//Jacket, Beatbooks 62 from collage by Norman Ogue Mustill, 1967.//
The new Beatbooks catalogue returns Andrew Sclanders to his primary preoccupation with the creative outpourings of the American Beats and their fellow travellers.
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Cover design based on artwork from: (front) C.Comics No. 2, 1965; (back) The Friendly Way, 1972.
The new BeatBooks catalogue is preoccupied with a print netherworld encompassing one-offs, limited editions and short-runs published by concrete poets, beats and other outsiders.
There are also juicy examples of smack-sensationalising pulp fiction and – in one section alone – 36 items relating to The Naked Lunch, including Chicago Review excerpts from 1958 and William Burroughs’ first US LP release.
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Patti Smith is the focus of the latest Beatbooks sale, which is accompanied by a printed catalogue up to the usual high standards of the archive’s curator Andrew Sclanders.
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