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CURATING RESISTANCE FEBRUARY 2018

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LOS ANGELES & SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

1. [FER YOUz] Brian & Nikki Tucker. FER YOUz: The Los Angeles Hardcore Portfolio, 1981-1984 : (Standard Ed-ition). Limited to 100 numbered copies. Published by Fournier Fine & Rare (New York, 2016) and issued on the occasion of the LA Art Book Fair exhibition, FER YOUz : The Los Angeles Hardcore Archive, 1980-1985 [240] $150

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Thirty rare primary sources from the punk diaspora, listed on the occasion of “Curating Resist-ance: Punk as Archival Method” hosted by the UCLA Center for Musical Humanities, February 9-10, 2018

No Magazine. No. 1 through [14/15] unnumbered double issue (all published.) Los Angeles: NO, 1978-1985. First Edition. Complete run. [Title change as of fourth issue: "No Mag"]. Fifteen issues in fourteen fascicles (last issue, 14/15 is a double number), ca. 30-75 pp. each, two including flexi- disc sound recordings: no. 8 featuring Wild Kingdom; no. 9 featuring Geza X. Small folio. Very good. Illus. self wraps. [16] $2750 Bruce Kalberg launched No Magazine in 1978 in homage to its predecessor in the LA punk scene, Slash. Kalberg says he intended to make his title edgier.


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By our appraisal he succeeded with flying colors, particularly in terms of No’s graphic art, with superbly dark contributions by Raymond Pettibon and Fred Tomaselli. Features, interviews and long form reviews include such scene stalwarts as Michael Gira of the Swans, Darby Crash of the Germs, Alan Vega of Suicide, Lee Ving of Fear, both Henry Rollins and Charles Dukowski of Black Flag, Exene Cervenka and Jon Doe of X, filmmaker David Lynch and numerous others. Ed Colver, Bob Seidemann, Jules Bates and Frank Gargani contributed photographic illus-trations for many of the stories. In addition to the music, No Mag also covered underground fashion, film and performance art. Overall it provides an incredible view of the punk era in Southern California at its highpoint.

3. Slash. Vol. 1, no. 1 (May 1977) through vol. 3 no. 5 (Summer 1980) (all published), offered with : New York Rocker. No. 42 (September 1981 - 'Slash Extra' issue). Los Angeles: Slash, 1977-1980. First Edition. Complete run. Thirty issues (ca. 20-64 pp.) of the Los Angeles punk fanzine including the notoriously scarce 'One Year Anniversary Issue' and the 'Slash Extra' issue of New York Rocker. Small folio. All issues in exceptionally good or better condition - overall, a spectacular set. Tabloid-format illus. self-wraps (newsprint). [3] $4,000 Claude "Kickboy Face" Bessy and Philomena Winstanley’s Slash magazine provided a sharp sense of definition for the southern California punk aesthetic with great visuals and features stories on Black Flag, The Cramps, The Damned, Fear, The Germs, Nervous Gender, The Screamers, Skulls, X, and others including unforgettable cover art by Gary Panter, John Van Hamersveld, Mark Vallen and others. One of


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the truly iconic punk publications of the era. As of May 2016, OCLC locates only a handful of holdings in North America, with complete collections at fewer than five libraries.

4. Pettibon, Raymond. Captive chains / by Raymond Pettibone [sic]. Lawndale, CA: SST Publications, ca. 1978. Unpaginated artists' book in offset lithography on inexpensive commercial stock. Large 8vo. Fine. Glossy saddle-stapled pictorial wrappers. [173] $275 The noted artist's first book, published in 1978 when he still spelled 'Pettibone' with the terminal 'e.' Captive Chains is much closer in style to a traditional comic book than his later works. From an estimated print run of either 500 or 5000 copies, depending on the source (Pettibon has quoted both numbers in recent interviews), only about 100 of which are said to have found their way into commercial distribution. Noted in Raymond Pettibon: the books, 1978-1998, 1, p. 873.


