Item #41230 An original numbered ticket for an after-party event held at Better Books on September 11, 1965 at 8.55pm, stating: “BB @ BB”. BETTER BOOKS.
An original numbered ticket for an after-party event held at Better Books on September 11, 1965 at 8.55pm, stating: “BB @ BB”.

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An original numbered ticket for an after-party event held at Better Books on September 11, 1965 at 8.55pm, stating: “BB @ BB”.

Off-white card with graphic design in blue and purple by John Sewell. Verso blank. 13.7x8.1cm. Handwritten in bold purple and green marker pen by Miles, the shop’s manager.

It seems likely that the after-party was held immediately after the book launch of “Loquitur” by Basil Bunting, the first publication from Stuart Montgomery’s Fulcrum Press. Miles later remembered Bunting as “a great reader, with a very musical delivery, but his strong Northumbrian accent made him very difficult to understand” (Better Books/Better Bookz, p.108).

Fine. Provenance: Nathaniel Tarn.

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