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85.
SQUATTERS’ HANDBOOK.
Islington, London: Advisory Service for Squatters, December 1975. Third edition. 8vo. Stapled booklet, 30pp. Illustrated with photographs, drawings, diagrams and cartoons.
Offers advice on finding suitable empty properties, legal and practical help, comments on the cuts and the media, and useful contacts. These included Heathcote Williams’s Rough [sic], Tough, Cream Puff Estate Agency, and the Rough Theatre, both in west London (Geoff Travis opened the nearby Rough Trade shop a few months later), BIT, Release, The Derelicts (a “non-sexist squatters rock band”), and Joe Strummer’s 101’ers “squatters rock band”.
Paper slightly tanned, o/w Near Fine.
Together with:
Notes For New Squatters, a double-sided broadsheet containing “practical information for new squatters… made by Brixton Squatters Aid”. Intended as a local supplement to the Squatters’ Handbook. No date (c. 1977/78). Old creases and folds.
