Berkeley, CA: 1750 Arch Records, 1974. LP record (Stereo 1752). Produced by Charles Amirkhanian. Twelve tracks featuring sound poems by Clark Coolidge; John Cage; John Giorno; Anthony Gnazzo; Brion Gysin (“Come to Free the Words”); Charles Dodge; Robert Ashley; Beth Anderson; Liam O’Gallagher; Aram Saroyan; and Charles Amirkhanian. Printed 4pp. insert present. Disc Mint in slightly ringworn sleeve with slight wear along spine seam and 5cm. split along upper seam. More about 10 + 2: 12 AMERICAN TEXT SOUND PIECES

Original poster designed by Mike McInnerney announcing the '14-Hour Technicolor Dream Free Speech Benefit' for International Times at Alexandra Palace, north London, on April 29, 1967. Colour silkscreen print. 75.4x50.8cm. Lists all the main participants for this landmark event (a British equivalent to the West Coast multi-media Acid Tests and Human Be-In gatherings), including Soft Machine, Pink Floyd, Arthur Brown, The Move, and many others. McInnerney has described how the rainbow ink effect was "produced by laying out two separate inks which were blended by a single pull of the squeegee. As the printing progressed the..... More about 14-HOUR TECHNICOLOR DREAM

Poster + programme announcing a performance of “Mixed Media Opera” by Nam June Paik and Charlotte Moorman at the University of Cincinnati, April 1 (1968). Poster printed offset litho in black on white stock on recto and verso. 56x35cm. Bill Sontag’s design for the poster features an outline of a large cello with a photograph of a woman’s breasts superimposed over its upper part, a provocative reference to the arrest of Moorman and Paik on the grounds of “partial nudity” during the performance of “Opera Sextronique” in New York a little over a year earlier. The verso prints..... More about ACTION MUSIC: Spring Arts Festival '68

Ed. Jochen Gerz and Jean-François Bory. Narrow 4to. Stapled wrps., bound dos-à-dos. Unpaginated. Illustrated. Texts in French, German and English. Contributors not stated. The first issue, described in an Editions Agentzia catalogue (item #103) as “An attempt at a collective and therefore anonymous work. The medium as a means of expression” (McLuhan is quoted in one of its pages). Minor corner wear only. Together with the original printed mailing envelope addressed to The Wormwood Review in Connecticut (postmarked Basel, January 27, 1968). More about AGENTZIA #1 (Paris: nd. [c. 1967/68

(London): The Picture Press, 2007. DVD (29 min. + 31.21 min.). Iain Sinclair and Robert Klinkert’s colour documentary film of Allen Ginsberg’s visit to London for the Dialectics of Liberation conference in the summer of 1967, together with a bonus film featuring interviews with Sinclair, writer/curator Gareth Evans, and Chris Oakley, an associate of RD Laing and David Cooper. Includes footage of Ginsberg speaking on the conference platform alongside Stokely Carmichael, Emmett Grogan, RD Laing and David Cooper; other sections feature him on Primrose Hill and at the Legalise Pot Rally in Hyde Park, resplendent in..... More about AH! SUNFLOWER + DEBRIEFING

Ed. Jack Henry Moore. Also: front page news of Hoppy’s prison sentence; a letter from Yoko Ono concerning her interrupted performance at the Electric Garden (+ report); news of the Velvet Underground coming to London to play at UFO; full-page ad. for “Sgt. Pepper” (+ review); light shows in NY, SF and London; Andy Warhol; Simon Vinkenoog; The Move at UFO; Monica Sjöö; review of first Hendrix album, w. photo; “Pop in the Police State” by Mick Farren; ads. for UFO and Happening 44; more. Slight creasing and wear along upper edges; faint, old central horizontal fold; o/w..... More about “All Human Life - for sale”, a front page cover story by Michael X in INTERNATIONAL TIMES #14...

Three broadside sheets, printed offset, one side of each featuring a poster design (two of them credited to Su Negrin) incorporating a quotation (from the I Ching, Mao Tse-tung and Ho Chi Minh respectively), and the other side providing details of the courses offered. Folded twice, each measuring approx. 55x43cm. when unfolded (21.5x27.5cm. when folded; originally folded twice more for mailing, though all three have been stored flat). Together with a mimeo sheet and postcard. The Alternate U., which grew out of the Free University of New York and ran courses by several of those who had taught there..... More about ALTERNATE U. A group of course catalogues: NY: Fall (October) 1969, Winter 1970 (December 1969),...

