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Patti SmithAutograph manuscript, “Alchemical Roll Call,” mailed to Harry Smith, with annotations in H. Smith's hand[New York]: np, 1970. 48 pieces of paper, composing 12 hand-drawn and autograph manuscript sheets; 3 sets of 12 xeroxed pages; one laser printed sheet. Each piece of the original manuscript roughly measures 5 1/4 x 3 5/8 in, with four of them adding up to a 10 1/2 x 7 1/4 in sheet; xeroxes measure 11 x 8 1/2 in. Annotations in pencil in Harry Smith's hand. Light discoloration to xeroxes; one set of the xeroxes with hand-coloring.Autograph manuscript poem composed by Patti Smith in 1970, "Alchemical Roll Call,” dedicated and mailed to the polymath filmmaker, ethnologist, and Neo-Gnostic bishop Harry Smith; the latter Smith is perhaps best remembered for his masterwork Heaven and Earth Magic, and for his influential Anthology of American Folk Music.Bookseller Philip Smith, who co-curated an exhibition on Harry Smith at Maccarone and contributed to The Whitney's 2023-24 exhibition "Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Art of Harry Smith," notes that the elements of the manuscript closely correlate to collaged elements in Heaven and Earth Magic; he further notes that the parenthetical annotations and "(orig)" appear to be in Harry Smith's hand.Written before Patti Smith’s musical career took off, this manuscript features Smith’s surrealist drawings and poems, already exhibiting a proto-punk/stick-figure humor &amp; sensibility alongside accomplished illustrations and turns of phrases. In her memoir Just Kids, Smith writes that "Alchemical Roll Call" “was an illustrated poem encoding the things that Harry and [she] had discussed about alchemy.” After the poem's dedicatee received it, he then, mysteriously, tore the sheets into quarters.Boo-Hooray would like to thank Philip Smith for his assistance in the cataloging of this lot. 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" basis 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.

Patti Smith — Autograph manuscript mailed to Harry Smith, the poem's dedicatee, with his annotations

Charles Henri FordAutograph manuscript, "From Distilled Birthmarks"Kathmandu: Charles Henri Ford and the Bardo Matrix Press, ca 1970s. Manuscript in blue ink on handmade lokta paper with woodblock text and device. Inscribed “for Ira [Cohen].” 8 pp on 2 sheets. Approx. 9 ½ x 7 ¼ in. Some toning, creasing, one or two small holes; nonetheless clean, bright, and intact, particularly given the quality of the paper.Autograph manuscript, being an excerpt from Charles Henri Ford’s poetic text “Distilled Birthmarks,” dedicated and inscribed to his close friend Ira Cohen, poet and publisher of Bardo Matrix Press. This work of Ford's is unpublished and evidently only recorded in archival holdings. Written during his time living in Nepal, the lokta paper on which the work is written features a Bardo Matrix printer's woodcut device of a hybrid rose-mushroom image. Below the woodcut, printed text reads, “The Rose Trail Ends at the Drugged Mushroom.” Also printed is “The Silver Amanita,” presumably a psychedelic wink at the white Amanita mushrooms found in Nepal.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" basis 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.

Charles Henri Ford — Unpublished autograph manuscript, "From Distilled Birthmarks"

A complete run of ta'BOX [avant-garde Danish assemblage publication with cannabis cookies]Copenhagen: Panel 13, 1969-1970. Six issues, encased in plastic bags, five as issued; including the exceedingly rare ta'BOX 2 1/2 and two examples of the first issue. From 13 1/2 x 9 1/2 in to 14 1/2 x 9 3/4 in. Various conditions, but overall, nice examples; one copy of the first issue with perforations to the bag of powder enclosed in the original assemblage.A complete run of the five issues of ta'BOX, the Danish avant-garde assemblage publication that captured the material instability of the 1960s. Containing not only poetry and offset prints, the publication also featured posters, envelopes, documentary material, handbills, issues of other magazines from the left wing or counterculture, spruce cones, gun powder, matches, and the notorious cannabis cookies — two of which are present here.Along with issues 1-4, included here is the exceedingly rare issue ta'BOX 2 1/2, which was the only one not originally enclosed in a plastic bag, but in a brown envelope. Issue 2 1/2 was distributed at Festival 200, an important event in the history of avant-garde in Scandinavia (see the following lot for more information on the festival).ta'BOX was published by Panel 13, the composer Henning Christiansen’s (very) small press, which had published artists’ books by Hans-Jørgen Nielsen, Per Kirkeby and the composer himself in 1965. (For more on Panel 13 and its context, as well as examples of publications, see the following lot). The work was originally to be published by h.m. bergs forlag, but the editors' decision to include cannabis cookies was too much for the traditional publisher. Key contributors included Nielsen, Kirkeby, Peter Jensen, Lene Adler Pedersen, Henning Christiansen, and Hein Heinsen.ta'BOX documents the response of the Danish avant-garde to the student and worker revolts of 1968 — specifically the ruthless criticism of the arts, which were accused of passive, sycophantic support for capitalist society. ta'BOX responded by bridging fine art with everyday life through youthful revolt. This meant that poetry and art prints, the traditional forms of an arts publication, were packaged alongside leftist ephemera, prank items, acorns, collages, the aforementioned cannabis cookies, and more, in a literally deconstructed publication housed in a plastic bag. The ephemera includes a program statement for Slump I, an experimental settlement-cum-temporary-commune that set up artists and activists in tents with the aim of establishing collective art and social projects. ta'BOX makes its debt to Fluxus known by repeatedly printing "Fluxus Zone Nord" in its issues.Given the irregular and purposefully haphazard assemblage of materials, it is not possible to establish "completion" of any issue, as such. We do note, however, that the cannabis cookie from the inaugural issue is absent, likely enjoyed many decades ago. However, perhaps to your consolation, issue no. 1 does include a slightly oversized match, a green stick of wood, and a bag of what appears to be gunpowder. Issue nos. 2 1/2 and 4 do include their psychoactive cookies. The two examples of the first issue included here have, predictably, different contents.An extraordinary document of counter-cultural art. All issues are very scarce, but no. 2 1/2 is extremely rare; we can trace only one other copy in the auction records.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" basis 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.

A complete run of ta'BOX [avant-garde Danish assemblage publication with cannabis cookies]

