Editore: Wright State University, Dayton, OH, 1997
Wraps. Condizione: Very Good. 4to, 79 + 63 pp., illus. Two numbers (though not indicated as such) printed dos-a-dos. Editors' cover letter, with a handwritten note addressed to Jerome Rothenberg from Larry Sawyer, laid in. Corners lightly bumped.
Editore: Wright State University, Dayton, OH, 1998
Wraps. Condizione: Very Good. 4to, 125 pp., illus. Number devoted largely to Ford, Bowles and associates. Light handling and edgewear to wrappers, corners lightly bumped.
Editore: Boise, ID: Boise State University, 1991
Da: Philip Smith, Bookseller, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Soft cover. Condizione: New. 1st edition. New copy in publisher's shrinkwrap. 4to, 180pp, printed wrappers. Thick underground review from Boise with a stellar roster of contributors. Includes a CD (with readings by Paul Bowles) and postcard inserts. Not Signed.
Lingua: Inglese
Editore: Change Publications, NY, 1963
Da: Johnnycake Books ABAA, ILAB, Salisbury, CT, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Soft cover. Condizione: Near Fine. 1st Edition. CHANGES, about which little information is available aside from its contributors, was apparently a short-lived literary journal of the avant-garde printed in the lower East Side community in the early 1960s, which featured the early work of poets, philosophers and composers some of whom went on to have long and influential careers. This copy is Volume 1, Number 1 July 1963; we could find no record of subsequent editions. Paper covers with a graphic design in black and red, 20 pages, unpaginated, measures approx 7 x 8.5", reproduced from typewriter pages with spacing arranged in a graphic style. We presume the poems and compositions make their first (in some cases only) appearance here. A Bibliography of Contributors in the rear of the booklet describes the contributors. The most well-known is poet Jerome Rothenberg, who has a 4-page poem called "Preliminaries / From a Journal" which is not recorded in Harry Polkinhorn's 1988 descriptive bibliography of Rothenberg's writings. Rothenberg (1931 - 2024) had a long career as poet, anthropologist and translator, perhaps best known for his 1967 work "Technicians of the Sacred: A Range of Poetries From Africa, America, Asia, Europe, and Oceania." According to his obituary in The New York Times, Rothenberg brought "English-language readers into contact with creative traditions far outside the Western establishment - a field he called ethnopoetics - (and) had an enormous impact on world literature and made him a hero to rock musicians like Nick Cave, Jim Morrison and Warren Zevon." Angus MacLise (1938 - 1979) was a percussionist, composer, poet, occultist and calligrapher, known as the first drummer for the Velvet Underground. He contributed a 5-line "poem" which is a stanza from "Orfeo" MacLise had been a member of La Monte Young's Theatre of Eternal Music in the Lower East Side. In this publication, Young publishes a brief composition; Young (b 1935), composer, musician, and performance artist, is recognized as one of the first American minimalist composers and a central figure in Fluxus and post-war avant-garde music. He is best known for his exploration of sustained tones, beginning with his 1958 composition Trio for Strings. CVJ Anderson (described as a "deadbeat" in the list of contributors), was part of the cadre of performance artists, composers and artists who performed at Yoko Ono's Chamber Street apartment in the early 60s. Anderson has two poems (although the table of contents says three): "Tropical Poem" and "Jacksonville in August". Louis Gallo, we presume, is Professor at Radford University where he teaches creative writing and modern and contemporary literature. Four volumes of his poetry, "Archaeology, Scherzo Furiant, Crash and Clearing the Attic" are in print. Clauss Stamm, described as living in Japan in the bios, is apparently the author of juvenile books on Japanese culture and mythology. One of his poems here is "Girl in Kimono". Peter Pllafian was published here for the first time; we could find no record that he was published again. We speculate Charles Ponceis likely the author of books on I Ching and Kabbalah. As for editor Tracy McCallum he is self described in the bio list as "unknown & not published'; indeed. So uncommon is this avant-garde pamphlet we could find no listing for it in OCLC.
Lingua: Inglese
Editore: Roaring Fork Press, New York, 1971
Da: Whitledge Books, Austin, TX, U.S.A.