12mo. Wrps., 192pp. + 268pp. Illustrated with line drawings. The first two editions of Nicholas Saunders’s underground bible, a distillation of his tips on everything from squatting and transport in London to drugs and hitching to the East. Funding for the book came indirectly from his mother, who gave him money to enable him to move out of his Chelsea squat, but he preferred instead to stay put and use it to develop and sell a series of flats. As his friend Nicholas Albery noted, he believed that he was the first to use the term..... More about ALTERNATIVE LONDON. London: privately published, December 1970 + February 1971. First and second...

Columbus, OH: The Ohio State University, Rare Books and Manuscripts Library, 2001. First edition. Sm. 4to. Perfect bound wrps., 48pp. Photo-illustrated in colour throughout. Catalogue for the exhibition held at Ohio State University between May and August 2001, curated by John M. Bennett and Geoffrey D. Smith, printing a detailed list of exhibits and a 6pp. introduction by James Grauerholz in which he recounts the story of the sale of the William S. Burroughs Archive in 1973 to Roberto Altmann, a poet, artist and the son of a wealthy financier. Illustrations include pages from Burroughs’ scrapbooks, dream..... More about AN AMERICAN AVANT GARDE: FIRST WAVE. An Exhibit. Featuring the William S. Burroughs Collection...

8vo. Stapled wrps., 8pp. + 16pp. The bi-weekly course catalogues offer classes titled “Survival and Guerrilla Warfare”, “Psycho-Active Drugs”, “The World Game” (Buckminster Fuller), “Psychology a la Esalen”, “Yippie and the Revolution”, as well as Draft Counselling and Chicano Problems. The preamble, printed in both catalogues, states: “Amistad (friendship) the Free University was established after a week of national and local turmoil to meet the needs of those individuals who wanted to discuss, study and act upon those problems and concerns of our society that are not covered in the university curriculum… There are no requirements - except..... More about AMISTAD: THE FREE UNIVERSITY. Two course catalogues and an introductory handbill from the New...

8vo. Stapled wrps., 32pp. Prints Pete Jenner’s article, “The London Free School” (4pp.), first published in the second issue of Resurgence magazine (July/August 1966). In it, Jenner outlines the original impetus for the London Free School, the reasons for choosing Notting Hill as its location, the aims and intentions for the school, and the limited success following its first public meeting: “Nothing had been properly planned and, what was worse, hardly anyone from the district came to the classes… there were two important successes, however, one was a playgroup for children and the other was an embryonic teenage..... More about ANARCHY #73 (London: Freedom Press, March 1967

Ed. Charles Cropsey. 4to. Each 66pp.-70pp. Glossy magazine format. Photo-illustrated throughout in colour and b/w. The first four issues of Elysium Institute founder Ed Lange's magazine (named for the ancient Egyptian symbol for life), an attempt to blend naturism with sexual freedom and the burgeoning hippie movement: "Fed on a scientific diet of psilocybin and lysergic acid, it now thrives to the consternation of the generation which gave it life. From San Franciso's Haight-Ashbury to New York's East Village... the Love Generation is in full swing" (from the editorial in the first issue, which contains numerous photos of..... More about ANKH #1-4 (LA: Elysium Inc., Summer 1967-Spring 1968) + original 'GrOw NAKED Elysium'...

