Si & No: Revista Quadrimestrale di Letteratura Moderna e Contempora- nea Nos. 1-6[All Published?].

Roma: Si & No, 1974-75. First edition. 8vo, printed wraps. Texts in Italian and French.

The first six issues, which we believe to be all issues published, of this rare Italian little magazine of experimental literature. Gabriele Aldo-Bertozzi is listed as being the Segratario di Redazione, and there is some “The first exhaustive, Lettrist content, including an article on Lettrisme by Bertozzi in Vol. 3, as well as material on Surrealism and objective and sympathetic Futurism. Other highlights include the inclusion of a letter from F. T. Marinetti in the second volume, an long essay on this move- interview with Philippe Soupalt in no. 3, Jose Pierre on Surrealism and Magic in no. 4, and extensive writing ment published abroad” on Tristan Corbiere, especially in no. 5, which is entirely dedicated to work about him. Previous owner’s sig- - Ferrua, in the foreward nature to title page of each number, with some occasional bumping, with a couple of closed tears to paper to Pour et Contre Bertozzi covering the spine of the final number, generally sturdy and very good. Exceedingly scarce: these are the [Portland, 1987]. first copies we’ve seen, and OCLC locates only an unknown number of issues in an institution in Sweden. 450

44. Lemaître, Maurice. Isidore Isou. Analyses psychokladologiques de :4 :+quatre+ comédiens: Delphine Seyrig, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Robert Manuel, Luce Grégory, ce qu'ils pensent du bonheur, de l'amour, de l'amitié, du théâtre, etc.

Paris: Centre de créativité, 1976. First edition. 4to, photocopied on rectos only and stab-stapled into canni- 43 balized card wraps, with title pastedown to front panel. With a preface by Isidore Isou. Some tidemarking to fore margin of cover and first leaf, else very good. 200

45. Curtay, Jean-Paul. Perspective Perspective Perspective Perspective.

Bamberg: Studio M, 1976. First edition. 8vo, wraps. Illustrated with 37 reproductions in sepia. An important text by Curtay on Perspective - the essay is included in French, with both English and German translations. 1” area of tearing to paper covering spine, thus a good only copy, but scarce - OCLC locates only two holdings. 75 46. Sabatier, Roland. Oeuvres Musicales & Poetiques (Lettristes, Aphonistes & Infinitesimales Que Je N’ai Pas Composees 1974/1976.

Paris: Editions Psi, 1976. First edition. 4to, [54] pp, stab-stapled and tape bound at spine. Mimeographed and offset printed. OCLC locates only 4 holdings. Very good with a 1 1/2” tear to paper at foot of spine. 85

47. [Lemaître, Maurice, ed.]. L'Art du Cinema Nos. 2-5: Bulletin d'Information des Createurs et des Jeunes de l'art du Cinema. 46

Paris: Librairie La Guilde, 1976. First edition. 4to, each issue mimeographed and stapled once at the upper left hand corner into a cover sheet printed in two colors. Four issues, of an unknown number published, of this Lettrist film zine.

The second issue features a manifesto signed Les Jeunes Cineastes Lettristes; the third issue consists of a salvo by Lemaître against the presidents of La Federation Francaise des Archives du Film; the fourth con- 47 sists of a manifesto by Lemaître pour Une Cooperative Francaise Des Cineastes; the fifth issue is a manifes- to "Pour Une Cinematheque Musee Nationale." OCLC locates holdings only at the Bibliotheque Nationale. 450 48. Lemaître, Maurice. Notes Préparatoires pour Mon Prochain Film.

Paris: Centre de Créativité, 1977. First edition. 4to, xeroxed from holograph and typescript on rectos only, stab-stapled and glued into wraps with a title pastedown to front panel. With alternate covers bound in. Wraps toned, with a touch of dampstaining at heel and loss of about 1” at head of spine, else a solid, very good copy. 400

49. Choucas, François [Maurice Lemaître]. Introduction à une théorie générale du conseil : pour un au-delà de L.D. Miles, F. Zwicky, M.B.I., Korzybski, Köhler et Koffka, Osborn, W.J.J. Gor- don, A. Koestler, E. de Bono, R. Desoille.