Henning Prins, Leif Varmark, Ole Stig Andersen, Ole Grünbaum, et al, eds.HætsjjCopenhagen: Eks-Skolens Trykkeri, 1968-1970. Offset, silkscreen, one photomechanical reproduction. Most numbers unbound folios; one saddle-stapled in illustrated wraps (#43), one single sheet (#21, in facsimile and presumably incomplete), several “Bulletins” with unbound folios loosely inserted into posters (as issued); one corner-stapled pamphlet, annotated in an unknown hand. More than 100 sheets; most numbers 4 pp on one sheet; #43 with folded poster loosely inserted as issued. Various sizes, but most 12 x 9 in. All numbers in exceptional condition.A near complete run of Hætsjj, the Danish avant-garde artists’ “newspaper” — rarely (if ever) seen at this level of completeness, let alone in this condition. A phonetic spelling of the Danish word “hetz” (“smear” or "slander" campaign), this publication was issued, for a time, almost daily and was sold on the streets amidst the burgeoning avant-garde, collectivist movements. The publication ran from 1968 to 1970 in 48 numbers. Present here are numbers 1-7, 10-11, 13, 15, 17-18, 21 (presumably incomplete and in facsimile), 22-23, 25-30, 32-34, 36, 38, 40-43, two different versions of #45 (issued a day apart), one unnumbered issue, and four unnumbered folios (possibly inserts). Also present are numbers 1-11, 13-15 of the Hætsjj “Bulletins” for different events, performances, and happenings at the Festival 200 of 1969 — each bulletin a stunning work of art in its own right. Additionally, the lot contains four numbers of the Henning Christiansen’s Panel 13 (#1-2, 4-5), a contemporary, similarly produced publication by his press of the same name, including the Panel 13 manifesto. An eight-page pamphlet, excerpted from Ole Grünbaum’s memoir, about the founding of Hætsjj and its context accompanies these.Hætsjj arose from a pivotal moment in Danish experimental art. In 1966, The Experimental School (“Ex-School”), an important avant-garde art school set up as an alternative to the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, moved into a condemned building near Fredrik’s Church in the Indre By. There, the Ex-School powerfully nurtured the vanguard: in their first year in that abandoned building they hosted Nam June Paik and Charlotte Moorman, as well as Joseph Beuys, who gave his first performance with the dead hare there. Next door to this collective live-work experiment “was an equally run-down flat which was used as a headquarters for a loose group among whom was the main organiser of the Danish Provo Movement, inspired by the Dutch Provos” (Ørum, 798). The Danish Provos and their associates were organizing and creating art derived from Situationist and Fluxus aims and aesthetics; indeed, “during the late 1960s they even made similar art objects, such as treated book art and assemblages in the typical style of the underground drug culture” (ibid).The concomitant developments in offset printing techniques made it possible for these artist-organizers to produce their own newspaper for their community cheaply. The leftist politics, art-making, performance pieces, and collectivist experiments in living mixing in these two buildings alone was a potent blend of revolutionary, avant-garde spirit — and the groups collaborated extensively on each other’s publications. Originally founded and edited by Henning Prins and Leif Varmark, their initial goal was to be a mouthpiece of the underground movement, to “incite against the authorities and against those who choose to cooperate with them in any way.” Members of both the Provos and the Ex-School contributed to Hætsjj, but the editorial oversight was eventually handed off predominantly to Ole Stig Andersen and Ole Grünbaum, and the artists at the nearby Gallery 101 (home to Joseph Beuys’ “Eurasia” actions), such as Bjørn Nørgaard and Peter Louis-Jensen.The first issue was published just days after the assassination of Robert Kennedy, and following comments from Denmark’s then-Prime Minister Hilmar Baunsgård, that “violent demonstrations” were “the greatest threat to democracy.” The incendiary publication was issued as direct counterpoint to this pacifying, bourgeois ideology, and was made up of local, underground news, political commentary, parody, pornographic political collage, and critical commentary on art and publishing. It “was not political art, but a political activity which was part of the spectrum of activities ranging from art to everyday life, social events and political activities undertaken by the extended Ex-School circle during the late 1960s” (ibid). The publication comprised the work, thinking, art, and organizing, of innumerable groups with divergent aims and methods — but who were united in their commitment to the counterculture. This heterogeneous mix was in fact part of the publication’s power. Guided by neither a manifesto nor a strict aesthetic program, and published in the form of a newspaper, it offered an image of an alternative world: a self-determined yet collectivist social reality, one governed by freedom of expression, rather than the murderous machinery of capital. Indeed, “Detailed instructions on how to produce an issue of Hætsjj were published in the paper as an encouragement to everyone to contribute or to establish their own newspaper” (ibid).The Bulletins included here were produced for the seminal Festival 200 of 1969. Organized in honor of the 200th anniversary of the Charlottenborg exhibition hall, the festival featured avant-garde artists across Scandinavia. It functioned as an important site of cross-pollination for these groups similarly dedicated to reimagining the social order, collectivist living, and insurgent art.All copies of Hætsjj are extremely rare. Each beautifully made issue is a remarkable work of revolutionary ambition. Not only an important, scarcely seen record of the European vanguard, these are still genuinely inspirational works at the intersections of collectivist thought, political organizing, and anti-commercial expression.Reference: Tania Ørum, "Counterculture," in A Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries 1950-1975 (2016).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" basis 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.

[Joseph Beuys, Ex-School, Danish Provos, Bjørn Nørgaard, Fluxus] — Hætsjj [near complete]

Jorgen Nash and Sven MalvinMordet på Ubbeboda Center [The Murder of Ubbeboda Center]Orkelljunga, Sweden: Editions Bauhaus Situationiste, 1978. Xerox, serigraph, and offset. Green cloth, spine with gilt-lettered, pebbled cloth label. 11 1/2 x 8 1/2 in. With 38 pp booklet (9 1/2 x 6 3/4 in) bound in, and with [7] pp side-stapled packet (11 3/4 x 8 3/4 in) loosely inserted. Signed and numbered by Sven Malvin on the front free-endpaper. Text in Swedish. A few strain stains to cloth, spine lightly sunned and with minor fraying to label, front free-endpaper starting, side-stapled packet toned at outer margins booklet with one bifolium disbound and loosely inserted; nonetheless an excellent copy overall.Number 61 of only 100 copies, hand-numbered and signed by Sven Malvin. This massive, sprawling artists' publication by Jorgen Nash and Malvin was published in the aftermath of the destruction of the Situationist commune at the Uddeboda Center, which was associated with the second Situationist International (otherwise known as the Bauhaus Situationiste). Mordet på Ubbeboda Center is a mythic avant-garde work among devotees of the Situationists, with approximately 700 pages featuring serigraphs, multiple paper-sizes, inserts, and documentation of artworks, events, and symposia held a the Uddeboda Center. In multiple languages, the book documents the international scenw hich circulated around the commune and its members. Included with this work si a stapled pamphlet with information regarding the work in Swedish.Exceedingly rare. We can trace only two copies in the auction records, and this work is uncommonly seen in the trade. OCLC traces only 3 copies as of November 2025, with none outside of Scandinavia.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" basis 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.

Jorgen Nash and Sven Malvin — Mordet på Ubbeboda Center [The Murder of Ubbeboda Center]

Mikhail BulgakovMaster i Margarita [The Master and Margarita], samizdat edition[USSR]: np, ca. 1980. Dot matrix. Contemporary maroon buckram, pale blue endpapers. 229 pp. 12 x 8 in. A bit shaken, minor soiling to rear board, corners bumped.The Master and Margarita is one of the essential works of Soviet satire. Bulgakov wrote the novel between 1928 and 1940, restarting it many times before his death in 1940. A heavily censored version was first published in Moscow Magazine in 1967. The first official publication of the uncensored text arrived in 1989 and would not have been possible without the distribution of samizdat printings such as this one.While samizdat were initially produced by hand or typewriter, this copy was printed using a computer and captures the fascinating juncture of Soviet dissident practices and digital technology. Beginning in the late 1970s, during the early days of computing, employees at institutions in the Soviet Union managed to print banned texts using line (or drum) printers, usually during night shifts as the use of duplication technology was tightly controlled by the state. By the 1980s, such printers produced text at a rate of several hundred lines per minute. The files containing the texts could be moved from mainframe to mainframe using magnetic tape.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" basis 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.