Rivista / Giornale
Soft cover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. ASPEN MAGAZINE 9, The Psychedelic Issue, Winter-Spring 1971, 11 of 13 Sections, edited by Angus MacLise and Hetty MacLise, pamphlets unbound separate pieces of paper with printing and illustrations; one flexi disc recording. ITEM CONDITION: very good to near fine. Item 10 has tears along the top edge, but with no effect on the text or image. The text block and illustrations are in fine condition with no tears, dog-ears, or marks, except where noted. 12 3/8 x 9 3/8, 71 pages, 11 ounces XX [From Ubu website] [Contents]. 2. From the Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda. Color photographs by Ira Cohen and Bill Devore. 4. Triptych. Drawings by Dale Wilbourn. 5. Lumagraphs. Perforated sheet of gummed stamps printed with color photographs of female nudes, by Don Snyder. 6. Benno Friedman's Westerns. Frames from classic Western films, chemically stained by Benno Friedman. 7. Letter to Diane and Shelley from Vali. Text & drawings by Vali, photos by Diane Rochlin. 8. Poetry Sheet. Poetry by Gerard Malanga, Paolo Lionni, Nikki Grand, Harvey Cohen and John Cale. Reverse side printed with transformations of a photo by P. Zimmer. 9. The Soul of the Word. Text and calligraphic designs by Marian Zazeela. 10. Dream Music. LaMonte Young on oneiric music. Reverse side: Keyboard Study #2, a circular musical score by Terry Riley. 11. Phonograph recording. Audio: Joyous Lake / Spontaneous Sound. Side A: The Joyous Lake by Elsen Standlee, Raja Samyana, Angus MacLise, Ziska, and Hetty MacLise. Side B: Spontaneous Sound by Christopher Tree on a collection of 150 instruments. 12. Sentential Metaphrastic. Poem by Lionel Ziprin, illustrated with a photograph by Tom Carroll. 13. Printed folder, inside printed with table of contents. Folder designed by Hetty MacLise. The folder is intact and colorful, but is in only good condition (chipping and crinkling along top edge, wrinkles and short slit along spine, small discolored area inside along spine, corner bumping and wrinkling). XX MISSING: 1. Dream of Goeralegan. Text and illustration by Don Snyder. 3. Musical Scores and Glyphs. Drawing in Mayan style, by Aymon de Sales, and a poem. XX Aspen was conceived by Phyllis Johnson, a former editor for Women's Wear Daily and Advertising Age. While wintering in Aspen, Colorado, she got the idea for a multimedia magazine, designed by artists, that would showcase "culture along with play." So in the winter of 1965, she published her first issue. "We wanted to get away from the bound magazine format, which is really quite restrictive," said Johnson. Each issue had a new designer and editor. "Aspen," Johnson said, "should be a time capsule of a certain period, point of view, or person.".
Lingua: Inglese
Editore: Roaring Fork Press/ Aspen Magazine, 1971
Da: Bookworks, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. The Psychedelic issue. Complete with all inserts present and in very good+ to fine condition except for the subscription card and a protective unprinted sheet of translucent paper which are lacking. The printed portfolio spine shows some rubbing and has a 2" split at the top. Light bumping to the corners of the folder and a few of the inserts. Still a very nice copy.
Editore: Buffalo, NY: Intrepid Press, 1971
Da: Philip Smith, Bookseller, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st edition. VG. 4to, 130pp, stapled wrappers. Large combined issue of Allen De Loach's Intrepid and Diane di Prima's Floating Bear; includes work by La Monte Young and Angus MacLise, plus Gary Snyder (Sherlock v2.D224) and many others. Errata slip laid in. Unmarked copy, some cover wear and toning and a little general wear and bumping. Not Signed.
Editore: Amsterdam: Ins and Outs Publications, 1980
Da: Philip Smith, Bookseller, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Soft cover. Condizione: Fine. 1st edition. Near Fine. 8vo, 112pp, printed wrappers. Dense and intense issue, includes a photo of Angus MacLise and a mention of his passing in a piece written a few months afterward by Gerard Malanga; also a host of related luminaries, including William Levy. Minor outer wear and soil, no markings. Not Signed.
Editore: New York: The Floating Bear, 1963
Da: Philip Smith, Bookseller, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Soft cover. Condizione: Fair. 1st edition. Fair. 4to, 34pp (mimeographed), corner-stapled. (Last two leaves supplied in photocopy.) Addressed to poet Bill Deemer. This issue of the Floating Bear features input by Billy Linich (Billy Name) of Andy Warhol's Factory (Billy Linich's Party by John Daley ties into Warhol's first Haircut film from around this time, late 1963). Also contributions by Ray Johnson; an advertisement for the Fluxus Anthology (available from LaMonte Young) and a tape of Young with Angus MacLise, Tony Conrad, and Marian Zazeela; Fred Herko dance classes; C #4 for 25¢ from Ted Berrigan; etc. The first half of the issue (19pp) is devoted to "The Art of Literature" by Philip Whalen. Top leaf detached from staple; last two leaves are lacking and are supplied in photocopy. Horizontal publisher's fold, some general wear. Not Signed.