Paris: Centre de créativité, 1976. First edition. 4to, mimeographed on rectos only and stab-stapled in printed card covers. Very good with bumping and creasing to the spine ends. 150

50. Lemaître, Maurice. Les Marionnettes Photographiques.

Paris: Centre de créativité, 1977. First edition. 4to, photocopied on rectos only and stab-stapled into cannibalized card wraps, with title pastedown to front panel, and unprinted glassine cover. Near fine with some fraying to glassine at extremities. 300

50 51. Lemaître, Maurice. Mes Films (1951-1977).

Paris: Centre de Creative, 1977. First edition. 4to, wraps. 75 pages, printed on rectos, with title paste-down to cover. Very good with toning to margins and wraps. 125

52. Lemaître, Maurice. Notes et Lettres / Lettres et Notes.

Paris: Centre de Créativité, 1978-1983. First edition. Fourteen issues, each a 4to, photocopied on rectos only, and stab-stapled or bound in different colored card wraps, some utilizing portions of unused or approprait- ed bindings from other Centre de Créativité publications.

One of Lemaître’s most ambitious periodicals, consisting of photocopied reproductions of tens of thou- sands of sheets of correspondence and notes, with each volume dedicated to a particular period during this span of time. Likely only distributed to fellow travelers, it is also among the rarest, with OCLC locating only the Getty holdings. Wraps and glassine covers with varying degrees of wear, many with tears or creasing, but complete, with solid bindings and generally good to very good. 1500

53. Lemaître, Maurice. Manifestes pour le bouleversement de la Cuisine.

Paris: Centre de créativité-Editions Lettriste, 1978. 4to, photocopied on rectos only, with a tipped in photographic reproduction of a menu to one interior page; stab-stapled into appropriated card covers. The b/w plate reproduces an imaginary menu. One of only 50 numbered and signed copies, the entire edition. OCLC locates four holdings. 300

52 54. Lemaître, Maurice, ed. revue d’histoire du cinéma.

Paris: 1978-1983. First edition. 4to, stab-stapled, mimeographed. Eleven numbers of the periodical. First series: Nos. 1-4. Second series: nos. 1, 2. Third series: Nos. 3, 7, 9, 11,13. It should be noted that No. 3 of the third series (Autumn 1980) appears to follow directly after No. 2 of the second series (Summer 1980). On top of that, Nos. 9 (Autumn 1982) and 11 (Spring 1983) are listed as being in the second series, though they follow No. 7, third seres (Winter 1981).

A Lettriste-aligned review of developments in the history of film featuring writing on Marguerite Duras, Isidore Isou, correspondence with Jonas Mekas, the French Cine-Clubs (such as that behind related periodical “Le Cinéma même”), Cannes (“un ghetto d’amateurs”). The first issue of the second series is a collection of materials regarding Lemaître photocopied from other magazines and a film bibliography of Lemaître’s contributions. OCLC locates only partial holdings in two institutions. 1,250 cinema punk?

55. Lemaître, Maurice, ed. Le cinéma même nos. 1-4.

[Paris and Epinay]: Unité d’enseignement et de recherche Saint-Charles, Coopérative du cinéma marginal, 1978-1979. First edition. 4to, glue-bound, photocopied. Printed on rectos. Text in French.

Contributions and features include Dominique Noguez, Takahiko Iimura, Maurice Lemaître, Norman McLaren. Second issue featured an article on Ahmet Kut that proposed a Cinema Punk, discussing the Sex Pistols, Richard Hell and other punk figures in relation to film. The publication has a punk aesthetic of its own, photocopying articles directly from other publications, such as “Lettrisme,” and “Revue Histoire du Cinema” and including them. Issue 3 is a combined issue with Ecritures (Le Cinéma même 3/ Ecritures 4), and includes a carefully-drawn holograph in green highlighting marker indicating which number belongs to which serial. 850

56. Wharry, David et al. [Maurice Lemaître]. Film Projection: Aspects de l’avant-garde britan- nique et Française. 55 (back cover)

Paris: Centre Culterel Brittanique, 1978. First edition. 4to, mimeographed and stab-stapled into printed wraps. With mimeographed two-sided leaflet laid in, entitled “du Cinema au Syncinema Lemaitrien et Au-Dela” laid in.