Mikhail Bulgakov — [The Master and Margarita], samizdat edition

Edward D. Wood, Jr.&nbsp;Killer in Drag&nbsp;Union City, N.J.: Star News Co., 1965. Perfect bound. 192 pp. 6 3/4 x 4 1/4 in. Text-block just barely starting to detach, corners lightly bumped.&nbsp;First edition of Ed Wood's rare cult novel Killer in Drag, featuring the author's alter ego, the character Glen/Glenda, a cross-dressing assassin whose ravishing beauty and musical voice bewitch every male in sight.Glen is a hired assassin who becomes Glenda when it's time to get down to wok, and is impeccably attired in either gender. Trouble follows Glenda when she decides to give up the murder racket, take up a sugar daddy, and finance a sex change operation. An early sexploitation classic.Ed Wood was an American screenwriter, director, producer, actor, author, and editor. In the 1950s, Wood made a number of cheap genre films, now enjoyed for their technical errors, unsophisticated special effects, large amounts of ill-fitting stock footage, idiosyncratic dialogue, eccentric casts, and outlandish plot elements, although his flair for showmanship gave his projects at least a modicum of critical success.Wood's popularity waned soon after his biggest "name" actress, Béla Lugosi, died. He was able to salvage a salable feature from Lugosi's last moments on film, but his career declined thereafter. Toward the end of his life, Wood made pornographic movies and wrote pulp crime, horror, and sex novels. His infamy began two years after his death, when he was awarded a Golden Turkey Award as Worst Director of All Time. The lack of filmmaking ability in his work has earned Wood and his films a considerable cult following.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" basis 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.

Edward D. Wood, Jr. — Killer in Drag

Swamp Dogg (PhD., DDT., VD., B.S., R.F.D.) A/K/A Jerry Williams, Jr.If You Can Kill It I Can Cook It (…without salt) [signed twice]Np: S.D.E.G., Jerry Williams Music &amp; Jerry Williams, Jr., 1991. Xerox in blue stiff card covers with metal fasteners. Inscribed to “Bob” and signed by the author in blue pen on the title-page, and initialed by the author in blue pen on front cover. 216 pp. 11 ½ x 9 in.An idiosyncratic cookbook by legendary singer, songwriter, record producer, and avid foodie, Swamp Dogg. A biographical journey into the life of a musical icon, featuring family photos, stories, and recipes for unique dishes such as Baked Rhythm ‘n’ Blues Beans, B.B. King Crown Roast, and Fettuccini Jerry Lee Lewis.Presumably a self-published copy intended as a birthday gift for Bob, with a leaf featuring a typed birthday message unattached from the binding.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" basis 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.

Swamp Dogg — If You Can Kill It I Can Cook It (…without salt) [signed twice]

Le Sony’R Ra / Sun RaThe Immeasurable Equation Vol. I [and] Extensions Out: The Immeasurable Equation Vol. IIVol. 1 — Philadelphia: El Saturn Records, 1985. Offset. Saddle-stapled. 8 ½ x 5 ½ in. Wraps' upper corner bumped.Vol. 2 — Chicago: Infinity Inc. / Saturn Research, 1972. Offset from typescript. Side-stapled. 134 pp, rectos only. 11 x 8 ½ in. Wraps detaching.A complete set of The Immeasurable Equation. While Sun Ra’s poetry remains a more obscure part of his oeuvre, it was an essential site of experimentation for his creative output, serving as a credo for his visionary creativity and style. These two volumes contain 132 poems, constituting a significant portion of Sun Ra’s published literary works.Volume I was widely distributed and more commonly seen; members of the Arkestra often sold copies at performances in several different editions over the years. The present edition was published in 1985 and includes 28 poems, along with photography by Donna Paul and Allan Tannenbaum. It is one of the more illustrated examples we have seen.Published in 1972 (the same year as the first edition of Vol. I), the extremely rare Extensions Out: The Immeasurable Equation Vol. II saw far less distribution. It contains 104 poems.“All equations together are two immeasurable equations because of the immeasurable presence of the non-being in duality of the balanced oneness of the two."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" basis 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.

Sun Ra — The Immeasurable Equation, Vols. I and 2

[Free Jazz]Four ESP-Disk CatalogsNew York: ESP-Disk, 1967-1971. Offset. 2 vols newsprint folios, one saddle-stapled in self-wraps, one saddle-stapled in illustrated wraps (4 vols total). 3 vols 20 pp, one vol [6] pp. From 16 1/2 x 11 1/2 in to 9 x 6 in. Minor toning, two with original horizontal folds.Four ESP-Disk catalogs, likely a complete set of their printed catalogs, comprising:The 1967 “We Mass Produce Art Objects That When Properly Manipulated Make Innovational Sounds to Be Dug: 1967 ESP Disk Trade Catalog,” covering the label’s first 60 releases; the 1969 “Special Complete ESP Catalog,” with the Business Reply Mail envelope loosely inserted; “ESP Volume One, Number One,” the premier issue of the 1971 ESP publication that looked to “provide news of artists, their lyrics, and other data concerning the listening experience”; and “ESP-Disk,” a 1971 catalog featuring cover art from Gilbert Shelton. Besides these four, we have traced no additional ESP catalogs in institutional holdings or in the trade.ESP was a key actor in bringing free jazz to the larger jazz world, releasing records by Albert Ayler, Pharoah Sanders, Sun Ra, and Milford Graves. Originally founded by Bernard Stollman as a label to promote the Esperanto language, ESP promptly shifted course after Stollman heard Ayler play at the Baby Grand Bar in 1964: the avant-garde saxophonist's landmark record Spiritual Unity was the label’s second release.Often a source of frustration and fury for the musicians who worked with him due to meager or nonexistent payments, Stollman was guided by an attractive and liberating philosophy: “the artists alone decide what you will hear on their ESP-DISK.” As such, while the label was not particularly profitable, its output gained outsized influence and achieved remarkable contemporary resonance. Stollman eventually expanded the label’s range, releasing records in other avant-garde traditions, including proto-noise band The Godz and Ed Sanders’ band The Fugs.“All of the sounds in this catalog have one thing in common . . . . . They were made by free men, doing their own thing.”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" basis 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.

[Free Jazz] — Four ESP-Disk Catalogs

[John Coltrane]One Mind Temple pamphletSan Francisco: One Mind Temple, [1971]. Offset. Bifolium. 5 ⅜ x 4 ¼ in. Two spots of light discoloration to verso and mild edgewear.&nbsp;Devotional fold-out pamphlet from the One Mind Temple, later known as the John Coltrane Church, featuring a fragment of the liner notes to A Love Supreme with a facsimile of Coltrane’s signature.&nbsp;oth the liner notes and album were foundational texts for the Coltrane Church.The saxophonist was first canonized as a saint by the Temple, and a few years later he was worshiped as God, or as an incarnation of the divine. Located in San Francisco's Fillmore district, the church was a community and mutual aid hub, with connections to the Black Panther Party and Huey P. Newton, among other Bay Area community organizations. By 1982, the Temple had been consecrated into the African Orthodox Church.Printed as the church had its first major reorganization, moving to their famous Divisadero Street location and becoming the “One Mind Temple,” this pamphlet documents the lasting influence of Coltrane’s studies of spirit and divinity.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" basis 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.

