Search Results: Titles starting with S from Arthur Fournier Fine & Rare

Seventeen (17) titles and thirty eight (38) individual fascicles in total, with texts in English, French, Italian, and Japanese. A fascinating look at the international community of soul music devotees who collected, cataloged, and shared information about rare recordings, and supported local soul music revival scenes and dance communities centered around the African American art form. 8vo to 4to. Very good. [1513]
Titles include:
Black Music (UK)
Blue & Rhythm : The Gospel Truth (UK)
Detroit City Limits (UK)
Otis File (UK)
Shades of Soul (UK)
Soul Bag (France)
Soul City Network (Japan)
Soul for Sale (UK)
Soul On (Japan)
Soul Scoot (UK)
Soul Survivor (UK)
Soul Underground (UK)
Soulful Kinda Music (UK)
Soulside (UK)
Sweet Soul Music (Italy)
Vintage Soul (UK)
Voices from the Shadows (UK)

Linoleum block print in the style of the Taller Graìfica Popular. Handmade paper sheet is approx. 14.75 x 11 in. ; impression is 10 x 7 in. Very good overall, with light marginal soiling and handling marks. Loose as issued. [1348]
In the folklore of Sinaloa, Jesús Malverde is revered as a bandit saint, watching over the poor. His is especially popular among lower-level traffickers caught up in the violent struggle of of the Mexican drug trade. While there is no evidence that Malverde lived, his legend is vitally important to the local culture of the regional highland. Every year on the anniversary of his death, a party is held at Malverde's shrine. According to a fascinating text on Malverde by scholar Patricia L. Price, "Narcotrafickers have strategically used Malverde's image as a 'generous bandit' to spin their own images as Robin Hoods of sorts, merely stealing from rich drug-addicted gringos and giving some of their wealth back to their Sinaloa hometowns, in the form of schools, road… Read More

Unpaginated text in English, illus. throughout. 8vo. A very good copy ; previous owner's name on ffep in black ink. Cream colored glossy stiff wraps, dusk spots and mild age toning as to be expected ; spine is tight and uncreased. A handsome copy. [1310]
Essays include: Lines / Marian Zazeela. -- Notes on the continuous periodic composite sound waveform environment realizations of "Map of 49's dream the two systems of eleven sets of galactic intervals ornamental light years away / La Monte Young. -- Dream house / L. Young, M. Zazeela. -- Conversation with La Monte Young / Richard Kostelanitz. -- The soul of the world / M. Zazeela. -- Lecture 1960 ; Poem to Diane / L. Young. "First edition 2100 of which 98 copies are numbered and signed by La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela." One of the tocuhstones of American experimental music and sound art.

First issue, 32 pp., of the mini-comic / fanzine issued by Gene Mahoney, illus. throughout. 8vo. Near fine. Illus. stiff wraps. [1307]
A curious fanzine from the precipice of the modern Internet-era, with an opening editorial asking readers, "aren't you sick of going to parties and being subjected to overpaid (and underlaid) cybernerds foaming at the mouth about this new computer program or that new Sillicon Valley company?" Declaring war on the boring culture of computer-based entrepreneurship, the issue also includes comics drawn by the publisher, as well as a strip by Saša Rakezić, harkening back to the early days of the civil war in former Yugoslavia. Scarce.

Shishumīn jashn-i hunar, Shīrāz-Takht-i Jamshīd, 9 tā 17 Shahrīvar 1351 / N.p. [Iran]: N.d. [1972]. Portfolio with six interior folders, loose inserts within each, chiefly texts (in dual translation Persian-English), some with calligraphy and additional minor illustrations. 4to. Very good. Red full leather folding portfolio embossed with silver foil. [1176]
The interior folders present accompanying texts, artist and performer bios, and other notes for presentations by international artists and performers in attendance at the festival, including Karlheinz Stockhausen, Robert Wilson, Merce Cunningham and Dance Company, and Katakali Shanta Rao. Two additional folders present notes on "Iranian Theater Films" and "Traditional Persian Music", with individual texts and notes on Somai Group, Jalil Shahnaz, Hossein Tehrani, Ahmad Ebadi, and Hossein Qavami (music) ; Bijan Saffari, Goldooneh Knanom, Esmail Khalaj (theater) ; and showings by the free cinema association, including works by film makers Ahmad… Read More

Collection of poems by the author, illustrated throughout with reproductions of original works by Wallace Berman, Jean-Jacques Lebel, Jack Smith, Andy Warhol and others. Square 8vo. Signed, "piero heliczer new york 16.XI.70" One of 500 copies. Near fine. Cloth hardcover in silk-screened wrappers. [758]
A gorgeous copy of the author's most sumptuous work.

