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Paul InsectArtist's proof, signed by Afrika Bambaataa and InsectNew York: Boo-Hooray, 2014. Silkscreen. 12 x 12 in. Signed in pencil on print, hand-numbered at lower margin. Stored in a record sleeve. Immaculate.Artist's proof, number 49 of 50 hand-numbered copies, signed by both Paul Insect and Afrika Bambaataa. The trade edition of the print was limited to only 150 copies, and was produced for our touring exhibition "Born in the Bronx: Afrika Bambaataa, Buddy Esquire, Charlie Ahearn's Wild Style, and Joe Conzo — A Visual Record of the Early Days of Hip Hop."Condition as described in catalogue note. For further information on the condition of this lot please email <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="mailto:info@boo-hooray.com">info@boo-hooray.com</a>. All lots are sold on an "as is" at the time of sale. Images form a part of the condition description for each lot, though images online may represent hues and shades which differ from the actual item.

Paul Insect — Artist's proof, signed by Afrika Bambaataa and Insect

Fifteen of our long out-of-print publications, a number of which were issued when we were still a gallery and several years before we started digging away in bankers boxes.

Stef MitchellNew Wive TalesNew York: Boo-Hooray, 2014. Offset. Illustrated white wraps, signed and numbered on rear wrapper. 114 illustrations. 7 x 4 3/4 in. Sealed.Limited edition, number 2 of 114 hand-numbered copies signed by the artist. Printed on the occasion of Stef Mitchell's one-day exhibition of drawings produced on Milk Studios notepads. Produced while she was working as a photographer's assistant, Mitchell said, "... almost all the jobs we did were at Milk. I guess I was a pretty bad photo assistant as I was fired in December because of the drawings." She would pick up the Milk notepads that were in plentiful supply throughout the building, and during the fleeting moments of calm in the storm of her day, she’d vent on paper with a marker or a ballpoint.Condition as described in catalogue note. For further information on the condition of this lot please email <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="mailto:info@boo-hooray.com">info@boo-hooray.com</a>. All lots are sold on an "as is" at the time of sale. Images form a part of the condition description for each lot, though images online may represent hues and shades which differ from the actual item.

Stef Mitchell — New Wives Tales

Neil Hamburger [Gregg Turkington]Alive (With Pleasure) At Taylor Brigode's Bachelor PartyNew York: Boo-Hooray, 2012. 7'' EP in illustrated sleeve.Lo-fi bootleg recording of Gregg Turkington as Neil Hamburger, who was performed and roasted one Taylor Brigode at the his bachelor party. Turkington once said, "I was hired to entertain a bachelor party in the back room at a very good pizza parlor, and someone was recording the show. And then it ended up as a record. I never heard the record, but I did see a copy, and was surprised. I guess anything can happen, and you can’t stop it."According to the back of the sleeve, we produced 25,000 copies in a "limited and numbered edition," but none were ever numbered. How many did we make again?Condition as described in catalogue note. For further information on the condition of this lot please email <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="mailto:info@boo-hooray.com">info@boo-hooray.com</a>. All lots are sold on an "as is" at the time of sale. Images form a part of the condition description for each lot, though images online may represent hues and shades which differ from the actual item.

Neil Hamburger [Gregg Turkington] — Alive (With Pleasure) At Taylor Brigode's Bachelor Party

Ed WoodEd Wood's Sleaze Paperbacks, prints portfolioNew York: Boo-Hooray, 2011. Four offset prints, each embossed with an early Boo-Hooray logo. 14 1/2 x 11 in. With a printed limitation card and housed in a printed folder.One of only 113 copies. A portfolio of prints published to commemorate the opening of Boo-Hooray's "Ed Wood's Sleaze Paperbacks" exhibition in 2011. The prints reproduce illustrations and pages from For Love or Money, Side-show Tren, and Diary of a Transvestite Hooker.Following this exhibition Boo-Hooray placed the Ed Wood Jr. Sleaze Paperbacks Collection, the largest known holdings of Ed Wood’s pornographic material, at Cornell University's Human Sexuality Collection.Wood Jr.’s career as an author of pornographic pulp fiction is even more complicated and unusual than his career as a film director. By the early 1960s, having run out of the funding needed to continue making his own movies, he began writing pornographic literature for quick money (as well as working, when he could, on porn films – softcore in the 60s, hardcore by the 70s). Using a variety of pseudonyms as well as his own name, he published and republished books under different titles, for the sort of publishers whose books were non-traditionally distributed, where more than one author shared the same name, which rarely kept records, or paid royalties.Wood’s sleaze fiction is as strange, idiosyncratic and out of step with his times and mores as his infamous movies. In the 1960s his quickie pulp narratives are spliced with lengthy philosophical, sociological and psychological discourse, often told in first person, many times dealing with the life of a transvestite in the buttoned-up America of the 1950s. His inner psyche is as much on display, both deliberately and accidentally, in these novels as it is in his films. As Wood descended further into alcoholism and poverty, and as his opportunities to make even hardcore porn films vanished, his writing showed ever-fewer flourishes of his eccentric personality, until finally there were nearly none at all. He died in 1978 of an alcohol-induced heart attack.Condition as described in catalogue note. For further information on the condition of this lot please email <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="mailto:info@boo-hooray.com">info@boo-hooray.com</a>. All lots are sold on an "as is" at the time of sale. Images form a part of the condition description for each lot, though images online may represent hues and shades which differ from the actual item.

Ed Wood — Ed Wood's Sleaze Paperbacks, prints portfolio

[Afrika Bambaataa]Renegades of Funk slipmatsNew York: Boo-Hooray, 2013. Two 12'' slipmats.Slipmat produced for and exclusively sold at our exhibition of the Afrika Bambaataa record collection 2013, reproducing original labels.Condition as described in catalogue note. For further information on the condition of this lot please email <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="mailto:info@boo-hooray.com">info@boo-hooray.com</a>. All lots are sold on an "as is" at the time of sale. Images form a part of the condition description for each lot, though images online may represent hues and shades which differ from the actual item.

Paul Insect — Artist's proof, signed by Afrika Bambaataa and Insect

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