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William GibsonSkip Spence's JeansNew York: Boo-Hooray, 2012. Saddle-stapled inkjet zine in oversized offset, French-fold wraps. 8 pp on 8 leaves, leaves unopened, with illustrations on the versos. With CD in paper sleeve and facsimile demo review. Originally appearing in Ugly Things magazine in 2003, this piece recounts a chance encounter between two cultural icons: science-fiction and foundational cyberpunk author William Gibson, and the musician Skip Spence, co-founder of Moby Grape, and the writer of the legendary 60's psych-rock Oar. Here, Gibson tells of the enigmatic encounter and the expansion of his mind upon encountering, well, Skip Spence's jeans. This edition includes a CD with Spence's two-song demo, submitted to and rejected by John Cale. Included is a facsimile reproduction of Cale's rejection memo which, despite calling the vocal &amp; instrumental performance as "OK," writes: "POOR, NO TUNES"

William Gibson — Skip Spence's Jeans

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.

Penny Rimbaud and Louise ElliottNot Us / Not ThemNew York: Boo-Hooray and Existencil Press, 2011. 7'' EP in illustrated sleeve, with printed lyrics sheet.Not Us / Not Them is a recording of two poems read by Crass co-founder Penny Rimbaud, accompanied on the saxophone with former Laughing Clown’s Louise Elliott. Evoking the general atmosphere of the Beat poets with the combination of jazz and spoken word, Rimbaud’s "Oh America" reads as a personal response to (or continuation of) Allen Ginsberg’s "Howl," while "Not They" is a weary challenge towards political indifference.Published jointly by Boo-Hooray and Exitstencil Press in an edition of 500 copies, on the occasion of Boo-Hooray's exhibition "In All Our Decadence People Die."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.

Penny Rimbaud and Louise Elliott — Not Us / Not Them

Ed SandersHymn to the Mimeograph RevolutionNew York: Printed by the Brother in Elysium for Boo-Hooray, 2012. Risograph broadside printed in red and black, lower edge uncut. 14 x 9 in. Signed by Ed Sanders. A clean, bright copy.One of only 50 copies, signed by Sanders. In this poem written on the occasion of his exhibition at Boo-Hooray, Ed Sanders celebrates the technology that made possible his self-published poetry journal, Fuck You / A Magazine for the Arts.The mimeograph, a non-industrial printing machine, and the direct predecessor to the photocopier, was invented in the late 19th century by Thomas Edison, but it took five decades to make its way to the hands of the artists and poets who used it to produce and distribute their "un-publishable" works. In this broadside, Sanders speaks not only about the mimeograph, but his publishers-in-arms, his band The Fugs, and the revolutionary climate of the 1960's.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 Sanders — Hymn to the Mimeograph Revolution

Julian Beck / Judith MalinaPoemsNew York: Boo-Hooray, [2013]. Black cassette in Norelco case, printed insert with photographic illustration after Ira Cohen.Long out of print, this cassette features a November 1983 poetry reading by Living Theatre co-founders Julian Beck and Judith Malina. The tape is a reproduction of a cassette in The Living Theatre Archive, the original now held at Yale University's Beinecke Library. Liner notes read: "Imbued with a sense of entering the world, the work of these most ingenious theatre artists inspires us to action and provides us with language which confirms that transgression across the line which separates the theatre from the world. Theirs is not merely an anti-theatre but a reaffirmation of worldliness, of collective action, and of the real deal concerning non-violence." Recorded live by Kush/Cloud House Recording.

Julian Beck / Judith Malina — Poems

Johan Kugelberg and Gabriel MckeeBardo MatrixNew York: Boo-Hooray, 2014. Offset. Saddle-stapled in illustrated wraps. 24 pp. 8 1/2 x 5 1/4 in. Four illustrations reproducing cover art from Bardo Matrix.A bibliography of Ira Cohen and Anglus MacLiese's legendary Bardo Matrix Press. Issued by Boo-Hooray on the occasion of our 2014 exhibition held at The Grolier Club, "Bardo Matrix: A Kathmandu Beat Poetry Press." Along with the bibliography, the text includes a forward by Johan Kugelberg, a reprint of Ira Cohen's history of the press which in part first appeared in New Observations Magazine, and Cohen's "Kathmandu Dream Piece."

