i) Carbon copy of a 2pp. typed letter written in February 1966 to Jennie Lee, Minister for the Arts in Harold Wilson’s government, with additional holograph note, together with ii) 2pp. ink holograph notes written c. 1967 in which Boyle references the letter; iii) Boyle’s copy of “Art Placement Group”, a report co-authored and published in 1966 by Barbara Latham (née Steveni) and Joan Hills outlining the APG’s proposals for industrial placements for artists; and iv) Boyle’s copy of the first issue of E.A.T. News, the bulletin produced by Experiments in Art and Technology, Inc., NYC. Boyle’s typed..... More about A group of four documents concerning support for the arts and the relations between contemporary...

No date (c. early 1967). Single quarto sheet, printed on a Gestetner machine, recto only. Haynes later told Jonathon Green that “Jack [Henry Moore] probably thought up the name”, and that “the letter produced £3000”, with money from “Fred Zinnemann, Peter Brook, Tom Stoppard, and so on” (Days in the Life, p.169). The letter’s verso bears a holograph note from Haynes intended for publication in International Times (of which he was a founding director). Encapsulating his perennial objective of bringing people together, it reads: “In an attempt to encourage talking/smiling/hello-ing in the streets, tubes & buses..... More about An early circular letter by Jim Haynes, originally sent to about 800 people, in which he outlines...

Original holograph draft manuscript (2 foolscap sheets, pinned at top left corner), together with another holograph draft manuscript + author’s typescript of the revised text, re-titled ‘Degrees of Environmental Control’ (each 4pp., gathered by two paper clips). No date (c. 1967). The text include a graphic chart “representing the total environment as experienced by the human”, showing “the interaction between the sensory stimuli which act on the nervous system and the channels they pass through on the way to the brain and classification of all the activities of man”. Probably written for a proposed magazine article..... More about Degrees or Attitudes to Environmental Control

Original programme and script for The Exploding Galaxy’s performance of David Medalla’s ‘The Bird Ballet’, staged at the Roundhouse, north London during October 1967. Sm. oblong 8vo. Two sheets stapled once and folded to make 8pp., incl. cover. Illustrated on the second page with a collage by David Medalla. The event included thirty performers appearing in the guises of sixty-two real or invented birds, poems “sinewed into the sound-structures”, kinetic dramas and pop groups (the programme lists The Crazy World of Arthur Brown, Graham Bond and The Soft Machine as participants, with different ones “in every performance”, and..... More about The Bird Ballet: a cosmic dance-drama

Beige colour paper, printed in black with psychedelic design (31x25cm.); lists appearances by the Exploding Galaxy, headliners the Crazy World of Arthur Brown, the Social Deviants, the Incredible String Band, and psychedelic lightshows by UFO Lights, among others; ticket printed in black on thin white card (10.5x13.9cm.), with psychedelic design and numbered ticket stapled to verso. Organised by artist and Utrecht provo Bunk Bessels and inspired by the 14-Hour Technicolor Dream, the event was one of the first Dutch pop festivals. In 99 Balls Pond Road, Jill Drower describes how Bessel had introduced himself to the Exploding Galaxy..... More about Flyer + ticket for the Flight to Lowlands’ Paradise, Magriethal of the Jaarbeurs, Utrecht,...

Printed offset litho in black, white and lime green on white stock (the poster was printed in at least one other colourway - black, red and lime green). 50.9x76.4cm. Illustrated with an image of a pre-Columbian deity. Designer unknown. Though its title doesn’t appear, the poster advertises ‘Studies Towards an Experiment into the Structure of Dreams’, a collaborative work by Mark Boyle and Joan Hills with the Argentinian dancer Graziella Martinez (they had recently worked together at the Edinburgh Festival with Soft Machine in a piece called ‘Lullaby for Catatonics’). The poster credits the production to..... More about A rare poster announcing ‘Graciela Martinez - Mark Boyles Sensual Laboratory - introducing...

