London: Glitterbest Ltd., (December) 1976 (all published). Tabloid format (12pp.), printed offset litho on newsprint by Zigzag magazine. The Sex Pistols’ fanzine, put together by Jamie Reid, Sophie Richmond and Vivienne Westwood, featuring Ray Stevenson’s photograph of Soo Catwoman on the front cover and the first appearance in a punk context of Jamie Reid’s situationist-inspired ‘Nowhere’ bus on the back. Also contains other graphics by Reid, Stevenson’s photographs of the Pistols (together with many of those around the band, including Debbie Wilson, who worked in Seditionaries), and a special page by Vivienne Westwood. The magazine was..... More about ANARCHY IN THE U.K. No. 1

Printed in black on pink paper. 21.5x28cm. Illustrated with a woodcut of a religious figure. The Birthday Party’s first (and only) LA gig featured two shows, one at 9pm and one at 11pm, and both were opened by Lydia Lunch, accompanied by Jim Sclavunos on keyboards and sax. In her concert review for the Los Angeles Times, Kristine McKenna wrote: “In revolt against that insipid, dulling tranquilizer called ‘show biz’, the Birthday Party is not entertainment. It is a force of nature, a necessary evil and a glorious mess”, adding that Lydia Lunch “once again achieved..... More about An original flyer announcing The Birthday Party with special guest Lydia Lunch at the Roxy (West...

London: Come Organisation, January 1981. LP record (WDC 881006). Limited to 1500 copies on red vinyl, with black ‘Cara’ labels. Black sleeve with xeroxed image glued to front cover, as issued, with one loose insert (a side 2 label from another pressing). Compilation album with Nurse With Wound (featuring Jim Thirlwell), Come, Whitehouse, and The Sodality (“in fact ersatz Whitehouse inspired by the sound heard sitting at the back of a passenger aircraft on one of our regular trips to Amsterdam”). Vinyl excellent in slightly edge-worn sleeve (short split to upper seam). Together with..... More about The Second Coming

Printed in black on white paper. 21.5x28cm. Illustrated with a photograph from the Summer Olympics (which coincided with the event). Lists support from B.G.K. (from Holland), Raw Power (from Italy), Riistetyt (from Finland), Reagan Youth (from NYC), and Solucion Mortal (from Mexico). The concert attracted an audience of more than 6000 and ended in a riot. Fine. More about An original flyer announcing “An International Event featuring Dead Kennedys” at the Olympic...

Printed offset litho in Godalming, Surrey by Publicity & Display Ltd. 51x70.6cm. Artwork by Barry Jones; photograph by Erica Echenberg. The poster corrects the flyer’s mis-spelling of the band’s name, and its lower strip is blank, devoid of specific references to any gigs. Probably made to promote the band’s 1977 UK tour that followed their appearances at the Roxy Club. These included a show at the Speakeasy on March 15, where at least one copy of the poster adorned the back wall. Unobtrusive central vertical crease; lower edge unevenly trimmed; o/w Near Fine. Conservation linen-backed. More about An original b/w promotional poster (1977

London: Quartet, 1978. First edition. 4to. Wrps. (no hardcover issued), 96pp. A contemporary photo-documentary on punk fashion and its relationship to ‘primitive’ dress by a Fleet Street journalist (Hennessy had recently made a TV programme titled “Punk and Acne Go Together”). Includes photographs (some in colour) of the Bromley contingent, the Vibrators, the Damned, Cherry Vanilla, Johnny Rotten, Soo Catwoman, and others, and numerous street shots of punks. The text also includes interviews with “Mark P, punk prophet and one-time editor of the fanzine Sniffin Glue”, his “pal” Danny (Baker), as well as Don..... More about In The Gutter

Printed in black on red heavy paper stock. 30x45.5cm. Following their original incarnation in 1968 as Hollywood theatrical rock group Messiah, the re-named Magic Tramps had various line-ups, notably including singer and minor Warhol Superstar Eric Emerson, who suggested the band relocate to New York, and Chris Stein and Ivan Kral, later of Blondie and the Patti Smith Group respectively. Emerson left in 1974 and and was found dead in mysterious circumstances a year later. Old central vertical fold; edge-wear and creasing, o/w Good. Original posters from this proto-glam/punk group are scarce. More about A poster announcing a CUPB-SA (Cornell University) ‘Feberfest’ starring the Magic Tramps,...