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THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA

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[CRIME] Stark, James. Collection of 13 Posters, Broadsides and Fliers Advertising Performances by the San Francisco Punk Band Crime. San Francisco: Bad Dream Image, 1977-1979. First Edition. Thirteen prints, mostly offset litho (except for two of the smaller fliers), advertising performances by "San Francisco's First Rock and Roll Banned" [i.e., “Band”] at the Madam Wong's, Mabuhay Gardens, Keystone Berkley and other esteemed California music venues. Includes four 8.5 x 11 in. handbills; six broadsides (ranging from 10.5 x 13. 5 in. to 11 x 17 in.) and three 18 x 24 in. posters. Overall near fine, with insignificant marginal toning and pin hones at the corner of one broadside. [104]. $1,500 A rare punk flier archive with solidly traceable provenance: all 13 works are from the collection of Eric Lenchner, drummer of the Readymades (a late 1970s S.F. punk band) and regular at Mabuhay Gardens. Lenchner personally obtained most of the items from James Stark and collected others during the period. Altogether a powerful document of punk-related graphic art from most one of the most legendary bands of the first wave.


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6. Damage. Nos. 1 (July 1979) through 12/13 (June 1981) and the “Free Special Edition” Western Front issue (October 1980) (all published.) San Francisco: Damaged Goods Co., 1979-1981. First Edition. [Title on masthead, Damage: An Inventory.] Complete run, fourteen issues in thirteen fascicles, ca. 28-64 pp. each, of the West Coast punk arts tabloid. Small folio. Offered with an extremely rare “Damage Choice” Western Front 1980 festival armband printed in red ink on muslin fabric. Nos. 1-9 in near fine

condition, nos. 10-13 with minor age darkening and small marginal tears at the extremities of some pages. Illus. self-wraps in newsprint. [42] $2,500 Damage ranks alongside Slash magazine and Search & Destroy in its importance for establishing and recording the West Coast punk aesthetic. Notable for its coverage of street art, fashion & performance art as well as punk and new wave music, the magazine’s editors co-sponsored the legendary Western Front festivals of 1979 and 1980 and promoted Dead Kennedy’s front man Jello Biafra’s run for mayor of San Francisco. Includes text contributions by Biafra, Brad Lapin, members of Coum Transmissions, Ginger Coyote and others, as well as artwork and photographs by Peter Brittin, Maria Mothersbaugh, Max Roberts, Stefano Paolillo, Wally Clark, etc. As of January 2014, OCLC locates fewer than five complete runs in North America, and a smattering of collections individual issues.


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7. Unsound. Vol. 1, no. 1 through vol. 3, no. 2 (all published.) San Francisco: Unsound / Auto-Text Pub-lications, 1983-1986. First Edition. Complete run. Eleven issues, ca. 35-130 pp. each, in ten fascicles (vol. 2, no. 3-4 is a double issue) of the experimental music, sound and performance art magazine. 4to. Very good. Vol. 1, no. 1 through vol. 3, no. 1 saddle stapled illus. wraps; vol. 3, no. 2, contents housed in wraps portfolio sealed in plastic bag with limitation number (20/1000). [13] $1,800 Edited and published by William Davenport and

Tamara F., Unsound vividly reported from the global anti-pop underground of the mid-1980s, covering West Coast post punk movements, the New York no wave scene, European and Japanese noise art and a host of other regional and international subgenres including industrial, psych, synth and experimental electronica. The magazine also covered film and performance art. Interviews, features, and long form reviews include Culturecide, the Birthday Party, John Duncan, Negativland, Einstürzende Neubauten, Boyd Rice, Glenn Branca, Sonic Youth, SPK, Test Department, Coil, Psychic TV, Swans, Christian Marclay, Borbetomagus, Sleep Chamber, Controlled Bleeding, Karen Finley, Ellen Zweig, Vittore Baroni, Church of the Subgenius, Tödliche Doris, V2, Nick Zedd, Richard Kern, Lydia Lunch, etc. The final issue was produced as a limited-edition multiple, with a folded tabloid called "Features" (56 pp., 4to, self-wraps.); "Unsound Contacts and Reviews" booklet (32 pp., 8vo, red wraps); "Unsound Advertisements" booklet (28 pp., 8vo., red wraps); and "The Final Unsound" cassette tape (with offset litho title card), including sound recordings by Controlled Bleeding, Tödliche Doris, The Haters, Negativland and others. Altogether, the magazine provides a potent testament to pre-internet independent distribution networks and the underground cultural alternatives that blossomed in punk's wake.