(London): Fulham Gallery, nd. (1968). Colour offset poster printed on white paper stock. 89x57cm. Illustrated with an image from a liquid light projection. Designed by Tom Adams for The Sensual Laboratory, Mark Boyle’s light show that toured the USA with Soft Machine and Jimi Hendrix from late January through to April 1968 (copies of the poster were sold on the tour). Near Fine. More about The Sensual Laboratory London

Twelve duplicated foolscap sheets, all except two printed recto and verso. The shows listed for the gallery space (run by Pamela Zoline and Biddy Peppin) include an exhibition of work by Takis, an ‘Environment’ by Saleem Bukhari and Dave Robson, and ‘Shades’, John Latham’s roller blinds show; theatre productions (organised by Jim Haynes and/or Jack Henry Moore) include Jan Quackenbush’s ‘Complexions’, Steven Befkoff’s adaptation of Kafka’s ‘In the Penal Settlement’, Heathcote Williams’s first play, ‘The Local Stigmatic’, performances by The People Show, Will Spoor’s Mime Company and The Human Family, and ‘Four Thoughts’, Yoko Ono and John Lennon’s..... More about A group of eight Arts Lab schedules and cinema programmes, c. January-November 1968, together...

Yellow card, printed in blue ink, folded, as issued (21x7.5cm. folded; 21x29.8cm. unfolded). A later version than item #17 above, with a slightly expanded lists of founder members and former productions. Membership form detached at dotted line, o/w Near Fine. Illustrated in London’s Arts Labs, p.10. More about Promotional leaflet with membership form (detached), nd. (c. Autumn 1968

Colour silkscreen, designed and printed by Biddy Peppin. 53.8x42cm. The People Show, Britain’s first experimental theatre company (described by Jeff Nuttall as “underground of the Underground”), began in 1966 when Nuttall, Sid Palmer, John Dod Darling, Laura Gilbert and Mark Long performed at the church hall in Powis Gardens during the first Notting Hill Festival. Shop manager Bob Cobbing subsequently offered the use of the basement at Better Books, giving them a regular venue, and they first performed at the Arts Lab in October 1967 (No. 15, ‘Magic Circle’, with pianist Mel Davis), and continued to stage productions..... More about A poster announcing performances of The People Show No. 21, ‘Shop! Mrs. Butterworth’,...

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 papers and T-shirts). The event recalled the International Poetry Incarnation of June 1965 and featured various musicians and poets, an early screening of Nik Douglas’s ‘Tantra’..... More about A poster announcing the ‘Alchemical Wedding’, a fundraiser for the Arts Lab and BIT organised...

Printed in black on white stock. 33x20.4cm. Two old central horizontal folds, o/w Very Good plus. More about A mimeographed flyer announcing the ‘Alchemical Wedding’, reproducing the image from the poster

(London): Fulham Gallery, nd. (1969). Printed offset litho in black, red and blue on white paper stock (66.2x48.5cm.). Illustrated with an Aldis light projection from ‘Son et Lumière for Earth, Air, Fire and Water’ (1966). A later, smaller variant of the Edward Lucie-Smith poetry poster, without the Brighton Festival information to upper part, and credit along right edge stating “projection: Mark Boyles Sensual Laboratory” printed in white rather than blue. Tiny tear to left edge and minor handling wear, o/w Near Fine. More about Science Fiction?

London: Kala Press, 1995. First edition. Sm. 4to. Glossy colour wrps., 216pp. Illustrated throughout in colour and b/w. Foreword by Dore Ashton; afterword by Yve-Alain Bois. A monograph by the art critic and writer Guy Brett, who was involved with David Medalla in the establishment of the Centre for Advanced Creative Study/Signals Gallery in 1964, and later, following the 1973 Chilean coup d'état, co-founded the group Artists for Democracy (AFD) with Medalla, John Dugger (a core member of The Exploding Galaxy), and the Chilean poet and artist, Cecilia Vicuña. Includes a partial list of performances by..... More about Exploding Galaxies. The Art of David Medalla