Tabloid newspaper format. 16pp. Front cover image of Janis Joplin. Contents include news of court hearings for the White Panther Three (John Sinclair, Pun Plamondon and Jack Forrest); the problem of heroin ("Death drugs are weapons in the hands of the pigs"); the fifth communication from the Weather Underground; report from a White Panther demonstration at the Capitol building in Lansing; more. Old central horizontal fold, o/w Very Good plus. More about ANN ARBOR ARGUS - White Panther Community News Service #31 (Ann Arbor, MI: October 15, 1970

London: Trigram Press, c. late 1967/early 1968. Sm. 4to. Pink wrps., stapled (8pp.). Designed and printed by Asa Benveniste, with illustration of a hand-drawn map to front cover. Edited by Stuart Montgomery. Originally distributed for free via sympathetic bookshops. Contents include the anti-institution’s founding statement and a proclamation of its aims, plus registration information; a list of its 37 different courses, with brief biographies of and/or personal statements from the faculty (Roy Battersby, Joseph Berke, Cornelius Cardew, Steve Abrams, Barry Flanagan, Bob Cobbing, Ed Dorn, David Cooper, John Latham, RD Laing, Barry Miles, Jeff Nuttall, Allen Krebs, among..... More about THE ANTI-UNIVERSITY OF LONDON. Course Catalogue - Spring Quarter

Broadsheet folded twice, with single quarto sheet insert. Printed in blue, red, green and black inks on thin newsprint. Illustrated with woodblock designs. This first (and only?) issue takes its inspiration from Hesse's metaphysical Journey to the East, stating that the “EastFree Press has been established to encourage the distribution to a wide audience of self-expressive productions from the talent of those who have journeyed to the East”. Includes mentions of a newly-created Anti-University of the East in Kathmandu (on which no more information can be unearthed by this cataloguer), the ‘Project for Conscious Movement’, and..... More about ANTI-UNIVERSITY OF THE EAST. EASTSCENE No. 1 - Calendar of Heavenly Phenomenae (Kathmandu, Nepal:...

Poster + original artwork promoting The Living Theatre's production of 'Antigone' at the Roundhouse, north London, June 1969. Designed and produced by Bill Levy. Poster printed in black ink on thin card stock. 43.2x62cm. Bordered on two sides by reproductions of old magazine ads. and featuring a central photo-image of a mixed media assemblage by Barry Hall, co-founder of the Goliard Press. Together with: the original photo-reproduction of the assemblage, mounted on thick card, signed on the verso by Hall and dated 1967. 56x41cm. The poster was met with extreme displeasure by Judith Malina, who forbade..... More about THE ANTIGONE OF SOPHOKLES

Ed. Bill Levy. Tabloid newspaper format. Also: Alex Gross in Berlin on Kommune I; John Peel’s 'Perfumed Garden'; Special Pop Supplement; back page ad. for Middle Earth club (Pink Floyd) + news of raid; more. Faint spotting to front cover, o/w Very Good plus (unfolded). More about “Antiuniversity of London”, a short news update announcing schedule of meetings etc., in...

Ed. Peter Cook. Cover by Tony Rickaby. Ten oblong unnumbered sheets (each 25x41cm.), stapled at one end, with central fold to make booklet, accompanied by a packet of Night Scented Stock seeds. Printed in different colour inks on different colour paper stock. The final, ecology-themed issue ("Gardening and the easing of tension between the mechanical and the natural is a theme in this issue"), proclaiming: "We are following our dreams yet further and seeing now a gentler softer and more tantalising environment... the next move is with the activist, the opportunist and the inventor in league..."... More about ARCHIGRAM #9 (London: 1970

Catalogue to the exhibition of concrete, intermedia and related work organised by Kenelm Cox, John Furnival, Dom Sylvester Houédard and Charles Verey which took place at Arlington Mill, Bibury, Gloucestershire, between July and September 1966. Sq. 8vo. Wrps., bound with green string. Four digit ink inscription to back cover, o/w Very Good plus. More about ARLINGTON-UNE

4to. Newsprint. 78pp. Ed. Edit de Ak and Walter Robinson. Front cover by Carl Andre. Photo-illustrated throughout. Special issue devoted entirely to the subject of artists’ books, featuring an extensive catalogue, texts and reviews by David Salle, Lawrence Alloway, AA Bronson, and others. Prints 45 artist’s statements by, among others, Kathy Acker; John Baldessari; Ulises Carrión; Daniel Buren; Douglas Huebler; Allan Kaprow; Sol Le Witt; Lucy Lippard; Adrian Piper; Marcia Resnick; Carolee Schneemann; Richard Tuttle; and Lawrence Weiner. An important issue, and one of the first critical analyses of the medium. Paper slightly age-toned, o/w Near Fine. More about ART-RITE #14 (NY: Art-Rite Publishing Co., Winter 1976-77