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NEW YORK CITY

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[Kathy Acker]. Security and Punishment : Original Eighties, vol. 1, no. 1 (all published.) N.p. [New York]: 1980. Offset artist's book, ca. 32 pp., presenting the author's own text laid out over pages of V. Vale's publication RE/Search No. 1. Newsprint tabloid folded to 4to. Very good, being an uncirculated copy given to one of Acker's lovers at the time of issue. [453] SOLD An enigmatic publication by the post-punk literary icon whose early work resonates with the complex possibilities of mutable sexuality and unpredictable flows of desire in the pre H.I.V. era of downtown New York. A true rarity. As of February 2018, OCLC shows no holdings in North America.

Bad Seed. Nos. 1 through 5 (all published.) New York: Kicks Magazine, 1984-1988. First Edition. Complete run in five issues, 44, 28, 28, 28, 28 pp., of Miriam Linna’s fanzine devoted to American juvenile delinquency and its attendant pulp fiction. 8vo. Very good. Staplebound illus. self wraps. [39]. SOLD An off-shoot of Kicks magazine devoted to the golden years of American teen exploitation, particularly as it pertains to later punk rock interest. Scarce complete.


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1) through no. 7 (1992) Miller & Miriam "Scamper"

First Printing. Complete 75, 97, 101, 101 pp., of

10. Comical Funnies. Nos. 1-3 (all published.) New York: Serious Old Busi- nessmen Co., 1980-1981. Three unpaginated issues of the punk and underground comics journal as issued by editor-in-chief Peter Bagge with “field marshal” John Holmstrom, largely intended to inject humor (and poor taste) into the musical sub- cultures of the era. Small folio. Very good. Illus. self wraps, folded tabloid. [93] SOLD A fantastic production by John Holm- strom, erstwhile editor of Punk magazine (which report- edly gave the genre its name in 1976), and Peter Bagge, featuring Mad Magazine style send ups of the Ramones and other content, most of it gleefully adolescent. Extremely scarce.

11. Kicks. No. 1 (called vol. 1, no. (all published.) New York: Billy Linna, 1979-1992. First Edition, run in seven issues, 98, 86, 75, the legendary garage, R&B, and rock fanzine. 4to. No. 1 with light spotting to wraps, creased at the spine; slight loss of surface material to front of no. 4; minor abrasion affecting front cover and pp. 1-11 of no. 5; else fine. Overall a very good set of this scarce and collectible serial. Pictorial wraps, no. 1 stab- stapled, nos. 2-7 saddle- stapled. [56]. SOLD Thought by some (notably author and deejay James "The Hound" Marshall) to be the greatest rock and roll fanzine of all time and reviled by others (cf. Lester Bangs), Kicks rep- resents the missing link between the spastic and untamable rock and roll of


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the 1950s and 60s with revivalist psychobilly and punk rock of the 1970s and 80s. Editor Miriam Linna, erstwhile drummer for the Cramps, and later, founder of Norton Records with her husband (and co-editor) Billy Miller, is a noted music historian and passionate record collector in her own right. Packed with information about the forgotten legends of garage, rockabilly, country, R&B, surf, and outsider Americana of every variety, Kicks served as the style guide for a generation of punk rockers who preferred to look to the past for inspiration, rather than opting in to the New Wave. Featuring well-researched content on the Trashmen, Esquerita, Bobby Fuller, Hasil Adkins, Dale Hawkins, Wanda Jackson, Link Wray, Gene Vincent, the Everlies, Shaggs, Velvets, and others, illustrated throughout with historical photographs, drawings, comics and other visual material. As of January 2014, OCLC locates three holdings in North America, only two of them complete.

