Item #40210 INTERNATIONAL TIMES #1-17 (London: October 14th, 1966-July 28th, 1967).
INTERNATIONAL TIMES #1-17 (London: October 14th, 1966-July 28th, 1967).
INTERNATIONAL TIMES #1-17 (London: October 14th, 1966-July 28th, 1967).
INTERNATIONAL TIMES #1-17 (London: October 14th, 1966-July 28th, 1967).
INTERNATIONAL TIMES #1-17 (London: October 14th, 1966-July 28th, 1967).
INTERNATIONAL TIMES #1-17 (London: October 14th, 1966-July 28th, 1967).
INTERNATIONAL TIMES #1-17 (London: October 14th, 1966-July 28th, 1967).
INTERNATIONAL TIMES #1-17 (London: October 14th, 1966-July 28th, 1967).
INTERNATIONAL TIMES #1-17 (London: October 14th, 1966-July 28th, 1967).
INTERNATIONAL TIMES #1-17 (London: October 14th, 1966-July 28th, 1967).
INTERNATIONAL TIMES #1-17 (London: October 14th, 1966-July 28th, 1967).
INTERNATIONAL TIMES #1-17 (London: October 14th, 1966-July 28th, 1967).
INTERNATIONAL TIMES #1-17 (London: October 14th, 1966-July 28th, 1967).
INTERNATIONAL TIMES #1-17 (London: October 14th, 1966-July 28th, 1967).
INTERNATIONAL TIMES #1-17 (London: October 14th, 1966-July 28th, 1967).
INTERNATIONAL TIMES #1-17 (London: October 14th, 1966-July 28th, 1967).
INTERNATIONAL TIMES #1-17 (London: October 14th, 1966-July 28th, 1967).
INTERNATIONAL TIMES #1-17 (London: October 14th, 1966-July 28th, 1967).
INTERNATIONAL TIMES #1-17 (London: October 14th, 1966-July 28th, 1967).
INTERNATIONAL TIMES #1-17 (London: October 14th, 1966-July 28th, 1967).
INTERNATIONAL TIMES #1-17 (London: October 14th, 1966-July 28th, 1967).
INTERNATIONAL TIMES #1-17 (London: October 14th, 1966-July 28th, 1967).
INTERNATIONAL TIMES #1-17 (London: October 14th, 1966-July 28th, 1967).
INTERNATIONAL TIMES #1-17 (London: October 14th, 1966-July 28th, 1967).
INTERNATIONAL TIMES #1-17 (London: October 14th, 1966-July 28th, 1967).
INTERNATIONAL TIMES #1-17 (London: October 14th, 1966-July 28th, 1967).
INTERNATIONAL TIMES #1-17 (London: October 14th, 1966-July 28th, 1967).
INTERNATIONAL TIMES #1-17 (London: October 14th, 1966-July 28th, 1967).
INTERNATIONAL TIMES #1-17 (London: October 14th, 1966-July 28th, 1967).
INTERNATIONAL TIMES #1-17 (London: October 14th, 1966-July 28th, 1967).
INTERNATIONAL TIMES #1-17 (London: October 14th, 1966-July 28th, 1967).
INTERNATIONAL TIMES #1-17 (London: October 14th, 1966-July 28th, 1967).
INTERNATIONAL TIMES #1-17 (London: October 14th, 1966-July 28th, 1967).
INTERNATIONAL TIMES #1-17 (London: October 14th, 1966-July 28th, 1967).
INTERNATIONAL TIMES #1-17 (London: October 14th, 1966-July 28th, 1967).
INTERNATIONAL TIMES #1-17 (London: October 14th, 1966-July 28th, 1967).
INTERNATIONAL TIMES #1-17 (London: October 14th, 1966-July 28th, 1967).
INTERNATIONAL TIMES #1-17 (London: October 14th, 1966-July 28th, 1967).
INTERNATIONAL TIMES #1-17 (London: October 14th, 1966-July 28th, 1967).
INTERNATIONAL TIMES #1-17 (London: October 14th, 1966-July 28th, 1967).
INTERNATIONAL TIMES #1-17 (London: October 14th, 1966-July 28th, 1967).
INTERNATIONAL TIMES #1-17 (London: October 14th, 1966-July 28th, 1967).
INTERNATIONAL TIMES #1-17 (London: October 14th, 1966-July 28th, 1967).
INTERNATIONAL TIMES #1-17 (London: October 14th, 1966-July 28th, 1967).
INTERNATIONAL TIMES #1-17 (London: October 14th, 1966-July 28th, 1967).
INTERNATIONAL TIMES #1-17 (London: October 14th, 1966-July 28th, 1967).
INTERNATIONAL TIMES #1-17 (London: October 14th, 1966-July 28th, 1967).
INTERNATIONAL TIMES #1-17 (London: October 14th, 1966-July 28th, 1967).

