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