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Sykes has additionally added on the rear endpapers a two page key to this celebrated little aristocratic "memoir-a-clef". As Evelyn Waugh noted in the introduction to the 1956 edition of the book "It failed of wide popularity through its air of being a work requiring a key."

The author, formally known as Arthur Paul John James Charles Gore, succeeded as 7th Earl of Arran only nine days before his death in 1958 at the age of 55.]]> Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT Modern Books and Manuscripts http://www.maggs.com/title/MO49247.asp http://www.maggs.com/title/MO49247.asp trois francs on page 63 to trois cent francs. Paris, Librairie de la Revue Indépendante.A remarkably nice copy albeit a little dusty. Very rare.

Philippe Gille was a noted librettist who had, in the 1860s, worked on an operetta with Bizet and Clarissa Harlow in 1871. This is a remarkable association copy for the author and recipient had collaborated but two years earlier on an 1886 edition of 'Revue Wagnérienne'. Dujardin was a prominent member of the Wagner cult and of the racist ideology of Houston Stewart Chamberlain, even going so far as to have musical bars and symbols embroidered on his waistcoats. He was instrumental in founding the 'Revue Wagnerienne'.

In 1934, in the James Joyce Issue of "Contempo", Stuart Gilbert wrote of the monologue intérieur that "in this respect, as it happens, Ulysses had a precursor. An entire French novel, M. Edouard Dujardin's Les Lauriers sont coupés, was written in the silent monologue form, in the eighties of the past century. M. Dujardin's masterpiece shared the common lot of prodigies born out of their due time. It was remaindered and for nearly four decades .. entombed in almost complete oblivion; then by a miracle the stone was rolled away and it rose to occupy the distinctive place it now holds in French literature." Indeed, when Dujardin inscribed a copy of the book to Joyce, he signed himself "Lazare".]]> Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT Modern Books and Manuscripts http://www.maggs.com/title/MO37009.asp http://www.maggs.com/title/MO37009.asp Plug 1, 2 & 3. Stanford, Stanford Concert Network, A&a Printing and Lithographers,Fine, professionally laid down onto paperboard. Rare, not in O.C.L.C. or Stanford. The poster is for a concert at Stanford University`s Dinkelspiel Auditorium on October 15th 1994. The trio are credited with founding fathership of alternative hip hopand emerged into global public consciousness with their seminal album Three Feet High And Rising declaring 1989 as a new era a D.A.I.S.Y. Age. Though this hippy declaration was obviously partly ironical and a reaction to the brutality of gangsta rap it had its foundation in a deeply considered evaluation of the effects of violent imagery on black and other youths and a desire to inject a note of positivity into the rap scene as a whole. An internet discussion suggests that they, like Sun Ra perhaps, looked to the stars for inspiration for their original idea was for Mase to act as PA for Posdnuos "Plug 1" and Trugouy The Dove Plug2 to transmit messages from Mars. An intelligent band they distinguished between the Reagan government and its policies with, for instance, the anti drug, anti Nancy song Just Say Goand the deeply personal My Brother Was A Basehead with its lament: Brother, brother, stupid brother of mine Started getting high at the age of nine.]]> Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT Modern Books and Manuscripts http://www.maggs.com/title/MO40803.asp http://www.maggs.com/title/MO40803.asp O.C.L.C..