London: Scrudge Books, 2014. First edition. Sm. 4to. Perfect bound wrps., 522pp. Lavishly illustrated with more than 200 photographs in colour and b/w, including images by Adam Ritchie, Hoppy and Ray Stevenson. The author, who has SIGNED this copy, participated in many performances by the Exploding Galaxy and provides an informed account of the experimental dance drama group and their communal life at 99 Balls Pond Road in Islington. Drawing on personal experience and extensive interviews with former members, she includes twenty in-depth profiles of the people they were then and their lives since the Galaxy ended in..... More about 99 Balls Pond Road: The Story of The Exploding Galaxy

London: Royal Court Theatre, 1968. Pale green card covers with title printed in black. Foolscap. 84pp., bound with a metal clasp. An original draft playscript for Heathcote Williams’s first full-length play (it was based on an earlier one-acter, ‘The Local Stigmatic’, written at the behest of Harold Pinter, and subsequently re-titled ‘AC/DC’). The cover has been amended by the author with a new title, “The Elektrofiliaks AC/DC”, and the original title on the first page has been crossed through. ‘AC/DC’ was first staged at the Royal Court’s Theatre Upstairs in 1970 and transferred to New York..... More about Skizotopia

i) Small poster printed in red on white paper (35x28cm.), featuring a calligram written and designed by Heathcote Williams in the shape of an ejaculating penis. SIGNED and dated 1970 by the author, with his ink annotations and the last line written out in holograph. Old central horizontal fold; slight edge-creasing and handling wear, o/w Very Good; ii) author’s original typescript for the Suck manifesto, dated London 1969, with brief instructions for the printer added. Old central vertical and horizontal folds, o/w Very Good plus. The manifesto wasn’t printed in Suck, but it did..... More about Suck Manifesto. Poster + original typescript of Heathcote Williams’s extravagent statement of...

Four tall foolscap mimeographed sheets, stapled at top corner, printed in black, green and red inks, recto and verso. A festival newsletter printing Sunday’s proposed line-up (this included Brinsley Schwarz, Third Ear Band and Renaissance, none of whom actually played; Pete Brown and Sonja Kristina did, but weren’t listed); details of the financial hassles (continued from the previous issue of the newsletter); news of the Spontaneous Music Commune “having a Love-in Happening” and afterwards a “Commune-Digger Be-In”; a sheet announcing the non-appearance of Head, Hands and Feet; news and notices from the festival site; ads. for BIT and..... More about PHUN CITY PLANNIT No. 2 (July 26th, 1970

Ed. Tony Levy, Michel Prigent, Sinclair Beiles (and Jan Herman #3). 4to. Slim wrps., 12pp., 16pp., and 20pp. Illustrated. A post-situ anarchist magazine, co-edited by Michel Prigent, an acquintance of Guy Debord who moved to London in 1966, and Sinclair Beiles, co-author of the first collection of cut-ups with Burroughs, Gysin and Corso in 1960. Heathcote Williams contributes “Just a Wasp in Grain Shit” to the second issue, a 3pp. front cover rant on Enoch Powell, SIGNED by him “for Bill Levy Heathcote Williams 1970”, and “The Dead Beatlemachine Fried on the Burning Ghat” to the..... More about SUB 70 #2-4 (London: SUB 70 Press, nd. [1970

London: Revelation Enterprises Ltd., 1972. Triple-LP set (REV 1-3; arc text and outline of the Revelations logo and ‘flame’ effect on the labels printed in yellow). Large 3 foot by 2 foot fold-out poster sleeve and four inserts, all designed by Barney Bubbles, as follows: i) 32pp. photo-illustrated booklet; ii) a photo-illustrated tracklisting; iii) a fold-out/cut-out geodesic dome; iv) silver pyramid insert (this copy has been cut out but not stuck together). The slightly worn PVC outer sleeve has a short tear to upper seam, but the printing..... More about GLASTONBURY FAYRE

