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np: The Artist, nd. Oblong 16mo, [8] pp. incl. wraps. Artist book / zine illustrated in color with reproductions of collages of Sophia Loren and plants. OCLC locates no holdings. Fine.

Washington DC [Actually Healdsburg, CA]: National Endowment for the Domestic Arts / Zephyrus Image, 1977. First edition. 6 3/4 x 9" sheet, letterpress printed with two linocuts. A proof, or unused single sheet from the first edition of Berlin's debut as a writer, which preceded the publication of Angel's Laundromat by four years. The book came about after Berlin sent the manuscript - originally entitled "Suicide Note, A Manual" to Ed Dorn. Her letter, which is quoted in Johnston, mentions scathing rejection letters, and concludes "P.S. 42 days sober Think I'm going to make it. Hard to write without Jim Beam, on the other hand I can read what I wrote the next day." [Johnston, p. 126]. It is fortunate, perhaps that the story was rejected elsewhere, for the book that, Holbrook Teter, Michael Myers and Dorn created a striking book in which all the details of the publication resonate intimately with the text of the story, giving it the feel of a truly collaborative artists' book. One of Myers linocuts… Read More

np, nd. 5 x 7" vintage silver print, without attribution or stamp to verso. A photograph featuring an intense looking youth in jeans and jacket smoking in front of graffiti on a wall which reads, "Serve the people." A superb image. Photographer unknown. Some minor soiling and creasing, with a faint wash of some residue visible, else very good.

Los Angeles: LACE & Anticlub, 1985. 6 x 6" ticket, letterpress printed on thick card stock by Bruce Licher at Independent Project Press. An unused ticker for the event, one of SRL's landmark machine performances, entitled "Extremely Cruel Practices: Survival Research Laboratories Offers a Series of Events Designed to Instruct Those Interested in Policies That Correct or Punish." The event was presented by Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions and Anticlub. Fine.

Paris: Centre d'Informations Surrealistes, 1967. 8 1/2 x 11" sheet, offset printed in two colors on green paper. An unused sheet of stationary for the Surrealist periodical, edited by Jean Schuster, which began in the year following the death of Breton and bracketed the uprisings of 1968. The design is unattributed. Fine.