Item #41474 G.P.O. v G.P-O, Mail Action. A Chronicle of Mail Art on trial coumpiled by Genesis P-Orridge and COUM. Genesis P-ORRIDGE, COUM.
G.P.O. v G.P-O, Mail Action. A Chronicle of Mail Art on trial coumpiled by Genesis P-Orridge and COUM.
G.P.O. v G.P-O, Mail Action. A Chronicle of Mail Art on trial coumpiled by Genesis P-Orridge and COUM.
G.P.O. v G.P-O, Mail Action. A Chronicle of Mail Art on trial coumpiled by Genesis P-Orridge and COUM.

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G.P.O. v G.P-O, Mail Action. A Chronicle of Mail Art on trial coumpiled by Genesis P-Orridge and COUM.

Geneva: Ecart Publications, 1976. First edition. 4to. Tape bound wrps., unpaginated (c.100pp.). Edition limited to 500 numbered copies (including 25 copies numbered 001 to 025 of the edition de tête), this one no. 093.

Prints ephemera, legal documents, correspondence and articles in facsimile relating to P-Orridge’s prosecution in 1975 for sending ‘indecent’ material through the post, and his subsequent trial at Highbury Corner Magistrates Court in April 1976 (he was found guilty of violating the 1953 Post Office Act and the book was intended to raise funds to pay for his fine).

‘A SPACE Archive Copy’ stamp in red to front cover (in 1973 Genesis P-Orridge and Cosey Fanni Tutti moved into a basement studio at 10 Martello Street, Hackney, run by Studio Provision Artistic Cultural Educational [SPACE], a registered charity founded in 1968 by Bridget Riley and Peter Sedgley).

Wrappers lightly soiled, o/w Near Fine.

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