69 pp. text in English and Spanish, illustrated throughout with photographic frontispiece portrait and reproductions of woodcuts by the author. 8vo. Very good overall, extremities rubbed. Belly band with attribution text present but torn. Illus. stiff wraps. [1156]
A moving meditation on identity and place in New York City by the noted poet from Puerto Rico. Signed and dedicated by Alvarez to Leonardo Santana on the half-title page.

Richly inked silkscreen print on paper mounted to heavy chipboard panel. Very good condition overall, with light surface scuffs and handling marks, signs of wear at the extremities. Presents beautifully (with just a touch of dayglo.)

Leaflet printed recto only with texts and images. Measures 8.5 x 11 in. (21 x 27.5 cm) Very good. Loose as issued. [1429]
Announcement for the rally and march in protest against the brutal massacre of two Southern University students who were shot dead by police that had been sent in quash weeks of demonstrations on the school's Baton Rouge campus. Text reads, "From the murders at Orangeburg, Texas Southern University, Jackson State, to Southern University in Baton Rouge Louisiana, we see a continuous pattern of "colonial murders" quote of Black people. How can we continue to claim that we are citizens in a country that continues to murder our people? We must recognize that just as our African brothers in South Africa are controlled by outsiders (U.S. government) who prop up the racist white South African government, so our people at Southern University, and San Francisco are controlled by outsiders. Whenever we move to take control over our lives, whether it be in Africa, or America we are faced… Read More

Hardcover, first edition, first printing. Unpaginated book [ca. 100 pp.] of space-age nursey rhymes in English, illus. throughout. 8vo. Excellent. A clean, bright copy. Illus. dust jacket (very good, with handling marks with at top and base of spine) over blue cloth boards backed in black, silver foil spine and cover title. [1758]
Estate stamped on first free leaf, "from the library of Robert Gottlieb," legendary Manhattan editor of Knopf, and The New Yorker.

16, 48 pp., comprising a complete run of the anarchist-punk squatter movement graphic serial. 4to. Very good. Illus. glossy wraps. [1760]
Rare complete two-issue run of the NYC-squatter movement graphic novel. Includes contributions from Eric Drooker, Lawrence van Abbema, Seth Tobocman, Fly, Cosmo

Poster printed recto and verso with texts and images in red and black inks on white commercial stock. Ca. 14 x 20 in. Very good. Loose as issued. [1520]
An unrecorded and gorgeous work by The Berkeley Commune in affinity with the International Werewolf Conspiracy and Up Against the Wall Motherfucker, identified for us by UAWMF founder Ben Morea as a co-publication with New York chapters of the secretive network of radicals. Strike Anywhere calls for immediate unified militant action to take control of the America's urban centers: "if there is going to be any student-worker alliance, then it will be formed (as clearly seen in france) not in the factories, but on the streets, or not at all. if poor whites & middleclass hippies are going to come together as in chicago berkeley & NY it will be in the streets. if there is going to be a true working alliance with blacks, then it will come from the common struggle in the streets. the streets are where we will confront the man & where the struggle will… Read More

Stroker, 1999-2002. First Edition. 85, 75 pp. metal and hard rock fanzine, illus. 4to. Near fine. Stab stapled pictorial wrappers. [1690]
NOTE: To be distinguished from the more commonly held 1970s New York poetry serial of the same name, "this [Stroker] magazine is for all rockers everywhere because the power of rock is to live for. I hope this magazine provides you with a moment of reflection while you're listening to a hair-shaking groove or in between doing the more important things: Makin' Out, Gettin' Down, Rockin' Out, and attaining your right high by whatever means necessary." Not in OCLC.

Illustrated poster with texts on white paper. Approximately 11 x 17 inches. near fine, old central fold. [1648]
Rooted in Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) formulations of Black Power and allied with Junta of Militant Organizations (JOMO), the Black Rights Fighters of Ft. Myers, Florida and the Black Study Group of Gainsville, Florida, Omali Yeshitela founded the African People's Socialist Party (APSP) in 1972. After moving to Oakland, California in 1981, has since continued to advocate for African internationalism and revolutionary unity among Black people globally. Rare.