LSD 3.1 "The Great Refusal" the LSD Library of Julio Santo Domingo.

Carl Williams Rare Books offers:

"THE GREAT REFUSAL" AN EXTRACT FROM CATALOGUE 3: SEX, MAGICK, DRUGS, REVOLUTION, ROCK ’N’ ROLL & DEATH. SELECTIONS FROM THE LUDLOW SANTO DOMINGO LIBRARY.

In time for the festive season, I offer a selection of highly desirable, if rather 'leftfield', gifts for friends, relations or as donations to your favourite library or museum.

This selection is the first in a series of extracts from my latest printed catalogue of material from Julio Santo Domingo's library. For those of you haven't gone 'analogue', here is my introduction to the catalogue from the blog page of my website for your delectation. There are yet others of you wanting to see an 'old school' printed version, so, I have stocked up Blue Mountain School in London's Shoreditch with a pile, so now, you can either walk in to 9 Chance Street and buy a copy in person or, for postage etc., email a member of the team here to make arrangements.I have also added a listing below if you would like to buy a copy directly from me, or arrange collection.

For this first email from LSD 3, I offer 54 items from 'The Great Refusal' (the first section of LSD 3.1.), material which is largely from the 1960s. It includes a small amount of exceptionally good Ginsberg material, Dutch Provo zines, Mai 1968 ephemera, San Francisco Digger material (with a possibly unique, and huge poster), a beguiling tranche from the archive of the Psychedelic Venus Church, other psychedelia, great zines like 'Suck' and 'Ink' and a large collection of underground papers. Click Ginsberg's hat in the badge (button) above to see all 54 items. For the true 'pixelheads' reading this email I have also uploaded a sort of 'dirty dozen items' of the 54 that caught my eye to the splash page of my website.

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.