12. New York Rocker. Nos. 1 through 57, including the "Pix" issue (all published.) New York: New York Rocker, 1976-1984. First Edition. Complete run. Also called "NY Rocker" and "NYRocker" on later covers. Fifty-eight issues including the rare May 1979 "New York Rocker Pix" supplement, ca. 28-72 pp. each, photographically illustrated throughout. Small folio and 4to. Very good overall, with mild age toning and small marginal tears to some issues. Newsprint tabloid, illus. self-wraps. [17] $6000 Founded by Alan Betrock and Andy Schwartz, New York Rocker remains the defin-itive record of underground music in NYC during the 1970s and 1980s. Schwartz and Betrock enlisted punk musicians, artists and scenesters to cover the movement as it emerged and mutated, among them such notables as Victor Bockris, Chris Stein, Jim Jarmusch, Amos Poe, Lance Loud, Anna Sui, Lester Bangs, and Miriam Linna. The serial’s articles, long form reviews and interviews introduced American readers to such defining acts as Blondie, The Clash, Elvis Costello, Devo, The Dictators, Richard Hell, Mink DeVille, Iggy Pop, The Ramones, The Slits, Patti Smith, Suicide, Talking Heads, Television, etc., with later issues bringing to light important artists from abroad and


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regional movements in Los Angeles, Boston, Minneapolis and elsewhere. NYRocker is equally important for its photo-graphic content, with contributions by Roberta Bayley, Leee “Black” Childers, Bob Gruen, Duncan Hannah and others. The magazine appeared on a monthly or bi-monthly basis until a hiatus in 1982, after which it published two issues in 1984 before disappearing entirely. Single issues are obtainable in the marketplace but complete runs in collectible condition are notoriously difficult to assemble.


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13. [Tom Watkins]. Sleaze Digest, no. 1 (all published.) Wilmlington, Del-aware. 1976. An official program for the first annual ‘International Sleaze Convention’ in Wilmington, Delaware, which united members of New York's nascent punk scene with John Waters' cast of American misfits for a weekend of fun in a seedy hotel. Near fine. Illus. stiff wraps. [454] $350 John Holmstrom's "Punk Magazoon" is promoted; Anya Philips and Blondie are shown dancing together in a crowd of female punks in militant uniforms. This is an otherwise lost document from the earliest days of the Amer-ican punk scene's diaspora. As of February 2018, OCLC shows only one holding in North America.

14. Travelers Digest. [Title variant: Traveler’s Digest.] Nos. 1 (Summer 1977) through 3 (Spring 1978) (all published.) New York: [Jeff Goldberg], 1977-1978. First Edition. Three (3) issues, 8, 20, 20 pp., comprising a complete run of Goldberg’s punk-beat-travel magazine. Minor age toning at the extremities, else near fine. No. 1 quarto, stab-stapled. Nos. 2-3 small folio, folded tabloid. [394] $750 An incredible but short-lived fantasy travel and art magazine that satirized the idea of downtown punks and art world scenesters cashing in on fame and trotting the globe, including a fantastic long-form transcription of a meeting


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between Mohammad Ali and Andy Warhol arranged by Victor Bockris, a series of enigmatic futurological predictions by David Byrne, 1st pub. of a letter about travel by Burroughs to Jack Kerouac (dated 1951), 1st pub. of Gerard Malanga’s mid-1960s Rome diaries, an interview with Iggy pop by Max Blagg, The Persian Poems of Kathy Acker, a report on the “Toilets of Europe” by Amos Poe (with photographs), Marcia Resnick’s accounts of her travels in Egypt, statements by Chris Stein, Joey Ramone, and Chris Burden, as well as brief “travel notes” by Acker, Bockris, Christopher Knowles, Christopher Makos, Burroughs, Seaver Leslie, Ted Berrigan, John Holmstrom and others. An overlooked and important bridge between the downtown punk ethos and its predecessors in Warhol's Factory and among the Beat poets. As of August 2017, OCLC locates seven partial holdings in North America, with no complete runs.

Washington D.C. & Environs 15. Capitol Crisis. Nos. 1 (Nov. 1980) through 5 (May 1981)

(all published.) Arlington, VA: 1980-1981. First Edition.


