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copy. Uncommon, 8 copies in OCLC. A 1970 reprint in IISH. A Trotskyite appraisal of an outbreak of factional violence in Barcelona between the anarchist CNT-FAI and the Stalinist PCE that broke out after the former faction were assaulted when occupying the telephone exchange. Orwell also wrote on these tragic events in ‘Homage to Catalonia’. ‘Les Journées..” was published in a journal entitled ‘Essais et combats’ in the same year. It has become something of a literary touchstone on the subject with at least two reprintings after 1937. [82] CONFEDERACION NACIONAL DEL TRABAJO Y LA Y LA FEDERACION ANARQUISTA IBÉRICA.. Boletín De Información. Informaciones facilitadas par la Confederaciòn Nacional Del Trabajo y la Federaciòn Anarquista Ibérica. 12. Original publication. Folio, 8ll., masthead in black and red and mimeographed text, stab stapled on the head once, cheap paper, loose leaves stab stapled once on the head, English text. Barcelona, Interacia Pres Servo., October 15th, 1936. £60 Fragile, endemic browning, turned corners with some loss on the tips. Rare. Includes an interview with Durruti, extracted from Madrid ‘CNT’.Under the title “Better Late Than Never”, P.O.U.M. were welcomed into the anarchist fold as a party that had “..come to see that the CNT is a revolutionary factor of great significance”. [83] HEUSSLER (André). Avec les ‘Héros de la Liberté’ Espagne 1936–1937 [With The Heroes of Liberty. Spain 1936–1937]. 21 b&w photos in the the text. First edition. 8vo., [3pp.], pp-4–72, stapled into the original yellow paper wrappers, printed in brown and blue, photomontage illustration on upper portion, French text. Paris, Editions du Comité International d’Aide au Peuple Espagnol, n.d., 1937. £175 Endemic browning of text. Very good, clean, bright copy. Garcia Duran 6137. Rare, four copies only on OCLC under separate listings, of these, a copy in BNF and another in BNE. Heussler is described as an “ancien Commissaire de la XIV Brigade Internationale”. Includes photos of church wealth seized by the Republicans, German bombs, the effects of German bombing raids and much more. [84] [CO-OPERATIVE WHOLESALE SOCIETY.]. Milk For Spain 6d. 14 84 Original token. 4 cm. diameter, text in green on recto in a circle on a white card ‘coin’, rubberstamped on both sides, verso with date issued. N.p. [London], n.p. [London Co- Operative Society, 23 Sep[tember], 1938. £35 In very good condition. Understandably perhaps there is no copy as a named item on OCLC, though surely examples exist in vertical files and archival depoists. A rare piece of realia. The CWS Milk For Spain Campaign was formed in the Autumn of 1937 (footnote 7, p-163 Jim Fyrth – The Aid Spain Movement in Britain 1936–1939, History Workshop). It was one of many such campaigns in the period that attempted to assist the large numbers of hungry refugees displaced by the Nationalist insurgent army. [85] THE VOLUNTEER FOR LIBERTY, ORGAN OF THE INTERNATIONAL BRIGADES (Compiled and Edited by). English – Spanish Grammar. First edition. 8vo., [2pp.], iii-viii, 111pp., 9 halftone photographs & 1 vignette in the text, in the original orange paper wrappers, titles in black, an unknown hand has annotated the book and page markers stuck on the top edges throughout. Barcelona, Ediciones Del Comisariado De Las Brigadas Internacionales, Imp. Elzeviriana, June, 1938. £150 Very poor condition, browned, torn pages, book loose in three parts, wrappers in two parts loss of most of spine, squiggle on upper portion. Rare in commerce and institutions, 5 copies only on OCLC, one in BNE and four in the USA. No copy in Garcia Duran. One of the walking wounded, in atrocious condition, veteran’ book produced in the Spanish Civil War, The larger distribution of survivors in the US suggests that they were issued in large numbers to the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. The photographs are modestly reproduced but nevertheless stunning images from the front line. [86] CROSSLAND (Mr. Fred) (Producer) CROSSLEY (Mrs.) (Management). Saturday. The New Church Grove Place, Dalton ‘La Princesa Carmencita’ An Operetta with a Spanish Flavour. Performed by Children of the New Church, Grove Place, Dalton, and by Spanish Refugee Boys from the Spanish Childrens’ Home, Almondbury. Wednesday, December 7th, Saturday, December 10th, Doors Open 6-15 p.m., Commence 7-15 p.m. Original programme. Small 8vo., 1l., bifolium, text and decorations in black on pale blue paper. N.p. [Dalton, Huddersfield], n.p., n.d., 1937. £75 In very good condition, slight fading, old pencil price on front. Seems rare. One of the rare instances when Basque child refugees were described as Spanish. The Operetta included two ““..Spanish national Dances, the “Aurescu” abd the “Jota Basca”, arranged by Srta. Soledad Gorrino”“. [87] [SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION]. [Good afternoon, subjects. As one of the star corpses in the capitalist show that daily sucks life out of your narrow mind and shallow body, I’d like to say on behalf of the World Market and your bosses in band, how glad i am to see the bosses fumbling for yet another piece of paper with my name on it..]