Editore: Reinhold-Brown Gallery New York, NY 1988 c., 1988
Da: Specific Object / David Platzker, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Condizione: Fine. Clean and unmarked. [20] pp.; 28 x 17.8 cm.; staple bound; black-and-white; edition size unknown; unsigned and unnumbered; offset-printed Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show of "SMS: The Portable Museum of Original Multiples in 6 Portfolios Published in 1968 by The Letter Edged in Black Press," held October 11 - December 11, 1988. Essay by Carter Ratcliff. Includes brief discretion of each element by every artists who contributed to the six S.M.S. issues including Irving Petlin, Su Braden, James Lee Byars, Christo, Walter de Maria, Kasper König [Kaspar Koenig], Julien Levy, Sol Mednick, Nancy Reitkopf, La Monte Young, Marian Zazeela, Marcel Duchamp, Nicolas Calas, Bruce Conner, Marcia Herscovitz, Alain Jacquet, Ray Johnson, Lee Lozano, Meret Oppenheim, Bernard Pfriem, George Reavey, John Battan [John Sebastian Matta], Aftograf, Enrico Baj, William Bryant [Billy Copley), Dick Higgins, Joseph Kosuth, Ronnie Landfield, Roland Penrose, Man Ray, H.C. Westermann, Hannah Weiner, Terry Riley, Robert Stanley, Arman, Paul Bergtold, John Cage, Robert Watts, Princess Winifred, Hollis Frampton, On Kawara, Roy Lichtenstein, Lil Picard, Domenico Rotella, Congo, William Anthony, Wall Batterton, CPLY [William Copley], Edward Fitzgerald, Neil Jenney, Angus MacLise, Bruce Nauman, Yoko Ono, Mel Ramos, William Schwedler, Diane Wakoski, Lawrence Weiner, Richard Artschwager, Ed Bereal, Diter Rot [Dieter Roth], Betty Dodson, Ronoldo Ferri, John Giorno, Toby Mussman, Adrian Nutbeam, Claes Oldenburg, Mischa Petrow, Jean Reavey, and Bernar Venet.
Editore: Roaring Fork Press, New York, 1970
Da: Downtown Books & News, Asheville, NC, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Paperback, portfolio. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. First edition. 4to (12.5"x9.5"). Pieces include: Section 1, Deon Snyder: Dream of Goeralegan (bi-fold). Section 2, Terry Riley: Keyboard Study (sheet). Section 3, Aymon de Sales: Musical Scores and Glyphs (tri-fold). Section 4, Dale Wilbourn: Triptych (tri-fold). Section 5, Don Snyder: Lumagraphs (stamps). Section 6, Benno Friedman: Westerns (booklet). Section 7, Diane Rochlin: Photos (3 tri-folds). Section 8, Gerard Malanga and various: Poetry Sheet (poster). Section 9, Marian Zazeela: Soul of the Word (booklet). Section 11: Christopher Tree: Spontaneous Sound/Joyous Lake (flexi-disc). Section 12, Lionel Ziprin: Sentential Metaphrastic (tri-fold). Section 13, Hetty MacLise: Cover (folder). Missing Section 10, Ira Cohen and Bill Devore: The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda (postcards). Light tone to white paper and several bottom corners bumped. Heavy shelf wear to folder: 1.5" closed tear to joint, creases, corners rubbed, paper chipping from spine and corners, interior tone. Flexi-disc apparently fine and unused (by visual inspection only).
Editore: New York: The Floating Bear, 1962
Da: Philip Smith, Bookseller, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st edition. VG. 4to, 10pp (mimeographed). This issue of the seminal sixties underground periodical Floating Bear was guest-edited by Billy Linich (Billy Name) of Andy Warhol's Factory; many contributions from and references to the 1962 artistic avant-garde. Brief pieces by Ray Johnson and George Brecht; quotes attributed to Andy Warhol, Leo Castelli, Larry Rivers, and others appear in a parodic collection of art-world sayings. Issue also includes a brief advertisement for the Fluxus Anthology (available from LaMonte Young) as well as one for a tape of Young with Angus MacLise, Tony Conrad, and Marian Zazeela. This copy, addressed to Canadian poet David Cull, is sound with a bit of edge wear and soil. Not Signed.