[John Coltrane] — One Mind Temple pamphlet

Peter BesteNorwegian Black MetalTokyo: Seiunsha, 2005. Offset. Publisher's cloth, titled in silver on upper board. Japanese translation of the preface by Aaron Aites printed on transparent paper and tipped in. 36 pp. 12 x 8 ½ in.First Japanese edition of documentary photographer Peter Beste’s visual exploration of the chaos and violence of the black metal. Features dramatic portraits of members of the notorious and insular subculture.Printed in a limited edition of 3,000 on the occasion of a presentation of Beste’s work in Tokyo and Osaka. A handsome copy.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" basis 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.

Peter Beste — Norwegian Black Metal [first Japanese edition]

Michael Andre, ed.Unmuzzled Ox, #23-26 [signed by Gerard Malanga, Charles Henri Ford, and Ira Cohen]New York: Unmuzzled Ox, 1984 - 1989. Offset on newsprint. Folios in illustrated self-wraps. [24] pp, [37] pp, [35] pp, [49] pp. 17 1/4 x 11 in. Toning, issue 25 with minor foxing, creasing around fold lines.Unmuzzled Ox was a magazine of poetry, art, and politics founded in 1971 by poet Michael Andre and ran until 2001. The magazine frequently featured work by prominent writers and intellectuals including William S. Burroughs, Ezra Pound, Allen Ginsberg, Margaret Atwood, Gregory Corso, and Charles Henri Ford. The four issues collected for this set form the entirety of Vol. 12 (1984-1989), in which poets influenced by Ezra Pound's Cantos wrote their own supplementary cantos. These copies signed by Gerard Malanga, Ira Cohen, and Charles Henri Ford, all influential artists of the era involved in this long-running magazine.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" basis 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.

Michael Andre, ed. — Unmuzzled Ox #23-26 [signed]

Gregory Corso; Michael Andre, ed.Unmuzzled Ox, Volume Two, #1 &amp; 2 [inscribed by Corso]New York: Unmuzzled Ox / the Print Center, 1973. Offset. Perfect bound. 8 1/4 x 5 3/8 in. [126pp.] Number 35 of 60. Clean example; with light bumping to fore-edge.Trade edition of Unmuzzled Ox, volume two, number one and two [one issue], signed and inscribed with a poem by Gregory Corso. The publication features poems by d.a. levy, Paul Eluard, Rober Kelly, David Ignatow, Marge Piercy, Hugh Seidman, and others.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" basis 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.

Gregory Corso; Michael Andre, ed. — Unmuzzled Ox, Volume Two, #1 & 2 [inscribed]

Allen GinsbergCosmopolitan Greetings: Poems 1986-1992 [signed]New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 1994. First edition. Quarter black cloth over black boards, in dustjacket, fore-edge uncut. 9 1/2 x 6 1/4 in. 118 pp. Dustjacket spine sunned as usual, very minor wear at head and tail.Signed first edition of Allen Ginsberg's collected late poems Cosmopolitan Greetings.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" basis 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.

Allen Ginsberg — Cosmopolitan Greetings: Poems 1986-1992 [signed]

Allen GinsbergImprovised Poetics [presentation copy]Buffalo: Anonym Books, 1971. First edition. In wraps with photographic portrait of Ginsberg. [iv], 52 pp. 6 3/4 x 5 in. Inscribed on the title-page. Wraps just beginning to separate, otherwise a nice copy.First edition, presentation copy, inscribed to Judith Malina of the Living Theatre, "11/8/86 For Judith" and signed. Limited to 2000 copies, this book is a transcription of a discussion between Allen Ginsberg, Michael Aldrich, Edward Kissam, and Nancy Bleeker at Ginsberg’s farm in Cherry Valley, New York, on November 26, 1968.&nbsp;The text deals with the act of writing, the way poems appear on a page, and the ways that people read poems and speak them in their minds. From the introduction by Mark Robinson, “[the book’s] main prosodic concern centers around the notion that: the line is a measure of thought. It also shows how poetry is mapped and/or charted in Ginsberg’s and his contemporaries’ practice. Which carries the further implication: how to read.” Ginsberg later taught classes on Improvised Poetics at Naropa, and continued to write about and develop this idea so central to his compositional method.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" basis 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.

Allen Ginsberg — Improvised Poetics [presentation copy]

Allen Ginsberg; Barry Miles, Ted Berrigan, edsLong Hair, vol. 1. no. 1London and New York:&nbsp;Lovebooks Ltd,&nbsp;1965. First edition. Illustrated wraps with portrait of Ginsberg. 80 pp. 7 7/8 x 6 3/8 in. Wraps lightly toned.&nbsp;A short-lived literary journal published by underground press mainstay Barry Miles, founder of International Times and owner of Indica Books, with Ted Berrigan serving as the New York editor. This first issue includes Allen Ginsberg’s “Ankor Wat,” as well as contributions from Tuli Kupferberg, Michael Horovitz, Gerard Malanga, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Ron Padgett, free jazz musician Archie Shepp, and others. A nice example of transatlantic counterculture.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" basis 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.

Allen Ginsberg; Ted Berrigan, Barry Miles, eds. — Long Hair, vol. 1. no. 1

Ezra PoundThe Cantos of Ezra Pound: CX — CXVI [cover by Joe Brainard]New York: Fuck You Press, 1967. Offset and mimeograph. Side-stapled in pink wraps. 11 x 8 1/2 in. [13] pp. Closed tear to rear wrap, bumping to corners and left edge, and small closed tears to two leaves.Ed Sanders' pirated Fuck You Press edition of The Cantos of Ezra Pound: CX — CXVI, with the cover by Joe Brainard. The publication of this edition forced the official authorized version into publication.According to Joshua Kotin, who in 2014 began to undertake a census of the publication, "The book connected Ezra Pound, the most influential poet of the century, to the world of the mimeograph revolution, a publishing phenomenon that changed the landscape of poetics after the Second World War. But the book, in turn, brought Fuck You Press and [Sanders] both celebrity and revenue. But more important: it allowed a new generation of poets to read Pound in the face of his fascism and anti-Semitism. As Chelsea Jennings writes, 'Sanders’s edition of the Cantos […] is at once an homage to Pound — an affirmation of his continued relevance not just to history but to the present — and a defiant appropriation of his poetry and legacy.'"Copies in pink wraps are very rare, and not accounted for by Gallup (cf A87). Lacks the colophon, as usual for copies in pink wraps.Reference: Kotin, "<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://realitystudio.org/bibliographic-bunker/fuck-you-press-archive/the-fuck-you-press-cantos-a-census/">The Fuck You Press Cantos: A Census</a>," RealityStudio, 2018Condition 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" basis 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.