. Original détourned currency. 7.5 x 21 cm., 1l., one illustration, printed on both sides in black on white. N.p. [London], n.p. [Spontaneous/B.M. Combustion/Nick Brandt?], n.d., c.1973 £200 Clean, crisp copy with one slight crease. Probably quite rare. Not in Ford. Recto designed as a mock £1 note with a speech bubble coming from the Queen’s mouth. The verso has a text discussing the “..present crisis of the world market..” predicting that “The day will come when all of us who have no control over our lives shall smash every barrier between ourselves and our world, and turn the banks into museums of bygone misery, wallpapering its walls with ten pound notes”. [88] [TELEGRAPH AVENUE LIBERATION FRONT.]. Spare Change. Original poster/newsletter. 28.5 x 22 cm. (folded), 57 x 44.5 cm (unfolded), text and photomontage illustrations on recto, poster on verso. Printed in purple, black and brown on white stock, old and rather asymmetric centra vertical and horizontal folds. N.p. [Berkeley], T[elegraph]A[venue]L[iberation]F[ront], n.d., c. 1969–1970. £200 Creased and nicked, good to very good condition. Very rare, OCLC records three listings of runs A full issue of a very rare unnumbered and undated newsletter “for people around Telegraph Avenue”. The poster depicts a stick pig roasting in purple flames. The title derived from a local anti-panhandling by-law that in effect made the saying of “Spare Change” into an illegal act. It is a very radical prototype of the ‘freegan’ movement’s guides to anti-capitalist living. Illustrations include Fidel holding a lighted torch and street battles. [89] [THE NATIONAL MORATORIUM]. [COBB (Ron)] (Illustration). Repression Breeds Resistance Chicano Mexicano, Puerto Rican,
Black, Native American Peoples. National Moratorium: Sept. 7–8–9, 1979, New York. To Expose Violation of Human Rights in The U.S. of Chicano/Mexicano, Puerto Rico, Black, Native American Peoples To Build National Unity of Third World Peoples in The U.S. Based on the Principles of Self-Determination. Original poster. 57 x 44.5 cm., titles in reverse white on black. N.p. [San Francisco?], n.p. [The Moratorium], Inkworks, n.d., 1979. £200 Each corner has a contemporary drawing pin hole, lightly creased, closed edge tears, a human half-bitemark? on the mid left near the margin, light and even browning. Good, clean and crisp copy. Rare, not in online archive of Inkworks posters, no copy on OCLC. The poster headline ‘Repression Breeds Resistance’ echoes a Huey Newton essay published in 1970. Various regional bodies convened to run “National Peoples Tribunals”, hold workshops and screen films. Cobb’s graphic depicts a mass of riot helmets with BIA, INS, Police and FBI emblazoned on them and a pair of hands above this breaking the chain attaching two shackles. [90] THEEWEN (Gerhard). Salon Nos. 1–12 [all published] and The Complete Collection of Nudists/Die Komplette Nudisten Sammlung. Profusely illustrated with b&w photographs and drawings. First editions. 13 volumes, 8vo., unpaginated, approx. 40ll. per issue, the Nudists volume double that, perfect bound into the original photo-illustrated, stiff, white paper wrappers, #7 with the facsimile ‘Puppenwagen 1953’ pamphlet loosely inserted, text in German and English. Cologne, Gerhard Theewen, 1977– 1993. £400 Very good or better, crisp, clean and largely unread copies. Uncommon. A great photobook sort of serial that includes Hans-Peter Feldmann, H.P. Adamski, Markus Oehlen, Bruce McLean, Albert Oehlen, Walter Dahn, Geoffrey Hendricks, Maurizio Nanucci et al.. [91] UNOHOO, COYOTE RICK and the Mighty Avengers. The Morning Star Scrapbook. First edition! In The Pursuit of Happiness. First edition. Large 4to., [1p.], 185pp., [6pp.], profusely illustrated throughout with b&w photographs, newsclippings and line drawings, perfect bound into the original photomontaged stiff paper wrappers, titles in purple, spine titles in black, on newsprint, 5,000 copies printed. Occidental, California, Friends of Morning Star, n.d., 1973. £200 Endemic but light, even browning of paper, wrappers a bit worn, remains of old price sticker on upper top right. A good, tight copy. Scarce in commerce. The Intro explains how the book documents the “unintentional media event created by Lou Gottlieb and his ‘guests’ on his 31 acre ranch in California’s Sonoma County during the late ‘sixties’ and early ‘seventies’“. Also, how over time the hippie community’s use of “Dope, nudity, uninhibited sex, sanitation and building code violations caused a crisis in the rural neighbourhood and brought the county officials out in force”. [92] [VIENNA ACTIONISTS]. [NITSCH (Hermann)]. Aktionsraum 1/Lesung: Nitsch aus “Orgienmysterien Theater” (Marz Verlag), Freitag: 20 February 1970 – 20 Uhr Buchandlung Montanus Leopoldtsr. 