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INTERNATIONAL TIMES #1-17 (London: October 14th, 1966-July 28th, 1967).

Newspaper, broadside and poster formats. Pagination varies (12pp.-16pp.). Ed. Tom McGrath (#1-12); Jack Henry Moore (#13-17). A run of the first seventeen issues, along with the broadside half issue #10.5, poster half issue #14.5 and all three variants of issue #17, almost all of which contain news, articles or ads. relating either to Mark Boyle, The Exploding Galaxy or the newly-established Arts Lab.

Issue #1 (October 14th, 1966). Includes qtr.-page ads. for The London Traverse Society at the Jeanetta Cochrane Theatre (the pre-Arts Lab venue set up in 1965 by Jim Haynes with Charles Marowitz, Michael Geliot and Ralph Koltai). Also: Yoko Ono at Indica Gallery; Piero Heliczer; Provo Suggestions by Simon Vinkenoog; André Breton obituary by Jean-Jacques Lebel; a report on Leary from New York; Gustav Metzger + Tony Cox on DIAS; Group H show at the Drian Galleries; listing for Pink Floyd at the London Free School. 7cm. closed tear to right edge of front cover, o/w Very Good;

Issue #2 (October 31st, 1966). Includes Underground Film Festival supplement, co-organised by International Times and the London Traverse Society with the newly-formed London Film-Makers Co-op. Also: Ezra Pound (the first publication of several wartime speeches); Morton Feldman in London; a commentary by William Burroughs on Antony Balch’s film, ‘Towers Open Fire!’; Project Sigma; George Andrews interviewed by ‘Bradley Martin’ (Hoppy); ½-page ad. for Yoko Ono show at the Indica Gallery; Kim Fowley interview (“Portrait of a Freak”); the Living Theatre (previously unpublished text of ‘Frankenstein’); report on the IT launch party at the Roundhouse - Pink Floyd, Soft Machine (+ Graham Keen photo); ads. for Richard Hamilton at the Robert Fraser Gallery and Christopher Gibbs’s Chelsea store. Very Good plus;

Issue #3 (November 14th, 1966). Includes short article + qtr.-page ad. for Yoko Ono at the Jeanetta Cochrane Theatre. Also: William Burroughs (“The Invisible Generation”); Bertrand Russell; Mal Dean; transcript of a conversation with Morton Feldman; Julio Le Parc; Criton Tomazos; listing for Pink Floyd at the London Free School. Very Good;

Issue #4 (November 28th, 1966). Includes brief listings for the Mark Boyle show with “psychedelic-type projections” at the ICA (the Sensual Laboratory was founded not long before) and “Sound/Light Workshop” with Pink Floyd at All Saints Hall. Also: Simon Vinkenoog with Julian Beck in Amsterdam; ad. for Pink Floyd at the Roundhouse (“Psychodelphia”); Albert Ayler; Alex Trocchi on Project Sigma; Jeff Nuttall (“Seedy Bee”); Dick Gregory interview (which led to the police busting IT on March 9th after someone complained to the DPP); Paul Butterfield Blues Band interview; “Berlin Beatniks”; Takis; mastheads by Marijke Koger. Very Good plus;