4to. Newsprint. Unpaginated (68pp.). Ed. Edit de Ak, Walter Robinson and Joshua Cohn. Colour front cover by Vito Acconci. Photo-illustrated throughout. Video issue, guest edited by Anna Canepa, with contributions from Douglas Huebler; Richard Landry; Nam June Paik; Willoughby Sharp; Alan Suicide; Hannah Wilke; Les Levine; John Baldessari; Eleanor Antin; Allan Kaprow; Richard Serra; and others. Paper slightly age-toned, o/w Near Fine. More about ART-RITE #7 (NY: Art-Rite Publishing Co., Winter/Spring, 1975-76

+ Lab Mag #1 (Beckenham: Growth Print Project, October 1970), a one-off supplement to the Arts Labs Newsletter. Foolscap. Staple-bound wrps., each 14pp.-60pp. (occasional inserts). Various paperstocks and printing techniques, from mimeograph to screenprint. Published monthly (last issue delayed by several months). Produced by Nicholas Albery, the Newsletter was intended as a means of communication between the various regional Arts Labs and similar workshop-type groups throughout the country, and as a discussion forum, a platform for new ideas, a directory of the people involved and a listing of their activities. Contributions were submitted by the Arts Labs themselves..... More about THE ARTS LABS NEWSLETTER (London: BIT Information Service, October 1969-August 1971). 17 issues...

San Francisco, CA: 871 Fine Arts, 2005. 8vo. Stapled booklet (8pp.), with cover illustration of a Verifax negative by Wallace Berman. Catalogue to the exhibition, with a list of works, two illustrations, and brief essays by Sandra Leonard Starr and Sophie Dannenmüller. Fine, with the gallery’s colour postcard for the show reproducing Berman’s mixed media work “Of the Radio Aether” (1974) loosely inserted. More about ASSEMBLAGE AND COLLAGE IN CALIFORNIA IN THE 1960s

Geneva: World Health Organization, 1958. 8vo. Stapled wrps., 72pp. The report from the meeting of a study group held in Geneva between November 4-9, 1957. In its discussion on LSD and mescaline the report notes the dependence of psychedelic effects “on the precise constellation of environmental factors” [p.35], thus anticipating Timothy Leary’s concept of set and setting, as well as recognising the principles of psychedelic therapy, then in its infancy, stating that “the same drug, in the same dose in the same subject may produce very different effects according to the precise interpersonal and motivational situation in which..... More about ATARACTIC AND HALLUCINOGENIC DRUGS IN PSYCHIATRY

SF: Graphic Art Galleries Ltd., 1970. Original promotional flyer announcing 'A Grand Opening Show' of John Lennon's Bag One series of lithographs at Graphic Art Galleries in San Francisco on February 15, 1970. Illustrated with the title sheet from the portfolio. 27.7x21.6cm. Minor corner wear, o/w Fine. More about BAG ONE

Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire: Paul Buck (publisher and editor), 1978. 4to. Stapled wrps., 174pp. Comprises the final numbers (#18-21) of Curtains, the irregular and innovative magazine started in 1971 by Paul Buck and known for its championing of European avant-garde writers. Contributors include Bernard Noël; Ulrike Meinhof; Glenda George; Ulli McCarthy; Allen Fisher; Henri Maccheroni; Michel Camus; Georges Bataille; Cris Cheek; Philip Corner; Monte Cazazza; Pierre Joris; Clayton Eshleman; Alison Wilding; Brian Catling; Iain Sinclair; the editor, and others. Light wear to wrappers; overall, Near Fine. More about BAL:LE:D CURTAINS

NY: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1995. First edition. 4to. Clothbound. 280pp. Prologue by Allen Ginsberg (a revised version of “A Definition of the Beat Generation” as published in Friction 1, Winter 1982). Issued to coincide with the major exhibition shown first in New York, then later in Minneapolis and San Francisco. An examination in nine essays of the crosscurrents, exchanges and collaborations among poets, artists, musicians and filmmakers on both East and West Coasts, with the emphasis on the visual, and including the links with underground filmmakers Robert Frank and John Cassavetes. Contributors include Rebecca..... More about BEAT CULTURE AND THE NEW AMERICA: 1950-1965 + Larry Keenan photograph of Allen Ginsberg and...