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Complete run of the influential D.C. fanzine published by WGTB FM radio d.j. Xyra Harper. Set also includes two rare promotional fliers. Very good. Illus. self wraps, stab stapled. [301]. SOLD Harper's short-lived but well written fanzine included coverage of a wide variety of punk, indie and pop music, featuring Black Market Baby, 999, Pylon, XTC, U2, Black Flag, Poison Girls, Suicide and Echo & the Bunnymen. A few issues have been digitized (UMD Special Collections in Performing Arts) but no institution shows a complete collection. Scarce.

16. Descenes. Vol. 1 no. 1 (Jan. 1979) - vol. 2, no. 3 (Jul. 1980) (all published.) Arlington, VA: Teen-A- Toons [Tina Wuelfing], 1979-1980. First Edi- tion. A complete run of the rare D.C. punk tabloid published by editor Howard Wuelfing, which preceded his later venture, Discords (named for a column in the present serial.) Folio. Very good. Illus. self wraps, fragile at folds. [305]. SOLD A tabloid fanzine that focused on the punk and underground music cultures in the Washington, D.C. area and beyond. Discords editor Wuelfing was an important early participant in the D.C. underground music scene, both as a musician (Slickee Boys, Nurses, Half Japanese) and as a fanzine creator.


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17. Discords : The Elitist Media Exploiter. [no. 1] May 1981 - through [no. 8?] Dec. 1981 (all published?) Arlington, VA: Teen-A-Toons [Tina Wuelfing], 1981. First Edition. A seemingly complete set of the rare D.C. punk tabloid published by editor Howard Wuelfing, following after his early venture, Descenes, with contributions by Calvin Johnson, Dave Stimson, and others. 4to. Very good. Illus. self wraps, fragile at folds. [302]. $1000 A tabloid fanzine that focused on the punk and underground music cultures in the Washington, D.C. area and beyond. Discords editor Wuelfing was an important early participant in the D.C. underground music scene, both as a musician (Slickee Boys, Nurses, Half Japanese) and as a fanzine creator.

18. Truly Needy. Vol.1, no. 1 (1982) through 4 ; vol. 2, no. 1 - 2 ; and nos. 7, 8, 9, 10 (1985) (all published.) Washington D.C.: Truly Needy Productions, 1982-1985. A full set of Barbara [a.k.a. Barbaranne] Rice's seminal D.C. underground music fanzine, with band interviews, scene reports, album reviews, and other content focused on local and national punk, indie, and alternative rock acts


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including Minor Threat, Big Black, Rites of Spring, Fear, The Gun Club, The Fall, TSOL, Meat Puppets, Flipper, Hüsker Dü, The Minutemen, and many others. 4to. Excellent overall, with minor marginal age toning and occasional spotting to the covers. Stab-stapled photocopies (1-4) graduating to offset print and machine stapled self-wraps. [376]. $1,350 Truly Needy drew seemingly boundless energy from the contrast between Reagan-era conservative governance and the burgeoning local music scene's anti-authoritarian tendencies, making it one of the essential early 1980s D.C. punk serials. Full sets are "truly" rare: OCLC shows only one complete holding in North America (at Bowling Green) with partial runs at Western Michigan and University of Maryland Libraries.

CHICAGO

19. Last Rites. Premier Issue (n.d., Jan. 1983) - no. 8 (n.d., 1984) (all published.) Chicago: 1983-1984. First Edition. Complete run of the Midwestern hard-core punk serial published by Sean Duffy, one of Chicago's most active underground music promoters of the 1980s and 1990s. 4to. Very good. Illus. stapled self wraps. [300] $1,800 Stunning for its covers alone, Last Rites pro-vided excellent coverage of national touring bands in-cluding Cramps, Dickies, Discharge, GBH, TSOL, Black Flag, D.O.A., and others, as well as regional acts Die Kreuzen and the Effigies. As of February 2017, OCLC records only one holding, at the Chicago Public Library.

