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exhibition at the V&A illustrated with a large photograph of the De Beers Millenium Star. The first page has an article on motorbikes and another clippings of music festival listings. [7] [BARRETT (Syd)]. His loudspeakers in handmade and handpainted wood cabinets with Pioneer mesh grilles, 33 x 25 x 10.5 cm., screwed and glued, probably scrap wood, roughly painted in gloss blue with green and red additions on one and white sections on the other. N.d., £3500 Scratched, rubbed, bumped and worn. Untested by this cataloguer, sold as ‘art’ objects. Provenance: Cheffins Syd Barrett auction, lot 732, Maggs to a private collection thence to Maggs. [8] [GARLAND (John Bingley)]. Six golden doves on blue, a large découpage, approx. 39.5 x 53.5 cm., a multimedia work with ms. additions and hand drawn illustrations; composed of fragments of early nineteenth century prints, scraps, gilt decoration, gold, cobalt blue, red paint and sepia ink, c. 1850s. £4000 Bright, crisp condition, a fragile survival. Provenance; Burne Jones family by tradition. British. The Harry Ransom Centre holds a volume of these so called Victorian ‘bloody books’ in the 2 7 8 Evelyn Waugh collection. Associate Director and Hobby Librarian, Richard Oram has discovered that the Texan volume was commissoned as a wedding gift by John Bingley Garland, a Victorian businessman and founding father of Newfoundland, to his daughter, and was presented to her on September 1st 1854. http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/enews/2009/february /bloodbook.html Thronged with Old Testament and apocalyptic imagery, the crucifixion, angels, writhing snakes, flowers, fruit and six golden doves on a vivid cobalt flying down upon crucifixes. Stylized tears of blood drip from the wings of five, with the sixth dripping gold. [9] [BURROUGHS (William S.)]. LEIBOVITZ (Annie). William Burroughs, Lawrence Kansas. Original gelatin silverprint, 310 x 395 mm., a signed inscribed presentation copy, conservation framed and glazed. 1995. £5750 Unexamined out of the frame, a fine copy. The full inscription on lower margin of the photograph in black ink, thus: “William Burroughs Lawrence Kansas 1995 ap 12 for Bruce love Annie Leibovitz”. Exhibited: Annie Leibovitz Retrospective, Brooklyn Museum of Art, 2006. [10] [AFRICAN AMERICAN QUEERS]. [FORD (Robert T.)]. et al. Thing. Original poster. 54 x 40.5 cm., b&w photographic portrait on red, title in black. N.p., [Chicago], n.p. [Thing], n.d., late 1980s. £300 In very good, clean, crisp condition.The influential zine itself is very rare, OCLC records only the archive for ‘Thing’ at the Chicago Historical Institute and nothing else. This promotional poster is presumably just as scarce. An engaging image of ‘outness’. Depicts a black drag queen snarling at the camera. The internet tells us that ‘Thing’ was an underground arts and entertainment zine for African American Gays that ran for a mere ten issues and was produced by Ford and two others. Ford died of AIDS in 1993–1994. BLACK PANTHERS [11] [DAVIS (Angela)]. MORNING STAR. Save Angela Davis. A Morning Star Poster. Original poster. 76 x 50 cm., in burgundy on off white, colour offset litho on coated paper. N.p. [London], Morning Star, n.d., c. 1972. £75 In very good condition. Scarce, no copies on OCLC. Depicts the head and shoulders of Davis in profile, with her distinctive Afro hair, and in full flow with opened mouth ready to speak. The Morning Star is a daily socialist newspaper that is traditionally associated with its orgins in the Communist Party of Great Britain and its previous incarnation as the Daily Worker. [12] [THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY OF THE] LOWNDES COUNTY FREEDOM ORGANIZATION. Is This What You Want Democratic Party of Alabama or This? Lowndes County Freedom Organization. One Man —— One Vote. First edition. Foolscap, 8pp., inside front cover is a voter’s witness form, illustrated throughout with line drawings and maps, stab stapled into the original paper boards; the upper board with a line drawing of the cockerel emblem of the Alabama Democrats and a black panther. N.p. [Hayneville, Alabama], n.p. [Lowndes County Freedom Organization], n.d., 1966. £600 Rusted staples and ruststaining, first leaf detached. Very rare, two copies only on OCLC at Northwestern and, under another title, at Michigan. A seminal document in the early history of the Black Panther movement issued in the wake of the dropping of Jim Crow. The booklet was designed to help “negroes” get around the restrictions and electoral chicanery of the entrenched, white supremacist, political establishment. The Black Panther emblem was later adopted by the more militant Black Panther Party in California. [13] [CAMPUS SDS]. Saturday: Berkeley Conference on Black Power and Its Challenges. Original flyer. Foolscap, [2pp.], Black Panther device on masthead, printed on both sides in black, offset. N.p. [Berkeley, California], n.p. [Berkeley Campus Students For a Democratic Society], Berkeley Free Press, n.d., 1966. £100 Lightly creased and edgeworn, old folds, 3