Davis, CA: John Natsoulas Press, 1996. First edition. 4to. Wrps. (no hardcover issued), 228pp. Illustrated throughout in b/w. Various contributors, including Michael McClure and Rebecca Solnit, with poetry by Allen Ginsberg (“Howl”), Bob Kaufman, Robert Duncan, Gary Snyder and others. The first history of the Northern California art scene from the late 1940s to the early 60s, focusing on the artist-run galleries, beginning with Metart, followed by the King Ubu Gallery, the ‘6’ Gallery, the East and West Gallery, the Spatsa, and the Batman Gallery. Features many rare photographs of the galleries, artists and..... More about BEAT GENERATION GALLERIES AND BEYOND (The

Buffalo, NY: 1970-1975. Formats vary. Ed. Allen De Loach. A complete run of this small literary publication, produced by De Loach at the State University of New York at Buffalo by his Intrepid Press. #1: BLACKBURN, Paul. Three Dreams And An Old Poem. First edition (1970). 8vo. Wrps., stapled (16pp.). One of 900 copies (from a total edition of 1000). Fine. #2: MOTTRAM, Eric. William Burroughs: The Algebra of Need. First edition (1971). 8vo. Blue cloth. 108pp. One of 1125 clothbound copies (from a total edition of 3500). The first book-length study of Burroughs, based on..... More about THE BEAU FLEUVE SERIES #1-9 (all published

33x24.7cm. SIGNED by Gary Grimshaw. Features a cartoon illustration of a stoned hippie with speech bubble: "Ten years for smoke ain't no joke!". Printed in red and purple on white stock. Minor creasing to lower corners, o/w Fine. More about A BENEFIT FOR THE JOHN SINCLAIR FREEDOM FUND! Large handbill designed by Gary Grimshaw announcing...

Ed. Monica Pidgeon. A 4pp. photo-illustrated article on the construction of new buildings for the Berlin Free University campus, designed by George Candilis and Shadrach Woods (protégés of Le Corbusier, whose Modular system and utopian ideas influenced their design), and Alexis Josic. The first phase of construction, which began in 1967, was completed in 1973. Also: “Natural Architecture” by Sim Van der Ryn (a 2pp. review of Art Boericke’s book, “Handmade Houses”); “Marine Cities”; “Solar Energy” (12pp.); Peter Smithson on urban forms (3pp.); more. Very Good plus. More about BERLIN FREE UNIVERSITY. “Free University, Berlin. A description of the latest building to be...

Chicago: 1959-1960. Ed. Irving Rosenthal (#1), and Paul Carroll. Wrps., 120pp.-152pp. Issue #1 (Spring 1959): Prints “Ten Episodes from Naked Lunch” by William Burroughs, “Three Poems” by Gregory Corso and “Old Angel Midnight” by Jack Kerouac (who gave the magazine its name). This issue constitutes the suppressed Winter 1958 issue of Chicago Review and was itself banned in March 1959 following an unofficial complaint from August Derleth, publisher of HP Lovecraft and a writer himself. At the trial in June 1959 the Judge declared Big Table “obscene”, “filthy”, and its writing “not meritorious”, though it was subsequently acquitted..... More about BIG TABLE #1-5 (all published

Foolscap, side-stapled. 30pp. BITMAN grew out of of BIT, "the June 1968 brainwave of Hoppy in jail and the name is to indicate that BIT evolved out of International Times… though BIT also = Binary Information Transfer, 'the smallest unit of information that can be processed by a computer', in memory of the original aim of computerizing the service". This second issue, subtitled "Alternative Society Bible & Survival Manual and Classified Directory for Active Deviants", contains "News from Communes" (including the Eel Pie Island community and its Festival of Communes at the Roundhouse); "Ken Kesey Anti-Media & Anti-Revolution"..... More about BITMAN #2 (London: BIT Information Service, July 1970