Editore: Boo Hooray Editions, 2001
Da: Indexbooks/Peter Gidal, London, Regno Unito
EUR 324,60
Quantità: 1 disponibili
Aggiungi al carrelloSoft cover. Condizione: As New. Dead Language Press, Facsimile Edition, 2001, Boo-Hooray, edition of 81 numbered copies. The classic deadlanguage MacLise eight page fold-open pamphlet, purple and black woodcut cover image back page overprinted as follows: (open section). MacLise made me on the dead language in paris. Facsimile Manuscript.
First printing. 50 pp., 6 x 8 inches. Perfect-bound in printed wrappers. Introduction by Ira Cohen. Illustrated in black-and-white throughout. A lovely copy, essentially as new, inscribed. A posthumously published collection of prose poems and calligraphy by the legendary musician, writer, visual artist, and publisher MacLise, associate of LaMonte Young, Jack Smith, George Brecht, and so many others, first drummer for the Velvet Underground. This, the "first copy," is inscribed by Ira Cohen, author of the introduction, to Julian Beck and Judith Malina of the Living Theater, "Bringers of light." (Cohen's film Paradise Now: The Living Theater in Amerika documented their 1968 tour, and they remained close friends the rest of their lives.).
Editore: [Angus Maclise and Francis Brooks], 1973
Da: W. C. Baker Rare Books & Ephemera, ABAA, Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A.
Rivista / Giornale Prima edizione
Soft cover. Condizione: Fine. 1st Edition. Folio (18 1/4 inches). [16] pp., including numerous woodblock illustrations (printed variously in black and red) plus 1 full-page woodblock print tipped in. In original pictorial wrappers, all on handmade rice paper. Small closed tears at head of front wrapper, light discoloration from original paste affixing large print, else fine. Numbered 102 of 150 copies. The second of three issues of TING PA, one of the early publications of the circle of American and European expatriate writers and artists living in Kathmandu during the 1970s. The woodblock illustrations include Himalayan and East Asian subjects, chiefly from religious traditions, as well as images drawn from the Rider-Waite Tarot.
Editore: [Angus Maclise], 1972
Da: W. C. Baker Rare Books & Ephemera, ABAA, Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A.
Rivista / Giornale Prima edizione
Soft cover. Condizione: Fine. 1st Edition. Folio (15 inches). [10] pp., including in-text woodblock illustrations and 4 full-page woodblock prints tipped in. In original pictorial wrappers, all on handmade rice paper. Fine. Numbered 144 of 150 copies, with editor's manuscript note in colophon, "corrections: | print 2: Arhat | print 3: Yabyum." The first of three issues of TING PA, a periodical of "Nepali poetry and songs, Tibetan magics & mantras old and new - in translations - and of course our poets/freaks writing in their native tongue, and woodblock prints, a specialty of Kathmandu, both traditional and original" (colophon). The numbered prints, from woodblocks supplied by Ian Alsop and Francis Brooks and hand-printed in Swayambhu by Ato Tamting Sija, show figures of Tibetan and Nepali Buddhism: Dakini, Arhat, Yabyum, and "Dancing Skeletons" (Citipati).
Editore: Roaring Fork Press, New York, 1970
Da: Tennyson Williams Books and Fine Art, Williamsburg, VA, U.S.A.
Rivista / Giornale Prima edizione
Paper. Condizione: Fine-. First Edition. The Psychedelic Issue of Aspen Magazine, Winter/Spring 1970. First (and only) edition. Complete in 13 sections loosely housed in the original psychedelically colored portfolio. The 12 internal sections are in virtually as-new condition; the portfolio itself is clean, bright, and crisp, with relatively minor wear along the spine fold. Notes on condition: 1) The limited spine fold wear is not torn through the cover; 2) the tanning on the interior of the cover is lighter than it appears--whenever I tried to adjust the exposure, i created glare. 3) the only interior section that is not quite "as-new" is Section 10, which has just a hint of soft rolling of the top and bottom edges--nothing that my camera or scanner can pick up; still very near fine. Size: Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Magazine/Periodical.
Editore: Nothing Songs Limited, 2006
Da: Jerry Prosser, Bookseller, Des Moines, IA, U.S.A.
