situationism
BUSING: An Anarchist Opinion, An Anarchist Alternative – Chrysalis Reprint Series #1
Sacramento: Chrysalis Books, [ca. late 1970s]. Reprint. Wraps. 8vo. Saddle-stapled self-wraps. Very good plus. Front cover lightly yellowed. Else clean, bright, and sharp. [5] pp. Short text which originally appeared in the January 1976 issue of FIFTH ESTATE, offering an anarchist interpretation of school segregation in the United States.
THE ANGRY BRIGADE – Bratach Dubh Documents No. 1
(Port Glasgow, Scotland): Bratach Dubh Publications, [late 1970s?]. First Edition. Wraps. 8vo. Saddle-stapled card wraps. Very good plus. Trivial touch of soil to front cover. Mild creasing to pages throughout. Else clean, bright, and unmarked. 28pp. Pamphlet from a Scottish anarchist press on the Angry Brigade, a British anarcho-communist group.....
FEAR AND POWERLESSNESS
(Madison, WI): (Aurora), nd. Reprint. Wraps. 8vo. Saddle-stapled self-wraps. Very good plus with mild soiling near spine, touches of handling wear. Clean and bright throughout. [8]pp. Pamphlet containing a review of the 1973 Italian film LOVE AND ANARCHY, originally distributed in San Francisco by a group of anarchists after the.....
BAKUNIN, SUGI AND THE YOKOHAMA-PARIS CONNECTION: Libero International - No. 5 - Sept. 1978
(Kobe, Japan): (CIRA-Nippon), 1978. First Edition. Wraps. 8vo. Saddle-stapled pictorial wraps. Very good plus. Light toning and small dot of soil to front cover. Interior clean and bright throughout. 50pp. Issue of this Japanese anarchist (self-described "libertarian") journal, discussing the connections between the Russian anarchist Mikhail Bakunin and the Japanese.....
ANTI-MASS METHODS OF ORGANIZATION FOR COLLECTIVES: and Methods for the Communalisation of Confusion A Situationist Critique of "Anti-Mass"
(London): ("In the Spirit of Emma" c/o Active Distribution), [ca. late 1990s]. First edition thus. Wraps. 8vo. Stapled self-wraps. About fine. Bright, crisp, and clean inside and out. 16pp. Reprint of two texts, the first originally published in 1970 by Anti-Mass (an anarchist group), arguing that organizing the "collective" is.....
ON WIELDING THE SUBVERSIVE SCALPEL
[Berkeley]: np, [1970]. First Edition. Wraps. 8vo. Saddle-stapled pictorial wraps. Very good. Moderate toning, touches of soil, and handling wear to wraps. Interior clean throughout, though lightly creased throughout. 16pp. Published anonymously by Ken Knabb and others, including Isaac Cronin, under the name Council for the Eruption of the Marvelous.....
DUKE ELLINGTON, étude seréee par...
Paris: Messager Boiteux, (1950). First Edition. Wraps. 8vo. Saddle-stapled printed wraps. Very good plus. Wraps lightly toned. Clean and unmarked throughout. [14] pp., two plates. Text in French. From an edition of 500 copies. An early postwar work from Arnaud (1919-2003, born Raymond Valentin Muller), one of the cofounders of.....
AT THE CENTER OF THE ALIENATION OF WOMEN ... [Promotinoal Broadside for the Book ALL THINGS CONSIDERED]
Berkeley: Gina Rosenberg, [1977]. 11" by 17" inch off-pink sheet, printed recto only in blue, and folded in quarters as issued. About fine; crisp, bright, sharp, and vivid. Broadside printing an excerpt from Bloch's book ALL THINGS CONSIDERED, 1976, published by Gina Rosenberg (Berkeley: Gina Rosenberg, 1977). Originally published in.....
PM - No. 5 - Listen, Marxist!
Tallahassee: PM, (1970). First edition thus. Wraps. 8vo. Saddle-stapled wraps. Very good plus. Mild yellowing to wraps near spine. Interior clean and bright throughout. 22pp. Text by noted anarchist author Murray Bookchin, originally published in ANARCHOS, August 1969. Reprinted here as Issue #5 of PM Magazine, whose editors endorse Bookchin's.....
NOT BORED! Anthology 1983-2010
Cincinatti: Colossal Books, (2011). First Edition. Wraps. 8vo. Glossy printed wraps. Trace rubbing to wraps; else about fine. Bright, clean, sharp, and tight – appears unread. 586pp. Dense anthology of writings from this long-running situationist zine, comprising Brown's essays on the S.I., reviews of books by sympathetic writers, essays on music.....
CONTRIBUTIONS SERVING TO RECTIFY THE OPINION OF THE PUBLIC CONCERNING THE REVOLUTIONS IN THE UNDERDEVELOPED COUNTRIES
London: Caribbean Situationist, July 1973. First edition thus. Wraps. Poster, folded into quarters, 36" x 23" approx. unfolded. Verso lightly toned; moderate wear to edges and fold lines. Creasing to corners. Very good. Poster reproducing translated text by Khayati, originally published in Internationale Situationniste and subsequently as a brochure in.....
ARMS AND THE WOMAN
(Berkeley): (Bureau of Public Secrets), (1975). First English language edition. 8vo. Leaflet folded once vertically, [4] pp. About very good plus; mildly tinted with light handling wear, but clean and unmarked. Article reprinted from the French journal CHRONIQUE DES SECRETS PUBLICS, published by the French "pro-situ" (post-situationist) group Centre de.....
