Scope and Contents

This is a description of a collection offered "en bloc." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents

This catalogue lists 341 items in a collection of mostly ordinary edition books and periodicals priced at approximately $8,000. There was heavy respresentation of Cobbing, Cutts, and Finlay. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents

The cover designed by David Wakefield is an outstanding example of letterpress printing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents

This catalogue lists two letters by Jeff Nuttall among others. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents

This catalogue is a selection from the counterculture selections of Maggs Brothers and includes "books, manuscripts and graphic and plastic art by and about bohemians, crazies, eccentrics, exiles, extremists, the violent, the persecuted, the mad, modernists, revolutionaries, terrorists, urban guerrillas, visionareis, and outsiders." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents The annotation to the originals of nine maquettes of posters by Bob Cobbing offered for sale reads as follows. The origins and progress of London's theatrical, film andpoetic avant gardes and a significant tranche of the counterculture are traceable through these unique events posters (and one pure artwork) produced by a small and obscuregroup that emerged from the unlikely setting of suburban Hendon and Finchley. Bob Cobbing was the group's guiding spirit and founder, Britain's "major exponent of concrete, visual and sound poetry" (Guardian Obituary). He almost singlehandedly started, or at least inspired, the small DIY press revolution in Britain, founding the influential Writers' Forum, the long running "And' 'zine (copies of which are available above), and revitalising the experimental poetry scene in London in the process. Cobbing grew up in Enfield in a very strict family of fundamentalist Plymouth Brethren of hardworking signwriters (Guardian Obituary). He inherited...