NY: Giorno Poetry Systems, 1972. Double LP record (GPS-001), with GPS promo/subscription insert. Sleeve photographs and design by Les Levine, liner notes by John Giorno. Heathcote Williams contributes “I Will Not Pay Taxes Until”, his most famous diatribe from the period. The other contributors are: Ted Berrigan; Joe Brainard; Michael Brownstein; William Burroughs; John Cage; Jim Carroll; Kathleen Cleaver; Clark Coolidge; Robert Creeley; Diane di Prima; Allen Ginsberg; John Giorno; Brion Gysin; David Henderson; Lenore Kandel; Bernadette Mayer; Taylor Mead; Frank O’Hara; Ed Sanders; Aram Saroyan; Harris Schiff; Bobby Seale; John Sinclair; Anne Waldman; Philip Whalen;..... More about The Dial-A-Poem-Poets

Playscript privately printed by Heathcote Williams, including deleted words and annotations in the author’s hand reproduced in the copy. No date (c. 1973). Sm. 4to. White plastic comb binding, with clear plastic covers. 14pp. Photo-reproduced image of Tony Hancock to cover page. Autograph note SIGNED by Williams loosely inserted (72 words) in which he writes that he wishes “I’d never stolen that goose [a reference to Viennese Aktionist Otto Muehl’s performance at the first Wet Dream Film Festival during which Williams and Anthony Haden-Guest intervened to steal the goose Muehl appeared to be about to kill] - wish..... More about Hancock's Last Half-Hour: A Play For One Actor

i) Free City manifesto. No date (1974). Single duplicated typescript (some holograph corrections in the copy), with title and address added in blue ink by Williams. Old central and vertical folds. Very Good; ii) another copy, with Albion Free State stamp to lower margin. Old central and vertical folds. Very Good; iii) Free City - Notes For The Singing Forest. Single duplicated typescript. Probably written by Nicholas Albery. Old central and vertical folds. Very Good; iv) Free City logo. Heathcote Williams’s logo design for Free City using letterforms derived from collages of Victorian engravings..... More about A group of documents relating to Free City, Heathcote Williams’s vision for a “New...

i) Albion Free State Manifesto, nd. (October 1974). Single foolscap mimeographed sheet, printed on both sides. Text written by Nicholas Albery, borrowing ideas and words from William Blake, the original Diggers, Heathcote Williams, Ubi Dwyer, Maya Free Nation News and the counterculture and free festival movements. Issued from the squatted flat occupied by Heathcote Williams and Diana Senior at 217a Westbourne Park Road. Old vertical and horizontal folds, o/w Very Good plus; ii) mimeographed foolscap sheet printed recto only headed ‘Albion Free State’, with anonymous text by Heathcote Williams beginning: “How much longer must our lives be dominated..... More about A group of documents relating to Albion Free State, Nicholas Albery and Heathcote Williams’s...

Edited and published by Heathcote Williams. Foolscap mimeograph, stapled, 24pp. (+ cover sheet), printed rectos and versos. Illustrated. The only issue of the Albion Free State’s subversive Sunday paper, produced and printed over three days in an edition of 1000 copies, many of which were distributed by Williams and Nicholas Albery at the third Windsor Free Festival in August 1974. Accompanied by two mimeographed foolscap sheets announcing its publication, one of them addressed by hand to the pot legalisation campaigner, Steve Abrams. Contents include extracts from Octavio Paz’s essay on the Mexican fiesta (“The Labyrinth of..... More about THE SUNDAY HEAD (London: August 1974) + two mimeographed flyers

London: People’s Free Festival General & Welfare Committee, September 1974-August 1975. Tabloid newspaper format (issues #5-7 published under the banner of The International Times). Each 8pp.-16pp. Illustrated. i) MAYA #1 - Windsor Free Nation News. 8pp. The front page article for this first issue, not credited to Heathcote Williams though clearly his work, is prefaced by quotes from Octavio Paz (see also item #70) and William Blake, and provides his lengthy report on the Third Windsor Festival, or “Winds Zohar Free Feast” (the Zohar, meaning “splendour”, is a foundational work in the Kabbalah): “Each festival is a blueprint..... More about MAYA FREE NATION NEWS #1 & #3-7 (of seven issues published) + “The Movement of...

