a secret index— division leap no. 25 a secret index— Booksellers, publishers and researchers of the history of print culture. Collections purchased. Books found. Appraisals performed. Libraries built. divisionleap.com no. 25 83. 35. 59. 39. 39. 27. 30. 25. 21. 65. 48. 72. 6. contents a. Walter Benjamin—German Expressionism—Raubdrucke 17 b. Reproduction—Computing—Classification—Architecture 23 c. The Body—Tattooing—Incarceration—Crime—Sexuality 33 d. Social Movements—1968—Feminism—The SI & After 47 e. Music 57 f. Literature—Poetry—Periodicals 63 g. Film—Chris Marker 77 h. Art 85 i. Punk Zines 91 Additional images of all items available at divisionleap.com or by request. a. Walter Benjamin—German Expressionism—Raubdrucke 17 2. 1. 18 a. The Birth of Walter Benjamin’s Theory Heuber so messianically feels is near … ” of the Messianic McCole, analyzing this same letter, notes that this appears to be Benjamin’s first use of the term 1. [Victor Hueber] Die Organisierung der “Messianic” in his writings [McCole, p. 61]. The Intelligenz. Ein Aufruf. Zweite, erweiterte Auflage. idea would haunt Benjamin’s subsequent works Als Manuskript gedruckt. on history, and reach its conclusion in the second [Prague]: Druck H. Mercy, [1910]. 8vo, thesis in On the Concept of History, written just 107 pp, stab-stapled and glue bound into violet before his march into the mountains. “The past printed wraps. Front and back panels of wraps carries with it a secret index, by which it is referred detached but present, with the paper covering to its resurrection. There is an agreement and an the spine mostly perished. Marginal annotations appointment between us and the generations of the in pencil throughout. past. For we have been expected upon this earth. The second edition of this privately published Like the generations before us, we have been and circulated utopian proposal to create an given a weak messianic power, which the past can organized intelligentsia and foster human creativity lay claim to. This claim is not to be settled lightly. against capitalism. Published around Whitsun in The historical materialist knows why.” Prague, it includes reactions from readers who Rare. OCLC locates only two holdings, and had received the first version of the text. A third, none in North America. The preceding edition is publicly published edition would follow later this not located in OCLC. $1,000 same year [see item no. 2]. The work was written by Viktor Hueber, a 2. Viktor Hueber. Die Organisierung former Austrian captain who became a member of der Intelligenz. the circle which published the short-lived magazine Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1910. Der Anfang, in which Benjamin published his first The third, expanded, and first public edition. poems and essays. Hueber was later associated 8vo, vii, 234 pp. Bound in violet paper covered with Franz Pfemfert’s better known periodical boards with titles stamped in white. Foreward Die Aktion, and early issues of the magazine bore by Ernst Mach. With the ownership signature the subtitle “Publikationsorgan der Organization of Wely v. Döring to title page, and on the fep der Intelligenz”, a reference to this work, though a full page inscription to him from his uncle, subsequent efforts to create an actual organization with reference to Schopenhauer. On the title based on the book’s principles failed due to page a quote from Benjamin is written in red ink infighting [Portner, p. 140]. in a different, unknown hand. Benjamin discusses the book in a September 15, The Benjamin passage written on the title page 1913 letter to Carla Seligsohn, the first person he’d is the same excerpt on Hueber from his letter to met who had also read the book. “Those of us who Carla Seligsohn on September 15, 1913 which is understand Hueber feel our youth complete only in quoted above. the presence of his ideas- the others, who feel noth- Boards faded at extremities, with a bump to ing, are not young. They have simply never been upper tip of front board. Very good. $500 young. They took pleasure in their youth only when it was over, just a memory. They did not know the 3. Benjamin, Walter. Eine Kommunistische great joy of its presence, which we are now feeling Paedagogik—Spielzeg und Spielen—Programm and which I sense in your words … But in every eines Proletarischen Kindertheater—Baustelle + individual who is born, no matter where, and turns Diskussion + Anhang. out to be young, there is, not ‘improvement,’ but West Berlin: Zentralrat der sozialistischen perfection from the very start. This is the goal that Kinderläden, 1969. First edition thus. 8vo, 93 pp, 19 a. saddle-stapled wraps. of the Passagen-Werk in Germany, with reference A raubdruck, or unauthorized reprint issued to “die Frankfurther Monopolisten.” The pamphlet from the German student movement. Beginning in also prints letters between Benjamin and the 