Ezra Pound — The Cantos of Ezra Pound CX — CXVI [cover by Joe Brainard]

Allen Van NewkirkGuerrilla Volume 1, Number 2Detroit:&nbsp;Guerrilla,&nbsp;1967. Offset on newsprint. 28 pp. 15 ½ x 11 ¼ in. Old horizontal fold with wear along fold to some sheets, extremities chipped, open tear to right outer margin (&lt; ½ in.) and lower outer margin (~ ½ in.), toning.The second and final issue of the extremely rare radical underground newspaper Guerrilla, “a national newspaper of contemporary kulchur,” edited by Allen Van Newkirk and an editorial team at the Detroit Artists’ Workshop Press.A flagship in revolutionary thought, poetry, and news, the newspaper was published during the riots in Detroit during the summer of 1967 and the height of the Detroit Free Press literary movement. Situated squarely in the window of political possibility inaugurated by 1960s riots, the newspaper featured a star-studded roster, with Ellen Phelan serving as Art Editor, and a list of contributing editors that included Sun Ra, Diane di Prima, Michael McClure, Stan Brakhage, John Sinclair, Robert Kelly, Marion Brown, David Meltzer, and Joel Oppenheimer.This issue features poetry by Di Prima and Robert Kelly, an essay by Gilbert Sorrentino on avant-rock, another from John Sinclair on jazz and bebop, alongside a letter on film by Stan Brakhage, and an epistolary poem to George Büchner by Michael McClure. It also features striking cartoons, illustrations, and photography.While Guerrilla billed itself in the first issue as a “monthly” newspaper, this second issue appeared four months late — in the interim, the police had assaulted the editorial offices, then shared with the Artists’ Workshop Press, and arrested the entire editorial staff. By the time the second issue appeared, some of the staff were still pending trial, and co-editor John Sinclair had resigned over an internal dispute about Guerrilla's attitude towards hippies. His editorial displays ambivalent and critical feelings about the middle-class youth movement.Editor Allen Van Newkirk later made news again. In 2005, Newkirk was arrested and shot following a December 12 armed robbery of a Toys R’ Us near Vancouver, British Columbia. He had attempted to flee the toy shop, but crashed into a police car after a short chase. After crashing he opened fire on the cops; shortly after, he was shot and killed. Sources say his commitments to surrealism determined the location of the robbery.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" basis 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.

Allen Van Newkirk — Guerrilla Volume 1, Number 2

[Charles Bukowski, Jackson Mac Low]Abyss Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 1Somerville, MA: Abyss Publications, 1971. Offset. Saddle-stapled. 11 x 8 1/2 in. [44] pp. Wrappers with minor discoloration.Abyss Magazine was a literary &amp; surrealistic arts anthology edited by Gerard Dombrowski, published in Massachusetts by Abyss Publications.This issue features three poems by Charles Bukowski ("The Misfit", "Poet in Residence," and "Nobody Wants to Hear Your Troubles"; Debritto B533, pg. 210). These are a surprising inclusion in the magazine, as the majority of the other poems in this issue are experimental concrete poems, and the magazine itself focused mostly on Tibetan codes and mystical elements. Nonetheless, it also features contributions from Jackson Mac Low, Douglas Blazek, and Carl H. Weissner.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" basis 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.

[Charles Bukowski, Jackson Mac Low] — Abyss Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 1

Next to NothingPaul BowlesKathmandu:&nbsp;Bardo Matrix,&nbsp;1976. First edition. Printed on rice paper. Machine-stitched in lokta wraps with Verifax cover, brown tissue flyleaves. [28] pp, rectos only. 9 1/2 x 7 1/4 in. Illustrated. Lacking the tipped-in frontispiece, stray spots.&nbsp;First edition, a limited issue of 500 hand-numbered copies, the present copy out of series. In his essay on the Bardo Matrix Press, Ira Cohen states, “In 1976 Paul Bowles sent me his poem, Next to Nothing, written specially for Bardo Matrix. Although I knew that Paul expressed a preference for an unadorned presentation of the text with little or no graphics, I ended up using six different design elements by six different artists.” The illustrations include the Verifax cover by Rosalind May Lama; a title-page illustration by Sidney Hushour; a rapidograph illustration by Petra Vogt; a skull illustration on the colophon by Lee Baarslag; and a Kufic design on the rear wrapper by Bowles.The present copy lacks the frontispiece collage by Dana Young — possibly as the copy is out of series. Starstreams Poetry Series, no. 5. Miller A31.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" basis 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 Bowles — Next to Nothing

Piero HeliczerFolding Chair of the Printing Master, a Catalog of Items Printed by The Dead Language 1963New York &amp; Paris: The Dead Language Press, 1963. 9 x 4 in. Two unbound letterpress leaves. Illustration by Aubrey Beardsley. Corners lightly bumped, original horizontal folds, stray spots.Heliczer's 1963 catalog for titles from the Dead Language Press. These leaves were letterpressed by Heliczer, before being folded and bound with tape to produce eight panels. The catalog lists ten titles: To Girl Body, A Pulp Magazine for the Dead Generation, The Beautiful Book, The First Battle of the Marne, Loverman, You Could Hear the Snow Melting and Dripping Into the Deers Mouth, the opening section of Angus Maclise’s Straight Farthest Blood Towards (here titled simply, Straight), Wednesday Paper, &amp; I Dreamt I Shot Arrow in My Amazon Bra, and Year.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" basis 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.

Piero Heliczer — Folding Chair of the Printing Master ...

Joseph BeuysAppeal by Joseph BeuysDüsseldorf: Free International University, 1979. Offset. Side-stapled. 11 x 8 1/2 in. [24] pp. Toning and minor soiling.A collection of texts by Joseph Beuys, including two translations of his "Appeal for an Alternative," alongside his text on "The Shape of a Free Social Organism," and his short piece, "What Can We Do Now to Bring About the Alternative?" The pamphlet was published by the Free International University, the experimental support-cum-pedagogy organization founded by Beuys and others as an "organizational place of research, work, and communication" to study the future of society and political-economy.Along with Beuys, The Free International University was founded by Heinrich Böll, Caroline Tisdall, and Robert McDowell, among others, in Beuys’ Düsseldorf studio on April 27, 1973. The vision of the FIU was one where students and faculty lived communally, and students did not achieve degrees, but rather focused on interdisciplinary research and the fostering of creative potential. It also served as an advocacy group for equitable education in Europe.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" basis 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.

Joseph Beuys — Appeal by Joseph Beuys

Gabriel PomerandSt. Ghetto des PrétsParis:&nbsp;O.L.B., 1950.&nbsp;In wraps. 121 pp. 47 illustrations. 11 ½ x 9 in. Last two leaves unopened. A good, presentable copy; hinge weakened, some shelfwear.The magnum opus of the Gabriel Pomerand (b. 1925 – d. 1972), a poet and artist whose brief star waxed under the sign of the Lettrist movement in the 1950s.In this book, Pomerand uses the techniques of lettrism to translate his poems into graphic scores: a "bilingual" text, each page features his dynamic illustrated signs on one page, with the poems in French on the opposite page. Deriving his technique from memories of "old grimoires and luxurious incunabulums," Pomerand created what is, to our minds, one of the great intermedia works of the century. It is a moving expression of the great flowerings of avant-garde culture in Saint-Germain-des-Prés.Pomerand's introduction, translated by M. Kasper, states:“I want it understood that only the avant-garde of intelligence preoccupies me, and not all the schools this avant-garde fits into. I dread the day when the name of the invention–which is a phenomenon of commodification–overshadows the reals search for transgression.I love perpetual effort and risk of every kind, whether it is fighting against rules or against the nature of things. Throughout my life, I have had no other goal than to be an extremist, at that battlefront which alarm clocks suggest even as they lure us into the traps of life.”Scarce.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" basis 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.

