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
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. 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
Paris: Le Mouvement Surrealiste, 1956. First edition. 8 1/2 x 11”, printed on recto only on handmade, speckled brown paper. Surrealist tract protesting the recent election of 52 members of the Poujadiste movement, accusing them of fascism, and drawing attention to the war in Algeria and the fate of Algerians... More
Paris: 1963. First edition. 8 5/8 x 11", offset printed in black on yellow paper. Text in French and Spanish. A manifesto prompted by an exchange of undesirables between France and Spain, with an attack on Malraux. With the printed signatures of Philippe Audoin, Jean-Louis Bedouin, Robert Benayoun, Vincent Bounoure... More
[Paris]: 1956. 8 1/4 x 10 3/4", broadside printed on red paper. A leaflet prepared in response to the supression of the Hungarian Revolution by the USSR earlier in that month. Signed by Anne Bedouin, Robert Benayoun, Andre Breton, Adrien Dax, Yves Elleouet, Charles Flamand, Georges Goldfayn, Louis Janover, Jean-Jacques... More
New York: The Committee for the Real Estate Show, 1980. 4to, three sheets printed on rectos only from a hand-corrected typescript. Illustrated with a drawing by Rebecca Howland and a photo of 123 Delancey. A manifesto for the reopening of the Real Estate Show and announcement of an upcoming press... More
[San Francisco]: Free City, nd. First edition. Paperback. 4to. 22 pp. Offset printed on newsprint; saddle-stapled wraps. The first edition of the final Diggers publication. The entire contents also appeared as issue no. 81 of Paul Krassner’s The Realist, but this edition was printed separately for free distribution in San... More
New York: The Wall Street Action & Manhattan Project, 1979. 4to, 32 pp, offset printed on newsprint. Saddle-stapled. A pamphlet produced to be used by participants in The Manhattan Project's Wall Street Action in October, 1979, which commemorated the 50th anniversary of the Crash of 1929, drawing parallels with that... More
New York: [1970]. 8 1/2 x 11" sheet, mimeographed from typescript on recto. A flyer for this happening by this group based out of NYU, which proposed a decentralized anarchism influenced by the Situationist International, and with some parallels to the Provo movement. The group called their happenings "Freak-Ins" or... More
Zurich, Vienna, Prague: Buchergilde Gutenberg, 1933. First edition. 8vo, 254 pp, bound in full slate blue cloth with red blind-stamped titles. Printed dust jacket. The first edition of the third book in the Mahogany series, and the first book published by the Buchergilde Gutenberg following the seizure of the Berlin... More
