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with tears, a few others with annotations in Biro. Very fresh and crisp. The photos largely depict the urban guerrillas going to and from Sacramento’s courthouse where they were on trial for the 1973 assassination of Marcus Foster, a black man who was the Superintendent of the Oakland Unified School District. They were both convicted oas muderers but Little was later relased on appeal. Let A Thousand Block Parties Bloom. [73] RADCLIFFE (Charles), ROSEMONT (Franklin) & MABEY (Richard). Mods, Rockers, & the Revolution. First collected edition. 4to., 11pp., [1p.] publishers’ catalogue, facsimile line drawn illustrations, stab stapled thrice, in the original coloured paper boards; handwritten facsimile titles in black on red on upper portion and a combination of this and typed text on lower purple portion, mimeography. N.p. [Chicago], n.p. [Chicago Branch of The Industrial Workers of The World], Rebel Worker Pamphlet 1, n.d., 1965. £500 In very good condition, endemic fading of lower board, staples a trifle rusty, a bit edgeworn and creased, an excellent copy of a 47 year old ‘read and pass on’ ephemeron. Institutionally and commercially rare with 5 copies only on OCLC under four citations, one a virtual copy, another a microform copy. Includes a revised and enlarged version of Rosemont’s ‘Mods, Rockers, & the Revolution, Radcliffe’s ‘Pop Goes The Beatle’ from ‘Freedom’ and Mabey’s ‘Twist and Shout’ from ‘Peace News’. Published to appeal to young radicals in the venerable old Wobbly movement, it attracted Charles Radcliffe the British situationist who exported it back to the UK. A similar but longer essay to this on youth culture appeared in the first issue of Radcliffe’s ‘Heatwave’. By turn, this influenced Malcolm Maclaren. Mabey, has become a venerable writer and commentator on rurality, nature, foraging and desolate spaces. [74] [PHYSIQUE SCENE]. BUCZYNSKI (Robert). A handwritten, signed magazine submission letter with photograph, 8vo., 1l., 9.5 x 7.5 b&w photo tipped on. N.d., circa late 1950s. £50 In very good condition. Buczynski of New Jersey, was obviously a dedicated “lifter”, photographer and poser but remains unknown to us. [75] [SOCIETY FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS]. later BEARDEMPHL (W.E.) (Editor) et al. Vector: responsible action by responsible people in responsible ways. Vol. 1, nos. 1, 7, 10, 12. Vol. 2, nos. 1–3, 5, 7, 9. Vol. 4, nos. 2–12. Vol. 5, nos. 1, 5, 8, 9, 11. Vol. 6, nos. 1–4, 6–8, 9, 9, 11, 12. Vol. 7, nos. 1–5, 5, 6, 8– 12. Vol. 8, nos. 1–8, 8, 9, 11, Vol. 9, nos. 1–7, 7, 9, 11, 12. Vol. 10, nos. 1–6, 8–12. Vol. 11, nos. 1, 2, 4, 4, 5–12. Vol.12, nos. 1, 3–7. [101 issues]. First editions. A4, vols. 1& 2 approximately 4– 16pp. per issue, vols. 4–9 are app. 30pp. each, vols. 10–12, 50–60pp. Vols. 1&2 loose folded leaves, vols. 4–12 staplebound in the original decorative, colour paper wrappers, vol. 9 no.12 and vol. 10, no. 12 with a loose inserted poster, colour photographic centrefolds in the later issues, several are complimentary copies rubberstamped in red on the front cover, monthly. San Francisco, The Society For Individual Rights. 1964–1976. £3000 Largely in good or very good condition, several issues with small areas clipped out, near all with lightly worn wrappers, some with foxing, 12 75 endemic rusty staples, endemic light browning throughout the text from volume 2 on. A very long, if broken run, that includes the crucial first and last issues, of perhaps the most important regional gay serial, published in San Francisco, the heartland of ‘pink’ America. Quite common in North American institutions searched by OCLC, but commercially very rare. The numbering is rather eccentric with two #9s standing in for #9–10 of volume 6, 2 issues of #5 for volume 7, vol. 8 has 2 number #8s, vol. 9 has two #7s and vol 11 two #4s. The zine started as a newsletter and had a variety of subtitles over its 12 year existence, including: ‘A Voice for The Homophile Community’, ‘A Voice For The Homosexual Community’, ‘The Gay Experience’ and ‘Celebrating The Gay Experience’. José Sarria, of Black Cat Café fame, co-founded the League for Civil Education with Guy Strait. He went on to found the Society for Individual Rights in 1963 and this, the ‘house’ zine, a year later. Sarria was a popular drag artist and an influential political figure in San Francisco who