Ed. Bill Levy et al. Front cover photo of Allen Ginsberg at the Legalise Pot Rally in Hyde Park, July 16. Includes “Dialectual’s Masturbation”, an interim report from the Dialectics of Liberation Congress, followed by “Sigmatic View” by Simon Vinkenoog, one of the speakers at the conference + news of The Social Deviants “to play at a closing event at Dialectics of Liberation conference” + ad. for “Tavistock Books for The Dialectics of Liberation”. Also: Alexander Trocchi (“Junkie To The Queen”); concrete poem by John Furnival; Bradley Martin (Hoppy) on STP; centrespread conversation between Richard Alpert..... More about INTERNATIONAL TIMES #17 (London: July 28, 1967

Ed. David Bieda and David Robins. Narrow 4to. Stapled glossy wrps., 64pp. A fairly detailed summary and critique of several of the lectures delivered, illustrated with 7 b/w photographs by John Haynes, including RD Laing, Stokely Carmichael and Gregory Bateson. Also: “Underground Voices”, a 10pp. transcript of a conversation between David Medalla, Jim Haynes, Jack Henry Moore and others, with a full-page drawing of the latter two by Mal Dean; Michael Instone on (in part) “the use of LSD… on Underground consciousness”; centrespread reproducing David Vaughan’s psychedelic poster featuring David Bailey’s photograph of Vogue cover model..... More about “Conference/Dialectics of Liberation: a Circuit Report” (8pp.) in CIRCUIT #5 (London: Winter...

London: Albion Village Press, October 1971. First edition. Narrow folio. Spiral bound. Unpaginated (82pp.). Photo-illustrated throughout. Association copy, SIGNED and inscribed by the author on the title page to filmmaker Peter Whitehead: “For Peter with belated thanks for the soundman who made this possible - our first collaboration Iain Sinclair”. Sinclair’s second publication and first book of prose, a multi-layered retrospective chronicle of his film documenting Allen Ginsberg’s visit to London for the Congress of The Dialectics of Liberation. Titled “Ah, Sunflower”, the film was commissioned by WDR in Köln and premiered in West Germany on..... More about The Kodak Mantra Diaries, October 1966 to June 1971

Printed offset in black on yellow paper (there were variant colours issued on pale green, blue, and pink paper stock). 76x50.5cm. Lists the names of 66 faculty members, some of whom, including William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Richard Hamilton and Jim Dine, were visiting faculty. Designer unknown, although the poster's simple layout and plain typography resembles the poster promoting the Free University of New York, suggesting that Joseph Berke may have had a hand in it. In Berke’s book, “Counter Culture”, Roberta Elzey describes how the posters “mushroomed in Hampstead, Notting Hill, coffee-bars, boutiques and universities”, and..... More about An original poster announcing the opening of the Anti-University of London at 49 Rivington...

i) Spring Quarter. London: Trigram Press, c. late 1967/early 1968. Sm. 4to. Slim wrps., stapled (8pp.). Designed and printed by Asa Benveniste, with illustration of a hand-drawn map to front cover. Edited by Stuart Montgomery. One copy of each of the three variant colour covers - pink, plum and pale brown; since it was printed slightly later, the contents of the pale brown variant differ from the first two. Originally distributed for free via sympathetic bookshops. Contents include the anti-institution’s founding statement and a proclamation of its aims: “The Antiuniversity of London has been founded in response to the intellectual..... More about A complete set of catalogues issued by the Anti-University of London, including all three colour...

Approx. 179 words in black ink + spirograph drawing to lower part. No date (c. early March 1968). Single sheet of letterhead stationery (25x20cm.), folded in three. Together with original envelope bearing Yoko’s holograph inscription: “YOKO ONO/ To Bill Levy/ URGENT”. First line of ms. note crossed through in blue biro with six-word amendment, possibly in a different hand. The letterhead prints the address and telephone number of Yoko’s flat at 25 Hanover Gate Mansions, next to Regent’s Park. Minor handling wear only. The manuscript is divided into two numbered parts. The first concerns Yoko’s concert appearance with..... More about Holograph manuscript relating to “The Connection”, the title of the course given by Yoko Ono...

8vo. Stapled wrps. An extract from “The Invisible Insurrection of a Million Minds” (the full version of which had first appeared in the June 1962 issue of New Saltire magazine), a key influence on the thinking of Joseph Berke (who had earlier set himself up as one of Trocchi’s Sigma representatives in New York) and an inspirational blueprint for both the Free University of New York and the Anti-University of London (where Trocchi led a course titled “The Invisible Insurrection”). Also: “Anarchism and the Cybernetics of Self-Organising Systems” by John D. McEwan; and “Beatnik as Anarchist?” by Ian..... More about “The Spontaneous University” (4pp.) by Alexander Trocchi in ANARCHY #31 [Vol. 3, No. 9]...

Ed. Bill Levy. In the piece, prefaced by a William Burroughs quote from the December 1967 issue of Mayfair magazine, the three contributors illustrate the differences of opinion over which direction the anti-institution should take. Norse recounts how at the first faculty meeting “the Anti-University got off to an anti-start” with “a howling underground cell of clashing ideologies and aims.” Also: front cover reproduces a poster printed by King Mob reproducing André Bertrand’s détourned comic strip, ‘In Our Spectacular Society Where All You Can See Is Things And Their Price…’, featuring a text by Raoul Vaneigem translated into..... More about “Three Views on the Anti-University” from Harold Norse, Alexander Trocchi and Robert Tasher...

London: MayDay Rooms, 2012. First edition. Tabloid format, loosely bound, 64pp. Printed on newsprint in blue, red and green inks. Illustrated throughout. An invaluable source of information on the Anti-University of London and the Dialectics of Liberation Congress that gave rise to it. Introduced and edited by Jakob Jakobsen, with contributions from Martin Levy (on the Dialectics of Liberation) and Howard Slater (Trocchi and Project Sigma); interviews by Jakobsen with John Latham and Joseph Berke; plus photographs, reproductions of contemporary articles from the underground press, and numerous illustrations of rare documents and ephemera, several examples of which are..... More about Antiuniversity of London - Antihistory Tabloid