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First and only issue of this legendary literary magazine. Gnaoua was edited and published by the poet, photographer, and filmmaker Ira Cohen. Reflecting the expatriate Beat community in Tangier to which Cohen had moved three years prior, Gnaoua features contributions from William Burroughs, Ian Sommerville, Brion Gysin, Harold Norse, Allen Ginsberg, Michael McClure, J. Sheeper [Irving Rosenthal], Jack Smith, Marc Schleifer, Mohammed Ben Abdullah Yussufi (translated by Rosenthal), J. Weir, Stuart Gordon, Tatiana, and Alfred Jarry (translated by George Andrews). Bob Dylan featured a copy of Gnaoua prominently on the cover of his fifth album, Bringing It All Back Home , among other artefacts chosen to pay tribute to the artist’s influences; it is possible that it was in Gnaoua that he first came across the work of William Burroughs. Octavo. Original pink printed card wrappers designed by Rosalind Schwartz, spine lettered in black. With 5 black and white photographic plates illustrating Jack Smith’s “Superstars of Cinemaroc”, reproducing images from Smith’s infamous film Flaming Creatures (1963); black and white photographic illustration printed to recto of folding leaf for Ian Sommerville’s “Mr & Mrs D”. Wrappers discreetly
Churchill’s posthumous bookplate on the front free endpaper verso. The book publishes Butcher’s diaries while serving as naval aide to Eisenhower – consequently including “extensive references to Churchill- Eisenhower interactions” (Zoller and Langworth, p. 157). Butcher became friends with Eisenhower in 1926, and on America’s joining the war, Eisenhower personally requested him as an aide. Though the diary was expurgated for publication it is still an important source for the workings of Allied High Command, and of the personal relationships between Eisenhower, Churchill, and various senior military figures. Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt on red ground, front cover lettered in red, map endpapers, top edge red. Rubbed and soiled, front inner hinge tender, well read, still a good copy. ¶ Zoller and Langworth, Annotated Bibliography of Works About Sir Winston S. Churchill , B179. £2,500 [154330] 34 COHEN, Ira (ed.) Gnaoua. Tangier: Ira Cohen, 1964 As seen on Bob Dylan’s mantelpiece
reattached to book block at spine, spine lightly sunned, slight creasing and toning; a very good copy. £1,250 [153518] 35 COHEN, Ira; Dana Young (illus.) Opium Elementals. Kathmandu, Nepal: Bardo Matrix, 1976 First edition, signed limited issue, number 130 of 350 signed and numbered by Cohen and Young. Opium Elementals comprises two poems by Cohen, illustrated by Young’s woodcuts. This title contains perhaps the best known of Young’s psychedelic woodblock prints; he also contributed to Cohen’s Blue Oracle broadside (1975), the frontispiece to Paul Bowles’ Next to Nothing (1976), and the Spirit Catcher! broadside (1976). Oblong quarto. Original brown stitched silk paper wrappers printed in black, black endpapers, 2 pages red paper. Title page and imprint printed in black and metallic gold and brown, poems printed in sanguine, 8 full page woodcuts by Young. A few trivial marks to wrappers, some offsetting from red paper to first woodcut, a touch of foxing to fore edge, else a near-fine copy of a fragile publication, exceptionally sharp and fresh. £750 [154767]
All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk
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