Bardo Matrix: A Bibliography

[The Living Theatre]Flyers for Boo-Hooray's "A Living Collage" exhibition, signed by Ben Morea, Spencer Sweeney, and Lizzi Bougatsos[New York: Boo-Hooray, 2015]. Photomechanical reproductions, three of which after calligraphy by Ben Morea and Lizzi Bougatsos. One on red paper, two on grey, one on white. Three flyers 15 x 11 in, one 8 1/2 x 11 in. Larger flyers signed, respectively, by Ben Morea, Spencer Sweeney, and Lizzi Bougatsos. With printed press release.Boo-Hooray processed and The Living Theatre Archive of Primary Materials, placing the extensive archive at Yale University's Beinecke Library. During this process, co-founder Judith Malina passed away, and Johan Kugelberg, Lizzi Bougatsos, and Spencer Sweeney sought to stage a memorial exhibition: “When Judith Malina passed away in April, we immediately started discussing what we could do as a community gathering celebrating not only her wild, anarchistic, beautiful life, but also how to best showcase the enormous amounts of unseen visually arresting materials that had been gathered, after some thought we came to the conclusion that a living collage for the living theatre was our best bet. I immediately called Lizzi and Spencer who were game!”Musician Lizzi Bougatsos and artist Ben Morea, of Black Mask / Up Against the Wall Motherfuckers!, executed the lettering which these flyers reproduce.

[The Living Theatre] — A Living Collage flyers, signed

Lizzi Bougatsos; Amanda Keeley and Johan Kugelberg, eds.Her Perfume TearsNew York: Boo-Hooray and EXILE Books, 2014. Offset. Photographically illustrated wraps in newsprint dustjacket, folded to produce a pocket, containing saddle-stapled 32 pp pamphlet. [198] pp. 11 x 8 1/2 in. Signed by Bougatsos on the half-title. A very fine copy.One of an edition of 300 trade copies, of a total edition of 325 —&nbsp;this copy signed by the artist. Lizzi Bougatsos, musician, artist and activist has compiled a collection of never before seen personal photographs, artworks, poems, lyrics, notes and ephemera for this book.Each copy comes inside a origami-folded pocketed newsprint dust jacket containing a zine of Bougatsos' poetry and song writing process titled Enchanted by Her Squalor.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.

Lizzi Bougatsos — Her Perfume Tears, signed

Jonas MekasPrint of Judith Malina, signedNew York: Boo-Hooray, 2016. Halftone print. 13 3/4 x 10 in. Signed by Jonas Mekas and captioned "Times Square, 1965" in Mekas hand. Bright and clean copy.This signed print was included in our Living Theatre Archive In A Box. We think we made 200 of them. The Archive In A Box was produced in an edition of 200, so I guess we made a couple more. Or hopefully none got separated and lost from their boxes.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.

Jonas Mekas — Print of Judith Malina, signed

A True Recital of the Procedure of the third Banquet held by the Corvine Society[New York: Boo-Hooray, 2013]. Printed in red and black. Saddle-stapled in printed wraps. 16 pp. 10 x 7 in. Photographic frontispiece mounted opposite members' list. Corners lightly bumped.Limited edition of 50 hand-numbered copies, this copy produced hors commerce. The report delivered during the third meeting of the Corine Society, a society "founded early in the last century to honour the memory of Frederick Rolfe Baron Corvo, to recommend his writings, and to explain away his life." An eccentric English writer, photographer, and Catholic priest manqué, Corvo has remained an obscure figure in the history of modernist literature; his work received a wider audience through the A.J.A. Symon's seminal biography, The Quest for Corvo.A tongue-in-cheek report, the speaker Roert Scoble, notes, "Ours is an exclusive club, which wields quite disproportionate power in this country and in several others, partly because of the stratospheric eminence of its Members but principally because of its immense wealth. Of course, we exhibit no trace of vulgarity about this."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.

William Gibson — Skip Spence's Jeans

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