1960’s there was an explosion of such publica- Horkheimer, Herbert Marcuse, and Adorno tions in West Germany, filling the void left by the and Horkheimer. lack of official publications of works dealing with This essay was also published in the pirate leftist and critical thought – especially the work edition of Passagen-Werk, edited by “Detlef Holz”— of Benjamin and other members of the Frankfurt a pseudonym which Benjamin himself used to School. Often made in haste and for distribution in write Deutsche Menschen in 1936. Conrad and small numbers for discussion groups, with fictitious Stempflinger were also pseudonyms used by or facetious places of publication and pseudonyms, Benjamin himself. these publications have parallels with Samizdat References: von Olenhusen, Der Weg vom publications, and anticipate some of the same Manuscript … 11. Brodersen F30. aesthetics and strategies of the zine movement. Very good. Sold There is a complete lack of English language literature on these publications, though Olenhusen 5. Benjamin, Walter. Analytische has issued a couple excellent German language Beschreibung von Deutschlands Untergang in bibliographies on them. zwanzig Thesen und andere Text. References: Olenhusen, Der Weg … No. 1. Münster [actually Berlin]: Aurin Verlag, 1987. Handbuche der Raubdrucke No. 69. 16mo, 78 [2] pp, perfect bound in illustrated wraps. Very good. $75 Text in German. Prints the title work by Benjamin as well as 4. [Walter Benjamin] C. Conrad & K. A. his essay on Lebel, and Werner Fuld’s essay Die Stempflinger. Die Zerstückelung des Walter Aura. This little book concludes by reprinting item Benjamin oder Die Heiligsprechung des no. 4 item with a reset title page and the addition Max Horkheimer. of footnotes. Edited by “Detlef Holz” [see no. 4], Oxford, New York, San Remo: 1980 – 82. and likely connected with the raubdruck of 8vo, 16 sheets mimeographed from typescript on Passagen-Werk which was issued under the both recto and verso, with the exception of the same name. title leaf, which is printed on recto only, and the References: von Olenhusen, Der Weg … 15. final leaf, which is blank. Stapled once at the upper Not in Brodersen. left hand corner. Near fine with some light foxing to the A critique of the then recently-released edition wraps. $50 20 1. 21 a. 2. 22 b. Reproduction—Computing— Classification—Architecture 23 6. 24 b. 6. Verifax Printer, Type 1 [with] Paper. A collection of songs published for employees Rochester, NY: Kodak Company, c. 1950’s – at IBM, including music composed specifically for late 1960’s. the company, including March on With the IBM Kodak’s Verifax machine was a duplicating by Vittorio Giannini, Hail to the IBM by Fred W. machine that used a wet colloidal diffusion transfer Tappe and Giannini, “Ever Onward” (aka the technique to make reproduction. The machine IBM rally song) and the “IBM School Song”, utilized special chemical paper, and was marketed and the “IBM Country Club Song.” to offices, being a cheaper technology than the The IBM songbook, and the body of songs photostat. However, the multiple step process, the which make it up, was the work of the founder, expense of the chemical paper the machine utilized Thomas Watson, Sr., who sought to inspire and and the instability of the printed images over time create a strong corporate identity against the back- meant that the technology was not widely used, and ground of the Great Depression. The first iteration became quickly obsolete, to be replaced with the of the songbook was published in 1927. We’ve not machine that the Verifax laid the technical ground- encountered this edition before, which is undated. work for, the xerox photocopier, which launched An explanatory note to “Hail to the IBM” explains the era of immediacy in print culture which the the genesis of the song in 1938, but we believe this Verifax could only suggest. printing to predate the 1941 edition, which had The Verifax was utilized by a handful of artists, more than twice the pages. including Wallace Berman, who used a Verifax Near fine with minor toning to extremities, which he had been given by Billy Jahrmarkt – and the wrap slightly pulling away from the who had already incorporated the machine into top staple. $450 his own, neglected artworks. These machines are an important part of the rapid technological 8. IBM [International Business Machines]. changes in printing processes of the Mimeograph A Souvenier of the New York World’s Fair. Revolution, and are now quite uncommon – it [New York]: IBM, 1964. 3 1/4 x 7 3/8" seems likely that few were saved due to their rapid computer punchcard, printed on orange card stock. obsolescence and bulk. A souvenir, which we presume to have been This example of the machine appears to be printed in conjunction with the IBM Pavilion at complete, though the power cord is severed and the 1964 World’s Fair in New York City.