The catalogue for the 1978 exhibition, which was organized by David Wharry with Deke Dusinberre, Dom- inique Noguez, and Liz Rhodes. Near fine with some minor creasing to extremities. 125

57. Lemaître, Maurice, ed. Écritures (Revue des etudiants d l’U.V. 04137, gr. 2), nos. 2, 3, 5, 6.

Paris: U.E.R. Arts Plastiques et Sciences de l’Art Saint-Charles, 1978-1979. First edition. Four issues 4to, glue-bound in wraps, photocopied text.

This journal was published by Lemaître’s University of Paris students under his direction from 1977-1987. These issues feature visual works by students alongside documents related to Lettrism and to Lemaître’s university activities, including typed and handwritten letters, annotations, interviews, etc. A very scarce journal; 56 three listings in OCLC. Near fine, with some very light toning to wraps; lower forecorners of issues 3 and 5 54 lightly bumped. 300 58. Isou, Isidore and Herbert Marcuse. Entre Isou et Marcuse.

Paris: Centre de créativité, 1979. 4to, photocopied on rectos only and stab-stapled into cannibalized card covers from another Centre de créativité publication. Reprints a text which originally appeared in 1968 as issued 5 of Soulevemente de la Jeunesse. 250

59. Lemaître, Maurice. L’Islam et Israël.

Paris: Centre de Créativité, 1979. First edition. 4to, photocopied from typescript and holograph on rectos only and stab-stapled into cannibalized card wraps with title pastedown to front panel. One of only fifty copies numbered and signed by Lemaître, the entire edition. Near fine with some rubbing to the spine. 300

60. Lemaître, Maurice. Cinéma, Cinéma.

Paris: Centre de créativité, 1979. First edition. 4to, photocopied on rectos only and stab-stapled into thick unprinted violet glassine wraps. One of only fifty signed and numbered copies accompanied by a original photograph of one of the films, tipped into the text, the entire edition. Fine. 450

61. Lemaître, Maurice. Les erreurs des Papes Paul VI et Jean-Paul II.

Paris: Centre de créativité, 1979. First edition. 4to, photocopied on rectos only and stab-stapled into cannibalized card covers. With a photographic print tipped onto p. 7. One of only fifty numbered and signed copies, the entire edition. A rare work; OCLC locates no holdings. 500

62. Lemaître, Maurice. Kandinski est-il vraiment celui qu’on dit?

Paris: Centre de créativité, 1979. 4to, photocopied on rectos only and stab-stapled into cannibalized card wraps, with illustrated title pastedown to front panel. One of fifty numbered copies signed by Lemaître, the entire edition. Later reprinted at least twice, this first edition is rare. Fine. 200

63. Lemaître, Maurice. Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, François Mitterrand et Georges Marchais, responsables de l’effondrement de la France.

Paris: Maurice Lemaître, 1979. 4to, photocopied on rectos only and stab-stapled into cannibalized card 60 wraps, with title pastedown to front panel. Very good with some light fraying to spine ends and a bump to upper tip. 150

64. Ferrua, Pietro, ed. Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Letterism.

Paris & Portland, Oregon: Avant-Garde, 1979. First edition. 4to, 164 pp, comb-bound in covers illustrated by Bill Griffin. One of 250 numbered copies, this an association copy dedicated for Rita Rose Vistica. Ferrua organized this symposium, which was a landmark moment for scholarship on the movement. Tips bumped, with some creasing to covers; very good. 125 80’s

65. Lemaître, Maurice. Sur Tristan Tzara, Andre Breton, Philippe Soupault, Georges Ribe- mont-Dessaignes, Georges Hugnet, Pierre de Massot, Jean Cocteau, Francis Picabia, Velimir Kh- lebnikov, Youri Annenkov, Wladimir Maiakovski, Frank Wedekind, Carl Sternheim, Georg Kaiser, Ernst Toller.

