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REVUE OU #40-41 (Ingatestone, Essex: March 1972).
The penultimate issue of Chopin’s Revue OU and the fourth published in England. Various inserts contained in a printed gatefold card folder (28x26cm.), supported by two wooden blocks. Mounted black thermoformed plastic relief (“Portrait of Ernest”) by Hansjörg Gisiger on front cover.
The inserts comprise a 33rpm 10” vinyl record featuring “Valentine Day Reading” by William Burroughs and audio-poems by Brion Gysin, Henri Chopin, Bernard Heidsieck and J.A. da Silva, and original prints in various formats and sizes by Joseph Lacasse, Jochen Gerz, Alice Hutchins, Francis Themerson, Cozette de Charmoy, François Norguet, Henri Chopin, and Jacques Costine (the founder in 1920 of the Romanian review Contimporanul).
Some creasing and corner wear to folder, with 1cm. closed tear to upper edge of front panel; plastic relief intact and wooden blocks still affixed; soft vertical crease to two printed inserts, o/w all prints Near Fine; vinyl unplayed (short seam split to cellophane sleeve). One of 475 numbered copies from a total edition of 500.
