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.
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...
Ulan Bator: Editorial del Estado, 1966. 8vo, 144 p, bound in red cloth with gilt titles; red silk bookmark bound in. No dust jacket. A translation into Spanish of the work best known in English as "The Mongolian people's struggle for national independence and the building of a new life...
np: Insurgent Worker, 1972. 8vo, 20 pp, saddle-stapled wraps. Published as an Insurgent Worker Pamphlet by the Chicago group of the same name. Near fine with a light crease to one tip and some faint toning to extremities.
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...
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.
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 -...
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...
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...
[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...
Washington DC: Federal Bureau of Investigation, 1974. 8 x 10 1/2" wanted poster, offset printed on both recto and verso. An unusual wanted poster for members of the Symbionese Liberation Army, which was specifically sent to doctors. It includes a brief text by Clarence M. Kelley supplying medical information about...
[Berkeley]: nd [c. early 1980's?]. 4to, 8 pp [incl. covers], offset printed and saddle-stapled into wraps illustrated in color. An anonymously produced manual for incoming and returning students to U.C. Berkeley, which includes includes community resources, quotes from a variety of sources (Emma Goldman, Jack London et al) and an...
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...
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...
[Northern Germany]: c. 1921-23. Contemporary album, 10 x 13 1/2", bound in padded faux crocodile-skin boards, with gilt-stamped device to front panel (entitled 'Notgeld Album'). With 258 examples of Notgeld, each printed in color, and each mounted loose via mobile fasteners. A remarkable and carefully assembled album of Notgeld, the...
San Francisco: Kerista Collective, 1985. First edition. 8vo, 128 pp, perfect bound wraps. A publication by the polyfidelity commune focused on science and communal, utopian living, notable for including a relatively early article on the use of computers in the commune. The commune, which termed itself "an operational Scientific Utopian...
New York: Up Against the Wall Motherfucker, nd. 8 1/2 x 11", mimeographed on both recto and verso from holograph and drawing. A leaflet attacking TPF and Bill Graham, with reference to the end of the Henry Street Commune. The verso advertises the Free Store at 89 East 10th St...
[Boston]: Up Against the Wall Motherfucker, nd. 8 1/2 x 11" flyer, mimeographed from holograph and drawing. A rare flyer for the group calling for a demonstration on Boston Common. This unusual broadside - the first we've seen or handled - was likely produced during the group's visit to Boston...
New York: Up Against the Wall Motherfucker, [1968]. 8 1/2 x 11", offset printed with a photomontage at recto and from typescript at verso. The flyer proposing the UAWM's most notorious action. During the garbage strike of 1968 the group trucked garbage from the lower east side and dumped it...
np: Up Against the Wall / Motherfucker, nd [c. 1960's]. 8 1/2 x 11" broadside, mimeographed from holograph. A broadside by UATWM denouncing censorship against protestors by the Boston police, and calling for a rally at Boston Common. This unusual broadside - the first we've seen or handled - was...
Frankfurt: Verband des Linken Buchhandels, 1976. 4to, 48 + 12 pp, perfect bound in photographically illustrated wraps. Text in German. A compilation of articles from the underground press, newsclippings, and other texts about attacks on leftist bookshops in Germany. A valuable reference for German bookstore history as well as a....
np: Christopher Gray and Ammunition Pressworks, nd. 8vo, [10] pp, saddle-stapled wraps. A translation into English of Vienet's piece that was first published as the sixth chapter of his "Enrages et Situationists dans le Mouvement d'Occupations". Fine.
Apeldoorn: De Lantaarn, c. 1930. 8vo, 18 pp, saddle-stapled in wraps. Text in Dutch. Scarce early pacifist / Dutch socialist pamphlet on the perils of chemical warfare, illustrated after a striking drawing of a woman holding a child in a cloud of poison gas; the drawing and pamphlet design are...
London: Release Publications, 1976. First edition. 4to, 16 pp, stab-stapled illustrated covers. OCLC locates only three holdings at the time of cataloguing. Old horizontal crease, and some minor foxing and toning to margins; very good.
Helsinki: Information Centre of the World Peace Council, 1978. 8vo, 55 pp, saddle-stapled wraps. Text in English. Profusely illustrated with b/w photographs. Unbelievably good and compact work that is both a manifesto and survey of anti-nuclear action worldwide at the close of the 1970's. Profusely illustrated not only with photographs...