Paris: Centre de Créativité, 1980. 4to, photocopied from typescript and holograph, stab-stapled in unprinted red glassine covers. Published in an edition of only 50 signed and numbered copies, this copy unsigned and unnumbered and presumably out of series. Fine. 150

66. Lemaître, Maurice. Le cinéma super-expérimental.

Paris: Centre de créativité, 1980. First edition. 4to, 115 pp, photocopied on rectos only and stab-stapled into thick unprinted green glassine wraps. One of only fifty numbered copies signed by Lemaître, which are accompanied by a large print of three stills of Lemaître in the Isou film Trait de Bave et d’Eternite. Along with an unspecified number of press copies, this was the entire edition. Glassine cracked at spine ends, else near fine. 300

67. Lemaître, Maurice. Le bouleversement de l’architecture, ou, topopoétique.

Paris: Centre de créativité, 1980. First edition. 4to, photocopied from typescript and holograph on rectos only; stab-stapled into unprinted yellow glassine covers. Out of an unspecified edition, this is copy no. 11, and is signed by Lemaître. Rare in this original edition, which was likely distributed in a very limited manner; it was later reprinted in 1987, though that reprint itself is scarce. 350

68. Lemaître, Maurice. De Jean-Luc Godard à Alain Resnais : en passant par Chris Marker, Marguerite Duras, Robbe-Grillet, Marcel Hanoun, François Truffaut, Louis Malle, etc., ou, Des escrocs des “Cahiers du cinéma” aux faussaires du film ciselant.

Paris: Centre de créativité, 1980. 4to, photocopied and stab-stapled in unprinted green glassine covers. Con- sists of a long series of news clippings on a series of filmmaker’s, annotated in holograph by Lemaître and photocopied. Fine. 100

69. Lemaître, Maurice. Le Lettrisme et la revue “Paris-Théâtre”. 66

Paris: Centre de créativité, 1980. First edition. 4to, photocopied from holograph on rectos only and stab-stapled into thick unprinted glassine wraps. The edition consisted of only fifty signed and numbered copies, this copy unnumbered and out of series. Near fine with a touch of foxing to first page. 150

70. Lemaître, Maurice. La Grande escroquerie de la reproduction des oeuvres d’art.

Paris: Centre de créativité, 1981. 4to, photocopied on rectos only and stab-stapled into thick unprinted glassine wraps. One of fifty numbered copies signed by Lemaître, the entire edition. OCLC locates four holdings. 200 71. Lemaître, Maurice. Le projet de la revue “neuf ”.

Paris: Centre de créativité, 1981. First edition. 4to, [76] leaves, photocopied on rectos only, and stab-stapled into plain yellow glassine wraps, with a blank bound in sheet of chipboard. One of only 50 numbered and signed copies, the entire edition, this being copy no. 3. Extremely scarce; OCLC locates only 1 holding of this original edition. It was later reprinted by Centre de Créativité a decade later, though that edition is also scarce. 250

72. Zeltzer, Dominique & Fréderique Devaux, Michel Amarger, eds. 7ème Art no. 2 [1ere série] & 2eme série, no. 7.

Paris: 7ème Art, 1981, 1987. First edition. Issue 2 4to, glue-bound and taped, photocopied on rectos only; issue 7 (second series) 4to, stab-stapled, photocopied on rectos only.

Two issues of the journal devoted to Lettrist cinema. The earlier issue is edited by Zeltzer and largely devoted to Lemaître’s films; the later is edited by Devaux and Amarger (who later edited “Le Mouvement Lettriste”) and consists of Roland Sabatier’s “Critique de <> et de Maurice Lemaître.” Scarce. Both issues near very good, with some light edgewear and creasing to wraps. 150

73. Lemaître, Maurice and Pietro Ferrua. Entretiens avec Pietro Ferrua sur le lettrisme.

Paris: Centre de créativité, 1982. First edition. 4to, photocopied from holograph and typescript on rectos only and glue bound into xeroxed green card wraps. A mammoth collection of texts. Very good with bump- 75 ing to the tips. 125

74. Lemaître, Maurice . Oeuvre Plastique Tomes 1 (1953-1959) and 2 (1950-1952).

Paris: Centre de créativité, 1983. Each volume a 4to, photocopied on rectos only and stab-stapled into thick unprinted glassine covers. Both volumes published of this work devoted to Lemaître’s sculptural works. Glassine cracked and chipped on both volumes; very good. 200

75. Amarger, Michel and Frèdèric Devaux. Photos Photo(eu)thanasies et Copygrammes.

np: Editions E. D. A. , 1984. First edition. 4to, 104 pp. (xeroxed on rectos only), tape-bound in printed covers. One of 100 copies, the entire edition. A fantastic collaboration between the two artists, featuring numer- ous photomontages and collages along with essays in French. One of the most striking later artist books of Lettrisme. Rare; OCLC locates only the Bibliotheque National copy. 450