Audio Book (CD). Condizione: New. Used, Like New. 2 disc set, 1 CD and 1 DVD. Nothing Songs Limited, Japan, 2006. NSCD-003. Limited edition of 100 copies with the DVD. Tracks on CD: 'Trance' (taken from single originally released on Fierce, 1988) - 'The Joyous Lake' (taken from flexi disc, originally released on Aspen, 1970) - 'Thundervolt: Long Version' excerpt from the soundtrack from "Invasion of the Thunderbolt Pagoda", a film by Ira Cohen (1965). - 'Doodlings' previously unreleased - 'Chumlum' Soundtrack from Chumlum, a film by Ron Rice (1964). Bonus DVD in an edition of 100 copies (This example does not have a number written on the DVD, just the blank space of 100 copies.) 1. The Velvet Underground EPI film by Jonas Mekas. Angus MacLise on drums. 2. Chumlum movie filmed by Ron Rice 1964. Soundtrack by Angus MacLise.
No Binding. Condizione: Very Good. Edition of 50, scarce artist's book. Among the finest examples of the inimitable MacLise calligraphic style, an aesthetic excursion to a place somewhere between writing and visual art, a place that transcends language itself. an excellent copy with innocuous surface wear - now in mylar. Interior unmarked, clean and crisp.
Editore: Dead Language Press, [Paris, 1959
Da: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Unbound. Condizione: Very Good. First edition. Square 16mo. One sheet folded three times to make eight panels (numbered 1-6, plus covers). Tiny cover stain, moderate general wear including tiny splits at the folds, very good. With an envelope addressed to bookseller L.A. Wallrich (dated "196-") apparently sending three copies along. MacLise's first publication, issued by his high school friend Piero Heliczer's press. Reportedly the book that connected La Monte Young and MacLise, Young having picked up a copy at City Lights. First book by the original drummer of the Velvet Underground and a member of La Monte Young's Theater of Eternal Music, who participated in various Fluxus performances.
Editore: dead language press, new york, 1959
Da: Indexbooks/Peter Gidal, London, Regno Unito
Rivista / Giornale
EUR 531,17
Quantità: 1 disponibili
Aggiungi al carrelloheliczer and maclise (illustratore). near fine copy of the maclise first publication.his forest hills high school friend piero heliczer did such beautiful poetry publications, flyers, e3tc. apparently la monte young saw a copy at city lights bookshop, met maclise, and late introduced him to john cale .other velvet underground story directly from piero is that he projected one of his fims in new york on a sheet; behind a halfwall the as yet unnamed velvets played, the performance heliczer named dream weapon with maclise (as was sometime later the aspen magazine psychedelic isue with covers by hettie maclise). four inches square, folded vertically as a leporello, six times as issued to open up right and left simultaneously to make eight numbered panels, the front and back a heliczer woodblock print. some exist with pink dots filled in, othrs not. sequally scarce eithr way, this one without.
Editore: Kathmandu, Nepal: Bardo Matrix, 1975, 1975
Da: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, Regno Unito
Prima edizione
EUR 590,19
Quantità: 1 disponibili
Aggiungi al carrelloFirst edition, limited issue, number 448 of 500 hand-numbered copies. Octavo, 32pp. Original white lokta paper wrappers printed in black with silhouette illustration, titles to front wrapper in black, facsimile of author's signature to rear in black, lokta stock. Publisher's biographical note on Paz loosely inserted. A little foxed, some light rubbing to wrappers. A very good copy indeed.
Editore: [Paris: Dead Language],, 1959
Da: Paul Rassam ABA ILAB, Charlbury, Regno Unito
Prima edizione
EUR 590,19
Quantità: 1 disponibili
Aggiungi al carrelloFirst edition. Single leaf, folded. Near fine. The author's first publication.
Data di pubblicazione: 1975
Da: Henry Sotheran Ltd, London, Regno Unito
EUR 590,19
Quantità: 1 disponibili
Aggiungi al carrelloNepal: Bardo Matrix. 1975. 4to. Original illustrated wrappers, front printed in black and illustrated with a woodblock profile of MacLise situated within a lunar circle, 'Shadow of the Poet'; artist's printed signature on rear wrapper; thread-bound; black tissue guards inside wrappers; two photographs printed in silver ink on white machine-made paper by Ira Cohen; printed on Bhutanese silk paper; minute chip to bottom edge of front cover, better preserved than usually encountered. First and only edition, number 285 of a limited run of 500 copies. An extended poem by an innovative yet reclusive personality in the New York underground 1960s Art scene.Angus W. MacLise, although also poet and artist, is best known for being the initial drummer for The Velvet Underground. He quit after the band's first paying gig on the grounds that they were selling out and was replaced by Moe Tucker. Living in Nepal in the early 1970s, MacLise founded Bardo Matrix Press in Kathmandu with photographer and publisher Ira Cohen. Together they were responsible for the publication of radical works by characters such as Paul Bowles, Diane Di Prima and Gregory Corso as well as their own writings.