Gabriel Pomerand — St. Ghetto des Préts

Photos by Guy Caujolle; text by Henri GougaudMontsegur&nbsp;Paris: Bélibaste, 1969. Offset. Perfect bound in boards. [120] pp. 11 x 9 7/8 in. Text in French. With Julian Beck and Judith Malina embossment on front free endpaper. Includes a typed letter on Bélibaste letterhead with manuscript annotation tipped in. Edges and corners lightly bumped.Photobook featuring solemn photos of the ruins of Château de Montségur, a hilltop fortress in southern France’s Languedoc-Occitanie near the Pyrenees, paired with poetic text by author Henri Gougaud.&nbsp;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" basis 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.

Guy Caujolle, Henri Gougaud — Montsegur [association copy]

National Gallery LisbonAlternativa Zero: Tendencias Polemicas Na Arte Portugesa ContemporaneaLisbon:&nbsp;National Gallery of Modern Art,&nbsp;1977. Assemblage. Cardboard folded box with printed sheets. 9 ¾ x 7 in. Some shelf-wear and light tearing to box, but interior clean.This assemblage publication was produced on the occasion of an exhibition of the same name at the National Gallery of Modern Art in Lisbon, Portugal. Organized by artist, director, and critic Ernesto de Sousa (b. 1921 – d. 1988), Alternativa Zero was a wide survey of Portuguese contemporary art, including such Portuguese artists as the sculptor Alberto Carneiro, Clara Maneres, poet E.M. Melo e Castro, and many others. It also featured several performances by New York based avant-garde theatre troupe The Living Theatre.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" basis 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.

National Gallery Lisbon — Alternativa Zero

Judith Malina, Julian Beck, et alLife Chants &amp; Songs of RevolutionNew York: Life Chants, 1966. Mimeograph. Side-stapled. 11 x 8 1/2 in. [20] pp. Holes from stapling, and light wear on edges and corners.1960s underground poetry publication featuring poems by Judith Malina, Julian Beck, and others.Very scarce. OCLC locates four holdings as of August 2025.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" basis 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.

Judith Malina, Julian Beck, et al — Life Chants & Songs of Revolution

Tarek [Ali Hassan]The Prison: An Expression for the TheaterLondon: [Tarek Ali Hassan], [ca. 1969]. Mimeograph. Originally side-stapled and tape bound (lacking tape binding). 10 x 8 in. [124] pp. Staples almost entirely detached with text-block split.Artists' book produced by Tarek Ali Hassan, featuring his experimental play "The Prison: An Expression for the Theater," preceded by a sequence of richly colored abstract illustrations.The play is a highly poetic "closet drama" — a play highly unlikely to be produced due to the unreality or impossibility of its contents. The script, however, asks for production techniques similar to those developed by Antonin Artaud in the Theater of Cruelty: it is, in short, an examination of the human body as seen from the perspective of contemporary capitalist society, seen, in effect, as a prison.Tarek Ali Hassan was a rare example of an artist-scientist: an Egyptian endocrinologist who was a professor of medicine and chief of endocrinology at Al-Azhar University in Cairo, as well as a composer, musician, writer, painter, playwright and philosopher. He was knighted by the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, the French government's official recognition for artistic achievement. This book marks Hassan's early period, immersed in late 1960s London counterculture; in his later years, he would split his time between Egypt and London.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" basis 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.

Tarek [Ali Hassan] — The Prison: An Expression for the Theatre

Tarek [Ali] HassanThe Rape of ManLondon: [Tarek Ali Hassan], 1969. Mimeograph. Tape bound and side-stapled in wraps. 10 x 8 in. [128] pp. Typed letter signed loosely inserted. Wraps lightly bumped, stray spot to rear cover.Artists' book produced by Tarek Ali Hassan, comprising his book-length poem "The Rape of Man," composed of verse, concrete poetry, and abstract illustrations, printed in both red and green ink. The book includes a signed letter from the author introducing this work of despair as a work of love. It is also a mimeograph production of shocking precision and artistry.Tarek Ali Hassan was a rare example of an artist-scientist: an Egyptian endocrinologist who was a professor of medicine and chief of endocrinology at Al-Azhar University in Cairo, as well as a composer, musician, writer, painter, playwright and philosopher. He was knighted by the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, the French government's official recognition for artistic achievement. This book marks Hassan's early period, immersed in late 1960s London counterculture; in his later years, he would split his time between Egypt and London."But was born again an apple eater."Rare. OCLC locates no copies as of October 2025.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" basis 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.

Tarek [Ali] Hassan — The Rape of Man [with signed letter]

Introduction by John Cage; edited by David VaughanMerce Cunningham &amp; Dance Company&nbsp;New York: The Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts, 1963. Offset. Saddle-stapled. [32] pp. 6 1/8 x 6 1/4 in.&nbsp;A clean copy, wraps lightly bumpedInformational book on the Merce Cunningham &amp; Dance Company, with an introductory essay by John Cage, featuring images and descriptions of Cunningham's dances from 1953 to 1963, including the early masterwork Summerspace, designed by Robert Rauschenberg. The vollume provides bios of the Cunningham company at the time.&nbsp;A great contemporary record of an emergent avant-garde in Dance.&nbsp;Rare in institutional holdings and the trade. OCLC locates three holdings as of August 2025.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" basis 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.

John Cage — Merce Cunningham & Dance Company

W. Lancelot HollandWalled Up Nuns &amp; Nuns Walled InEdinburgh and London: The Author, Hunter, Kensit, Thynne, and Wileman, 1895. 8vo. Publisher's wraps with engraved illustrations after Abbott, lettered in red. Frontispiece and 19 engraved illustrations after Abbott, one double-page photomechanical illustration. Housed in a gilt-lettered quarter morocco clamshell box with red morocco lettering-pieces. A very nice, bright copy; wraps with slight losses at spine, stray spots.This work engages with a contemporary scholarly as to whether nuns were walled-in alive as a form of torture during the Spanish Inquisition. There had been reports of such activities in newspapers and books, while the church and authorities maintained denial that the practice ever took place. Holland uses these existing arguments in this book, compiling and reprinting passages to add to his position that nuns were, indeed, walled in or immured. Through investigative journalism and historical research, Holland’s argument of these nuns’ grim fate proves to be an intriguing read; weighing historical accounts, myths, and poetry. With 21 illustrations of the torture and resulting remains, this book is an overlooked and strange historical document detailing a particularly dark chapter in the history of religion.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" basis 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.

W. Lancelot Holland — Walled Up Nuns & Nuns Walled In

Simon ArrowCount Fanny’s Nuptials: Being the Story of a CourtshipLondon: G.G. Hope Johnstone, [1907]. First edition. 4to. Publisher's black cloth, spine gilt-lettered, edges uncut. Half-title, 7 plates with illustrations in the style of Aubrey Beardsley. [6], 68, [1] pp. 10 x 7 1/2 in. Upper hinge cracked but holding, a bit rubbed, upper board lower corner bumped, leaves with minor toning and smudging.Typically attributed to English eccentric Ronald Firbank, this decadent romance is adorned with seven plates of Beardsley-like drawings, accompanying prose filled with shadows, twilight, and aristocratic decadence. The plates are sometimes attributed to Alastair (a pseudonym of Hans Henning Voight).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" basis 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.