76. Devaux, Frederique. Francois Poyet. Une Vie de Signe: Roman Hypergraphique.

Clichy Cedex, France: E. D. A. , 1985. First edition. 8vo, unpaginated, glue bound in printed wraps. Photo- copied from cut-up collage and typescript. One of only 50 copies printed, the entire edition, of this beauti- ful hypergraphique novel. With a preface by Francois Poyet. OCLC locates only two holdings. 400

76 77. Curtay, Jean-Paul, Martha Wilson. Hypergraphics: The Unknown Avant-Garde 1945-1985.

New York: Franklin Furnace, 1985. First edition. 8vo, printed wraps. Illustrated. Vital reference work, which includes a detailed timeline and a bibliography, and not the least, an eloquent text by the Lettrist Curtay on the history of the movement. Very good with a small bump and resulting tear at foot of spine; binding remains sound. 75

78. Devaux, Frédérique & Michel Amarger, eds. Le Mouvement Lettriste, nos. 5 & 8-9.

Paris: E.D.A., 1985-1986. First edition. Both issues 4to, photocopied on rectos only; No. 5 [6]p. stab-stapled in wraps; no. 8-9 glue-bound in wraps. Text in French.

A very scarce journal; Bibliothèque Nationale’s is the only listing in OCLC. No. 5 consists of an essay by Devaux titled “Comment peut-on etre Lettriste en 198x…?” No. 8-9 is an interesting late Lettrist collection featuring visual works by Isou, Sabatier, Poyet, Devaux and Amarger, along with Isou’s proposed “quelques regles nouveaux dans le mouvement Lettriste,” apparently in conjunction with an exhibit at Galerie Michel Broomhead. Some moderate creasing, but very good. 125

79. Satie, Alain. Alain Satie: Peintures, Sculptures de 1964 a 1986.

np: Publications Psi / Galerie C. H. Le Chanjour, 1986. Square 8vo, 36 pp, saddle-stapled wraps. Illustrated with plates, some in color. With a brief prefatory text by Isidore Isou (taken from one of 1000 copies published by Publications Psi; however, this copy has a sticker for Galerie Chanjour pasted down over the Psi imprint at title page. Very good with some moderate rubbing to extremities. 75

80. Sabatier, Roland. Roland Sabatier: Le Roman du Soulevement de la Jeunesse & Autres Oeu- vres de 1964.

Paris: Galerie Michel Broomhead et Publications Psi, 1987. First edition. 4to, [30] pp, saddle-stapled wraps. Illustrated with color and b/w plates, four of which are tipped in. One of 1000 copies. With forewards by Gabriele Aldo-Bertozzi and Roland Sabatier. The handsomely produced catalog for this 1987 exhibition, produced by the gallery in conjunction with Publications Psi. Fine. 50 the first scratch and sniff exhibition announcement?

81. Lemaître, Maurice. Dossier de Press for Maurice Lemaître & L’Olfactique (1951-1988) [with] Scratch & Sniff Exhibition Announcement.

Paris: Galerie de Paris, 1988. First edition. 4to, wraps. The press release for the infamous 1988 exhibition of 81 olfactory exhibition, with an invitation to the exhibition laid in, to the front panel which is affixed a scratch & sniff sticker bearing a pink rose, which is printed with the phrase “d’abord le parfum. . .Frottez et sent- ez!” Announcement fine; dossier is very good with some bumping to extremities, with some resulting page creasing. 250 82. Sabatier, Roland. Illuminations: Version Plastique (1987-1988).

Paris: Galerie de Paris, 1989. First edition. 4to, wraps. Illustrated with several plates, one of which is in color. The catalog for the exhibition of the same name, held in 1989 at the Galerie de Paris. Very good with some minor creasing to tips. 45 90’s

83. Lemaître, Maurice, ed. Questions Lettristes Nos. 1-6 [All Published].

Paris: Centre de Créativité, 1991. First edition. 4to, each issue xeroxed from holograph, typescript and appropriated and annoted pages on rectos only; each issue stab-stapled into unprinted glassine covers.