DETROIT

20. Collection of Three (3) Punk Tabloids from Detroit, 1978 - 1981 : Spooee! nos. 1 (n.d., 1978) through 4 (April 1979) (all published) ; followed by White Noise nos. 1 (n.d., 1979) through 6 (n.d., 1980) (all published) ; followed by Streetlife nos. "Premier issue" [no. 1] (n.d., 1980) through [no. 5] "Sept/Oct 1981" (all published.) Detroit / Northville / Hamtrack, MI: Spooee / White Noise / Streetlife, 1978-1981. Collection of three interrelated


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punk and new wave fanzines in their complete runs, altogether fourteen issues (White Noise no. 6 issued together with Streetlife "Premier Issue") mostly unpaginated (4, 12, 16, 12 ; 24 20, 32, 32, 16, 20 ; 20 44, 48, 48, 40 pp.) and heavily illustrated throughout. Small folio. Condition varies considerably: Poor to very good, with most issues in fair condition, some with significant closed tears, moisture damage, and endemic browning


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MIAMI, FL

21. Suburban Relapse. Nos. 1 (August 1981) through 13 (July 1985) (all published.) Miami, FL: Mariel Refugee Hall of Fame / Boz / Suburban Relapse, 1981-1985. Thirteen issues, ca. 32-40 pp. each, comprising a complete run of Miami, Florida’s premiere punk and hardcore fanzine. Nos. 1 and 6-13 quarto; nos. 2-5 octavo. Most issues near fine, with minor age toning at extremities, no. 2 has phone number handwritten in ink on front cover. Illus. wraps, no. 1 corner-stapled, nos. 2-5 saddle stapled photocopies; nos. 6-13 commercially printed, (perfect bound & news-print.) [72]. $1,500 Complete set of South Florida’s most influential and highly-regarded punk fanzine of the 1980s, published by Barry Soltz (who also ran Sublapse Records) with design and production by Craig Snyder and Bill Proe, contributions by Michael Koenig (who published Take It! in Boston, MA, during the same era), Charlie Picket, Tesco Vee, and other legends, including long-form articles about, interviews with, and review coverage of Red Kross, The Eats, Steve Picket, Black Flag, Cabaret Voltaire, Mission of Burma, and many others, as well as photography and graphics by Jad Fair, Alison Braun, Maria Danielle, K. Snyder, etc. As of January 2014, OCLC locates only two partial runs in North America. Extremely scarce.

throughout. Illus. self wraps - newsprint tabloid. [96]. SOLD A fascinating and largely unrecorded chronicle of the Detroit punk and New Wave underground, none of the three titles show any holdings in OCLC. Despite the overall fragile and worn condition of Spooee (in particular), the set is complete in all issues published with no missing pages, images or texts. Founding editor Johnny Chamberlain of Spooee! (later, a contributor and advisor to White Noise and Street Life) is African American and the three publications generally reflect Detroit's diverse racial makeup and musical heritage, despite their rootedness in the largely white punk scene of the late 1970s. White Noise, edited by Paul Stillborn (aka Zimmerman) and Jerry Vile, features spectacular coverage of Destroy All Monsters, Iggy, Devo, R.U.R. and others, along with original artwork by Niagara and scene photos by Sue Rynski and others.


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BOSTON

22. Take it! Rethinking the Issue at Hand : [Vol. 1. No. 1] “Premiere issue” (January 1981) through Vol. 1, no. 6(1982) (all published.) Brighton, MA: Salvatore Barone andMichael Koenig, 1981-1982. Compete run in six issues, 30,38, 38, 38, 46, 46 pp., of the punk music, art and fashiontabloid, each installment including a 45 rpm flexi-disc,with tracks by The Creamers, The Moving Parts, TheTrademarks, Yello, Renaldo and the Loaf, Mutants, ½Japanese, Dead Kennedys, Flipper and Angry Samoans. Nos. 1-5, small folio; no. 6, 4to. Illus. wraps, newsprint. [73]SOLD The short-lived punk and new wave tabloid published


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and edited by Michael Koenig included contributions from a who’s who of the era’s influential music critics and scene makers, including Byron Coley (Forced Exposure), Jad Fair, Susan Levine, Richard Meltzer, Ira Kaplan, as well as photographs, comics, and artwork by Phil-in-Phlash, John Holmstrom (Punk magazine), with coverage of The Dead Kennedys, Black Flag, Jonathan Richman, Bad Brains, Flipper, The Slits, and other icons of the era. Scarce. As of January 2018 OCLC locates only one run in North America.