Editore: 18 rue Descartes, Paris: [Dead Language Press, 1959], 1959
Da: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, Regno Unito
Prima edizione
EUR 649,21
Quantità: 1 disponibili
Aggiungi al carrelloFirst edition of the author's first publication, issued by his high school friend Piero Heliczer's Dead Language Press. Single long sheet folded three times to make a pamphlet (160 x 143 mm), outer pages printed in black with titles and illustrations, inner pages printed in red. Fine.
Editore: Roaring Fork Press,, New York,,, 1970
Da: adr. van den bemt, Groningen, NL, Paesi Bassi
EUR 650,00
Quantità: 1 disponibili
Aggiungi al carrelloComplete in 13 sections loosely housed in the original psychedelically coloured portfolio. 23,5 x 32 cms. All the sections are present. he contents are:1 Don Snyder. Chart, texxt. 2 Ira Cohen and Bill Devore. Postcards. 3 Aymon de salesTriptych and text. 4 Dale Wilbourn: triptych. 5 Don Snyder. Lumagraphs Stamp Sheet. 6 Benno Friedman.'s Westerns. 7 Diane Rochlin. Vali. three sheets. 8 Gerard MalangaPaolo Lionni, John Cale, Nikki Grand, Harvey Cohen. Poetry sheet 68 x 61 cms. 9 Marian Zazeela. Caligraphies and text. 10 Terry Riley. Keyboard Study Page eight. 11 Record.33-1/3 rpm, seven inch. Spontaneous Sound. Played by Christopher Tree on a collection of 150 instruments from many parts of the world.Other side: Joyous Lake. by Samanyana, Angus Maclise, Ziska, Hetty Maclise. 12 Lionel Ziprin: Poem. 13 The exterior. Portfolio design by Hetty Maclise. Condition: in general in good condition. Exterior: spine partly detached from folds. See picture.
Editore: [New York], 1970
Da: Brian Cassidy Books at Type Punch Matrix, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
Condizione: Very good plus. Circle of fifths with relative minor chords and bar of music drawn in black marker. MacLise manuscript material of any sort is uncommon. And these bold sketches deftly capture the essence of this former Velvet Underground drummer and avant garde music pioneer. 13'' x 6.5'' (unfolded). Black marker on both sides of a white paper napkin.
Editore: Filmmaker's Cinematheque, New York, 1965
Da: Brian Cassidy Books at Type Punch Matrix, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Condizione: Very good. First Edition. Original placard for the multi-day, multimedia presentation of MacLise's "Rites of the Dreamweapon," staged during the first week of Jonas Mekas's New Cinema Festival (Expanded Cinema Festival). In November and December of 1965, Mekas presented an extensive series of multimedia productions including artists Angus MacLise, Jack Smith, and Nam June Paik, among others. It's possible, but not confirmed, that The Velvet Underground took part in the events (see "White Light/ White Heat: The Velvet Underground Day by Day," p. 58). The program for the first week consisted of the following: "Rites of the Dreamweapon II" (MacLise); "The Stagger Mass" (Jerry Joffen); "The Mysteries of the Essence Chamber" (MacLise); "Epiphany of Light" (Don Snyder); "Rehearsal For the Destruction of Atlantis" (Jack Smith); "Rites of the Nadir" (John Vacarro). Though not noted here, the evening of November tenth also saw the screening of Piero Heliczer's "The Last Rites." A striking ephemeral document from the downtown avant-garde film and music scenes. 18'' x 8''. Original long placard printed in thick blue ink on blue stock. Two old creases from folding, with some attendant minor wear (one spot rubbed) and a few small tears.
Editore: [Angus MacLise], [Likely NY], 1970
Da: Kenneth Mallory Bookseller ABAA, Decatur, GA, U.S.A.
Circle of fiths with relative minor chords and bar of music drawn in black marker on two sides of a napkin, 13 x 6.5 inches unfolded. MacLise manuscript material of any sort is uncommon. Provenance on request.