All issues published of this somewhat in-house periodical, mostly devoted to correspondence, and repro- ducing letters between Isidore Isou, Marcel Lemaître, Marcel Fleiss, Roland Sabatier et al. The xerox toner used in the production of the periodical was very and heavy and lies thick on the page, leading to some stickiness between the pages, and some offsetting onto the glassine on one volume. Rare: OCLC locates only one holding. Very good with some creasing to glassine. 125

84. Lemaître, Maurice. Film-Objet (1989).

Paris: Galerie de Paris, 1991. First edition. 4to, 53 pp, printed wraps. Illustrated with color reproductions. The catalog for the 1991 exhibition of film objects, prefaced by text by Lemaître on the history of the film 83 object. Very good with some minor bumping to extremities. 85

85. Lemaître, Maurice, ed. Questions Creatistes Nos. 1-24, 26-28.

Paris: Centre de Créativité, 1992-1994?. 27 issues, the first two which are photocopied and stapled once at the upper left hand corner, with subsequent issues xeroxed on rectos only and perfect bound in printed wraps. Almost complete, missing only a single issue. A periodical which includes essays, reproductions of correspondence (including profuse documentation of the correspondence of Isou, some of it early). Half or more of the issues show creasing and tearing, especially to the paper covering the spines; good only. 300

86. Isou, Isidore; Frederique Devaux. Entretiens avec Isidore Isou.

np: La Bartavelle, 1992. First edition. 12mo, 130 pp, wraps. Text in French. Prints a series of interviews with Isou which took place over the course of a month, from late 1991 to early 1992. Near fine with a single dogeared page and a slight crease to rear wrap. 45

87. Devaux, Frederique. Ilda Les Chants du Signe. np: E. D. A. , 1994. First edition. 8vo, 98 pp, saddle-stapled wraps. A prose novel. Rare; OCLC locates only the Bibliotheque National copy. Fine. 125 87 88. Lemaître, Maurice. Merci Pezou, pour Hina Nadolna!

Paris: Centre de créativité, 1995. 4to, various paginations, photocopied on rectos only and perfect bound in printed French card wraps. OCLC locates only one holding. Fine. 100

89. Lemaître, Maurice. Tremplin artistique pour une innovation économique, politique et so- ciale. suivi de CIEL : Café international électronique Lemaître : première oeuvre d’art sur Internet.

Paris: Centre de créativité, 1995. First edition. 4to, photocopied from holograph, typescript, and one color photocopy of an appropriated and horrific news image. Scarce; OCLC locates only one holding. Fine. 125

90. Lemaître, Maurice . La rhétorique hypergraphique: oeuvres-manifeste : exposition imag- inaire (1995).

Paris: Fondation Bismuth-Lemaître, 1995. 8vo, [8] pp, saddle-stapled wraps. Illustrated with color reproductions. One of only 20 copies numbered and signed by Lemaître. OCLC locates only two holdings. Fine. 250

91. Lemaître, Maurice [Isidore Isou]. Sur quelques erreurs commises à propos du film d’Isidore Isou, Traité de bave et d’éternité.

Paris: Centre de créativité, 1995. First edition. 8vo, 13 pp, saddle-stapled wraps. One of 100 copies. OCLC locates only two holdings. Fine. 50

92. Devaux, Frédérique. De La Creation a la Societe Paradisiaque Vol. 1-2 [All Published].

Créteil: Editions de Christolien, 1996. First edition. Two volumes, 196 [8] + 149 [6] pp., each 8vo, and bound in printed wraps. Text in French. Both volumes published of this important study of Isou, focusing on his relationship with Judaic thought. Decidedly uncommon; OCLC locates only a couple of holdings of each volume. Very good. 250 92

93. Ferrua, Pietro and Maurice Lemaître. Conversations About Letterism.

Ferrua, Pietro and Maurice Lemaître. Conversations About Letterism. np: Editions Le Point Couleur, 1997. First edition thus. 8vo, 111 pp, wraps. Translated into English by Douglas J. Foran. The first English language edition, previously published in French in 1982. Near fine with a couple of small spots of soiling. 75