A FIELD STUDY IN THE DWINDLING FORCE OF COGNITION, WHERE IT IS LEAST EXPECTED: A Critique of the Situationist International as a Revolutionary Organization
[New York]: (1970). Wraps. Small 4to. Saddle-stapled wraps. Very good plus. Light surface soil to wrappers. Interior clean and unmarked with touches of handling wear. Binding sound. 46pp. Essay criticizing the American wing of the Situationist International, by two members who had recently resigned. They write in their introduction: "what.....
THE CRISIS OF THE GROSS NATIONAL SPECTACLE
(Berkeley): (Robert Cooperstein), (1976). First Edition. Wraps. 8vo. Saddle-stapled yellow leatherette wraps. Very good plus. Light bleaching to edges. Clean, unmarked throughout. 13pp. Situationist essay on modern political economy, discussing the failures of Keynesianism during the "stagflation" period of the '70s, and the inevitability of further crisis under capitalism. "In.....
SOME NOTES ON THE REPRODUCTION OF HUMAN CAPITAL
(Berkeley): (Robert Cooperstein), (1974). First Edition. Wraps. 8vo. Photographic self-wraps. Very good. Light toning, creasing to front wrapper. 11" by 17' "color-in" poster stapled to inside of back cover. Pages clean, bright, and unmarked throughout. [14] pp. "Growing up is a gradually increasing and forced addiction to value deformation." Essay.....
CLASS STRUGGLE IN ITALY, 1977
San Francisco: Isaac Cronin, 1977. First Edition. Folio. Single sheet, 8.5" by 14", printed recto only. About very good plus to near fine. Light wear along upper edge, and mild hint of toning; else clean and bright overall. Leaflet printing eight excerpts from European newspapers on the the Italian "Movement.....
JEALOUSY: The Heart Has Reasons Reason Must Understand
(Berkeley): (Isaac Cronin), (1977. First Edition. Wraps. 8vo. Pictorial saddle-stapled wraps. Near fine. Printed throughout on purple paper. Price penned to upper-right corner of front cover. Else fine; clean, bright, sharp. [6] pp. Charmingly produced booklet by this Bay Area pro-situationist author: a brief text on love and jealousy. "The.....
REPORT NO. 1
(San Francisco): (Isaac Cronin), [1974?]. First Edition. Wraps. Small, slim 4to. Kraft-paper self-wraps. About fine. Bright and clean throughout. [8] pp including covers. A charmingly produced, slim pamphlet of brief texts by Cronin, who was an active participant in the Bay Area pro-situationist scene. Section titles: "Critique of Counterfeitism," "A.....
IMPLICATIONS 1
(San Francisco / Berkeley): (Isaac Cronin / Chris Shutes), (1975). First Edition. Wraps. 8vo. Printed wraps. Near fine. Tiny dot of soil to front wrapper. Interior bright, sharp, and clean throughout. Small errata slip stapled to inside rear wrapper. 55pp. First and likely only issue of this magazine loosely affiliated.....
PREFACE TO THE FOURTH ITALIAN EDITION OF «THE SOCIETY OF THE SPECTACLE»
(London): Chronos Publications, (1983). Revised. Wraps. 8vo. Saddle-stapled wraps. Near fine. Hints of surface rubbing. Interior clean, bright throughout. 23pp. Second Chronos edition (revised) of this praface to Paolo Salvadori's translation of LA SOCIÉTÉ DU SPECTACLE, first published thus 1979. "The workers of Italy, who can be held up as.....
INTERNATIONALE SITUATIONNISTE 1958-69
Amsterdam: Van Gennep, 1970. First edition thus. Wraps. 8vo. Perfect-bound, silver metallic-paper wraps. Very good. Wrappers moderately scratched; light corner bumps; some reading wear to spine; tiny nick to spine's tail. 1.5" felt-tip pen mark to bottom edge of pages. Inside covers– and first and last leaves – are significantly.....
THE DECLINE & THE FALL OF THE "SPECTACULAR" COMMODITY-ECONOMY - Frontier Pamphlet Number One
[Cleveland?]: Frontier Press, [ca. 1970]. Reprint. Wraps. 8vo. Saddle-stapled wraps with French flaps. A fine copy; bright, clean, and sharp throughout. 10pp. Text by Debord first published in INTERNATIONALE SITUATIONNISTE #10, offering a situationist analysis of the 1965 Watts riots in Los Angeles. One of several early reprints of the.....
THE DECLINE & THE FALL OF THE "SPECTACULAR" COMMODITY-ECONOMY: The Watts Insurrection August, 1965
New York: Situationist International [Frontier Press?], [ca. 1970s?]. Reprint. Wraps. 8vo. Saddle-stapled pamphlet. Very good plus. "#10" in marker to upper-right corner of front wrapper. Else clean, bright, sharp inside and out. 10pp. Text by Debord first published in INTERNATIONALE SITUATIONNISTE #10 (though uncredited to his name), offering a situationist.....
THE BEGINNING OF AN EPOCH
(New York): (Create Situations), [1971?]. Reprint. Wraps. 8vo. Saddle-stapled photographic wraps. Very good plus. Light surface rubbing to wraps; moderate handling wear, but clean and unmarked. 60pp. Translation of a text published in INTERNATIONALE SITUATIONNISTE, No. 12, September 1969, originally uncredited, but likely authored by Debord; also includes additional documents.....
THEORY OF MISERY / MISERY OF THEORY: Report on the New Conditions of Revolutionary Theory
(Berkeley / San Francisco): (Cooperstein/Hammer/Knabb), 1974. First English language edition. Wraps. Tall 8vo. Saddle-stapled brown card wraps. Trivial dent to upper corner of spine, else about fine; bright, crisp, and sharp throughout. 16pp. A postmortem of the S.I., and reflection on its place in leftist theory. First published in French.....