8vo. Stapled wrps., 56pp. Illustrated with cartoons and clip art. Named after Charles Earl Boles (aka Black Bart), an outlaw who operated in Northern California and Southern Oregon during the 1870s and 1880s, Black Bart Brigade was edited and produced by Irv Thomas and lasted for seven issues between November 1971 and May 1974. Part of the Canyon Collective (see item #71), Thomas explains on page one that "The use of the term 'Outlaw' in this magazine refers to anyone who has learned how to pursue life outside the confines of the system, and has opened..... More about BLACK BART BRIGADE: The Outlaw Mag #3 (Canyon, CA: April 1972

Ed. Ben Morea and Ron Hahne. Single broadsheets, each folded once to make 4pp., with front covers designed by Ben Morea. Illustrated. A near consecutive run of seven issues, from a total of ten published. Sold for a nickel, mostly on the Lower East Side, Black Mask was put together by Ben Morea and Ron Hahne, who shared an interest in anarchism and the political elements of Dada and Surrealism, the contemporary Black insurrections in America and the growth of international youth movements. They also expressed affinity with other radical groups, including the Situationist International in..... More about BLACK MASK #2-7 + 9 (NY: December 1966-January 1968

(London): The Ideas-Pool, July 1973. Tall 4to. Stapled wrps., 222pp. Cover illustration by Cliff Harper. Mimeographed on different colour papers. Prints a selection of approximately 300 plans, ideas and projects entered over a four month period between January and April 1973 into 'The Alternative Society Ideas-Pool', created after an anonymous 'freak from Dublin' gave London BIT Information Service £1,250 to be spent on a useful alternative project. Nicholas Albery, the first secretary of the Commune Movement and publisher of BIT magazine, organised and ran what was billed as a 'Revolutionary Co-operative Competition', judged by an Ideas-Pool panel of..... More about A BOOK OF VISIONS: A DIRECTORY OF ALTERNATIVE SOCIETY PROJECTS, 1973

Ed. Stephanie Nettell. Contains "Drugs are Relative", a 2pp. article by Alexander Trocchi, part of a longer feature headed "Writers and Drugs" that also includes contributions from Anthony Storr, William Burroughs ("Anti-Junk", 4pp.), Edmund Blunden (on "the Romantic opium-eaters Coleridge, Crabbe and De Quincey"), Francis Huxley ("Stop/Go with LSD"), David Markson (on Malcolm Lowry), and Richard Whittington-Egan (on Dylan Thomas). Also: first novels reviewed by Maureen Duffy (incl. Thom Keyes and Tom Stoppard); 2pp. interview with AE Hotchner (on his friendship with Hemingway); 1pp. interview with Seamus Heaney; ad. for Better Books; more. Some..... More about BOOKS AND BOOKMEN Vol. 12, No. 2 (London: Hansom Books, November 1966

King's Road, London: Boy, 1980. First edition. 8vo. Wrps., with plastic spiral binding, unpaginated (50 leaves, printed recto only). Offset-litho and colour Xerox. Catalogue designed by John Dove and Molly White of KITSCH-22, who designed and produced much of the BOY collection of punk-inspired bondage trousers, T-shirts and jeans featured in it. Illustrated throughout with photographs by Sheila Rock and Derek Hutchins, some of them reproduced in colour Xerox (a still relatively new technology in the UK at the time), featuring more than 18 different models, among them teenager Sadie Frost. Introductory texts by John Krivine..... More about BOY. Blackmail including the Legendary Kitsch-22 Designs

NY: Legal Rap, 1969. First edition (distributed by New York Regional SDS, the High School Student Union, the National Lawyers Guild, and Movement for a Democratic Society). 16mo. Stapled wrps., 76pp. Illustrated with photographs, cartoons and other graphics. Contains detailed legal advice for political activists, drug users and runaways faced with arrest and hassle from the police, written anonymously by Kathy Boudin, Eleanor Raskin and others. Later published as “The Bust Book: What to Do Till the Lawyer Comes” (Grove Press, 1970). Boudin, who died recently, was a prominent member of the Weather Underground and participated..... More about BUST BOOK (The

