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...
VIEWS AND COMMENTS: Published by the Libertarian League - No. 42 - December 1961
(New York): (Views & Comments), (1961). First Edition. Wraps. 8vo. Saddle-stapled wraps. About very good. Mild toning to wrappers; light creases along spine. Several pages slightly misfolded, but binding remains sound throughout. Pages clean and unmarked. 20pp. Libertarian/anarchist magazine published by the Libertarian League, a national organization. Features articles on...
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...
BIBLIOGRAFI OVER ASGER JORNS SKRIFTER TIL 1963 = A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ASGER JORN'S WRITINGS TO 1963
København [Copenhagen]: Permild & Rosengreen, (1964). First Edition. Wraps. Small 4to. Perfect-bound wraps with French flaps. Very good. Mild touches of edgewear to wrappers. Remnants of sticker visible inside flaps. Letterpress-printed slip laid in, reading: "With the compliments of the authors and publishers." Interior clean and unmarked throughout, with light.....
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...
A WOMAN'S PLACE
(Detroit): (Friends of Facing Reality Publications), (1970). First edition thus. Wraps. 24mo. Saddle-stapled pictorial wraps. A bit bleached and toned; else fine. Bright, crisp, and clean throughout. 32pp. Feminist text first published in 1953, examining the role of women in industrial society. Written by two socialists: Filomena Daddario and Selma...
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.....
NOT BORED! No. 3 - May 1984
(Ann Arbor): (Destroy All Frothers Prod.), 1984. First Edition. Wraps. 4to. Side-stapled wraps. Near fine, with light curling at edges. Clean, bright throughout. 21pp. Early issue of Bill Brown's long-running situationist-inspired zine. Includes reports on Ann Arbor underground music, a situationist analysis of Ronald Reagan, a piece on Gang of...
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...
THE POWER OF NEGATIVE THINKING or Robin Hood Rides Again
(New York): (The Council for the Liberation of Daily Life), (1968). First Edition. Wraps. 8vo. Saddle-stapled pictorial wraps. Very good. Wraps lightly tinted, with a bit of thumbsoiling to rear; interior clean and unmarked throughout; binding sound. 43pp. Text by Chasse -- a member of the American wing of the...
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...
PROVOS AND KABOUTERS
(Buffalo, NY): (Friends of Malatesta), [197-]. Reprint. Wraps. 8vo. Saddle-stapled card wraps. Near fine. Mild smudge of soil to front cover. Interior clean and bright throughout. 19pp. "Reprinted with permission of the author," a short text on the Dutch leftist group the Provos and their offshoot the Kabouters. Illustrated. Seven...