Issue #5 (December 12th, 1966). Includes back page ‘Night Tripper’ ad. for the first night of UFO (during which Mark Boyle/The Sensual Laboratory performed ‘Earth, Air, Fire and Water’ from the Son et Lumière series). Also: Pink Floyd at the London Free School reviewed; Little Richard in London; Claes Oldenburg; Ted Joans on Albert Ayler; John Wilcock; Jean-Jacques Lebel; first publication of Jim Dine obscenity trial photos. Spine slightly frayed, o/w Very Good;

Issue #6 (January 16th, 1967). Includes small ad. for Anna Lockwood’s Glass Concert at The New Arts Theatre on January 29th (lighting by Mark Boyle) + back cover ad. for UFO club + listing for Pink Floyd “sound-light” show at the ICA (January 16th). Also: Miles’s cover feature/centrespread interview with Paul McCartney; William Burroughs - “The Invisible Generation (Cont.)”; announcement by Calvin Hernton of the Dialectics of Liberation at the Roundhouse; Norman Mailer; ads. for Granny Takes a Trip and Hung On You + Yoko Ono looking for “interested parties” to participate in her film No.4; Anselm Hollo on new poetry; Allen Ginsberg on Basil Bunting. Very Good;

Issue #7 (January 30th, 1967). Includes 1pp. article by David Mairowitz on The London Traverse Co. (ie. Jeanetta Cochrane Theatre) + Miles on UFO + back-page ad. Also: Outer-Inner Space issue. Jimi Hendrix photo and concert listing; Jack Henry Moore’s brief review of the first People Show in the Better Books basement (w. photo); ad. for Leary’s “Psychedelic Prayers”; Allen Ginsberg - “Public Solitude” (2pp.), an important speech delivered in Boston on LSD, the new consciousness, etc.; “One Flower”, a poem by Michael Abdul Malik; Bill Butler; flying saucers by John Michell; Chet Helms in London; qtr.-page ad. for Indica Books (designed by Miles). Very Good plus;

Issue #8 (February 13th, 1967). Includes back page ad. for the ‘Festival of Love’ at UFO, with Soft Machine, Mark Boyle Projections, etc. + photo of Mike Lesser dancing naked in Biddy Peppin’s 56-gallon jelly during IT’s Uncommon Market at the Roundhouse. Also: John Wilcock’s report on the Human Be-In in San Francisco; Pete Townshend interviewed by Miles (“Gustav Metzger was my big hero”); Allen Ginsberg - “Reflections on the Mantra”; Gary Snyder - “Buddhism & The Coming Revolution”; the Haight-Ashbury Diggers; letters from Theodore Roszak, Dave Stevens and John Michell. 3cm. closed tear to front cover, o/w Very Good;

Issue #9 (February 27th, 1967). Includes a half-page feature on Mark Boyle, illustrated with a sequence of projected images from “Suddenly Last Supper”, a 1964 event that coincided with the eviction of Boyle and his family from their home in Queensgate, London + announcement of Son et Lumière for Bodily Fluids and Functions at the Jeanetta Cochrane Theatre (item #5). Also: Michael English front cover art (incl. quote from Plato); LA Provo; David Mairowitz on recent press and TV coverage of the underground movement; Tuli Kupferberg centrespread; PJ Proby interview; members of the Living Theatre arrested in Munich; qtr.-page back cover ads. for UFO/Soft Machine/ Pink Floyd and the second Uncommon Market at the Roundhouse. Slight fraying to spine, o/w Very Good;

Issue #10 (March 13th, 1967). Includes a discussion on pneumatics, kinetic sculpture and the environment, introduced by Mike McInnerney and featuring lengthy statements from David Medalla, Graham Stevens and Geoffrey Broadbent (the feature ends mid-sentence and mis-names Geoffrey Broadbent as Geoffrey Shaw). Also: police bust IT; ad. for Oz #2; Michael X; “The Pink Floyd versus Psychedelia” by Hoppy; interview with Frank Zappa (reprinted from the East Village Other); Marion Brown; Albert Ayler; UFO club ad. (w. Soft Machine). Slightly frayed and edge-worn, o/w Good plus;

