Ed. Gerard Van der Leun. Tabloid newspaper format, folded, as issued. 32pp. Includes "The Cockettes Play The Palace", a 4pp. article illustrated with photographs by Clay Geerdes and Scott Runyan, concluding "They fuck with minds and fuck them well." Also: an extensive 5pp. interview by the editor with Allen Ginsberg + "Police State Blues" (full page with collage by Joseph La Penta); "Suds Smut" by S. Clay Wilson; Georges Bataille ("Notes on the Present System of Repression"); "The Pornography Poem" by George MacBeth and Michael Foreman; classifieds and a Robert Crumb-drawn ad. for Snatch; more... More about THE ORGAN #1 (Berkeley, CA: July 1970

Ed. Winston Leyland. Tabloid newspaper, folded, as issued. 20pp. Centrespread 'Genderfuck poster' featuring a large b/w photograph portraying Wally, Marshall and two other Cockettes (unidentified by this cataloguer). The caption below prints 'Gender Fuck' in bold lettering, an early written appearance of the term predating by more than three years Christopher Lonc's article in the same publication, "Genderfuck and Its Delights". The Cockettes also feature in a poem by troupe member Goldie Glitters (half-page, with sm. photo), and in a letter addressed to them collectively by a female fan lamenting the lack of security after her..... More about GAY SUNSHINE #4 (Berkeley, CA: December 1970

An original handbill announcing the Angels of Light Free Theatre in 'Titilating Titresses of de Amazon', Polk Street at Bush, San Francisco, May 2 (1971). Printed in black on pink stock. 21.5x35.1cm. Illustrated. Probably designed by Hibiscus, who, together with Harlow, Sandy, Jilala and Tahara, broke away from The Cockettes in early 1971 to form the Angels of Light Free Theatre, his original and preferred name for the troupe. Influenced by The Living Theatre and the philosophical ideals of Irving Rosenthal, founder of the Kaliflower commune, Hibiscus rejected admission charges for all performances and allied himself to the..... More about TITILATING TITRESSES OF DE AMAZON

Ed. Gerard Van der Leun. Tabloid newspaper format, folded, as issued. 36pp. Includes "Just Divine: The Inside Story Of The 400-pound Drag Queen Who Got To Play Jackie Kennedy", a 2pp. photo-illustrated interview with Divine by Edward Rasen. The final issue of Organ (its title having dropped the definite article from the fourth issue on), in which Divine, recently arrived in San Francisco to an airport reception of dancing Cockettes in drag, reveals that her tits are filled with lentils (not birdseed), and describes her roles in John Waters' films 'Eat Your Makeup' (as Jackie Kennedy), 'Mondo Trasho' (as..... More about ORGAN #9 (Berkeley, CA: July 1971

SF: Last Gasp Eco-Funnies Co., Inc., 1971. First edition. 4to. Stapled wrps., unpaginated (44p., printed rectos only). Cover image reproduces an assemblage of objects from the Cockette house on Oak Street, San Francisco by Fayette Hauser and John Flowers. Based on an idea by Hauser and originally conceived to accompany The Cockettes' shows at the Anderson Theatre in New York, the book features photographs of various members of The Cockettes by Clay Geerdes combined with background drawings by John Flowers. Each member's page includes a personal quote and a space along the lower edge left blank for autographs..... More about THE OFFICIAL COCKETTES PAPER DOLL BOOK

An original handbill announcing Sylvester at the Encore Theatre, San Francisco, September 17-18 (1971). B/w, illustrated. 28x21.7cm. Not mentioned on the handbill, though listed in that week's Berkeley Barb, Sylvester's midnight shows were preceded earlier in the evening by local singer-songwriters Pamela Polland (then living in Mill Valley), and Terry Dolan. The Encore Theatre was a small downstairs space next to The Stage Door on Mason Street in downtown San Francisco. Near Fine (brief pencil insc. to verso). More about SYLVESTER - MIDNIGHT AT THE ENCORE THEATRE