23. Diese Lesung is eine Einführung zum 7. Abreaktionsspiel am Freitag, 27 Februar 1970 (nur für Erwachsene) im Aktionsraum 1 München 5 Waltherstr. 2 Rgb. Tel. 53 61 44. [A reading: Nitsch from “Orgienmysterien Theater” (Marz Verlag), Friday 20 February 1970, 20: 00, Montanus bookshop, Leopoldstrasse 23.This lecture is an introduction to the 7th Abreaktionsspiel on Friday, February 27, 1970 (adults only) in Aktionsraum 1 Waltherstr Munich 5. 2 RGB. Tel 53 61 44] . Original poster. 51.5 x 37.5 cm., titles in red on white with a pasted on b&w central panel, offset, German text. N.p. [Munich], n.p. [Aktionsraum/Marz Verlag/Buchhandlung Montanus], n.d., February 1970. £400 Rolled, minor creases, some curling from glue seepage. Rare. An example of integrated marketing, flyer or small poster for a bookshop reading showing Nitsch and others performing has been pasted on to the familiar red on white exhibition poster. VIETNAM WAR. [93] THE STOP OUR SHIP MOVEMENT. Agitprop ephemera produced by ‘S.O.S.’, a military service based movement to stop the aircrcaft carrier U.S.S. Coral Sea from setting out from Alameda Naval Air Station. A4 & small folio, 1ll & bifolium, 6 handbills and 1 street newspaper, offset or mimeographed, Goldenrod, newsprint, sugar paper and cartridge paper. Oakland, The Stop Our Ship Movement, n.d., c. 1971. £200 In very good, clean and crisp condition. Very rare in institutions, OCLC records a similar bunch of 8 at U of California, Irvine Includes a petition from the U.S.S. Hancock, an open letter aimed at “Civilians” declaring”We all dig the fact that they do not wish to be the machinery that makes the air war in Indochina possible”. The street newspaper’s headline declares that “A warship can be stopped” and has stories “From the belly of the beast...” and another on “GI Revolt”. Another handbill directed at service wives commences with: “Sisters we are appealing to you as our last hope to keep our men off the Coral Sea”. Another graphic handbill points out that “The U.S.S. Coral Sea is one of a small number of aircraft carriers which form the life support system for Nixon’s air war in Indochina”. The graphic depicts three revolutionary fists, one black, emerging from the flightdeck. [94] [THE STOP OUR SHIP MOVEMENT]. Nov. 8 Monday Demonstration 5am. East NAS Alameda Gate. For The Men of The USS Coral Sea. Show Solidarity With Crewmen who want To Stop The Ship. Original poster. titles, map and graphics silkscreened in red on blue lined Fortran computer read-out paper, the verso with printed system mesages for UC Berkeley’s Calidsoscope Operating System . N.p. [Berkeley], n.p. [SOS?], n.d., c. 1971. £375 Contemporary central horizontal fold and another central vertical, top half evenly browned, in darker relief at the fold, large old tear extending ten centimetres from the top edge into the image with old tape marks, a few small tears on lower edge (where torn from printer), tractor hole strips intact. The graphics and titles are still very fresh for such a fragile poster. Probably a unique example or a remarkable survival. This looks like one of the many posters that came out of Malaquias Montoya’s student workshops at Berkeley. Depicts a very elegantly rendered Popeye punching and breaking an aircraft carrier after eating a can of “People’s Power”. An important artefact of a small but significant element of the under-documented servicemens’ movement of the 60s and 70s that energetically protested against the Vietnam War. [95] 16 b&w Press photographs of the largely child victims of US bombing raids, largely 11 x 7.5 cm. or slightly larger or smaller, typed captioned labels on versos, many with agency rubberstamp and ‘Chris’ inscribed in pencil. N.p., CECAV Photo, 1966–1967 £450 Near fine condition, endemic browning of captions. We can find no trace of CECAV, it was presumably a conduit for NLF propaganda. Profiles, life studies, post mortem photographs and medical documentation of the horrific aftereffects of napalm, phosophorous, pellet and other bombs on pregnant women, the unborn, babies, older children and young people. Studies include “Little Dáo van Téo, 15 years old, wounded by steel pellet bombs on April 25, 1967..”. [96] REDWOOD CITY COMMITTEE AGAINST NAPALM. Napalm Newsletter. Original flyer. A4., 1 b&w photograph, offset printed on both sides, date in pen on upper right corner. Redwood City, California, Redwood City Committee Against Napalm, n.d., 5.6. 1966. £75 94 (detail) 15
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