Simon Arrow — Count Fanny’s Nuptials: Being the Story of a Courtship

Teofilo FolengoOpus Merlini Cocaii poetae Mantuani MacaronicorumVenice: Horatium de Gobbis, 1581. 12mo. Type in Roman and italic, 35 lines plus headline. Contemporary limp vellum, covers ruled blind, contemporary manuscript supralibros “A.G.,” contemporary manuscript title on spine, 4 leather bands piercing covers at spine. A-Z12 (Z12 a blank, Q6 signed Q9, X3 signed H3): 276 leaves. 5 1/2 x 3 in. Title-page with woodcut device, 26 woodcuts, decorated initials, printer’s ornaments, side-notes. Binding slightly shrunken, tailband broken but binding intact, minor stray soiling.First published in 1521, this work is an important example of macaronic verse, a satirical and synthetic mixture of languages, using hybrid words and a pastiche of Latin and vernacular Italian. The author, Teofilo Folengo, a Benedictine monk, was the best representative of the genre. His masterpiece Baldus, collected here, is a poem in macaronic hexameters, and was published under the pseudonym Merlin Cocai. In addition to Baldus, the work includes the parodic Zanitonella love poetry and the fable Moschaea, about a battle between flying ants. Satirical throughout, the work bordered on sacrilege when it addressed the topic of the clergy.The experience from Folengo’s traveling life makes his poems one of the most important source books on contemporary life and customs. His work, and macaronic poetry more broadly, enjoyed great popularity in the 16th and 17th centuries in Italy and beyond. Indeed it appealed to Rabelais, who found in it the prototype for his Panurge and Gargantua.Provenance: In addition to the supralibros, an ownership inkstamp “GLP” is present on the title-page. Edit16 19379; USTC 830155Condition 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" basis 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.

Teofilo Folengo — Opus Merlini Cocaii poetae Mantuani Macaronicorum

John OldhamCharacter of a Certain Ugly Old P—— [from L. Meriton, Pecuniae obediunt Omnia ...][S.l.: Printed, and sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster, 1698]. Excised saddle-stitched signatures (in 8s). 20 pp, (paginated [110-111], 112-130 pp). 7 ½ x 4 ¾ in. Contemporary manuscript doodle to final leaf verso. First two leaves loose, marginal chips, old bookseller's annotations to title-page, minor foxing.Despite the year on the title (in fact a section-title), this work was first published in 1696 as part of Pecuniae obediunt Omnia. Money Masters All, attributed by Wing to L. Meriton — likely Luke Meriton, son of George. The present copy is from the second edition of 1698. Meriton's volume was a group of satirical poems "shewing the power and influence of money over all arts," as well as the present work.John Oldham was a poet and satirist, whose work — though little-remembered today — was admired in his time, including by Charles Sedley, the Earl of Rochester, the Earl of Dorset, and most significantly John Dryden, who composed an elegy upon his death. His poems imitated the classical Satires of Juvenal, and his translation of Juvenal saw publication after his death. This scathing prose satire presents a priest so grotesque that he sleeps with his ears tied around the top of his head like a nightcap.The grandson of a famous anti-papist, and son of a Protestant preacher, Oldham turned his wit against many of his contemporaries — perhaps most avowedly against the Jesuit community. He died at the age of 30 from smallpox. An old bookseller's annotation on the title-page misidentifies this as being excised from the 1684 The Works of John Oldham, Together with his Remains, published after his death.Wing M1821B, ESTC R202913Condition 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" basis 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.

John Oldham — Character of a Certain Ugly Old P——

Margaret KeaneKEANE: Walter Keane &amp; MDH Margaret KeaneRedwood City, California: Johnson Meyer Publishing Company, 1964. First edition. Perfect bound in cloth boards with pictorial dustjacket, additional glassine jackets, tissue guards. Unpaginated. 12 7/8 x 10 in. Lacking original slipcase, but otherwise an excellent pair.&nbsp;Two volume set documenting Margaret Keane’s iconic “big-eye” portraits, which at the time were unfairly attributed to her husband, Walter Keane.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" basis 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.

Margaret Keane — KEANE: Walter Keane and MDH Margaret Keane

Tad WakamatsuIpy Girl IpyTokyo: Heibonsha, 1970. First edition. Offset. In French-flap photographic wraps. [136] pp. 11 x 8 ½ in. Text in Japanese. Just barely beginning to separate at upper hinge but holding, head of spine bumped, minor rubbing to edges and corners, "Be a Good Neighbor Bookshelf" inkstamp to title page. Cow Books Tokyo booklabel to rear endpaper.Tad Wakamatsu’s masterpiece documenting his travels with the model and actress Haruko Wanibuchi. Divided into sections, the book features photos of Haruko with bikers and hippies, studio nudes (16 of which are printed on glassine), nudes shot on New York streets and subways, fashion shoots, and more.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" basis 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.

Tad Wakamatsu — Ipy Girl Ipy

Ed TempletonTeenage SmokersNew York: Alleged Press, 1999. First edition. Offset. Saddle-stapled. In wraps. 8 ½ x 7 in. 32 pp of color and black-and-white photographic illustrations. Signed and inscribed on the upper wrapper verso. Spine and extremities trifle rubbed.Signed first edition. Features images of adolescent smokers from various cities across the world, mostly taken in Templeton's home town of Huntington Beach. An endearing work, capturing the charming awkwardness of teenagers attempting to look like adults. This publication accompanied Templeton's December 1999 exhibition "The Golden Age of Neglect" at Alleged Gallery.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" basis 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 Templeton — Teenage Smokers [signed]

Ed TempletonTeenage Smokers zineNew York: Alleged Press / Genetic Bomb Publications, 1998. First edition. Laser printed. Saddle-stapled. 22 pages. 8 ½ x 5 ½ in. Black-and-white photographic illustrations. Signed on the rear wrapper. A superlative copy.The very rare precursor to the Templeton's Teenage Smokers, number 14 of only 100 hand-numbered copies signed by the photographer. Unlike the final book, the photographs this work reproduces are almost entirely polaroids.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 Templeton — Teenage Smokers zine [signed]

Ed TempletonTeenage KissersNew York: Seems, 2011. First edition. Offset. Perfect bound in wraps. 84 pages. 8 x 7 ½ in. More than 80 photographic illustrations. Inscribed and signed on the title-page. With 23 x 23 inch folded poster on newsprint signed by Templeton loosely inserted, as issued. Upper wrap with stray instance of soiling and bumped at head.First, limited edition, one of 1000. One of Templeton's most renowned works, Aaron Rose writes, "Teenage Kissers should be viewed as a historical volume. As we look at these photographs of young people exchanging awkward kisses we are reminded again of that wonderful uncomfortability that comes with the discovery of young sexuality. Not only do we all remember the feeling of that first clumsy teenage kiss, as mature viewers we can now look at the photos from afar and understand exactly where it's all going. Like its predecessor, Teenage Kissers is a perfect documentation of this feeling."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" basis 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 Templeton — Teenage Kissers [signed twice]

Ed TempletonTokyo: Super Labo, 2015. First edition. Exposed smyth-sewn in plain boards with silk-screened illustration, lettered in red and black, orange decorated endpapers. 96 pages. 8 x 7 ½ in. 133 photographic illustrations, 52 of which color. Inscribed and signed on the front free-endpaper. A superlative copy.A signed first edition of the sequel to Templeton’s Teenage Smokers. As Aaron Rose writes, “what resonates then still resonates now.”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" basis 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 Templeton — Teenage Smokers 2 [signed]

Christer StrömholmPrivata Bilder [Private Pictures]Stockholm, Sweden:&nbsp;Camera Obscura,&nbsp;1978. Offset. Saddle-stapled newsprint wraps. 59 pp. 15 1⁄2 x 11 in. Wear to the lower edge of two sheets, newsprint toned commensurate with age, small hole in front cover, some edge wear.Catalog for Christer Strömholm’s exhibition at the Camera Obscura Gallery in Stockholm, 1978. Titled “Private Photos,” the exhibit was a retrospective of Strömholm’s work, from the late 1940s into the 1960s. Celebrated for his intimate street photography of urban denizens and street hustlers, this publication is particularly notable for its portraits of some of the giants of 20th century art and architecture: Le Corbusier, Man Ray, Alberto Giacometti, Max Ernst, André Breton, Alexander Calder, Robert Rauschenberg, and Marcel Duchamp. Also of note are portraits of transgender women from the 1950s — well before it was fashionable for street photographers to document red light districts.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" basis 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.

