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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

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[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

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.

Gabriel Pomerand — St. Ghetto des Préts

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