Harpo's Bulletin anno I n° I - marzo-aprile '81 (fanzine)
Ultrarare first issue of Harpo's Bulletin from 1981, with Gaznevada on the cover and features on the early Bologna underground post-punk scene. Almost impossible to find...
Cracker anno I n.3 - novembre 1981 (fanzine)
Rare visually-striking tabloid size fanzine from 1981 with articles on Bauhaus, Kerosene, Luciano Castelli etc.
Urlo Wave 9 issues lot 1984-1987 (fanzine/magazine)
A beautiful lot of 9 issues, including two very rare early still xeroxed numbers, ranging from 1984 to 1987 of the important 'bulletin of the Italian new wave'. Texts in Italian.
Idola Tribus 4 (fanzine)
Excellent 1985 fanzine mainly inspired by Industrial culture with articles on Sonic Youth, Hassan-I-Sabbah, Yanomami, tattoo, record reviews, ads, etc.
Giftnalen (Book)
Hardcover, 20×29,6 cm, 480 pages. Edited and assembled by Kristian Olsson. Almost an encyclopedia of esoteric knowledge, dark music and arts and much beyond! Book-format publication dealing with all kinds of apocalyptic culture, anarchic rants, archaic sorcery, damned poets, esoterrorist tactics, forbidden knowledge, libertine lusts, necromantic collages, oneiric musings, outlaw occultism, perversion, sinister arts and visual expansionism. Giftnålen is the foul arts journal for death-obsessed br…
The Dominators (Book)
**72 pages full-color perfect bound book zine** Our new ultra-limited edition full-color perfect bound book zine of pure uncensored filth. Is Pornography addictive? Some say, “yes” others say, “hell no”. Here at GrimRoar & S:.S:.C:. Books, we say “who fuckin’ cares?” It may rot your brain and incite ravenous lust in your loins. However, smut is not cut with Fentanyl. It is healthier for your soul than GHB, and we are sitting on a goldmine of the dankest supply of vintage erotica on the planet. S…
Planet Earth About To Be Recycled (Your Only Chance To Survive Is To Leave With Us)
Heaven’s Gate, an American cult founded in 1974 by Bonnie Nettles and Marshall Applewhite, was known by various names over the years, including Human Individual Metamorphosis, Bo and Peep, and Total Overcomers Anonymous. The group advocated extreme self-renunciation, even to the point of castration. It gained widespread attention in March 1997 after 39 members committed suicide in a suburb of San Diego, California.
Acting on an anonymous tip, police entered a mansion and discovered the bodies of…
Frivolous & Furious
A new tape from Counter Culture Chronicles! This time featuring Paul Ricketts, publisher of the English 80s' fanzine Unhinged.
Debauched: Witchery and Devilry Vol. 2 (2nd Spell) Book
**Massive 288 pages deluxe, hard cover** A whirling, twirling, panorama of satanic sleaze! The Return…. The 2nd Coming…the long-awaited next dose is finally unleashed and ready to melt minds and devour souls. During the height of the turned-on 1960s and 70s Occult explosion even the under the counter adult men’s magazines got in on the act and began a surreal exploration of the haunting netherworld of Witchcraft and Satanism. This monumental art book reveals a world of diabolical smut that was s…
The Lionel Ziprin Box (Book + Tape + Postcards Boxset)
The ultimate tribute to the great Lower Eastside sage, poet, mystic. A sturdy black box in an edition of 50 copies of which 20 copies are available for commercial sale. With: A chap by Robert Yarra, an interview with Lionel, an eulogy by Louise Landes Levi, a letter by Lionel, a postcard (with Ira Cohen), a short tape with Lionel reciting his poetry and three high quality photoprints (numbered and signed) by Dutch top photographer Marco Bakker. For the Harry Smith, Fugs, Bruce Conner fan.
The Huncke Festschrift Project
A 98 page book, fully illustrated, with contributions by Huncke, Ann Charters, Gerald Nicosia, Raymond Foye, Charles Plymell, Kit and Arthur Knight, Gordon Ball, Robert Yarra a.o. Included is a box with two tapes with the interviews and stories and 25 postcards with, so far, unpublished photos of Huncke and friends. An edition of 75 numbered copies
Herbert Edwin Huncke was an American writer and poet, and an active participant in a number of emerging cultural, social and aesthetic movements of …
New York City 1983 reading
Judith Malina & Julian Beck - NYC 1983 reading. A reissue of a recording that was part of CCC's Archives tapes, long OOP. With 2 facsimile press photos.
Jack Kerouac Centennial reading
Louise Landes Levi - reissue of her Jack Kerouac Centennial reading that was part of her long out of print CCC boxset. The originally one-sided tape has new artwork and on the B side new material by LLL and Bombay Lunatic Asylum.
Super-Rondo nr. 1, 1977
Robert Joseph soundpiece Rondo nr 1 1977. An edition of 26 copies made for a soundpoetry event in The Hague
Joseph Robert was born and raised in the Midwest. However, he has always been partial to Hawaiian beaches. Nevertheless: Go Badgers! After living and working for several years in rural Japan, he now resides in London with his wife, writer and poet Leilanie Stewart. In his spare time, you can find him at the British Museum trying to teach himself how to read Sumerian cuneiform. Don’t worry,…
Word Events Performance, Utrecht 10/6/1976
Word Events Performance, Utrecht 10/6/1976. With Michael Gibbs, GJ de Rook and Ulises Carrion. An edition of 26 copies made for a soundpoetry event in The Hague.
Zwevingen with Charles Stein
An edition of 26 copies, archivala releases from different recording sessions, mostly in collaboration with Charlie Morrow (from 1980 to 2010. Greta Monach (1928-2018), an early proponent of computer generated concrete poetry. Greta spent her childhood in indonesia and curaçao. In 1946 she returned to the hague, where she saw abstract painting for the first time, and started to think about abstract (non-semantic) poetry. For decades she experimented without success. from 1946 to 1948 monach stud…
Writers Forum Anniversary Reading at the Poetry Society London, UK 20/10/1973
Writers Forum anniversary reading at the Poetry Society, Londom 20/10/1973. Featuring Bob Cobbing/abAna, Eric Mottram, Lee Harwood Bill Griffiths, Peter Finch/abAna a.o. An edition of 26 copies made for a soundpoetry event in The Hague.
The Beats in Ruigoord (The Jack Kerouac Centennial chap) (Book)
The Jack Kerouac Centennial chap with contributions by all the participants of the event we organised in 2022. 60 pg, fully illustrated, an edition of 100 numbered copies. Readings by Louise Landes Levi, Ed Sanders, Antonio Bonome, Thomas Keller and a host of others.
Like A Girl, I Want You To Keep Coming
** Original copies of this rarity. Factory sealed. Few copies available ** “Like A Girl, I Want You To Keep Coming” (this was a feminist-approved project/title just in case anyone will be scandalized) came at the tail end of label’s existence and is more music-focused. It features some big names in the tracklist including New Order (doing Velvet Underground cover), Debbie Harry, omnipresent David Byrne, Live Skull, Henry Rollins and William Burroughs + Karen Finley on the literary side of thing…
Smack My Crack
** Original copies of this rarity. Factory sealed. Few copies available ** A legendary compilation with contributing musical artists include William S. Burroughs, Tom Waits, Butthole Surfers, Chris Stein, Einsturzende Neubauten, Diamanda Galas, Nick Cave, Swans, John Giorno Band, and Chad & Sudan. Cover art by Gary Panter. "This is a crazy compilation of varying degrees of outsider musicians and poets. It’s a polarizing collection of names – you’re either into Swans or you’re not. You either get…