LONDON

23. Anscombe, Isabelle. Not Another PUNK! Book. London: Aurum, 1978. First Edition, First Printing (UK Edition). 96 pp. photo book documenting the street styles of London’s punk set during the mid-1970s, chiefly illustrated. 4to. Near fine overall, with slight bump to head of spine. Stiff wraps. [36] $250 An exceptional copy of one of the earliest and best punk books. Scarce in the marketplace and institutionally uncommon in the UK edition.

24. [Poison Girls]. Impossible Dream. Nos. 1 (1979) through 4 (1986) (all published.) London: XN Trix Records, 1979-1986. Complete run in four unpaginated issues, 18, 12, 16, 16 pp., of the anarchist-feminist punk protest serial. Sizes

vary: 4to to small folio (A4). Issues 1 and 4 in very good condition, no. 2 lacks "All Systems Go" insert (A2 sheet, folds to A4). No. 1, stab-stapled in illus. wraps, photocopy and mimeograph (black and white), nos. 2-4 folio, folded-tabloid, coated stock (some color). [68] $1,750 Edited by Poison Girls drummer Lance d’Boyle, the Impossible Dream included texts and lyrics by band members Vi Subversa and Richard Famous, alongside excerpted writings by Janet Dube, Andrew Dworkin, William Burroughs, Penny Rimbaud and


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others, illustrated throughout with incendiary photo-montages by d’Boyle, Tony Allen, Nil, Domino, Sli Fli Posters, etc., many of them across double-folio spreads. In close association with members of Crass, Rudimentary Peni, Gee Vaucher and others, the Poison Girls are largely credited with introducing feminist consciousness to the London punk scene. Only available at gigs and via limited mail order, complete runs of the present serial are institutionally and commercially scarce. As of June 2016, OCLC locates only three holdings in North America.


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OFFERED WITH TWO ADDITIONAL POISON GIRLS ITEMS - 1. No Nukes Music Fanzine : (i.e., Rebel with a Brain. No. 4). N.p. (London): n.d. (ca. 1981). [Title info from rear wrppr. Cover text shows: Poison Girls. Theatre of Hate. Au Pairs. 4th Wall Theatre Company. No Nukes Music Fanzine.] Single issue, 24 pp., of the anarcho/peace punk anti-nuclear fanzine, illus. throughout. 4to. Very good. Self-wraps. 2. Poison Girls. 'Big Brother' Caberet. Tour flyer recto with verso photocopy of the band's fan update for October 1981, mentioning Impossible Dream no. 3. 4to.

25. Nihongi, Satomi. Punk Rock in London. Documentary 1977-1979. Tokyo: Buronzu-Sha, 1979. First Edition. Unpaginated [128 pp.] photobook with texts in English and Japanese as well as 101 full bleed black and white photos documenting the primal days of London's punk scene. Small 4to. Mint. Illus. d.j. over cardstock boards. [251]. $900 A recognized high-point of the first-generation punk books, both in its overall design and Nihongi's photographs of the Cortinas, the Adverts, Generation X, The Slits, Iggy and the Stooges, Suicide, The Damned, The Clash and others in clubs including The Roundhouse, Dingwalls, Rochester Cas-tle and Acklam Hall. Rare in any condition, this is as flawless a copy as we've ever encountered.

26. [David Bowie]. Starzone :

The Magazine of David Bowie, Nos. 1 (summer 1981) - 12 (winter 1984) (head of series.) Offered with manuscript correspondence collection, and additional ephemera. Watford, Herts., United Kingdom: David Currie and Gina Coyle. First Edition. Head of series run for the amazing Bowie fanzine, comprising a complete run of the smaller octavo format issues focused on fan art and fan fiction. 8vo. Near fine. Illus. stiff wraps, housed in pole binding enclosure with custome vinyl "Starzone" cover. [373] SOLD An exceptionally rare and complete set of the first twelve Starzone David Bowie fan magazines, the first two issues in black and white (later editions were printed in color), along with fourteen (14) personal


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manuscript letters to "Graham," a Bowie superfan, concert bootlegger and convention organizer, written by Starzone publisher David Currie. Also included are four Starzone xerox "updates," as well as a VIP pass to the October 3, 1983 Starzone party at the Palace on Camden High Street, in London. Altogether, the fan magazines and editorial correspondence provide a compelling picture of early 1980s popular music fanzine culture in the United Kingdom, starkly contrasting in its sincerity as compared with efforts by zinesters in the punk underground. Starzone represented a community by and for those who adored Bowie most, although Currie's letters to the subscriber betray the fact that his magazine and fan conventions were carefully policed by their idol's managers for copyright violations and bootlegs.


