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Paris: Libraire Lecoffre, 1944. 4to, each volume bound in heavy red buckram with gilt titles. Inscribed in volumes 3 and 4 by Festugière to one professor H. Last. The complete set of the Dominican Friar's important translations of the Corpus Hermeticum, which along with the Budé edition became the standard academic formulation of these texts in the postwar period. The individual titles are 1: L'astrologie et les sciences occultes, 2. Le Dieu cosmique, 3. Les doctrines de l'ame, and 4. Le Dieu inconnu et la gnose. Scarce signed. Pages toned, and spines of each volume uniformly faded. Very good.

[Bruxelles]: Internationale Situationniste, 1958. 9 x 12 1/2" sheet, offset litho on both recto and verso. Text in French. A vital attack on art critics by the I.S., signed by Abdelhafid Khatib, Hans Platschek, Walter Korun, Guy Debord, Giuseppe Pinot-Gallizio, and Asger Jorn, and issued on the occasion of a gathering of art critics in conjunction with the World's Fair in Brussels. The flyer was forcibly distributed during the invasion of the Press Club at said gathering, mailed to critics, and thrown out of a window into the street. Faint old fold line, and a touch of toning to margins, else a fine example. As one might imagine of such a forcibly distributed pamphlet, surviving examples are relatively scarce.

France: Association Théatre Accidental, 1983. 4to, 20 pp. including covers, saddle-stapled wraps. Illustrated with drawings, comics and photographs. One of 500 copies. Text in French. Superb French avant-garde music fanzine with lots of great graphic art and comics, which was related to the Antenne accidentelle show on Radio-Tele Chatenay. This issue features a fantastic interview with Jeffrey Lee Pierce of the Gun Club (in French) which we've never seen before, 2 pages of fanzine reviews, the comic strip Xudule Annee O by Drederic & guillaume Libert, Videomania, and more. Scarce. OCLC locates holdings at only one location worldwide, The Bibliotheque Nationale. Fine.

France: Association Théatre Accidental, 1983. 4to, 24 pp. including covers, saddle-stapled wraps. Offset printed with a full page drawing in orange paint to back cover, with a rubberstamp. Illustrated with drawings, comics and photographs. One of 500 copies. Text in French. Superb French avant-garde music fanzine with lots of great graphic art and comics, which was related to the Antenne accidentelle show on Radio-Tele Chatenay. Includes material on the Residents, Foggy Eyes, Blurt, Don Cherry, Ed Blackwell, Crass Tropical Corridor etc. Scarce. OCLC locates holdings at only one location worldwide, The Bibliotheque Nationale. Very good with some bleed through from the drawing at back cover.

Neuilly-sur-Seine: Le Phare de Neuilly, 1933. First edition. 8vo, photographically illustrated wraps by Man Ray. Profusely illustrated. The debut issue (of four numbers published, the last a double number) of one of the most beautiful and unusual of all Surrealist periodicals. This is the second state, with the Daumal contribution replaced with "Miss Hazel" by Petrus-Borel. With contributions from Lêon-Paul Fargue, Jacques Baron, Robert Desnos, André de Richaud, Jules Supervielle, René Laforgue, Georgette Camille, Jean Painlevé, Céline Arnaud, Nicole Cazanave, Roger Vitrac, Jean Follain, Alejo Carpentier, and G. Ribemont-Dessaignes. It also includes photographs within by Man Ray, Nadal, and Lee Miller. Wraps rather creased and rubbed, with some tears along the spine, and soiling and some very faint waviness to back cover, a good only example but complete and sound.

Bordeaux: Université de Bordeaux, Faculté Mixte de Médecine et de Pharmacie, 1960. 4to, 131 pp, printed on rectos only. Publisher's printed wraps. No illustrations. The results of a large scale study of 293 tattooed subjects at the notorious Charcot psychiatric hospital, and submitted as part of the author's work towards a degree at the Université de Bordeaux. Though the work prints no illustrations, the study is a remarkable primary document, and is also valuable for the very good 11 pp. bibliography which follows the text. Wraps lightly toned, with some light foxing to the edges of the text block. Near fine.

Lyon: Bosc frères : M. et L. Riou, 1933. First edition. 8vo, 229 [2] pp, printed wraps. Text in French. This expansive work on tattoos grew out of De Tromelin's doctoral thesis, in which he studied 788 subjects and 4,142 tattoos, making classifcations between ethnic, professional, and allegorical tattoos. The work is not illustrated, but was one of the largest such surveys of the time an important contribution to scholarship in the pre-war era. Graven cites the work frequently, and draws attention to the importance of the bibliography especially. OCLC locates 13 holdings worldwide, only one of which is in the US. A somewhat battered copy, with a sound bump to head of spine, and a split and some chipping to to the paper covering the spine, but the binding still holds and ist sturdy.

Jacksonville, IL: Bob Tucker, 1975. 8vo, 24 pp, saddle-stapled wraps. A great issue of the longrunning science fiction fanzine, which began publication in 1938. This issue is dedicated to Jackie Franke, who contributes the cover drawing and one internal illustration. It describes the editors trip to Australia NASFic. Laid in is a prospectus for the 28th Annual Midwestcon. Very good with some creasing to the wraps.

