178.

RE/SEARCH #1-3 (SF: 1980-1981).

Tabloid newspaper format, folded. Each 34pp.-38pp. Original printings. Ed. V. Vale. Illustrated throughout, including photographs by Ruby Ray. Contributors include Kathy Acker (“Ali and the Mosque”), Michael Moorcock (“Non-Authoritarian Science Fiction: A Guide”), and JG Ballard (“Zodiac 2000”).

The first three issues of the successor to Search & Destroy, inspired by André Breton’s call in his Surrealist Manifestos to explore the irrational shadow of official culture. Subsequent issues were published in book format.

Contents include The Slits; Throbbing Gristle; Young Marble Giants; Jay Kinney’s “The Conspiracy-Watcher’s Field Guide”; Boyd Rice; Cabaret Voltaire; Sun Ra; Julio Cortazar; Octavio Paz; James Blood Ulmer; Diane di Prima; Monte Cazazza; Zev; “A German Electronic Music Chart”; “A Novice’s Guide to West African Music”; Isabelle Eberhardt; Fela Kuti; Sordide Sentimentale; The Feelies; sado-masochism; surveillance techniques; SPK; DNA; and Flipper.

First issue toned and brittle, with some spine wear and split along length of back cover fold (reinforced with archival tape); second issue slightly toned, with short, 2cm. split to back cover fold, o/w Very Good; third issue Near Fine.

Complete runs of all three newspaper editions in their original printings are scarce.

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