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Section A: AGITATION, PROPAGANDA, ANARCHY, REVOLUTION, URBAN TERROR
Section B: MAGIC, MODERNITY, MACABRE, MADNESS
Section C: ART, DESIGN ETC
Section D: ALTERED STATES
Section E: LITERATURE AND POETRY
Section F: PUNKS AND FREAKS
Section H: COMIX AND GRAPHIX

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Section G: SITUATIONS

[68] [BURROUGHS (William S.).]. TROCCHI (A[lexander].). & NUTTALL (J[eff]). (Editors). the moving times.
Original wall newspaper, first poster edition. 33.5 x 43cm., white stock, printed in black, conservation mounted. London, project sigma, villiers ltd., 1964 £230
Near fine, with folds as issued. Uncommon.
W.S.B.’s contribution is ‘martin’s folly’, Trocchi’s is ‘the barbecue’, Kenneth White’s is ‘the real climate’.

[69] [KNABB (Ken).]. BUREAU OF PUBLIC SECRETS. The Opening In Iran.
Original poster. 43 x 27.5, printed in red on one side only, small inset map, folded into four (probably as issued). Berkeley, Bureau of Public Secrets, n.d., 1979. £75
Near fine condition. Ford 194 who notes that this was translated into French and Greek by Knabb.
In support of the Iranian revolt against the Shah. There were few in the Western Left who saw good in the Iranian Revolution Knabb and Foucault were in a distinct minority and seemed to share the same view that each society should have its own distinct flavour and that it would not be modeled on the historical Communist ones. An important Situ ephemeron.

[70] [NEGATION]. Don’t Change life – Change Leaders.
Original poster. 43 x 28 cm., printed in red and blue on white, 12 photoportraits. N.p. [Berkeley?], Citizens United For The Continuation of Class Society, n.d., 1970s. £75
Central horizontal fold with a tear and browning at each edge of the fold.
A parody or anti-election poster ‘signed’ by Jane Fonda, Rev. Billy Graham and Dr. Paul Ehrlich (The Population Bomb author?). Negation are described in the text as one of the “Groups of disruptive malcontents, calling themselves ‘Situationists...”. The inspiration is said to have come from a League of Women Voters’ poster campaign.

[71] GRUPPE SPUR. Zimmer Prem Fischer Sturm. SPUR. Galerie van de Loo. München, Maximilienstraße 22, vom 16. September bis Ende Oktober 1965.
Original poster. 74 x 62 cm., printed in ‘Cobra’ colours on thin white stock. Conservation framed and glazed. München, n.p. [Galerie van de Loo], n.d., circa September 1965. £450
Endemic but light browning, some loss on bottom left corner cutting into the place name. A rare survival from an underdocumented period in situationist art-history (though they were expelled by Guy Debord three years or so earlier from the SI).

[72] LA SECTION FRANCAISE DE L’I.S. (édité par). Nouveau Théatre D’Operations Dans La Culture. La Dissolution Des Idees Anciennes Va De Pair Avec La Dissolution Des Anciennes Conditions D’Existence: Internationale Situationniste.
Original poster. 40 X 21 cm., titles and flow chart in black on white, one b&w photograph of an aerial view of Paris’s Left Bank. Paris, la section francaise de l.I[nternationale]. S[Situationniste]. Conservation framed and glazed. N.d., January 1958. £750
Old central horizontal fold, a few holes on the right margin. A beautiful copy. Illustrated in Andreotti & Costa’s MACBA guide (p-6). An important Situ ephemeron.

[73] UPSHOT. “New Wave vs. Black Lung”?!.
Original handbill. A4., 1l., text and facsimile hand in offset?, on saffron coloured stock. San Francisco, n.d., 1978. £30
A crisp copy, one small nick on lower edge. No copy in OCLC. Not in Ford.
Anti-union, anti-punk propaganda that ridicules the notion of contractual agreements and official strikes. Quotes Poly Styrene’s ‘Oh Bondage Up Yours!’ in full. Denigrates the organizers of a benefit gig by punks at Mahubay Gardens on March 20-21 as “...tacky and boring in terms of their vision”.

[74] UPSHOT. Observer. The Nightmare of a Dream Deferred.
Original flyer. 21.5 X 35.5 cm., Il., text in columns and a box, two détourned style vignettes, photocopy/offset printed in black on recto only, on yellow stock. S[an].F[rancisco], Upshot, n.d., 1978. £45
Near fine. Not in Ford. No copy in OCLC.
Composed of juxtapositions of faux and found/appropriated news articles. An eighteenthe century illustrations shows cuddly looking pigs turning the pitchfork on the farmer. The world is described as “totally unnatural” and it is rather messianically “crumbling.”. The author is John Zerzan a prominent anti-civilization theorist and supporter of the Unabomber’s wordview (but not his methods).

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Section A: AGITATION, PROPAGANDA, ANARCHY, REVOLUTION, URBAN TERROR
Section B: MAGIC, MODERNITY, MACABRE, MADNESS
Section C: ART, DESIGN ETC
Section D: ALTERED STATES
Section E: LITERATURE AND POETRY
Section F: PUNKS AND FREAKS
Section H: COMIX AND GRAPHIX