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112.
Newsletter.
Amsterdam: self-published, August 1982. 8pp. booklet. Cover portrait of Annie Sprinkle/Ellen Steinberg by Peter Pontiac. Inside front cover prints cartoon/collage by Sprinkle.
The precursor to Sprinkle’s series of newsletters, containing news of her life with Willem de Ridder; visits from Fakir Musafar (aka performance artist and modern primitive, Roland Loomis), and Mistress Antoinette and Master Zorro; getting tattooed by Spider Webb; an account of her career activities to date; and her frustration at “dealing with sexist theater owners… magazine editors with rotten taste, brainwashed preconditioned porn fans, and film directors that are scared shitless to try something new… I guess at last the feminist is coming out in me.”
Near Fine.
Together with:
i) The Sprinkle Salon Newsletter #1 (June 6th, 1986). Single sheet, printed on both sides. Illustrated with two photographs. SIGNED “Annie” in red ink. Mentions visits from Harvey Keitel, Howard Kaylan, Tiny Tim (her favourite singer) “and the fabulous Jennifer Blowdryer” (aka Jennifer Waters), as well as her “friendship with the lovely Veronica Vera”. Folded.
ii) The Annie Sprinkle Flashing Finger Puppet. Printed card (16.3x13cm.). Conceived by Annie Sprinkle and designed by Les Barany. The card was intended to be cut out so that the fingers appear as Sprinkle’s legs: “For best results, cross your fingers, then spread them apart to make Annie Flash.” No date (1980s). Very Good plus.
