London: 1967. Printed offset litho on thin white paper in black and red on a gold ground. 76.7x50.5cm. The rare original printing of Sharp's poster, made for the Legalise Pot Rally in Hyde Park on July 16th, 1967 and intended for flyposting. The collaged artwork features nineteenth century ethnographic engravings from ‘The Races of Mankind’, a work of 1873 by Robert Brown, images from which were discovered by Sharp in an old copy of National Geographic magazine. Peter Ledeboer told this cataloguer that he paid £60 to Vince Stitt to flypost the print run of 600..... More about Legalise Cannabis: The Putting Together of The Heads

A glossy card printing a sarcastic conversation between Oz advertising manager John Leaver and Felix Dennis, originally intended for publication in the Advertiser’s Weekly (the card claims it refused to run it), c. April 1968. Printed in black on coated white card stock. 17.9x11.5cm. Illustrated with a small image of the Hapshash cover from Oz #4 and photobooth images of two “OZ staff deliberating whether to advertise for advertising in this journal” (a beardless Felix Dennis and John Leaver). Dennis, then still an Oz ‘pusher’, before he took over from John Leaver (who moved to Time Out), is..... More about Banned!

London: Big O Posters Ltd., nd. (1968). Original colour offset litho poster printed on semi-gloss white paper stock. 76x49.5cm. Sharp first met Eric Clapton at the Speakeasy sometime around April 1967, a meeting that marked the beginning of a long friendship and various collaborations, including album cover designs for Cream, a group Sharp had never heard of before their first meeting (he hadn’t heard of Clapton either). Lower part of verso dampstained, not visible from the front; minor crease to upper edge, o/w Near Fine. More about Cream

Ed. Richard Neville. 40pp., with outer cover fold-out in blue, pink and gold by Michael English and ‘Legalise Pot Rally’ interior front cover by Martin Sharp (based on the ‘Show Your Head’ poster, item #152). Contents include an interview with Tuli Kupferberg; Jean-Jacques Lebel on the events in Paris; David Widgery and Angelo Quattrocchi (Agit Oz); Martin Sharp’s “The Mission of Hubert Sanguine - a reasonably average man in the street”; dialogue from ‘Don’t Look Back’; lengthy review of ‘2001: A Space Odyysey’; ad. for Middle Earth (Pink Floyd, Will Spoor, Oz Night); more. Cover intact..... More about OZ #13 - Double cover issue (London: OZ Publications Ink Ltd., June 1968

46pp. Includes Andrew Fisher’s 8pp. photo-illustrated, interview-based piece on the London chapter of the Hell’s Angels (the story of their brief occupation of the Arts Lab’s squatters’ hotel on Drury Lane is told by Jim Haynes, one of the interviewees); plus “The Situationists are Coming” by Angelo Quattrocchi; Peter Buckman; double-page dayglo cartoon strip by Philippe von Mora; full-page art by Mike McInnerney; the Incredible String Band; Jimmy Page interviewed by Felix Dennis; Jann Wenner interview; more. Near Fine. More about OZ #20 - Hell’s Angels (London: OZ Publications Ink Ltd., February 1969

London: Jonathan Cape, 1970. First edition. Yellow paper covered boards. 362pp. SIGNED by Richard Neville and Martin Sharp on the title page. ‘Headopoly - an Underground Almanac Poster-Game’ loosely inserted in rear pocket, as issued. Psychedelic dustwrapper design by Martin Sharp, whose illustrations also appear on the title page. Neville began writing the book in 1968, commissioned and coaxed by Ed Victor at Cape. Its working title, ‘Flower Power’, was changed late on to ‘Play Power’, the concept of playfulness seen by Neville as both matching his mood and fundamental to the counterculture. Appendices..... More about Play Power: Exploring the International Underground

46pp. + Mike McInnerney’s Jimi Hendrix poster/Oz News International Film Festival Supplement (includes report that the New Arts Lab refused to allow Otto Muehl to perform there). Contents include double-page collage “Communal Life in America”; the hippie trail to India; “Conversation with a CIA Agent”; Germaine Greer on Hendrix; Wavy Gravy and the Hog Farm interviewed by Michelene Victor; Neal Phillips in Ibiza; tales from hip destinations, including “Marrakhash Sexpress” by Jim Anderson and Peter Till’s biomorphic atlas; “Good Times in San Francisco!”; Hotcha!; Australian surfing; back page ad. for The Mothers’ “Weasels Ripped My Flesh”; more... More about OZ #30 - Fun Travel Adventure (London: OZ Publications Ink Ltd., October 1970

21.9x19.5cm. Fine. More about A sheet of Oz Publications letterhead stationery featuring the Jon Goodchild-designed pregnant...

A gilt-edged printed invitation to the preliminary hearing into the Schoolkids Oz obscenity charge, held at Marylebone Magistrates Court on October 1st, 1970. Printed in black and grey on thin white card, decorated with a pale green border and gilt edges. 9x11.5cm. This invite to ‘the first of a series of Obscene Courtroom Dramas’ was mailed out to Oz subscribers and sympathisers, and suggests ‘Fancy Dress optional’ and R.S.V.P. Obscene Publications Office, New Scotland Yard. The three editors dressed up in schoolboy attire for the occasion, hired from a theatrical costumier’s, and the public gallery was packed as..... More about OZ INVITE TO PRELIMINARY HEARING

5.5cm. diameter. A few blemishes to perimeter and verso slightly tarnished, o/w Very Good. More about A ‘Guaranteed Oz Beautiful !Freak!’ badge, in orange and red (positive photo image

