ALLEN 'UNCLE SAM' GINSBERG.
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"It’s true I don’t want to join the Army or turn lathes in precision parts factories, I’m nearsighted and psychopathic anyway.
America I’m putting my queer shoulder to the wheel" - Allen Ginsberg 'America' , 1956.
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This month's item of the month is a crumpled paper hat most probably worn by Beat poet and countercultural founding father Allen Ginsberg and deployed in the field of pacifist battle against US involvement in the Vietnam War. Click here or the 'top hat' to learn more from my blog.
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CARL WILLIAMS RARE BOOKS CATALOGUE 3.1, SEX, MAGICK, DRUGS, REVOLUTION, ROCK ’N’ ROLL & DEATH SELECTIONS FROM THE LUDLOW SANTO DOMINGO LIBRARY OF JULIO MARIO SANTO DOMINGO.
For collection in East London or by mail. My third fully illustrated printed catalogue from the former Ludlow Santo Domingo Library (LSD Library) of Julio Mario Santo Domingo has arrived. It is also the third printed catalogue entirely under the marque of ‘Carl Williams Rare Books’. As is my wont, I have unashamedly included the most modest of items for low tens of pounds to the grandest of rare books, art, objects and manuscripts for tens of thousands. Just as Julio Santo Domingo would have it in the LSD Library (but with a much larger upper limit). For collection in East London at £50 or by post. The book weighs just under 3 kilos, as an example: airmail to the USA by Royal Mail costs around £42.50. Second class UK postage costs around £10.00. Click on the cover image above to buy.
CONTENTS.
- THE GREAT REFUSAL
- AURAL CULTURE
- THE MIND’S EYE: ALTERED STATES & SOME PRODUCT
- TRASH, SEXPLOITATION & PULP
- THE MODERN NUDE
- EROTIC COMIX
- THE SURREAL LOVES OF VALENTINE HUGO
- FEMALEGAZE
- MALEGAZE – MALEWORDS
- THE MEDICAL GAZE & THE SEXOLOGIST, THE EXPERT & BEADY EYES OF THE LAW
- THE WORLD BEYOND OUR EYES
- THE SICK & THE DEAD
- WAGGING TONGUES
In two parts, 527 pages, 463 items.
All of the items in this catalogue came from a private library of altered states of consciousness owned by the late Julio Mario Santo Domingo. Mr Santo Domingo set up a foundation and called the collection The Ludlow Santo Domingo library or LSD Library, it was principally spread over a few floors at Chemin du Foron 16, Thônex, Switzerland and at his residence on Promenade Saint-Antoine, Geneva, Avenue Montaigne, Paris, Ferme des Carneaux, Boigneville and possibly New York. There was a part of his collection that after his death was ‘stranded’ in London. The bulk of those groups of materials are now on long term deposit at The Houghton and have been rolled out into the entire library system of Harvard University.
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