ustmarks on the left margin offset from another stapled zine laid on top.Very rare, no copies on OCLC. A very important marker of a large gathering of SDSers and others on 28–30 October 1966. The core event was held on the 29th at Berkeley’s Greek Theater, where at 5pm Stokeley Carmichael, the President of the Student Nonviolent Co-ordinating Committee, spoke to several thousand largely white activists and students. Other speakers included James Bevel of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Brother Lennie and Ron Karenga from Watts, Rennie Davis of Chicago JOIN and Ivanhoe Donaldson of Harlem SNCC. Bizarrely, Berkeley’s Afro-American Student Association did not participate. The Panther device is an early appearance of the symbol. Carmichael was a SNCC activist in Lowndes County, Alabama registering black voters and the Lowndes County Freedom Organization used the symbol in their election campaign in early November 1966, as a counterpoint to the the cockerel of the Democratic Party of Alabama (see item above). [14] BIRD (Joan) & SHAKUR (Afeni). To Our Sisters in Arms. First separate printing? Foolscap, 2ll., unpaginated, [3pp.], 2 b&w photoportraits, one line drawn illustration, mimeographed in black on cheap white stock. New York, Committee To Defend The Panthers, reprinted from the Black Panther 9/5/ 1970. £70 Browned on the fore and bottom edges, chipped foreedge, old horizontal and vertical folds. Very rare, no copies in OCLC, Houghton Library records a copy. A militant hate text by “2 of the 21” in police custody against the “white capitalist system” and its ‘representatives such as “Golda Meir..Richard Nixon, Hoover, and Mitchell”. ANGRY BRIGADE [15] Fight Back With The Angry Brigade. Original poster. 32.8 x 43 cm., two b&w photographs with captions and title in black ink, pale green stock, offset. N.p. [London], [Angry Brigade?], n.p., 1971. £500 Old central vertical fold, endemic light fading, trivial creasing and wear on the edges. Good to very good, crisp, clean copy. Very rare poster issued before any arrests were made. Depicts the kitchen of Robert Carr, the then Employment Minister, after the detonation of two bombs planted by the Angry Brigade on Jan 12, 1971. This is compared to a filthy kitchen with a forlorn looking toddler. The captions weigh up the “cabinet minister’s kitchen... repaired in 3 days” with the plight of “1 of over 2 million slums in britain [sic] damp and dry rot destroys people people [sic] condemned to live in squalor can this ever be repaired?”. “CARR CONSPIRED TO COMMIT THESE CRIMES AGAINST THE PEOPLE WITH THE MEMBERS OF A TERRORIST GROUP CALLING ITSELF THE ‘CABINET’”. [16] Wanted For Conspiracy – Robert Carr. Original poster. 35 x 23 cm., 1 b&w portrait, with titles and 17 lines of text above and below respectively, in black on creme paper. London, Ian Purdie & Jake Prescott Defence Group, n.d., 1971. £350 Old central horizontal fold, slight browning and edgewear, minor nicks. A very good copy. Rare. Robert Carr was the Minister of Employment at the time, his home was bombed by the Angry Brigade in January 1971. He is depicted on this spoof Wanted style poster smiling and pronounced guilty of conspiracy to “..kill and maim...by perpetuating unsafe working conditions..”, and of ‘terrorizing’ workers by “..threat of legal punishment if they go on strike” etc. . [17] [IAN PURDIE AND JAKE PRESCOTT DEFENCE GROUP]. Carr Bomb Case: State Conspiracy. Free Jake Prescott. Free Ian Purdie. Original poster/flyer. 32.9 x 23.1 cm., two b&w photoportraits, text in black, printed on both sides on white stock. London, Ian Purdie and Jake Prescott Defence Group, n.d., c. April 1971. £275 Very good, clean, crisp condition. Scarce in both commerce and institutions with no copies on OCLC. The title refers to the bombing of Robert Carr’s house by Angry Brigade members. Photos of Purdie and Prescott are arranged either side of a statement by the former declaring his innocence, thus: “The circumstances leading to my arrest and charging show how this Government is based on tyranny and fear. Millions of people in this country could be standing in this dock instead of me, because they are totally opposed to the political system in this country... History will show who are the real conspirators”. Possible flaws in the prosecution case are discussed and situationist style theories to justify the Carr bombing are thrown into the mix, thus: “When the Angry Brigade attacked Robert Carr’s house, the facts about their series of attacks on the bosses need no longer be hushed up. The illusion of social peace was shattered”. 15 16 [18] IAN PURDIE AND JAKE PRESCOTT DEFENCE GROUP. Candidates For An Outrage; To The Bailey Original poster/flyer. 35.4 x 22.9 cm., two b&w photoportraits, black ink on white stock, printed on both sides, offset. London, Ian Purdie and Jake Prescott Defence Group. n.d., August/ September, 1971 £250 iOld central, horizontal fold, a bit creased on the edges. Good to very good copy. Scarce in commerce and institutionally with no copy on OCLC. Includes two large quotations from Purdie and Prescott, and a Western Marxist or Situationist 3
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