Rotterdam: Cold Turkey Press, 1974. First edition. 4to. Screenprinted brown card wrappers. 43pp. Edited and translated by Susan Janssen and the publisher, Gerard Bellaert. Bi-lingual English/Dutch texts. Limited edition of 250 numbered copies (this one #2). A collection of Heathcote Williams’s tracts and manifestos, including the Suck manifesto (item #54); “Love is Psychic Capitalism” (item #53); “I Will Not Pay Taxes” (item #57); “Plant Liberation” (item #66); “Free City” (item #66); and other polemics. Illustrated with photographs by Susan Janssen and Ron Reid, as well as the author’s own photographs of his Notting Hill “Gutter Guru Graffitti”... More about Manifestoes/Manifesten

A poster from the Paddington Printshop printing the slogan “Occupy Empty Houses Now”. No date (1975). Silkscreen, printed in black on white stock. 69.2x48.9cm. Illustration depicts a large bird sitting on the roof of an empty building holding a bag of cash in its beak (“A Mammon-Parasite Development”), and the backdrop portrays numerous office blocks bearing various corporate names (“Allied-Extortion”, “Mammon House”, “Parasite Enterprises”, “Plague Chemicals”). Old corner pinholes, with faint age-toning and discolouration, o/w Very Good plus. More about OCCUPY EMPTY HOUSES NOW

A large poster printing a bold, stencilled slogan in red: “Fight Property Speculation”. Illustrated with an angry group of people rising up against a property baron hiding his stacks of cash behind him. Possibly printed by the Paddington Workshop, c. mid-70s. Silkscreen on thin cream stock. 51x76cm. Old corner pinholes, light handling wear and small rubbed patch from old tape removal to lower right edge, o/w Very Good plus. More about FIGHT PROPERTY SPECULATION

A complete set of The Fanatic, envisioned by its founder, John Michell, as a magazine that anyone could publish using the publication title The Fanatic: “The two principal qualifications of a fanatic preacher are, his inward light, and his head full of maggots, and the two different fates of his writing are, to be burnt or worm-eaten” (Jonathan Swift). i) Fanatic #1: The Special Cosmological Issue from Bath. 4to. Wrps., 12pp., unbound. Edited, written and published from Bath by John Michell, c. 1975. Designed by Carl Willson; Fanatic masthead by Heathcote Williams. Illustrated. Contents include “A funny story..... More about THE FANATIC #1-6 + issue #21/2 + The Fanatic off-print + The Fanatic Supplement...

No place (Notting Hill): no publisher stated (Open Head Press), no date (1975). First edition. 8vo. Pale blue boards, upper board decorated with the royal coat of arms in red and title lettering in black. 8pp., with stitched binding. Presentation copy from Heathcote Williams, inscribed on the preliminary page: “for Bill [Levy] with much love from the anonymous author printer, & publisher, & binder. 1/150 printed in Caslon, Bembo & Erhardt (one letter) specially for Windsor Free Festival, 1975-1392 after Muhammed + 3 after Hendrix.” One of Heathcote Williams’s best anti-monarchist satires, and the first publication..... More about The Abdication of Queen Elizabeth the Second

No place (Notting Hill): no pub. (Open Head Press), nd. (1976). First softover edition. 8vo. Wrps., 8pp., gathered by a red tassel string (lacks the Japanese lace paper found in the issue listed above). Time Out described the publication as “a finely printed piece of ripe ribaldry calculated to give the sort of provocative offence that Chaucer’s Travellers’ tales must have provided when they were first minted.” Edges of wrappers slightly age-toned, o/w Near Fine. More about The Abdication of Queen Elizabeth the Second. “The Truth about My Mother” H.R.H. Prince Charles