94. Lemaître, Maurice. Traces créatrices.

Paris: Centre de créativité, 2004. First edition. 4to, photocopied from typescripts on rectos only; perfect bound in French card wraps. Signed by Lemaître at the limitation page. Scarce: OCLC locates only a single holding, at Oxford. Fine. 250 inismo

95. Aga-Rossi, Laura. Qu’est-ce que l’Internationale novatrice infinitésimale.

Paris and Firenze: CICK : Centre international création kladologique / Edizioni Techne, 1981. First edition. 8vo, 48 pp, bound in printed French wraps. Texts in English, Cyrillic, and French. One of 600 numbered copies. Illustrated with b/w reproductions. A very early and important Inist text, outlining the foundations of the movement and positioning it in relation to Letterism. Near fine with a light bump to the head of spine. OCLC locates only two holdings. 150

96. Pryor, Molero & Gutman Figueiredo et al. Koine [aka Grafe Koine, Koiné, Koinè, Koine- INI, KoinèINI, Kóinè].

Madrid: Koine, 1985-. A significant accumulation of more than 40 issues and related publications from the main artists’ periodical of the Inismo movement in Spain. Most issues are 8vo, many with original collages affixed onto the covers and interior pages, with several issues consisting of loose leaf assemblages. The eclectic nature of the periodical highlights associations the Inismo movement in Spain makes with the larg- er, umbrella movements of concrete poetry and mail art. The name of each publication varies, as does the 96 numbering. OCLC only locates holdings at one Spanish institution. [See Perneczky] 850

97. Bertozzi, Gabriele-Aldo, ed. Berenice [first series] 1-15, 26, 33; [second series] 1-18, 22-26, 28- 29, 33-34.

Rome/Acre/L’Aquille: Lucarini Editore/Pagine/Asso/Angelus Novus. 8vo, wraps. French and Italian language. Nos. 1-7 (November 1980-March 1983) subtitled “Rivista Quadrimestrale di Litteratura Fran- cese.” 8-26 subtitled “Letteratura Francese Contemporanea: Le correnti d’avanguardia.” Nos. 1-7 are each devoted to a single author or subject. The editor, Gabriel-Aldo Bertozzi, was associated with Lettrisme and went on to found the movement Inismo. Second series subtitled “Rivista Quadrimestrale di Studi Compar- ati e Richerche sulle Avanguardie.” Issues 1-4 published by Pagine (Rome), 5-12 by Asso (Arce), 13-34 by Angelus Novus (L’Aquila). With offprints: No. 20: Inismo Spagnolo e Argentino by G.-A. Bertozzi. 8vo, stab-stapled wraps. No. 21: Secondo Manifesto Ini by Apollinaria Signi. 8vo, stab-stapled wraps. No. 28: The 98 Revolutionist Guide/ Guide du Revolutionnaire by G.-A. Bertozzi. 8vo, wraps. March 2003. 88 pp. English and French. And: inism: bollettino quadrimestrale promosso dagli “amici dell’inismo” anno I - o. 1, 2001. 4to, spiralbound wraps, illustrations in color throughout. Text in Italian. 1500

98. Inismo. Inia Kelma: taller andalucista de poesía inista.

Cordoba: Inia Kelma, c. 1993-94. Five issues, each saddle-stapled in wraps. Nos. 2, 3, 5, and two unnum- 97 bered issues, perhaps consecutive, and perhaps all published. OCLC locates single holdings of three issues, and records no later issues. An Inist artists’ periodical featuring visual poetry. Fine. 200 99. Londei, Danielle. L’Inismo.

Bologna: Associazione Culturale Italo-Francese / Alliance Francaise, 1990. First edition. Square 8vo, [24] pp, saddle-stapled wraps. Illustrated with full page plates, three of which are in color. Prefatory text in Italian by Londei. The catalog for the 1990 exhibition, which illustrates works by Gabriele-Aldo Bertozzi, Laura Aga-Rossi, Kiki Franceschi, Andrea Chiarantini, Angelo Merante, Furio de Mattia, Giorgio Mattioli, Albert Dupont, Franvois Proia, Francoise Canal, and Gaetano Marino. Very good with some light creasing and a paper clip indent to cover. 45 Bibliography:

100. ZEINU(E), ed. Inizial: Revista Inista de Poesia no. 1. Bonnacorsi, Robert et al. Lettrisme: Vue d’Ensemble sur Quelques Depassements Precis. La Nerthe: Villa Alava, Euskadi: Inizial, nd. 8vo, [16] pp. [incl. covers], saddle-stapled wraps. With hand-coloring to one page Tamaris Centre d’Art, 2010. and a foldout yarn multiple at centerfold. The debut issue of this Ini artists’ periodical from the Basque region of Spain. Wtih contributions from the editor and Jabier Herrero, J. L. Campal, Aitor Oribe, Mikel Curtay, Jean-Paul. Letterism and Hypergraphics: The Unknown Avant-Garde 1945-1985. NY: Franklin Fur- Campo, and Leopoldo Panero. OCLC locates no holdings. Fine. [See Perneczky] 75 nace, 1985.

Guymer, Christiane and Maurice Lemaitre. Catalogue Christiane: Bibliographie Supertemporelle du Mouve- 101. Garcia, Pedro Gonzalves, ed. Vertice: Poesia Inista Galega No. 1. ment Lettriste. Paris: Centre de Creativite, 1967.

Caritel, Spain: Vertice, 1998. 8vo, loose leaves housed in a printed and rubberstamped folder. Ini artists’ Guymer, Christiane and Maurice Lemaitre. Catalogue Christiane II: Premier Supplement a la Bibliographie periodical devoted to visual poetry, with contributions from the editor and Cesar Figueiredo, Juan Orozco Supertemporelle du Mouvement Lettriste. Paris: Centre de Creativite, 1977. Ocana, Anxo Pastor, Molero Prior, Maria Luz Bermejo, Carlos Garcia Goncalves Durao, Gabrielle Aldo Bertozzi, Lex Loeb, and Lois Gil Magarinos. OCLC locates no holdings. Fine. [See Perneczky] 85 Guymer, Christiane. Bibliographie Succincte de Maurice Lemaitre. Second Supplement au Catalogue Chris- tiane, Bibliographie Supertemporelle du Mouvement Lettriste. Paris, 1965.

102. Inismo. INI USA portfolio. Home, Stewart. The Assault on Culture: Utopian Currents from Lettrisme to Class War. Stirling: AK Press, 1991. Portland, Ore.: Regione Abruzzo. Roughly 8.25 x 11 3/4” portfolio with printed cover and die-cut windows containing 12 sheets and a multiple consisting of two page-size sheets of silkscreened bubble-wrappers. Marcus, Greil. Lipstick Traces. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1989. Text in Italian and English. Cover sheet printed in color. Bubble-wrap is silkscreened with the word “INI” in red. Perneczky, Geza. Network Atlas: works and publications by the people of the first network : a historical atlas for the post-fluxus movements as mail art, visual poetry, copy art, stamp art & other relative trends with Contributors include Albert Dupont, Iniero Garesto, Eugenio Gianni, Eva Lake, Paul Lambert, Lex Loeb, addresses, projects, publications & exhibition events. Cologne: Soft Geometry, 2000. Casi Massingill, Giorgio Mattioli, Angelo Merante, Francois Proia, Antonino Russo, Giulio Tamburrini, An- toinette Valenti, Opera colletiva (G.-A. Bertozzi, F. De Mattia, I. Garesto, G. Marino, A. Merante, F. Proia). Repp, Kevin. The Strange Case of Dr. Ferdiere. http://www.library.yale.edu/~nkuhl/Psyche-Muse/Ferd- Portfolio folder has heavy creasing, with tearing to tips and corners of windows, else very good. 150 iere--Checklist.pdf

103. The Letters. Untitled.

[St. Johns, Ore]: [The Letters], [2013]. 8vo, [8] pp [incl. covers], photocopied from typescript and holograph; saddle-stapled. Good only with a faint bootprint and a couple of creosote stains to covers.

The second edition of this manifesto outlining a new poetics of freight train graffiti as the last true revolutionary public art by this anonymous crew of writers based in Portland. The first edition was “published” on the sides of ten boxcars in the Albina Yard in Portland; no known photographic documentation of that edition exists. It includes diatribes against bubble writing and the commercial exploitation of “street art”, reference to early boxcar art and Bozo Texino, along with a strange and familiar mention of Isou and the Letterists which seems to indicate a Letterist influence. OCLC locates no holdings. 75