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PARIS

27. [BAZOOKA Collectif] Kiki Picasso, Loulou Picasso, Olivia Clavel, T5, Lulu Larsen, Bernard Vidal, etc. Bulletin-Périodique, nos. 1 (May 1976) through 7 (February 1978)(all published.) Paris: Almonde, 1976-1978. First Edition.A complete set of the earliest and perhaps most desireableperiodical by the Bazooka Collective. In part bilingual,French and English. Small folio. Fine. Illus. self wraps. [286] SOLD Each issue carries its own subtitle,"Bulletin-périodique de l'amateur de plein-air" (no. 1) ;"Catalogue des tendances suicidaires" (no. 2) ;"Connaissance des étoiles" (no. 3) ; "Le plus grand desvoyages" (no. 4) ; "Tête de mort" (no. 5/6) ; "Camouflage :dissimulation en ambiances particulières = dissimulation inparticular environment" (no. 7). Whereas Bazooka's UnRegard Moderne show-cased the group at the height of its

powers, Bulletin - Périodiquedemonstrates its fascinatingevolution and development overthe course of seven issues insix fascicles. An essentialdocument of the Frenchunderground graphisme move-

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28. [BAZOOKA Collectif] Olivia Télé-Clavel; Loulou Picasso; Kim Bravo, etc. Un Regard sur le Monde, no. 0. (January 1978). [followed by] Un Regard Moderne : l'Actualité du Mois en Images, nos. 1 (March 1978) through 6 (July 1978) (all published.) Paris: SARL Société Nouvelle de Presse et du Communication, 1978. First Edition. A complete set of the breathtaking and revolutionary supplement to French newspaper Libération produced by members of the Bazooka

Collective as a monthly deconstruction of cultural and political events. Small folio. Fine. Illus. self wraps. [285] $3,250 One of the graphic highpoints of punk and underground publishing globally, Bazooka's Un Regard Moderne remains unmatched for its visual intensity and scathing political commentary.


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29. Rock News International. Nos. 1 (Jan. 1976) through (Sept. 1976) (all published.) Paris: Fear Press Edition, 1976. Complete run of the proto-punk music fanzine bridging the musical undergrounds of New York and Paris, published by Michel Esteban and Lizzy Mercier Descloux. Illustrated throughout. 4to. Issues loose, housed in a custom linen cassette with leather title badge. Near fine. Illus. stiff wraps. [316] $2,000 An extraordinary complete set of the underground French music magazine, published from Paris via New York by Mercier and Esteban, founders of the legendary Parisian record shop Harry Cover (ground zero of the punk movement in France). After they released the last issue of Rock News, Mercier launched her career as a performing and recording artist, releasing cult LPs through Ze Records (founded by Esteban with Michael Michael Zilkha) and acted in underground films. Rock News remains a vital, and under recognized, document of punk's emergence on the scene in New York City. As of February 2017, OCLC shows only one holding worldwide at the BnF.

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30. Mental, no. 1 (1982) through 7 (1983) (all published.) Madrid: Juan Mental, 1982-1983. All issues original. A complete set ofJuan ("Mental") Teruel's important Movida Madrileña fanzine inseven issues (ca. 20 pp. each) illustrated throughout withoriginal photographs of the Madrid underground music scene.4to. Very good. Stab-stapled illus. self wraps. [452] SOLD An incredible time capsule from the hedonistic 1980s of post-


Franco Spain, including rare photographs of Movida Madrileña icons such as Alaska y los Pegamoides, Parálisis Permanente, El Ultima Sueño, Decima Victima and others alongside U.K. and North American bands including Bauhaus, Stiff Little Fingers, Echo & the Bunnymen, The Cure, Eyeless in Gaza, James Chance, The Birthday Party, etc.

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