Collectible – Page 4 – Sea Urchin Editions

William Levy – Jeremiad Chants (An Absolute Polemic)

Jeremiad Chants, subtitled An Absolute Polemic, was published independently by William Levy and illustrator Peter Pontiac in 1979. With a print run of only 500 copies and Fluxus artist Willem de Ridder as a designer, this little book is a true countercultural gem. Levy’s seductively packaged but caustic chapters would…

€ 40.00

Jack Spicer – Lament for the Maker

American poet Jack Spicer was born in 1925 in Los Angeles, where he graduated from Fairfax High School in 1942 and studied at the University of Redlands from 1943 and 1945. After having worked as a movie extra and private investigator, Spicer moved to Berkeley, where he attended the University of California and started writing and publishing poetry. Together with his friends Robert Duncan and Robin Blaser, Spicer set out to create a new kind of poetry….

Ins & Outs Magazine #2

Ins & Outs magazine was initiated by Salah Harharah, who ran a travel agency from Amsterdam and wanted to model a monthly events periodical after London’s Time Out magazine. Eddie Woods and Jane Harvey, freshly arrived in Amsterdam from London, joined the editorial board in 1978 and put together three issues of the magazine that same year. But instead of the periodical for Amsterdam’s tourist trade that Harharah had in mind, Woods and Harvey turned…

€ 18.00

Sadegh Hedayat – De blinde uil

Sadegh Hedayat was born into an aristocratic family in Tehran in 1903. He briefly studied engineering in Belgium in 1925 followed by architecture and dentistry in France, where he stayed for four years and was rescued from a suicide attempt. In 1930 he returned to Iran without having taken a degree and devoted the rest of his life to the studies of Western literature and Iranian folklore. Inspired by Rilke, Poe, Kafka and Chekhov…

€ 10.00

Ernest Ryman – Teddy Boy (first printing)

Teddy Boys and Girls were a British rock’n’ roll subculture in the 1950s. Drawing inspiration from British Edwardian-era dandies Teddy Boys wore drape jackets, drainpipe trousers, loose-collared white shirts, Slim Jim ties and suede creepers, while Teddy Girls (or Judies) wore drape jackets, pencil skirts, rolled-up jeans, cameo brooches and clutch bags. The violent and delinquent life-style…