NY: Abrams Image, 2008. First edition. Oblong 4to. Illustrated boards. 144pp. Foreword by Lydia Lunch. SIGNED by Thurston Moore and Byron Coley on the title page. Photo-illustrated throughout. Interview-based documentary tracing the No Wave lineage, from DNA via the Gynecologists, Mars and Teenage Jesus to the Contortions, with many others along the way. Interviewees include many of the major participants: James Chance, Glenn Branca, Barbara Ess, Jody Harris, Arto Lindsay, Miriam Linna, Jim Sclavunos and Lydia Lunch, among others. Also reproduces several original gig posters and handbills, some in colour. Blurb by David Bowie to back cover. Fine. More about No Wave Post-Punk Underground New York 1976-1980

7.5cm. diameter. Illustrated with a photograph by Danny Fields of the band posing in the alleyway behind CBGB during a shoot for Rock Scene magazine. Fields was the Ramones manager between 1975 and 1980 and got them signed to Sire Records in 1975. Near Fine, with verso still silver and shiny. Very scarce. More about An original Sire Records badge promoting the Ramones (c. 1976

21.8x33cm. Designer(s) unknown (probably Andrew Czezowski and Susan Carrington). Illustrated with images of the Heartbreakers (a Track Records press photo), Eater, and Gene October (Chelsea). The fundraiser failed to stave off an eviction order for the short-lived venue, resulting in Andrew Czezowski, Susan Carrington and Barry Jones leaving the club they had established in December 1976. Traces of old sellotape marks, o/w Very Good plus. Conservation linen-backed. More about An original b/w flyer announcing a “St. Valentine’s Benefit for the Roxy”, February 13 (1977

16.5x12.5cm. Announces the Pistols concert at El Paradise Club, April 4, 1976. Near Fine. Provenance: Jon Savage. More about An original Sex Pistols b/w flyer designed by Nils Stevenson and Helen Wellington-Lloyd, printed...

London: EMI Records, 1976. Original promotional poster (small version) for the Sex Pistols’ debut single. 36x50cm. Offset litho. Designed by Jamie Reid, featuring a torn Union Jack souvenir flag reassembled with safety-pins and clips, and produced for the single’s release on November 26, 1976. Discussing Reid’s design in “Up They Rise”, Jon Savage commented: “Anarchy in the U.K. was the Sex Pistols’ first single, and as such had to be exploited and illustrated to its full effect. The ‘Anarchy’ flag was used for a promotional poster. The original image was tiny, an 8 inch by 4..... More about Anarchy in the U.K

7.5x13.3cm. Designed by Jamie Reid in a reworking of the Suburban Press idea of stickers as propaganda. The slogan derives from the chorus of “God Save The Queen” and went on to become the slogan of the year. Fine. More about An original ‘No Future Maximum Penalty £5 Sex Pistols’ sticker (this one nonadhesive), c....

London: Glitterbest Ltd., nd. (May 1977, fourth version). Consists of three loose quarto paper sheets, each folded once to make 12pp. + one quarto thin card sheet folded once to make cover. Printed in b/w, with the same cover design as the first two versions from August and November 1976 (the third, from January 1977, featured the Sex Pistols logo on the front cover). Assembled by Jamie Reid and Sophie Richmond and printed by the Suburban Press. The collaged press cuttings report on the Pistols’ splits with EMI and A&M, the fallout from the Bill Grundy..... More about Sex Pistols Press Kit

i) Never Mind the Bollocks Here’s the Sex Pistols. Black lettering on a pink background with ‘Sex Pistols’ in white lettering on a green banner. 3cm. diameter. ii) Sex Pistols. Star design in red and yellow on a white background, 3cm. diameter (reproduced in "Satellite", p.6). iii) Sex Pistols Anarchy in the U.S.A. B/w. 3.8cm. diameter. Sex Pistols banner over a partial outline of America’s East Coast and tiny image of Johnny Rotten. Versos slightly tarnished, o/w Very Good plus. More about Three original Sex Pistols badges (1977/78

NY: Gotham Book Mart, 1972. First edition of this poetry chapbook, limited to 300 copies numbered and SIGNED by Patti Smith (this one #33). Pale brown stapled wrps., 8pp. (incl. cover). Cover art by the author. Smith’s second book, a poem about a person on a scaffold waiting to die while watching the execution of a queen and her 30 ladies in waiting, who are all forced to dig their own graves. Colophon states “Dedicated to Isaac Newton and Kim Novak” (the front cover depicts a woman falling through the air, hence gravity and “Vertigo”). Written in 1970..... More about A Useless Death

NY: Arista Records/Wartoke Concern, Inc., c. October/ November 1975. Glossy quarto-size b/w card folder, reproducing a holograph manuscript by Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe’s cropped photo-portrait of her on the front cover. The folder contains: i) a stapled four-page Arista Records press release/artist biography by Trixie A. Balm (dated October 31, 1975). A freelancer at the time, Trixie A. Balm, aka Lauren Agnelli, wrote for Creem magazine and later formed a band, Nervus Rex, that also included former Cramps drummer Miriam Linna; ii) eleven pages reproducing various press reviews and articles, including from Rolling Stone..... More about Horses Press Kit

i) Three autograph letters signed from Patti Smith’s mother, Beverly Smith, two of them with their original mailing envelopes (postmarked 1976); the third, written on a page from an exercise book, details some of Patti’s key dates (“Patti was 19 when we moved to Mantua. 20 when she went to NY”). ii) Six original b/w photographs of Patti Smith (each approx. 12.5x9cm.). One of them shows her on her graduation day in 1964, another at Jim Morrison’s grave in Père Lachaise on May 24, 1976, and another pictures her reading from her book, “Seventh Heaven”, at a bookstore..... More about A collection of Patti Smith Fan Club material, c. 1976-1977