Ed. Jann Wenner. Tabloid newspaper format, folded, as issued. Includes "Les Cockettes de San Francisco: Tinsel Tarts in a Hot Coma!" by Maitland Zane, a 4pp. feature based on numerous interviews, including quotes from Hibiscus, Sylvester, Sebastian, Steven Arnold, Goldie Glitters, and Big Darryl, among others, together with reviews of their recent shows and details of the split with Hibiscus. Accompanied by photographs by Robert Altman and Annie Leibovitz. Maitland Zane was an SF Chronicle journalist who later covered the George Moscone/Harvey Milk murders in depth. Also: John and Yoko on the Dick Cavett show; "Jajouka/Up..... More about ROLLING STONE #93 (October 14, 1971 - UK issue

An original handbill announcing Sylvester and His Hot Band at the Palace Theatre, San Francisco, October 15-16 (1971). Photo-illustrated in black on pale pink stock. 21.6x28cm. The midnight shows were emceed by GTO Miss Mercy. Near Fine. More about SYLVESTER AND HIS HOT BAND

Ed. Jack Banning. Tabloid newspaper format, folded, as issued. 32pp. Includes front cover feature, "No, No Cockettes!", with photographs by Billy Maynard, printing a 2pp. report by Ed McCormack on The Cockettes and Sylvester in New York for their three week run at the Anderson Theatre and the audience who turned out to see them + Fran Lebowitz on meeting The Cockettes at Kennedy Airport and commentary on their show: "Visually, they are magnificent… The show itself is awful." Also: Barbara Freeman on the poor working environment at Rolling Stone magazine: "Everyone, especially the women, were..... More about CHANGES Vol. 3, #11 (NY: December 15, 1971

An original handbill announcing Sylvester and his Hot Band at The Shed, San Francisco, August 9-10, 1972. B/w, photo-illustrated. 21.5x14cm. States "The New Twinkle in Blue Thumbs Eye", probably a reference to Sylvester's two songs on 'Lights Out: San Francisco', an album compiled by San Francisco's KSAN radio and released on the Blue Thumb label, which signed him a few months later. Sylvester invited The Cockettes' pianist Peter Mintun to accompany him at the shows, though this failed to materialise due to Mintun's insistence on rehearsals and Sylvester's unreliability in showing up for them. Near Fine. More about SYLVESTER AND HIS HOT BAND AT THE SHED

An original handbill announcing Sylvester and The Hot Band at the Palace Theatre, San Francisco, January 1, 1973. Sepia toned, with photograph of Sylvester by Viva. 28x21.7cm. Billed as "A Star's Homecoming! A New Years Eve Fete!", the packed out midnight show marked Sylvester's return to the Palace, the venue for his first solo show on January 15, 1971. He later told the Berkeley Barb: "I miss the Palace Theatre a whole lot because it was fabulous. It was the best thing that ever happened to me, and I think it was one of the best things to..... More about SYLVESTER AND HIS HOT BAND AT THE PALACE

Two strips of two prints (each measures approx. 14x5cm.), and three individual prints (each approx. 4.5x6.5cm.), cut from a contact sheet, with the photographer's stamp to versos. The images portray Divine in a number of different poses, most of them taken in her (or someone's) kitchen. One of them was used to illustrate an interview with John Waters published in Screw #230 (July 30, 1973), a clipping of which is included, folded and mailed in the accompanying Hotel Chelsea envelope to William Levy, then editor of Suck. The prints are contained within two folded sheets of Hotel Chelsea..... More about A group of 7 b/w contact sheet photographs of Divine by Billy Maynard, c.1973 + photos of Mario...

