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OZ FINAL ISSUE.

A promotional poster announcing the last issue of Oz magazine (London: November 1973), promising “Sex, Drugs, Violence and Bolshevism (ho, ho) from - Richard Neville, Timothy Leary, Adolph Hitler [sic], Martin Sharp, Heathcote Williams and other OZ favourites.”

Offset litho, printed in red and black on thin buff-coloured paper. 73.5x48.2cm. Designed by Ed Barker. Illustrated with a cartoon by Rand Holmes (reproduced from The Georgia Straight) and a version of the magazine’s front cover featuring contact sheet images of Richard Nixon and a group photograph of naked Oz staff by Phil Franks.

The photograph, a different shot from the one chosen for the magazine’s cover, features on the back row, from left: Don Atyeo (assistant editor); Marva Rees; Felix Dennis (editor); and on the bottom row, from left: Pat Woolley (of Wild & Woolley, the Australian alternative magazine and book distributor); Jim Maguire (advertising manager); and Maria Lexton (ex-Time Out poetry editor).

Some light, superficial creasing, including to upper right area, with minor wear to lower right corner, o/w Near Fine. Provenance: The Felix Dennis Estate.

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