declared himself ‘Her Imperial Majesty, José I, The Widow Norton, of San Francisco’ in 1965. He established an important political lobbying and fundraising group called The ‘Imperial Court System’. ‘Vector’ was a collective effort that started modestly as a few pages of folded leaves with little or no illustrations and mainly everyday political-legal fare. After 1967, the ‘Summer of Love’, ‘Vector’ turned into a glossy, exciting, ‘funky’ organ for the sexual revolution of the 60s’ and 70s’. From 1967 on, it showcased bold, erotic, pornographic content in line with the revolution that was taking place in the Underground and campus press scenes as a whole. Or perhaps, it related more to the Californian tradition of ‘beefcake’ nude male models derived from magazines such as ‘Physique Pictorial’. For instance, the cover of volume 4, issue 2, from 1968, depicts three male nudes illustrating ‘The Anatomy of Pornography’. The cover of vol. 4, no. 7 ‘Leather!’ depicts a man in a business suit surrounded by pictures of butch leather clothing and accessories with tabs, parodying the cut out ‘paper dolls’ found in 1950s girls’ magazines. ‘Vector’, ‘from the Latin ‘vectus’ or carrier’, became a platform through which ‘straight’ local politicians reached the increasingly important Gay vote. The zine also backed the first wave of openly gay and now quite famous politicians Harvey Milk and Elaine Noble. For example, volume 11, no. 10; ‘Upfront Runner’, features an article about Harvey Milk and his second attempt at running for the Board of Supervisors,
on that occasion he was “endorsed by four nongay Democratic clubs” More importantly, the zines are full of advertisements for businesses that are either homosexually oriented or cater to the increasingly powerful pink dollar. These include plugs for mail order porn, a gay pet shop (Pet’s World featuring a naked man with the pet of the month), restaurants, beer (“Swallow our Pride”) and the infamous bath houses of the Castro and Market, the erotic playgrounds of the new homosexual utopia. Cover stories include “Mishima and The War of Emotion”, “Homosexuals in The Tenderloin”, “Fairy Tales”, “Are Homosexuals Sick”, “Is Gay Lib Dead?” and “Shakespeare’s Gay Sonnets”. The “unclassifieds” section includes listings for gay cleaners, jobs and sexual contact adverts, such as; “Slave Wanted Downtown SF. Live-in possible with benevolent autocrat”. ‘Dr Inderhous’ was a sexual health column dealing, for example, with jaundice “My Trick had bright yellow eyes” and the pains of anal sex “Why getting screwed is sometimes just a pain in the ass”. “Around Town” by Lou Greene reviewed gay scene bars and even had a barman of the month, the one for June 1971 featured Loyd Woodard ‘..otherwise known as the “Furry One”...’ . [76] TOM OF FINLAND. pseudonym of [LAAKSONEN (Touko)]. Eons A Gallery To View And Be Viewed Presents The First 1978 Tom of Finland Calendar. Original calendar. 50.9 x 27 cm., 12ll. printed on rectos only, one illustration apiece, in black and white, text below, spiral bound, in the original white paper boards, the upper portion illustrated, titles in black. N.p. [Los Angeles], Eons, copyright 1977. £100 Wrappers a bit dusty, closed tear like creases on the head of the front cover, good to very good condition. Quite rare, no copies on OCLC. This was probably the first and last as we can 77 find no later issues. Classic Tom drawings of the naked and butch, the well endowed and the tightly dressed. [77] SHERO (Jeff), EMBREE (Alice), THIHER (Gary) then [WOMENS’ COLLECTIVE]. from Vol. 2, no. 27 onwards. RAT Subterranean News/Women’s LibeRATion. Vol. 1, no. 1 – vol. 3, no. 24 [52 issues]. First editions. Small folio, . New York City, R.A.T. Publications Inc., 1968–1971 £3000 Some issues lack chronological or numerical designation. Published on alternate weeks during August 1969 with: Other scenes. ORBIS Includes first 12, and most of the first score and also the very last issue. Weekly then bi-weekly. 22 full-page or double-page centrefold posters printing UAW/MF manifestos, statements and artwork, several in two colours. The condition covers the whole spectrum from poor to very good and near fine; both covers of #1 detached, several others are split or torn along fragile and frayed folds, all are browned to some degree or other. The ink colours retain a crisp, freshness. A good to very good run of an important, militantly ‘subterranean’ publication. The trade informs us that large quantities, never mind runs, are seldom found. Stansill and Mairowitz/BAMN on, respectively, pages 12, 164 & 167: “We Are Outlaws”; “Paris Burns – Henry Returns – Tonite St. Marx Pl.”; and the skeleton immersed in flame. SPANISH CIVIL WAR & THE FRANCO REGIME. [78] BADIA VILATO (Dessins) & SANTOS (Mateo) (Textes de). [REY (Pedro)]. [Images de l’Espagne Franquiste]. 