Mechanized Opium
by Zephyrus Image
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Langlois, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
San Francisco: Zephyrus Image, nd. First edition. 9 1/4 x 14" broadside, linocut no newsprint.
An early broadside from the press, dating from the Collins Street days, and with the newsprint paper utilized, and early spelling of the press name as "Zephyrous", similar in feel to the companion pieces Help Your Local Junkie Kick and Liberate Berkeley.
Johnston's description of the broadside is worth quoting in full. "Another early untitled image by Myers with his characteristic bilateral symmetry and organic shapes combined with mechanized ones.Gatling guns (?), skinny Indian opium smokers rising out of a lotus, surmounted by a nude woman." - Johnston p. 186.
This is the first state of the poster, not to be confused with the later second state of the broadside entitled International Harvester, which used the same block but added other elements and used the later spelling of the press name. In this state, one of the scarcer ZI broadsides.
A battered example, with toning, creasing, and several chips missing from margins, though not affecting text or image.
An early broadside from the press, dating from the Collins Street days, and with the newsprint paper utilized, and early spelling of the press name as "Zephyrous", similar in feel to the companion pieces Help Your Local Junkie Kick and Liberate Berkeley.
Johnston's description of the broadside is worth quoting in full. "Another early untitled image by Myers with his characteristic bilateral symmetry and organic shapes combined with mechanized ones.Gatling guns (?), skinny Indian opium smokers rising out of a lotus, surmounted by a nude woman." - Johnston p. 186.
This is the first state of the poster, not to be confused with the later second state of the broadside entitled International Harvester, which used the same block but added other elements and used the later spelling of the press name. In this state, one of the scarcer ZI broadsides.
A battered example, with toning, creasing, and several chips missing from margins, though not affecting text or image.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Division Leap, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 29883
- Title
- Mechanized Opium
- Author
- Zephyrus Image
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Zephyrus Image
- Place of Publication
- San Francisco
- Date Published
- nd
Terms of Sale
Division Leap, ABAA
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About the Seller
Division Leap, ABAA
Biblio member since 2005
Langlois, Oregon
About Division Leap, ABAA
Booksellers and publishers based in Portland, Oregon. Since 2005, we've specialized in rare books, archives and ephemera related to art, poetry, counter-culture, design, social movements, music, graffiti, tattooing, the Situationist International and its aftermath, and the history of independent publishing. Collections purchased. Catalogs issued. Please contact us to join our mailing list. We welcome visitors by appointment. Member ABAA, ILAB.
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- ND
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- First State
- used in book collecting to refer to a book from the earliest run of a first edition, generally distinguished by a change in some...
- Second State
- used in book collecting to refer to a first edition, but after some change has been made in the printing, such as a correction,...