An original leaflet announcing 'Angels in Morning' at U.C. Extension (Haight and Buchanan), San Francisco, October 31, 1973. Single sheet of white paper stock designed to fold out from a centre opening. Printed offset in red and blue. 20.1x16.5cm. (folded); 20.1x32.8cm. (unfolded). Illustrated with a decorative design on both sides, and a stylised script inside inviting guests to the costume party to "come as hoo-ever you are". By the time of the announcement Hibiscus had already left San Francisco for New York, where he formed his own group, also known as the Angels of Light, while the San..... More about ANGELS IN MORNING

NY: Delta, 1981. First edition. Sm. 4to. Wrps. (no hardcover issued), 243pp. Photo-illustrated throughout. SIGNED by the author on the half-title page: "From the gutter, John Waters". Waters' autobiography opens with an account of his upbringing in Baltimore (dubbed the "hairdo capital of the world"), and covers his friendship with Divine, the making of his first movies, stories of the circle of friends/actors he used in these films, and an account of how he travelled to LA to attend the Manson trial and then to San Francisco where he lived in his car, grew "a thin pencil-line mustache..... More about SHOCK VALUE: A TASTEFUL BOOK ABOUT BAD TASTE

LA: Alyson Books, 2004. First edition, hardbound issue. Lge. 8vo. 274pp. + 16pp. photo-insert. Cover illustration by Gary Panter, with b/w photograph by Clay Geerdes. A vivid and detailed memoir of "the golden era of psychedelic euphoria where anything was possible" by the former member of The Cockettes known as 'Sweet Pam'. In his blurb, John Waters describes the book as "a big, beautiful showbiz acid flashback". Small top corner bumps, o/w Near Fine in dw. Uncommon in the hardcover edition. More about MIDNIGHT AT THE PALACE: MY LIFE AS A FABULOUS COCKETTE

Original programme for The Living Theatre's production of William Carlos Williams's play, 'Many Loves'. NY: The Living Theatre, (January) 1959. Red and blue dyed decorated wrps., 16pp. Front cover drawing by Jean Cocteau. Prints texts by Alan Hovhaness and Martin Buber, along with cast and production details. The play was the first to be staged in The Living Theatre's new Playhouse at Sixth Avenue and 14th Street. It was well received and a party held in celebration for it was attended by Allen Ginsberg (who kneeled in homage at Julian Beck's feet), Jack Kerouac (with whom Beck was..... More about MANY LOVES

NY: Grove Press (Evergreen Original), 1960. First edition. Wrps., 96pp. + 16pp. b/w photo-illustrations by John E. Wulp (including Warren Finnerty as Leach on the front cover). Preface by Kenneth Tynan. Jack Gelber's depiction of the life of drug-addicted musicians was first performed by The Living Theatre in July 1959 and brought them their first real success. Designed by Julian Beck and directed by Judith Malina, it featured, among others, Freddie Redd, who wrote and performed the music with Jackie McLean, Larry Ritchie and Michael Mattos. In a letter from jail in 1965 to his friend Karl Bissinger..... More about THE CONNECTION + London Theatre programme

8vo. Stapled wrps., unpaginated (16pp.). Cover drawing by Jean Cocteau. 3 photo-illustrations. Provides details of four plays produced during the 1961-62 season at The Living Theatre: 'The Apple' by Jack Gelber, directed by Judith Malina and designed by Julian Beck (it featured an early theatrical appearance by James Earl Jones); 'In the Jungle of Cities' by Bertolt Brecht, directed by Malina, who featured in the cast alongside Joseph Chaikin and Martin Sheen; 'The Connection' by Jack Gelber, also directed by Malina and featuring Joseph Chaikin and Martin Sheen; and 'Many Loves' by William Carlos Williams, directed and designed..... More about THE LIVING THEATRE: REPERTORY 1961-62 10th Anniversary

Original flyer announcing 'Jail Poets', a poetry reading at The Living Theatre sponsored by Julian Beck and Judith Malina, July 22, 1963. Printed in black on white paper stock. 28x21.6cm. Artwork by Emma Silverman (uncredited). The ten poets who read included Julian Beck, Carol Bergé, Saul Gottlieb, Judith Malina, Jack Micheline, George Montgomery, and Ed Sanders (who had recently started using The Living Theatre's typewriter to type stencils for his mimeo mag, Fuck You/A Magazine of the Arts). A second 'Jail Poets' reading was held on September 9, featuring, among others, Jackson Mac Low, Taylor Mead..... More about JAIL POETS

Ed. Tom McGrath. Beck originally wrote the synopsis, also known as 'The Skeleton Key' or 'The Frankenstein Poem', in Velletri, Italy in 1965, later revising it three times. Also: Ezra Pound; Morton Feldman in London; Bradley Martin (Hoppy) interviews George Andrews; the London Filmmakers Co-op/Festival of Underground Films, with a commentary by William Burroughs on Antony Balch's film 'Towers Open Fire!', and an Adam Ritchie photo of Barbara Rubin filming Jonas Mekas in NYC (she filmed The Living Theatre's production of 'The Connection' in 1962); Kim Fowley ('Portrait of a Freak'); a report on IT's launch..... More about "Berlin… The Living Theatre", a short article on The Living Theatre's production...