Issue #10.5 (Easter 1967). Broadside poster designed by Mike McInnerney, printed offset on both sides in dark red ink on mustard-colour paper. 43x35cm. SIGNED by McInnerney. Emergency issue, published following the police raid on IT on March 9th by “Pilsher [sic] and Phillips from New Scotland Yard Drugs Division”. McInnerney's psychedelic design features images of The Beatles, Roger McGuinn and others, combined with passages from “The Naked Lunch”. The broadside also prints news on the IT bust and the symbolic funeral and re-birth event; the LSE sit-in; announcement of “A gigantic mind blowing all night 12 hour Benefit… at Alexandra Palace”, with a list of the main performers; a Provo letter from Holland; publisher Donald Carroll on police prosecutions on obscenity and indecency charges. Near Fine.

Issue #11 (April 21st, 1967). Includes line-up for the 14-Hour Technicolor Dream at Alexandra Palace, April 29th-30th. The Exploding Galaxy performed ‘Fuzzdeath’ at the event, their first public appearance, though they are not listed in the line-up (or the poster) and had yet to be named (in her book 99 Balls Pond Road, Jill Drower remembers that the name The Exploding Galaxy was likely suggested by artist Larry Smart, an early member of the troupe). The Galaxy’s rehearsals for the event were held at Smart’s flat and at All Saints Hall, both in Notting Hill. Also: front cover designed by Mike McInnerney featuring body-painted Susie Gawler-Wright; Miles’s interview with Graham Nash; ½-page ad. for Elektra Records (The Doors, Love); back page ad. for UFO club. SIGNED on the front cover by Mike McInnerney. Old central horizontal crease, o/w Very Good;

Issue #12 (April 28th, 1967). Includes news article on Jim Haynes successfully locating a building in Covent Garden for the “much talked about theatre-cinema-restaurant-bookshop-concert room-gallery-club”, and includes membership info (the Arts Lab opened several months later). Also: 14-Hour Technicolor Read-In issue, with psychedelic rainbow colour cover. Brion Gysin cut-out cut-in colour centrespread, featuring texts from “Minutes To Go”; “Better Book Plumbing”, a text by John Latham; a report from the New York Human Be-In; a feature on Conrad Rooks and ‘Chappaqua’ by Simon Vinkenoog + interview with Rooks by Rita Knox; Bill Levy on the Bilderberg Conference; Raymond Durgnat on John Cage; UFO club ad. Faint central horizontal crease, o/w Very Good plus;

Issue #13 (May 19th, 1967). Includes news of police breaking up an event at “London’s oldest ‘beat’ pub the Duke of York in Rathbone Place” where “an audience of about fifty watched and took part in a show” by the Social Deviants that featured lights by IT editor Jack Henry Moore and David Jeffrey, both future members of the Arts Lab team + news of imminent opening of The Electric Garden, a venue soon to be used regularly by The Exploding Galaxy. Also: last thoughts on the 14-Hour Technicolor Dream; half-page Elektra ad. for The Doors; news of upcoming Monterey Pop Festival; Miles’s centrespread interview with George Harrison, with artwork by David Vaughan; Dutch Provo; brief review of Pink Floyd’s ‘Games for May’ at the QEH; ads. for Indica Books, Pink Floyd at UFO and the Social Deviants at Happening 44. Very Good plus;