Christer Strömholm — Privata Bilder

Dan Graham, edited and directed by Michael ShambergTwo-Way Mirror Cylinder Inside Cube and a Video SalonNew York:&nbsp;Dia Art Foundation,&nbsp;1992. Staple-bound booklet in printed wraps and videocassette in plastic case. 56 pp.&nbsp;A very nice copy.Documentation of an installation commissioned by The Dia Art Foundation, in which Dan Graham created an environment on the roof of the Dia Center. In the video and accompanying book Graham discusses the history of the use of glass in architecture, as well as reflections on his own use of that material and his intentions.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" basis 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.

Dan Graham, Michael Shamberg — Two-Way Mirror Cylinder Inside Cube and a Video Salon

Jaime Luiz Leitao RodriguesMira / MiragemBrasil: Empresa Grafica da Revista dos Tribunaes, 1977. First edition. In French-fold wraps. 65 pp. 8 ¼ x 5 ½ in. Inscribed on the half-title. Text in Portuguese. Extremities trifle rubbed.A collection of poetry by a little-known Brazilian poet, inscribed to Julian Beck and Judith Malina, founders of The Living Theatre. The inscription notes that it was given to the two in Brazil, and though dated, the date is partially illegible. Brazil was a formative place for Malina &amp; Beck; six years prior to the publication of this work, the two lived, performed, and led workshops in Brazil, and were imprisoned for two months for the possession of marijuana.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" basis 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.

Jaime Luiz Leitao Rodrigues — Mira / Miragem [Julian Beck & Judith Malina association]

Richard Hamilton, ed.Polaroid Portraits Vol. 1Stuttgart/London/Reykjavik:&nbsp;Editions Hansjorg Mayer,&nbsp;1972. Cream cloth, in the original cream printed dustjacket. 6 1/4 x 4 5/8 in. Cloth sunned at foot, minor smudging to dustjacket, minor shelfwear.A collection of portraits of the photgrapher Richard Hamilton by some of the 20th century's most acclaimed artists, including Cartier Bresson, Andy Warhol, Dieter Roth, La Monte Young, James Rosenquist, Joseph Beuys, Claus Oldenburg and more. The first of a four volume series edited by Richard Hamilton all utilizing the polaroid.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" basis 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.

Richard Hamilton — Polaroid Portraits Vol.1

Ryan McGinleyBlack Jack[New York]:&nbsp;Ryan McGinley,&nbsp;[2007]. First edition. Laser printed. Saddle-stapled in illustrated wraps, with photographic print loosely inserted. 58pp. 8 1⁄2 x 5 5/8 in. Inscribed and signed by Ryan McGinley and Jack Walls. Photograph with closed tear (1 1⁄4 in), minor dampstain and stray spot to rear wrap.First, limited edition, one of only 500 copies, signed by McGinley and Walls. This zine was produced by Ryan McGinley for Jack Walls’ fiftieth birthday, and produced in a limited run for the party guests.Walls is an iconic New York poet, artist, and writer, and also widely known for being Robert Mapplethorpe’s muse and lover. Legendary among groups of New York artists, Walls’ distinct and profane way of speaking was collected in a series of Wallsian catch phrases written on balloons for the party. This zine was made in the aftermath, capturing the deflated silver balloons with these catch phrases in in black-and-white photographs on every page. Signed by Ryan McGinley and Jack Walls for “Kathy”, with the message “Carry on carrying on.” The accompanying photograph of a graffiti artist posing by a wall covered in what is most likely his work.A charming document of the collaboration, community, and grace of key New York artists of the last twenty years.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" basis 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.

Ryan McGinley — Black Jack [signed]

Andreas Mueller-PohleYumikoTucson, Arizona: Nazraeli Press, 2003. First edition. Offset. Red boards lettered in white, no dustjacket as issued. 16 pp. 7 1/2 x 5 3/4 in. Photographic illustrations. With the C-print photograph mounted on the last page. Boards with one or two stray marks.First, limited edition, number 129 of 500 hand-numbered copies. Artist book containing video stills from Andreas Mueller-Pohle’s video “Yumiko 1.0.” The book contains 11 near-identical stills of Japanese model Yumiko, ending with an original print. Number 18 in Nazraeli Press’ “One Picture Book” series of artist books.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" basis 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.

Andreas Mueller-Pohle — Yumiko

Daniel SeymourA Loud SongNew York: Lustrum Press, 1971. First edition. Saddle-stapled in wraps. [56] pp. 10 x 10 in. Clean copy with light discoloration and bumping on covers.Seymour’s landmark book of personal documentary, capturing glimpses of American life in the 1960s.The book is a collection of black and white photos alongside his commentary in a facsimile of his hand. Seymour attempts to present images as literature, supported by snippets of written word. Books such as Robert Frank's The Lines of My Hand, Gaylord Herron's Vagabond, and Danny Lyon’s Paper Negative all owe something to Seymour’s mixing of intimate visual and written storytelling.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" basis 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.

Daniel Seymour — A Loud Song

Donald JuddEarly WorksNew York: D.A.P./Artbook, 2002. In boards. Unpaginated. Minor edgewear to head and tail of spine, very slight bumping to corners.&nbsp;Survey of the career of Donald Judd, from his early drawings and paintings to his work in sculpture. Includes written work by Judd and Thomas Kellein.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" basis 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.

Donald Judd — Early Works

Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo FerrariToilet Paper [Toiletpaper No. 1]Athens:&nbsp;Deste,&nbsp;2010. First edition. Saddle stapled in photographic wraps. [40] pp. 11 3/4 x 8 3/4 in. A very nice copy.The rare first issue of the contemporary surrealistic photography magazine Toiletpaper.Toiletpaper is a photo based, bi-annual magazine founded by the Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan and photographer Pierpaolo Ferrari. The magazine's images mimic the visual strategies of commercial photography to articulate a critique of society.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" basis 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.

Maurizio Cattelan, Pierpaolo Ferrari — Toiletpaper June 2010

Laetitia Benat, Giasco Burtoli, et alPortraits: 16 PhotographersParis:&nbsp;Purple Books,&nbsp;2000. In pictorial wraps. [64] pp. 5 3/4 x 4 in. 34 black-and-white photographic illustrations. Text in French and English. Price tag remnants to upper wrap.Portraits by 16 photographers including Laetitia Benat, Giasco Burtoli, Maria Finn, Henry Roy, Camille Vivier, and more. Scarce.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" basis 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.

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