4to. Stapled wrps., 32pp. Illustrated. Ed. Susan Sherman; contributing editors Arthur Sainer and Joseph Berke. Prints three letters from Julian Beck to his friend, Karl Bissinger (illustrated with the latter's photographs of Beck and The Living Theatre), dating from January 1965. Also: Charles Poncé on alchemy; poems by Jerome Rothenberg; Truffaut's 'Fahrenheit 451'; cover and drawings by Dorothy Heller; sculptor Jason Seley; Carol Bergé (mentions of Jud Yalkut/USCO and Max Neuhaus); Mark Hedden on prehistoric symbols; Allen Katzman (editor of EVO); the Tarot; ads. for The Free School of NY and the Dialectics of Liberation conference..... More about "Letters from Jail" by Julian Beck (5pp.) in IKON #2 - 'Magic and Art' issue...

Ed. Bill Levy. A transcript of Julian Beck's speech from the Congress on the Dialectics of Liberation held at the Roundhouse in July 1967, edited (and titled) by Bill Levy. Also: front cover art by Ilene Astrahan (later a pioneer of computer art); Brion Gysin in London, w. photo by Abigail Levy; Harry Fainlight; John Wilcock; the Maharishi interviewed by Marie-Louise Jureit and Malcolm Hart; Pamela Zoline; Ray Durgnat ("Understanding Kinkery"); a 2pp. interview with Steve Abrams (SOMA); John Peel; more + ads. for the Arts Lab; Oz magazine (designed by Martin Sharp); Kleptomania boutique; and half-page 'Christmas..... More about "Sex Money and Action in a Supplementary Society" (2pp.), with photo-illustrations by...

A group of 19 b/w photographs by Gérard Collet of The Living Theatre's production of 'Paradise Now', probably shot in Toulon and/or Geneva in 1968. Each measures 10.5x7.3cm.; photographer's stamp to versos, alongside a Belgian customs stamp. Accompanied by a typewritten sheet providing details of a film by Collet, "Living Theatre, Theatre Libre… on the Living Theatre and their latest piece Paradise Now." Good quality vintage prints featuring Julian Beck, Judith Malina, Jenny Hecht, Karen Weiss [?], and Mel Clay, as well as other members of the troupe and the audience. 'Paradise Now' fully realised The..... More about PARADISE NOW

A group of 11 b/w photographs from The Living Theatre's production of 'Antigone' (1968). Includes two grainy prints of Julian Beck and Judith Malina, each measuring approx. 23.5x18cm., the latter image of Malina as Antigone replicated in a smaller size (14.8x10.5cm.), and a group of eight stage shots (each 8.8x12.7cm.) featuring Julian Beck, Judith Malina, Petra Vogt (who joined The Living Theatre in 1962 and assisted Malina in her translation of Brecht's 'Antigone'), and other cast members. Vintage prints. Photographer unknown. Very Good. 'Antigone', the last script written by a playwright that the company produced, was, like 'Frankenstein'..... More about ANTIGONE

A group of 34 b/w photographs from The Living Theatre's production of 'Mysteries & Smaller Pieces', c. 1968. Sizes vary, most approx. 23x17cm. Vintage prints contained in an orange Agfa-Gevaert box, 24 of them stamped 'Philip J A' on the verso, 4 stamped 'Jean-Paul Saint-Martin', and 5 stamped 'A rendre le jour de la séance à l'administrateur de productions d'aujourd'hui' (one print not stamped). At least one photograph in this latter group is by Gianfranco Mantegna (see front cover of item #81). Includes images of Julian Beck, Judith Malina (who coined the title 'Mysteries and Smaller Pieces'), Jenny..... More about MYSTERIES & SMALLER PIECES