[Paris]: Internationale Situationniste, 1967. First edition. 8vo, [9] pp, saddle-stapled wraps. Text in French. First edition of this text on China, signed by the IS but generally believed to be authored by Debord, likely helped with input by Rene Viénet, who refers to it in his foreward to The Chairman's New Clothes. Aaccording to the back panel, this was published as a supplement to the 11th issue of the Internationale Situationniste journal, but the pamphlet actually was published in August of that year, with the text then reprinted in that issue which followed by a couple months. Rare. OCLC locates only 3 holdings. Very good with some light traces of soiling and a couple small cresaes.

Paris: l'Internationale Situationniste, 1962. 4 7/8 x 6" postcard, printed in black on white card stock, and illustrated with an appropriated comic taken from Superman. Typewritten address of Mr. J. Dellstra [aka Tjeerd Deelstra] at verso. Postmarked and sent from the Rue St. Denis post office in Paris on September 27, 1962. Strong horizontal crease, and a small faint narrow 1" long stain to upper left corner, else very good.

Paris: Bernard Grasset, 1954. First edition. 8vo, 205 pp, printed wraps. In the photographically illustrated dust jacket. Association copy, generously inscribed in the year following publication to the occultist and fellow Rosicrucian Jean Haab: "A jean Haab / Qui avant mème d'être ceinture noire avait dejá se bien servi le judo. En toute amitié, Paris,, 20 Septembre 55." A striking association linking Klein's work with the occult. At the age of 24, Klein left France and studied Judo in Japan, achieving a 4th dan blackbelt - an unusual accomplishment for a European of that era. Upon his return to France Klein opened the Judo Académie in Paris, and then published this extensive survey of Judo, illustrated with hundreds of black and white photographs, many of them featuring Klein himself. While the influence of Judo on Klein's work has received increasing attention in recent years, the influence of the occult on Klein is still largely unexplored. Along with his friend Claude Pascal, whom he met… Read More

Los Angeles: [Independent Projects Press], 1986. 4 x 5 7/8" card, printed by letterpress on chipboard by Bruce Licher at the Independent Project Press. Postcard announcing the 1986 show, with Radwaste and Fourwaycross. Fine.

Atlanta, 1994. 2 1/8 x 8 3/4" ticket, letterpress printed in silver on black chipboard. Beautifully designed and printed by Bruce Licher of Independent Project Press. An unused ticket for the 1994 festival which boasted a remarkable line up - AMM, Faust, Tony Conrad, Jim O'Rourke, Zeena Parkis, Thurston Moore, Keiji Haino, Michael Morley of the Dead C. et al. Fine.

Np: Independent Project Press, 1985. 4 1/4 x 6" postcard, letterpress printed in three colors on thick card stock by Bruce Licher. Postcard announcing two shows by Savage Republic and Psi-Com in 1985, the first at Mabuhay Gardens, with the Fontanelles opening, and the second at Club Culture, with the Fontanelles and Camper van Beethoven. Fine.

San Francisco: Anderson Valley Advertiser, 1995. First edition. 4to, 24 pp, comb bound in card covers. A "preview" edition, published in advance of the trade edition. Includes a preface by Bruce Anderson, the owner of the AVA, in which he advances the theory that the letters were the work of Thomas Pynchon. Fine.

Wien: Pakesch & Schlebrügge, 1993. First edition. 8vo, saddle-stapled card wraps. Single issue of the artists' periodical / artists' book series published in Wien by Peter Pakesch and Johannes Von Schlebrügge. Each issue invites an artist or artists to create and design the issue, making it a hybrid of a periodical and an artists' book. This issue is dedicated to the work Libro by Michelangelo Pistoletto. Fine.

Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, 1924. 32mo, saddle-stapled in green wraps printed in black, with copyright date of 1924 to cp. Near fine with toning to extremities.

Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, 1924. 32mo, saddle-stapled in pale green wraps printed in black. Illustrated. Likely the first edition of the work, in Gibbs' LBB 1 binding. Finger was an Arkansan wanderer, folklorist, musicologist, and adventurer whose remarkable body of work is still too little known. He was a prolific contributor to the Little Blue Book series. Light toning to extremities else near fine, a supple and well-preserved copy.

Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, nd. 32mo, saddle-stapled wraps. Gibbs 87a, noted variation 2. A sturdy near fine copy with light marginal toning.

Mexico, 1940. Roughly cut, approximately 8 1/2 x 26", printed in red and green on thin orange paper. An early Lucha Libre poster which includes by Kid Vanegas, aka Arsacio Vanegas. Vanegas was the wrestler who taught Che Guevara, Fidel Castro and the soldiers of the Granma Yacht expedition self-defense, and harbored several of the combatants in his home. The Vanegas Arroyo family was no stranger to the Cuban struggles. His grandfather, the printer Antonio Vanegas, was friends with José Martí and printed early texts of Cuban Independence, as well as works by Posada. Vanegas died in September of 2001. Fidel Castro wrote the following elegy for him in an open letter to his friends: "He conocido con profundo pesar la noticia del fallecimiento de Arsacio Vanegas, y deseo hacerles llegar mi más sincero sentimiento de condolencia. Vanegas fue un firme y leal colaborador del grupo de revolucionarios cubanos que en México nos dimos a la difícil tarea de preparar la etapa definitiva de la lucha por… Read More