12 colour lithographs. First edition. Large 4to., unpaginated, 27ll., plates with tipped in tissue guards with captions, text in red on rectos on washes of colour with decorations, loose folded sheets in the original decorative paper wrapper, untrimmed, text in Spanish, French and English, one of a 1, 000 on Velin du Marais with the first 25 numbered. N.p. [Paris], n.p. [Alliance Nationale Des Forces Democratiques D’Espagne], Les Presses De La Société D’Impressions “Art et Technique”, 30 June 1947. £1500 Wrappers worn on spine, repaired internally with paper tape. Light endemic browning and offsetting. Very good, clean, crisp copy. Very rare in both commerce and institution with two copies only on OCLC, one at the BNE with a different imprint under a separate listing the other at UCSD attributed to the Alliance. No copy in IISH. Pedro Rey’s introduction likens Badia Vilato’s surrealistic work to Goya’s Caprichos, the posters for him “..symbolise the Franquist terror, the heroism of the Resistance and the despair of the Spanish”. Badia Vilato was an eminent poster designer for the Republic before and during the Spanish Civil War. He went on to design magnificent posters for Air France after 1945. [79] SPANISH WORKERS DEFENCE COMMITTEE. The “Carabanchel Ten”. The Struggle For Trade Union Freedom in Spain. First edition. Tall 8vo., [2pp.], pp-3–24, 10 b&w photopotraits in the text, stapled into the original stiff mustard colouerd paper, titles in black on upper portion, tipped in change of address slip on half title, a similar has probabaly fallen off the wrapper. London, The Spanish Workers Defence Committee, n.d., c. 1972–1975. £75 In very good or better condition. Rare with 5 copies only on OCLC under five separate listings with different publication dates, one of them in the BNE. The new address is for el Club A[ntonio]. Machado, an emigré group that probably took over the SWDC and it’s Bulletin around issue 15 or so. The ten were members of Workers’ Committees that were banned under Franco’s repressive régime. They included a worker-priest and a sheet metal worker in their ranks. the Panopticon style prison ‘Carabanchel’ was a notorious prision built by Republican slave prisoners probably as an enfored act of expiation that has been described as a ‘hellhole’. Stuart Christie, the would be assassin of Franco spent time there along with many other political prisoners. [80] PRADER (Jean). Au secours de l’Espagne socialiste! Pour ou contre la politique de “nonintervention”? suivi d’une Discussion du problème de la guerre [Socialist relief for Spain! For or against the policy of “nonintervention”? followed by a discussion of the problem of war]. First edition. 8vo., [2pp.], pp-3–63 [1p.], sewn, stapled into the original paper wrappers, titles in black, French text. N.p. [Paris], n.p.[Comité d’action socialiste pour la levée de l’embargo?], Imprimerie Centrale, 10 Novembre 1936. £75 In very good and clean condition, endemic, light and even yellowing. A few nicks and tears and especially around the staples. Several copies on OCLC under two attributions this and the Librairie au Travail, OCLC also locates seemingly two seperate editions in the same year. Scarce. Prader was a French Socialist Party member who helped form the ‘Comité d’action socialiste pour la levée de l’embargo’ and the ‘Comité de Vigilance des Intellectuelles Antifascistes”. An advert on the front inside cover promotes the P.O.U.M. periodical ‘La Révolution Espagnole’. [81] OLLIVIER (Marcel). Les Journées sanglantes De Barcelona (3 au 9 mai 1937). Le Guépéou En Espagne. [The Days of Blood in Barcelona (3– 9 May 1937). The GPU in Spain]. First collected edition? Small 8vo., [1p.], pp-2– 31, publishers’ catalogue on lower wrapper, stapled into the original paper wrappers, French text. Paris, J. Lefeuvre, Spartacus, Cahiers Mensuels — Nouvelle Série — No 7, n.d., 1937. £120 Endemic browning, a good, clean and stable 13
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