Also: brief news on Anna Lockwood acquiring "a dozen old London taxis, and… making them available for self-drive hire", and Harvey Matusow looking for "computer atrocity stories" for a new book; the Oakland 7; half-page on John Lennon at the Robert Fraser Gallery by Biddy Peppin (Arts Lab), with photo of John and Yoko, plus short letter from Lennon to Canon Verney; Zappa record, and book reviews, by Miles; John Peel's 'Perfumed Garden' (incl. the Oz show at Middle Earth: "Jeff Dexter plays the same records I would play"); ads. for The Deviants' LP 'Ptooff!', Apple; more. Very..... More about "Paradise Now" by Julian Beck, a two-colour centrespread with illustrations by John...

Also: Motherfucker Ben Morea acquitted in Boston; the Oakland 7; lengthy interview with Ken Weaver (The Fugs); colour centrefold poster announcing an exhibition of "Head Graphics"; the White Panthers; Julius Lester; "Pig Death Karma" by Jerry Rubin; qtr.-page ad. for upcoming concerts at the Kinetic Playground (Grateful Dead, Led Zeppelin, Tim Hardin, Jeff Beck, and others); full-page back cover colour concert ad. for the MC5 and Rotary Connection at the Seed-Kaleidoscope Up Against The Wall Ball at the Aragon Ballroom, Chicago, February 20; more. Some fraying along spine and age-toning to cover, o/w Very Good. Mojo Entmooter (Greg..... More about "The Living Theatre is Good Dope", a 1pp. photo-illustrated feature by Abe Peck on The...

Also: full-page report on "A New York Happening in the nude: Kusama's Kapers Free Wall Street"; Liza Williams on Fred Neil; ads. for It's A Beautiful Day at the Whisky a Go Go, and screenings of "Andy Warhol's Lonesome Cowboys" and "Jack Smith's Infamous Masterpiece Flaming Creatures" ("for liberal-minded adults only!"); more. Very Good plus. More about "Mysteries and Smaller Pieces". Harvey Perr's review of The Living Theatre at...

Original poster promoting Marty Topp's 1969 documentary film of The Living Theatre's tour of America in 1968. Printed offset in black on off-white paper. 39x25cm. Designed by Robert LaVigne. Illustrated with a grainy b/w photograph. States "Produced for Universal Mutant by Ira Cohen" and prints a quote by Artaud, with an oblong box in the lower part left blank for screening info. The 40-minute film, the soundtrack for which included music by the MC5 and Sun Ra, premiered at Max's Kansas City on November 11, 1970 as part of the First New York Underground Film Festival... More about PARADISE NOW - LIVING THEATER IN AMERIKA

Contained in a large envelope addressed to Moore in bold red felt-tip ink (postmarked May 1969): i) an original drawing of a female figure by Birgit Knabe. Black ink on paper. 33.3x24.5cm. Together with three signed photocopies (Thermofaxes?) of similar drawings by her, two of them additionally signed on the verso in purple ink and one inscribed by her on the verso (plus one smaller-size photocopy of a drawing, 29.3x21cm.). One of the drawings was used to illustrate the Roundhouse programme [item #73]. Birgit Knabe (Gypsy) performed in several Living Theatre productions and designed the costumes for 'Frankenstein';..... More about A group of items by members of The Living Theatre, originally sent from Grenoble to Jack Henry...

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...