Fersens, better known for his uranian lifestyle and friendship with Baron Von Gloeden, was a formidable user of drugs and is said to have created a collection of hundreds of opium pipes. This, his last book, is almost entirely devoted to the smoking of opium and is a deeply concentrated series of paens to its use and to the reveries it is said to produce. Whilst serving his country, his addiction came to the attention of the authorities and he was sent to a military hospital in 1914 for a cure and promptly replaced his opium habit with cocaine.]]> Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT Modern Books and Manuscripts http://www.maggs.com/title/MO38326.asp http://www.maggs.com/title/MO38326.asp Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT Modern Books and Manuscripts http://www.maggs.com/title/MO34830.asp http://www.maggs.com/title/MO34830.asp Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT Modern Books and Manuscripts http://www.maggs.com/title/MO41399.asp http://www.maggs.com/title/MO41399.asp
An exhaustive and fascinating book that includes the lyrics to many of Manson`s bizarre blues songs including "cease to Exist", "Sick City" and "Garbage Dump". An entry on O.C.L.C. states that Wizinski is a pseudonym for Saul Rosenthal. This may be the same Rosenthal who authored "Sex Over 40" and founded the "Sexual Therapy Clinic" of San Antonio, Texas.]]> Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT Modern Books and Manuscripts http://www.maggs.com/title/MO40864.asp http://www.maggs.com/title/MO40864.asp MAYBURY, (John). (Illustrator).Original exhibition poster. 65.5 x 94cm., printed on both sides; a montage portrait of the artist Trojan in five colours and oversized benday dots on a white stock, lettered in white, black and orange, the reverse lettered and illustrated in black on white, one of the 23 unfolded not for sale copies from a total run of around 50. N.p. (London), An Anti-Art Fair, c.In fine condition, sandwich framed between two sheets of glass. Rare.

A vivid image; the level of colour saturation is astonishing. Trojan is depicted as a demi-mustachioed, one and a half eared aesthete in an oversized jacket. A skull floats directly above his tousled hair.

The artist, model and designer Trojan, real name Gary Barnes, had died of an accidental heroin overdose, at the age of 21, shortly before this poster was issued. He was the lover of film maker John Maybury, who illustrated this poster, and a close friend/intimate of bisexual clothes designer and exhibitionist Leigh Bowery. Bowery and Trojan shared an East End council flat with a bizarre or perhaps surreal interior. This flat appears in Charles Atlas`s contemporaneous film on dancer Michael Clark called Hail The New Puritan. It is said that Trojan cut off his ear, and lipsticked the stub, to take his personal grooming beyond the pale at his regular appearances at the nightclub Taboo.

