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47.
Thanks For Coming!
London: Faber, 1984. First edition. Wrps., 336pp. Illustrated throughout.
A memoir-cum-scrapbook by Jim Haynes, who, after setting up the Traverse Theatre and Britain’s first paperback bookshop in Edinburgh, went on to establish the Arts Lab on Drury Lane in London, co-found International Times and help launch Suck, “the first European Sexpaper”.
Small green sticker to (uncreased) spine; minor wear to lower edge of upper wrapper; o/w Near Fine.
Together with:
an unsent TLS from from Bill Levy to Germaine Greer in which he gives a favourable response to her scathing review of Haynes’s book, published in Harper’s and Queen (February 1984), a photocopy of which is included (with a few missing or faint words added in blue ink). Greer’s review, considered by Levy to be “true and fair comment”, concludes that Haynes’s book was “soft-headed, self-serving and self-deceiving”, and, perhaps with residual hostility borne of her furious resignation from Suck ten years earlier, adds that she hopes it isn’t “the monument we hippies deserve”.
Levy’s letter also wishes Greer “much success with Sex and Destiny”, tells her that his father told him that “he had a most enjoyable breakfast with you a few years ago in Baltimore”, and mentions his self-published book “Jeremiad Chants… which prematurely echoes many of your current views.” The unstamped envelope is addressed to Greer, c/o Secker & Warburg (Levy’s reason for not sending it is unknown).