Original poster announcing The Living Theatre's productions of 'Mysteries', 'Antigone', 'Frankenstein' and 'Paradise Now' at the Roundhouse, north London, June 4-28, 1969. Printed offset-litho by The Word (Notting Hill) in black on white paper stock. 60x76.5cm. Illustrated with a group photograph of The Living Theatre Company. The month-long run at the Roundhouse was consistently sold out, and years later Richard Neville recalled the opening night of 'Paradise Now' in his memoir of the period: "A steamy, scriptless tableau of writhing bodies, exhorting and stamping. Limbs disentangle themselves and figures leap from stage to chairs and berate the audience…..... More about THE LIVING THEATRE AT THE ROUNDHOUSE

Printed in purple ink on white paper stock. 35.5x25.2cm. Prints a brief history of the company and synopses of the four productions, with a ticket booking form in the lower part. Verso prints the Arts Lab calendar for May/June 1969, with mention of The Living Theatre's upcoming run at the Roundhouse and screenings of Living Theatre films, including 'Theatre Libre' and 'Paradise Now'; plus dates for Lee Harris's 'Love Play'; Lindsay Kemp's 'White Pantomime'; lectures by Richard Neville, Eldridge Cleaver, Harvey Matusow and Jay Landesman; Jim Haynes's 'Verbal Happening'; a concert by Musica Electronica Viva; and..... More about Original publicity and booking form for The Living Theatre at the Roundhouse, north London, June...

i) 3pp. typescript with holograph amendments by Steven Ben Israel, beginning "Every time we speak or move, whether we know it or not, WE say I LOVE YOU….". A theoretical text on collective improvisation, quoting RD Laing and asserting that "The ARTISTS responsibility has always been to create the immediate mirror of his time… and to demonstrate the immediate need for this mirror to be changed…" (members of The Living Theatre visited Laing following their run at the Roundhouse in June 1969, and his book "The Politics of Experience", published in 1967, was frequently referred to by the company). Sheets..... More about A group of texts by four Living Theatre members, c. 1970

Indianapolis & NY: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1970. First edition. 8vo. Green cloth. 254pp. + two 12pp. inserts featuring photographs by Gianfranco Mantegna. Dw. design by Aldo Rostagno. A detailed chronicle of The Living Theatre's six-month tour of America in 1968-69 by a regular contributor to under and overground publications who accompanied the entourage throughout, documenting the legal and financial difficulties they encountered en route, together with descriptions of their artistic and political philosophy. Very Good plus in dw. More about THE LIVING THEATRE/USA

i) 2pp. als. from Ira Cohen in New York to Bill Levy in Amsterdam, undated (c. 1970/71). "[Living Theatre member] Henry Howard here w/Sheldons uncut version [Sheldon Rochlin's 1970 documentary film, 'Paradise Now'], which I'll see tonight. Will be showing Amerikan Tour Paradise Now [Marty Topp's film, produced by Ira Cohen] + [Invasion of Thunderbolt] Pagoda this weekend… Have excellent series of [Charles Ludlam's] Bluebeard balling Lola Pashalinski - look good in larger size. Shld I send you some for Suck? Is Suck still sucking? Saw Harold Norse here several days hunting the streets of NY for a live carrot..... More about Two autograph letters signed

Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society Ltd., 1971. First US edition (originally published in Italy in 1971). Sm. 4to. Blue paper covered boards. Unpaginated. Introductory essay by Richard Schechner. Consists of a few brief texts, but mostly a documentary collection of (approx. 280) b/w photographs in production and rehearsals, "as much a presentation of the group as any theatrical spectacle." Very Good plus in unclipped dw. More about THE LIVING BOOK OF THE LIVING THEATRE

NY: Horizon Press, 1972. First US edition. 8vo. Orange cloth. 256pp. + 32pp. photo-insert. The first contemporaneous history of The Living Theatre, originally published in France in 1968 (it was followed by a revised edition in 1970, of which this edition is a translation). The concluding chapter was specially written for this edition, and a 15pp. appendix details The Living Theatre's tours from June 1961 through to the end of 1969. A drama critic for Le journal de Genève, Biner joined The Living Theatre during their American tour in 1968 as company archivist and secretary to..... More about THE LIVING THEATRE

NY: Avon Books, 1975. First edition (p/b original). 367pp. + ads. Includes an 8pp. transcript of Sainer's December 1971 radio interview with Steven Ben Israel of The Living Theatre, a "report on why and how The Mother's Day Play happened." Also includes an historical overview of radical theatre in America from the late 1950s on, and sections printing documents on (or by) The Om-Theatre Workshop (Boston), The Open Theatre, The Bread & Puppet Theatre, The Performance Group, The Firehouse Theater, and the San Francisco Mime Troupe, among others. Pages slightly age-toned, with light rubbing..... More about THE RADICAL THEATRE NOTEBOOK