Issue #14 (June 2nd, 1967). Includes “Light Show”, a 3pp. article on “The Lighting Revolution” in both the US (Don Snyder, USCO, Bill Ham) and London (Mark Boyle, Keith Albarn, Jack Bracelin), with a directory of 23 light show operators and manufacturers in the UK. Also: “All Human Life - for sale”, a front page cover story by Michael X, with photo by Horace Ové (who also contributes a second part); front page news of Hoppy’s prison sentence; a letter from Yoko Ono concerning her interrupted performance at the Electric Garden (+ report); news of the Velvet Underground coming to London to play at UFO (didn’t happen); full-page ad. for “Sgt. Pepper” (+ review); Andy Warhol; Simon Vinkenoog; The Move at UFO; Monica Sjöö interviewed by Rita Knox; review of first Hendrix album, w. photo; “Pop in the Police State” by Mick Farren; ads. for UFO and Happening 44. Slight age-toning to front cover, o/w Very Good;

Issue #14.5 (June 9th, 1967). Special ‘Supplement - Summer Sadness For John Hopkins’, a double-sided poster featuring psychedelic artwork by Michael English of a hippie girl with butterfly wings and flowers. Printed offset in yellow and black on white stock. 57x39.4cm. Verso prints a report on the Primrose Hill and Parliament Hill be-ins (with photo of Yoko Ono); The Exploding Galaxy are not mentioned but its members performed at many of these outdoor be-ins. Also: news on Hoppy’s bust + text by Suzy Creamcheese; “Everyone Cease Fire”, a text by Michael Abdul Malik; ads. for an Allen Ginsberg reading at the Roundhouse and the Charles Lloyd Quartet at the RFH; announcement of a be-in in Hyde Park on July 16th (the Legalise Pot Rally). Faint corner creasing to lower left; minor handling wear; small tape ‘ghost’ mark to lower left corner of verso; o/w Very Good plus.

Issue #15 (June 16th, 1967). Includes a 1pp. “list of the Strange/Underground movies that are available in England now - and some that we (IT, Arts Lab, L.F. Co-op) hope to make available in the near future” (Jack Smith, Andy Warhol, Yoko Ono, Robert Breer, Kenneth Anger, Bruce Conner et al). Also: front page news of IT bust, with photo of Scotland Yard detective removing quantity of papers from Indica Bookshop; news of Dave Tomlin’s bust; literary censorship reports from Miles, Bob Cobbing and John Sharkey; Berlin protests by Alex Gross (plus his review of 'Chelsea Girls'); news of Good Vibrations, a club in Westbourne Park Road opened by Graham Bond and others; review of Pink Floyd at UFO (June 2nd) + back page ad. Very Good;

Issue #16 (June 30th, 1967). Includes front page report on impromptu Exploding Galaxy outdoor rehearsal led by Jack Henry Moore and David Medalla in Regent’s Park on June 18th, quickly shut down by “the park fuzz”. Also: Horace Ové’s photos of boutiques (accompanied by Kipps’s psychedelic artwork); Miles in NYC (Ed Sanders, The Mothers, Leary); half-page Indica Bookstore ad.; Arthur Brown at UFO + back page ad. Very Good plus;

Issue #17 (July 28th, 1967). Includes news from Jack Henry Moore on The Exploding Galaxy, followed by an update on the Arts Lab, where “film shows have already begun” + front cover photo of Allen Ginsberg at the Legalise Pot Rally in Hyde Park, July 16th (attended by David Medalla). Also: “Dialectual’s Masturbation”, an interim report from the Dialectics of Liberation Congress; Alexander Trocchi (“Junkie To The Queen”); a poem by John Furnival; centrespread printing edited extracts from a much longer conversation between Michael Abdul Malik and Richard Alpert, illustrated with three photographs by Bill Levy; Hoppy on STP; Yoko Ono on her Film No. 4 + ad. for premiere; Allen Ginsberg poem; The People Show; ads. for Indica Books, Happening 44 and Oz magazine. Very Good. Together with both colour variant reprints, with new front page headline “White Monkeys After Malik” and text on his investigation by the Director of Public Prosecutions.

An excellent run of International Times, spanning the period from the paper’s launch in October 1966 up to and including the 14-Hour Technicolor Dream, the fund-raising benefit organised for it, and the Legalise Pot Rally of July 1967 held in solidarity with its imprisoned co-founder and prime mover, John ‘Hoppy’ Hopkins.

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