Badge with white lettering on a black ground (4.4cm. diameter); black plastic pick with lettering in white to both sides. Originally distributed for free by the Patti Smith Fan Club (the song was Patti’s mother’s favourite), with the plectrum often thrown from the stage during PSG concerts. Near Fine. The controversial song - intended by Smith to be about the acceptance of outsiders (“outside of society”) and never released as a single - is seldom performed now, never received mainstream radio airplay and was recently removed from streaming services, although she did perform it when she..... More about An original badge and a Manny’s bass guitar pick, issued to promote Patti Smith’s song,...

Woodstock, NY: Hanuman Books, 1994. First edition. Poetry broadside printed in two colours on grey textured paper by Leslie Miller at the Grenfell Press. 38x31.7cm. SIGNED by the author in black ink. Illustrated with a felt pen and gun shots drawing by William Burroughs. A poem written in homage to a writer much admired by Patti Smith. Fine. More about Ps/alm 23 revisited for William Burroughs

Printed in black on pale green paper. 28x21.5cm. Illustrated, including a photograph of a teenage Charles Manson. Features a tear-off along the lower edge intended for ticket applications (limited to a maximum of 600, the successful applicants received “a complete itinerary, map, and info sheet”). The Meat Puppets, Redd Kross (who got lost on the way) and Psi/Com (pre-Jane’s Addiction Perry Farrell) also played the gig, in front of an audience most of whom were tripping on free acid. Thurston Moore recalled in his memoir, “Sonic Life”, that “It was a beautiful night, our entry into the creative..... More about A flyer announcing Sonic Youth’s appearance at the Gila Monster Jamboree, held at an “all new...

Lawrence, KS: Fresh Sounds, Inc., 1982. Cassette tape (Tape 103 - grey cassette shell). Six-panel photo-illustrated J-Card, folded in thirds, printing credits, notes and release information. A live recording by Australian industrial/noise group SPK, made at the Off The Wall Hall in Lawrence, Kansas on April 28, 1982. Fresh Sounds, Inc. was founded by local promoter, Bill Rich, in 1981, and its third release was a flexi record by William Burroughs (SPK visited him during their stop in Lawrence). Near Fine. More about The Last Attempt at Paradise

(NY): Red Star Records/(London): Bronze Records, 1978. Original promotional poster for the UK release of Suicide’s debut album. 58.7x39.2cm. Design by Timothy Jackson and Alan Vega based on the record sleeve’s front cover, with the photograph of the band by Michael Robinson from the sleeve’s back cover superimposed and richly colour saturated. Produced by Craig Leon and Marty Thau, the album was released in the US on the latter’s new Red Star label in December 1977, but failed to chart. Its UK release in July 1978, licensed to Bronze Records after their A&R man, Howard Thompson, had been..... More about Suicide

Offset litho. 43x28cm. Illustrated with a Bob Gruen photograph of Television onstage at CBGB earlier in the year. The show was Television’s first and only appearance at the Truck & Warehouse Theatre, located in the East Village, but the Ramones, who had never shared the bill with Television before (and never would), pulled out at the last minute and were replaced by Blondie, one of their earliest gigs under their new name. Shortly afterwards, Richard Hell, pictured on the left in Bob Gruen’s photograph, left Television and went on to form the Heartbreakers with Jerry Nolan and Johnny..... More about Original poster announcing Television with the Ramones at The Truck & Warehouse Theatre, NYC,...

i) TG flash badge. 2.3cm. diameter. Slight discolouration to edges of central white section, o/w Near Fine; ii) TG DOA - Dead on Arrival badge. 3cm. diameter. Near Fine; iii) Industrial Music badge. 3cm. diameter. Near Fine; iv) Terroristes Genetiques badge. 3.2cm. diameter. Near Fine; v) TG flash patch, in grey, silver, black and khaki. 9cm. diameter. Fine. Throbbing Gristle adopted the flash symbol as their primary logo in 1976 after Chris Carter noticed a High Voltage Danger sign near a railway line in Hackney. It was first used as a free..... More about A group of four original TG badges and an original TG flash patch

B/w xerox. 28x21.5cm. Illustrated. The two LA gigs (part of Whitehouse’s planned eleven-date tour of the US, beginning in New York on March 25) took place at Fiesta House on April 15 and on the following night at the Anti-Club on Melrose; both attracted an audience of about 130 people (recordings made at the gigs were later released as “Live Actions - Volume 8”). Due to threats of violence from friends and colleagues of Monte Cazazza, received while they were in Los Angeles, Whitehouse’s final three live actions scheduled for San Francisco later in the month were cancelled... More about An original flyer for two Whitehouse live actions in Los Angeles, April 15-16, 1983, headlined...