No place: no date (c. 1971). Offset litho poster printed in red and blue on off-white paper. 48x60.5cm. A later variant of the original 1968 silver foil poster, designed for backlit projection. This copy lacks the blank section to the right of the image and the edges appear to have been trimmed, possibly to allow for the poster’s use as a lampshade cover (apparently an intended purpose for it). Short closed tear to left edge, with small puncture 4cm. from the edge; four old corner pinholes; o/w Very Good plus. An extremely rare variant of Sharp’s..... More about Live Give Love

Sydney: Reid Books, nd. (April 1971). 4to., magazine format. Unpaginated (36pp., including cover). Printed in black on white paper stock. A spectacular continuous collage of cartoon psychedelia, acid imagery, clippings and cut-up texts, compiled by Sharp in Sydney following his return from London in late 1970. Described by Joyce Morgan in her biography as “part manifesto, part scrapbook, part autobiography”, it was intended to accompany his upcoming exhibition (The Incredible Shrinking Exhibition) at what would become The Yellow House at 59 Macleay Street (named after Van Gogh’s Maison Jaune). Van Gogh features prominently, including a line from a...... More about Catalog No. 3: an improvisation

Designed and compiled by Richard Adams. Large quarto glossy yellow card folder, with Oz pregnant elephant sticker to front cover. The folder contains: i) a 9pp. brochure - ‘Presenting the Oz Obscenity Trial’. Nine quarto sheets, printed in black on rectos only on different colour paper stock, stapled at top corner. Prints four portrait drawings of the editors by Rod Beddall, their brief self-penned biographies, a full-page photo of Detective Inspector Luff, mentions of recent underground obscenity busts (IT, Unicorn Bookshop), several newspaper quotes, and ‘The Politics of Obscenity’, reprinted from the Oxford student paper, Cherwell. Fine;... More about An original ‘Friends of Oz’ Press Kit (June 1971

Designed by Richard Adams. Printed in black on white stock, featuring an illustration by Alan Grimwood of a Commedia dell’arte or carnivalesque pantaloon. 56.8x43.6cm. The concert line-up included Traffic and Alexis Korner (part of Traffic’s performance was included on their album, ‘Welcome To The Canteen’, released two months later). Near Fine. More about A poster announcing an Oz obscenity trial fundraiser concert at the Polytechnic of Central London...

London: Big O Posters Ltd., nd. (c. 1971). Offset litho colour poster. 83.5x59.7cm. Reproduces Topolski’s expressionist charcoal portraits of the three Oz defendants at the Old Bailey, along with the prosecution and defence lawyers, the gallery, a long-haired witness, and Judge Michael Argyle, who is seen examining images of the priapic Rupert Bear from the pages of the Schoolkids issue through a magnifying glass. Topolski, a former war artist who recorded the Nuremberg trials, was called to court as a special witness and defended the sexualised Rupert as “a great invention” of satire. A...... More about Oz Obscenity Trial

Printed in dark blue on pale blue stock. 14.9x21cm. Illustration by Rod Beddall. Fine. More about A printed sheet announcing Oz’s change of address to 19 Great Newport Street in early 1972

Printed in orange, yellow and black on glossy coated card stock. Illustrated with Robert Crumb’s ‘Three Graces’. 10.5x15cm. Fine. More about An ‘Oz Magazine With Compliments’ postcard designed by Richard Adams for Oz mail order, c. 1972

Printed in red and purple on white stock. 54.9x37cm. Designed by John Fawcett and illustrated with a full-length photograph of Sarah Bernhardt alongside a large image of Mickey Mouse in his Wizard’s hat from the 1940 Disney movie, ‘Fantasia’. The fifth anniversary of Oz was celebrated as a defiant landmark following the obscenity trial and the myriad attempts to close down the underground press. Fine. More about A poster announcing Oz magazine’s fifth anniversary issue, February 1972 (Oz #40) - “On sale...

London: Mathews Miller Dunbar, 1972. First edition. 12mo. Illustrated glossy laminated boards. Reproduces 38 of Sharp’s collaged images of well-known paintings cut from art books. Laminated boards rubbed and slightly soiled, o/w Very Good. More about Art Book

London: Bloomsbury Press, 1995. First edition. 376pp. + 24pp. photo-illustrated, including 8pp. in colour. Colour endpapers reproduce 29 early Oz covers; chapter headings illustrated with drawings by Martin Sharp. Dustwrapper design features a collage of Oz front covers. SIGNED and inscribed by the author on the title page: “Dear Richard - Letters like yours make writing worthwhile - Hot regards Richard Neville May 1996 PS ‘Out of My Mind’ is out in May…” (an anthology of the author’s essays and articles). Errata slip present (it makes apologetic reference to Germaine Greer’s misrepresented gynaecological history on p.71, to which..... More about Hippie Hippie Shake: the Dreams, the Trips, the Trials, the Love-Ins, the Screw-Ups...the Sixties

Sydney: The University of NSW, College of Fine Arts/Ivan Dougherty Gallery, 2003. The catalogue to the exhibition curated by Nick Waterlow, with an introductory essay by him. 14x16cm. Wrps., 120pp. SIGNED by Martin Sharp on the front cover (which reproduces his ‘Plant a Flower Child’ poster), and by Richard Neville and Jim Anderson on the title page. Profusely illustrated throughout in colour and b/w, featuring the larrikinism of many Australian artists in ‘60s London, including album covers, paintings and posters by Martin Sharp, Brett Whiteley’s Christie murder series, Sidney Nolan’s Ned Kelly series, photographs by Lewis..... More about LARRIKINS IN LONDON: AN AUSTRALIAN PRESENCE IN 1960s LONDON