NY: Grove Press, Inc., 1960. First edition. 8vo. Black cloth, with titles to spine and upper board in red and silver. Dustwrapper cover photograph by Richard Seaver; author's photo to lower panel by Jane Lougee. Trocchi's best known work, set in Scotland and New York (based in part on his experiences working on the Hudson River), and a classic of modern drug literature. Wallace Berman published the first excerpt from it in Semina Two (December 1957) during the period Trocchi spent living in Venice Beach, California with his American wife, Lyn Hicks, and it was Hicks who helped..... More about CAIN'S BOOK

London: Chronos Films, 2003. DVD (b/w, 26mins. + colour, 40 mins.). “Cain’s Film”, a documentary portrait of Alexander Trocchi made in 1969 by graduate film student Jamie Wadhawan, features Trocchi visiting the offices of publisher John Calder, and footage of him seated at his typewriter and painting sculptures (‘futiques’) in his book-lined Kensington apartment. The film’s final ten minutes records an event held at the Arts Lab on April 13, 1969 at which Trocchi was billed to give a talk on “The State of Revolt”, though according to a report by Felix de Mendelsohn published in..... More about CAIN’S FILM and MARIHUANA MARIHUANA. Two Films by Jamie Wadhawan with Alexander Trocchi

San Rafael, CA: Pod Art Productions, 1978/ Berkeley, CA: And/Or Press, 1979-1980. 28x21cm. (56x21cm. unfolded). Three glossy colour calendars for consecutive years, each one printing twelve full-page colour photographs featuring close-ups of Acapulco Gold, Oaxaca, Guerrero, Colombian Gold, Hawaiian Gold, Sinsemilla, etc. Back cover of 1978 calendar slightly rubbed; very small lower corner loss to back cover of 1979 calendar; o/w Very Good plus. More about CANNABIS CALENDARS 1978-1980

N. Hollywood, CA: Brandon House, 1967. First edition thus. Wrps., 191pp. The sequel to "Helen and Desire", originally published by the Olympia Press in 1954 as volume 7 of its Atlantic Library Series under the author's pseudonym 'Frances Lengel'. Introduction by Jack Hirschman (7pp.), with a 3pp. postscript by Alexander Trocchi. Wrappers lightly rubbed, o/w Near Fine. More about THE CARNAL DAYS OF HELEN SEFERIS

Ed. John Sinclair and Charles Moore. 4to. Card wrps., mimeographed sheets, stapled. 78pp. + 6pp. insert (music notation) + 16pp. insert + 2pp. insert (photographs) + fold-out petition. Cover photograph of Archie Shepp by Magdalene Arndt Sinclair. Intended to provide "a forum for the new music", Change was slated by its editors to have four issues, but only one further number followed, in Spring 1966. Contributors include Jim Semark, Dave Sinclair, George Tysh, Joe Pinelli, Mort Maizlish, the editors and others, with reviews of concerts and records by Ornette Coleman, Charles Mingus, Steve Lacy, John Coltrane..... More about CHANGE/1. Detroit: Artists' Workshop Press, Fall/Winter 1965

The colours of the solar spectrum were added for the magazine's full-page reproduction of the 'Paradise Now' chart (as per the stage lighting, though not the poster). This issue also includes "The Plot is the Evolution", a Living Theatre photomontage + "The Ritual is the Vision" by Bill Levy, incorporating a text by Judith Malina + half-page ad./advance publicity for The Living Theatre's series of performances in June 1969 at the Roundhouse, "plus late-night intimate things at the Arts Lab". Also: Oz Comicks Supplement, featuring work by Phillipe von Mora, Robert Crumb, S. Clay Wilson, and Martin Sharp's..... More about "The Chart is the Map - Paradise Now!" in Oz #21 (London: OZ Publications Ink Ltd., May...

Kingston upon Thames: (November) 1966 - (c. May) 1967. Ed. Philip Crick. i) 4to. Tape-bound spine with printed wrappers designed by Stephen Dwoskin. 20pp. Duplicated using the Gestetner at Better Books, including 2 full-page illustrations on coloured stock; ii) 4to. Brown paper wrappers, with screenprint cover design by Stephen Dwoskin. Stapled, 16pp. The first two issues of the Journal of the London Film-Makers Co-operative, named by Simon Hartog and “intended as a platform for advanced criticism, and for imaginative writing on and around the theme of contemporary cinema”. The Co-op was founded at Better..... More about CINIM #1-2 (of 3 published