A poster printed by the Paddington Workshop for the Campaign Against a Criminal Trespass Law announcing a demonstration and rally in Trafalgar Square, February 28th (1976). Silkscreen in red and black on white stock. 50.5x76cm. Illustrated with a large image of a demonic judge moving houses like monopoly board pieces above two imposing court buildings. Text reads: “The Law Commission’s proposals for a Criminal Trespass Law will soon be before Parliament. They want to make it illegal for any of us to take direct action however peaceful. This law threatens - Occupations (at work; at college)..... More about DEMONSTRATE AGAINST A CRIMINAL TRESPASS LAW

4to. Wrps., 24pp. (this copy lacks centre 4pp.), unbound. Printed in black, red and green. Handwritten and drawn by Daevid Allen, Gilli Smyth, Marie Claire, Da Missile Bass, Kif Kif de Batter, Count Nikol, Lawrence The Alien, Gavin Ze Blitz, Stevie Lakeside, and Johnny Wombat. Lacks pp. 11-14, o/w Very Good. Together with: i) SPACE NEWS #1 (June 1977). 4to. Stapled wrps., 20pp. Special ‘Psychedelia in the UK’ issue, with features on Tim Blake (ex-Gong) and Crystal Machine, and Zorch, an early all-electronic band (they played numerous free festivals in the mid-70s, including Windsor in 1974..... More about PLANET GONG #1. No place (Oxford: Paupers’ Press Co-operative), nd. (November 1977

London: Junction Books, 1982. First edition. Wrps., 203pp. + 8pp. photo-insert (incl. Glastonbury, Windsor 1974, Ubi Dwyer, Sid Rawle). Detailed survey of pop festivals by sociologist Michael Clarke, from the early Beaulieu and Richmond Jazz Festivals, Glastonbury and the Isle of Wight to the rise of free festivals during the early to mid-70s and the establishment of informal regulation. Includes a 5pp. chronology of festivals held in the UK between 1956 and 1979. Wrappers a little rubbed, o/w Very Good plus (spine uncreased). More about The Politics of Pop Festivals

Each 4to. 22pp.-36pp. Illustrated. Two titles devoted to the free festival and hippy movement, each issue providing detailed information on festivals throughout the country, reprinting press coverage and related magazine articles on Stonehenge and Glastonbury, as well as original articles on free festivals, natural birth and pre-natal yoga, whole foods, changes to the laws concerning travellers, anti-road protests, squatting, drugs, and more. Very Good or better. (6 issues). More about TRIBAL MESSENGER FREEDOM FESTIVALS & EVENTS - two issues (Bristol: 1990 & 1993) +...

(Rotterdam): Sea Urchin Editions, 2014. LP record + CD (no label number). Limited edition of 100 copies (not stated). Cover photograph of Heathcote Williams by Jan Herman, who recorded the author at his home in Oxford in September 2013. Herman also provides the sleeve notes in which he quotes Harold Pinter on Williams: “All his work is deeply political. I think it’s informed not only by violent contempt for the way people are manipulated, for the status quo, the complacency of the status quo, but also - certainly more and more evident in his later work..... More about American Porn

An unused sticker, printed in red on a black ground, trimmed to slightly smaller dimensions than the above item (approx. 4.4x8cm.). Near Fine. More about Coum Your Local Dirty Banned, c. 1972

A flyer announcing the premiere of a work commissioned by the Yorkshire Arts Association and performed at the Hull Arts Centre, July 2nd, 1972. 30x21cm. Printed in blue on white paper stock. Designed by Genesis P-Orridge. In his book “Wreckers of Civilisation”, Simon Ford describes the work as “the first of COUM’s multi-media ‘happenings’ utilising techniques for all the senses, from flashing lights for the eyes to taped noises for the ears.” The COUM house at 8-9 Prince Street in Hull also became known as the Alien Brain during this period. Slight creasing to corners, esp..... More about World Premiere of The Alien Brain