Brunswick, Australia: Scam Publications, [1994]. 4to, 36 pp, saddle-stapled wraps printed in two colors. Illustrated with black and white drawings. Mid-1990's manual on computing aimed at anarchist groups. It is mostly concerned with the setting up of BBS, or Bulletin Board Services from an anarchist perspective, but also includes coverage... More
Berlin: Zentraler Ermittlungsausschuss TU Westberlin, 1969. First edition. 12mo, unpaginated, saddle-stapled in photographic wraps. Illustrated with full page photographs credited to Kommune 1. Important publication on persecution of student and social movements in West Germany, social justice, and higher education, with a letter from the Moabit prison. illustrated with striking... More
np: The Artist, 1979. First edition. 8vo, saddle-stapled card wraps. With original price sticker from the MoMa gift shop affixed to cover. Artists' book by Kramer reproducing the FBI files documenting their surveillance and abuse of the actress Jean Seberg in retaliation for her financial donations to the Black Panther... More
np: Livermore Liberation League, nd [c. early 1980's]. 8 1/2 x 11" poster, xerox in black and white on both recto and verso. Poster advertising a march to the Livermore Lab, and calling to convert the lab, and Los Alamos, to peaceful purposes. The march was a joint effort by... More
Santiago, Chile: Industria Impresora [cover: Editorial Otoño], 1972 [cover: 1965]. 8vo, 166 [1] pp, bound in beige wraps printed in magenta. Text in Spanish. A Trotskyist account of the revolution in Bolivia, here presented under false covers to avoid confiscation. Lora was a longtime member, and eventually leader of the... More
[Stockholm]: Arbetsgruppen för stöd åt de franska aktionskommittéerna, 1968. 8vo, 159 pp, bound in photographically illustrated wraps. Profusely illustrated with b/w photographs. Text in Swedish. Little known but excellent collection of photographs and texts regarding the events of May 1968 in France, collected and translated into Swedish with white hot..... More
West Somerville, MA: Mental Patients Liberation Front, nd [c. 1975]. 8vo, 16 pp. [including covers], mimeographed on white paper. Saddle-stapled. Illustrated in black and white. Early newsletter from the movement published from West Somerville, with detailed covered of Rogers vs. Macht and a piece on the Boston Satte 7 -... More
Rockville, MD: [1965]. 8 1/2 x 11", mimeographed from typescript. A leaflet printing an eloquent open letter by both authors explaining their refusal to register the for the draft, ten years before Moore would co-found the Homebrew Computer Club, the most influential hobbyist group of the 20th century. Moore, who... More
Np: aktionskomiteen for Teaterstorm, Bauhaus Situationniste, 1971. 12 x 17 1/2", offset printed in blue on pink stock on both recto and verso. Situationist poster manifesto, signed (in plate) by Nash and Jens Jørgen Thorsen, Yoshio Nakajima, Helmut Sturm, Heimrad Prem, Patric O'brien, Otto Muel, Roberto Malquori, Alberto Ruitz, Andres... More
San Francisco: UC Nuclear Weapons Labs Conversion Project, 1982-? 8vo, 8pp, unbound, folded sheets. A proposal to repurpose the Livermore Weapons Laboratory to peaceful purposes. OCLC locates no holdings. Fine. More
New York: Kensington, 1977. First edition. Omar the Beggar, aka Alan Abel, was the founder of Omar's School for Beggars. The book was republished in a limited edition in 2010 of 500 copies by Kunstverein Publishing, an edition which itself has become scarce. Despite its status as an underground classic... More
np: Pacificmoonplanet Ecological Theatre, nd. 8 1/2 x 11", mimeographed from typescript on yellow paper. A poetry broadside. We can find no reference to the group, though we've seen other broadsides signed by the project, all with a similar poetic voice with heavy use of portmanteau word constructions. Very good with moderate creasing. More
New York: 1968. 8 1/2 x 11" sheet, mechanically reproduced on recto only. Single date stamp to lower margin, else fine. A fascinating artifact from the 1968 student occupation of Columbia University. According to a 1968 article by Robert Ast in the Columbia Spectator, the society threatened to "dump [Columbia]... More
San Francisco: Millions of Square Feet, 1984. First edition. 4to, printed on various colors and types of paper stock and stab-stapled into photographically illustrated wraps. Illustrated by Scott Skinhead and Lance LeClaire. The second issue of this periodical for Squatters, which was formerly entitled "Squat for Life." The Kaliflower commune... More
Mountain View, CA: PHASE (Project on Health and Safety in Electronics), c. 1979. Three 8 1/2 x 11" flyers, the first two offset printed on rectos only, and the last offset printed on both recto and verso, all with union printing slugs. Three handbills by PHASE drawing attention to health... More
np: 1984. 74 color polaroids, 3 1/2 x 4 1/4", housed in a comemrcial plastic sleeve album. A remarkable series, consisting mostly of portraits of attendees to the convention in Dallas, Texas. The anonymous photographer had a keen eye for detail, and a good handful of the snapshots are small... More
Kent, UK: Prompt, nd [c. early 1980's]. 8vo, 58 pp, saddle-stapled wraps. A drug guide issued by a crisis hotline and publisher based in Kent, outlining connections between the drugs and control, as well as their relation to capitalism and drug companies. According to a note on the front cover... More
[New York]: 1939. Three 8.5 x 14" sheets, mimeographed on rectos only and stapled once at the upper left hand corner. Pencilled date of July, 1939 to first sheet; folded once, with some toning and staining; very good. Prospectus for a proposed project to create an organizational committee that would... More
[Amsterdam]: Provo, c. 1965. 8 1/2 x 14", mimeographed on recto only. Published as Provokatie No. 5, this leaflet outlined the Provo white bicycle plan, in which approximately fifty bicycles were painted white and distributed in Amsterdam in protest of capitalism and traffic congestion. This would become one of the... More
Np: 1979. 8 1/4 x 11 3/4", mimeographed from typescript and holograph. Text in German. Very good with overall handling creases and a single small spot of discoloration. More
Chicago: Solidarity Bookshop, [c. 1965-1966]. First edition. 4to, 10 pp, mimeographed from typescript and holograph. Side-stapled in mimeographed wraps. First and only edition of this pamphlet which gathers three essays on rock music and the revolution; Franklin Rosemont's Mods, Rockers, & The Revolution, which previously appeared in the Rebel Worker... More
San Francisco: Solidarity- Gay/Lesbian Liberation, 1982. 8vo, single sheet folded once to make a four panel booklet. An anti-nuclear manifesto that urges Gay and Lesbian support for Proposition 12, the Bilateral Nuclear Weapons Freeze Initiative, and makes the observation that the same politicians escalating the arms races also tend to... More
Np: 1981. 16 3/4 x 22 3/4", silkscreen in green on white paper. A poster likely made to protest police oversight and actions during the Carnival march of 1981 in Notting Hill, after tensions between police and the squatters in the neighborhood were high. Some creasing and closed tears and nicks to margins; very good. More
Amsterdam: 1969. Oversized tabloid, [4] pp, single sheet folded once (with two additional folds). Offset printed on newsprint. Illustrated with photographs and drawings. First and only issue of this satirical periodical produced by Dutch students during their 1969 occupation of the Maagdenhuis, the headquarters of the University of Amsterdam -... More