NY: 1984-2006. 8vo. Stapled wrps., each 8pp.-36pp. i) 'The Archaeology of Sleep' (1984) by Julian Beck, performed at the Joyce Theatre. Includes texts by Julian Beck and Judith Malina, and "Background On The Living Theatre"; ii) 'The Tablets' (by Armand Schwerner), including two copies of the printed handbill; iii) 'I&I' (by Else Lasker-Schüler); iv) 'Rules of Civility and Decent Behaviour in Company and in Conversation' (by George Washington); v) 'Utopia' (by Hanon Reznikov); vi) 'The Brig' (by Kenneth H. Brown, first performed in 1963). This (slightly creased) copy..... More about A group of 6 Living Theatre programmes

Wrps., perfect bound, 104pp. Ed. Uri Hertz. Includes contributions from Ira Cohen ("In Defense of Julian Beck" + "Julian Beck at Mount Sinai"); Allen Ginsberg ("Living Theatre & Its U.S. Critics"); Jerome Rothenberg ("On the Becks"); Michael McClure ("On Julian Beck/Interview"); Michael Koch's review of two books by Julian Beck; two poems by Beck (from "Living in Volkswagen Buses & Other Songs of the Revolution" [unpublished]); and "Contra Astrologia" by Judith Malina. Also: interviews with Henry Jaglom, Tadeusz Kantor, and Gary Snyder; "Christmas in Ethiopia" and "The Stauffenberg Cycle for Julian Beck in Eternity" by Ira..... More about THIRD RAIL #7 (Los Angeles: 1985/86

London: Indica Gallery, November 1966. Exhibition poster. Printed offset in black on pale cream paper. 61.6x45.6cm. Credit line states 'Designed by James Dwyer for Yoko Ono'. The Indica show was Yoko's first exhibition outside the USA and Japan and consisted mostly of white and transparent objects, with the exception of 'Add Colour Painting' (represented by the poster), a work inviting viewer participation for which paints and brushes were provided on an adjacent white chair. The show came about after John Dunbar, the director of the gallery, met Yoko at the Destruction in Art Symposium in September 1966, and..... More about UNFINISHED PAINTINGS & OBJECTS

Original poster announcing the 'Alchemical Wedding', a fundraiser for the Arts Lab and BIT organised by Jim Haynes and Jack Henry Moore at the Royal Albert Hall, December 18, 1968. Printed offset litho by The Word in chocolate brown ink on golden yellow paper. 76.5x51.5cm. Designed by Jack Henry Moore and Bill Levy. Illustrated with a woodcut from Johann Dryander's work on brain dissection, 'Anatomiae pars prior' (1537), with an added index finger placed perpendicular to the lips indicating the sign to be quiet (the image was widely appropriated and used everywhere from head shops, clubs, and books to rolling..... More about ALCHEMICAL WEDDING

London: Apple Records, 1969. Original promotional 10x8 glossy b/w photograph of John Lennon, c. March 1969 (around the time of his marriage to Yoko). Prints the Apple logo and the text 'I am at 3 Savile Row, most days' along the lower edge. Minor crease to upper left corner, o/w Near Fine. More about I AM AT 3 SAVILE ROW, MOST DAYS

London: Apple Records, 1969. LP record (Zapple 01). Sleeve design by John and Yoko, featuring a photograph by Susan Wood of Yoko in bed after her miscarriage at Queen Charlotte's Hospital, Hammersmith in November 1968, and John reclining on a makeshift bed alongside; back cover Daily Mirror photograph of John and Yoko outside Marylebone Police Station in October 1968 following their arrest for marijuana possession at 34 Montagu Square (a bust that John and Yoko claimed brought on her miscarriage and later contributed to Lennon's US immigration problems). The album's title is a pun on the 1950s BBC radio and..... More about UNFINISHED MUSIC No. 2: LIFE WITH THE LIONS by John Lennon and Yoko Ono