The artists included Wilma Johnson, a young Timothy Prus with "four exhibits", Angus Cook offering "Pet Consciousness" and many others.]]> Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT Modern Books and Manuscripts http://www.maggs.com/title/MO41903.asp http://www.maggs.com/title/MO41903.asp gingko bilboa and other fringe cures with international licences throughout the world including Latin America where this box was bought. Commentators have suggested that homeopathy`s popularity was partly due to its packaging; in that a box could be used by the remotest of communities and with no medical fees. The contents of this box offer a tantalising glimpse of a bygone age when test tubes of opium, belladonna, Aconitum, Ipecacuanha etc were innocuous and not subject to legal seizure. An attractive drug antique.]]> Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT Modern Books and Manuscripts http://www.maggs.com/title/MO37514.asp http://www.maggs.com/title/MO37514.asp
The first issue features facsimiles of epistles and rants by Charles Manson, the correspondence of William Burroughs, poems and correspondence from Charles Bukowski (with Montfort photos), an interview with 'Screw' editor Al Goldstein and another with John Waters. Issue #2 entitled 'Cult-Films, Killers & Attempted Assassins' includes correspondence in facsimile from Manson Family member and wannabe Presidential killer 'Squeaky' Fromme plus some other Charles Manson and Susan Atkins material. It also features John Waters; Cookie Mueller on the Haight and on drugs, Divine and Mary Woronov. Issue #3 is entitled 'Freaks, Magicians & Movie Stars Issue' has an extensive feature on and interview with Kenneth Anger as well as content on Kuchar, John Waters, Ondine and Hubert Selby Jr.. The wrappers are illustrated with a compelling photograph of Johnny Eck, "King of The Freaks", staring into a crystal ball, complete with top hat and black bow tie.]]> Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT Modern Books and Manuscripts http://www.maggs.com/title/MO41249.asp http://www.maggs.com/title/MO41249.asp Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT Modern Books and Manuscripts http://www.maggs.com/title/MO45125.asp http://www.maggs.com/title/MO45125.asp Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT Modern Books and Manuscripts http://www.maggs.com/title/MO47476.asp http://www.maggs.com/title/MO47476.asp Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT Modern Books and Manuscripts http://www.maggs.com/title/MO43538.asp http://www.maggs.com/title/MO43538.asp Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT Modern Books and Manuscripts http://www.maggs.com/title/MO45496.asp http://www.maggs.com/title/MO45496.asp Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT Modern Books and Manuscripts http://www.maggs.com/title/MO39610.asp http://www.maggs.com/title/MO39610.asp Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT Modern Books and Manuscripts http://www.maggs.com/title/MO42380.asp http://www.maggs.com/title/MO42380.asp Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT Modern Books and Manuscripts http://www.maggs.com/title/MO39608.asp http://www.maggs.com/title/MO39608.asp Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT Modern Books and Manuscripts http://www.maggs.com/title/MO42386.asp http://www.maggs.com/title/MO42386.asp Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT Modern Books and Manuscripts http://www.maggs.com/title/MO45510.asp http://www.maggs.com/title/MO45510.asp Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT Modern Books and Manuscripts http://www.maggs.com/title/MO39613.asp http://www.maggs.com/title/MO39613.asp Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT Modern Books and Manuscripts http://www.maggs.com/title/MO39672.asp http://www.maggs.com/title/MO39672.asp Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT Modern Books and Manuscripts http://www.maggs.com/title/MO42373.asp http://www.maggs.com/title/MO42373.asp Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT Modern Books and Manuscripts http://www.maggs.com/title/MO45511.asp http://www.maggs.com/title/MO45511.asp Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT Modern Books and Manuscripts http://www.maggs.com/title/MO47390.asp http://www.maggs.com/title/MO47390.asp Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT Modern Books and Manuscripts http://www.maggs.com/title/MO49239.asp http://www.maggs.com/title/MO49239.asp Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT Modern Books and Manuscripts http://www.maggs.com/title/MO49235.asp http://www.maggs.com/title/MO49235.asp Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT Modern Books and Manuscripts http://www.maggs.com/title/MO49233.asp http://www.maggs.com/title/MO49233.asp "Eh Sam, signed. A fine copy in dust jacket.]]> Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT Modern Books and Manuscripts http://www.maggs.com/title/MO49240.asp http://www.maggs.com/title/MO49240.asp
he upper wrapper is emblazoned with all of the catchwords of the merging militant New Left, mindfuck, cult, Mansonite, psychedelic and occult strands of the US counterculture, including "Kill cops", "777", "666", "Provo" and "LSD". This rendered in the style of a large bonfire with demons and symbols entwined within it. The title is very similar to the 70s militant imagery of sixties groups such as Up Against the Wall and Black Mask and the urge within white middle class extremists to identify themselves with Third World Liberation movements. and Marcuse's Great Revolt. Other groups include Provos, Red Guards, MR13, Anarchists, Drop outs etc. . There are three crude drawings of a Zengakuren, a Nomad biker and a Vietcong. The text reads:

"Look Out! Here Comes The World Revolution of Youth. No more laws, no more prisons destroy politics! Destroy Religion Destroy the Old World! Teengangs Unite! Guerilla! Guerilla! Build The New Movement of Revolution! Anarchy + Apocalypse + Afraisamerica".

Inside there are reports from Rebel Worker, john conover (sic), and one by the R.Y.M. entitled "Magic and Revolution" that cites LSD as a catalyst of revolution and a weapon of Guerilla warfare. The entire thing is surely a parody of the Revolutionary Youth Movement, the Maoist faction of the Students for A Democratic Society.]]> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT Modern Books and Manuscripts http://www.maggs.com/title/MO49145.asp http://www.maggs.com/title/MO49145.asp Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT Modern Books and Manuscripts http://www.maggs.com/title/MO49210.asp http://www.maggs.com/title/MO49210.asp