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"The Mystic Saxophonist"

Walt Whitman

Short extract from The Mystic Trumpeter, letterpress printed using Stern, the new metal type design by Jim Rimmer. With frontispiece illustration by JJ Grandville.

178mm x 130mm, pp.8, three-colour letterpress print on Zerkall 120gsm white deckle-edged stock sewn into black card cover with Hahnemühle Bugra Butten Pastell dark red 130gsm wrapper and letterpress printed title plate.

Hand numbered edition of 75

£10.00

"We Want Everyone Facebook and The New American Right"

An essay by Tom Hodgkinson

'At the time of writing, Facebook has 66 million active users - including 8 million in the UK - and 2 million new ones join each week. But you won't catch Tom Hodgkinson volunteering his personal information - not now that he knows the politics of the people behind the social networking site.'

208mm x 134mm, pp.20, printed on Strathmore Natural White 118gsm wove, sewn-in black card cover with Hahnemühle Bugra Butten Pastell blue 130gsm wrapper and letterpress printed title plate.

Hand numbered edition of 100

[3rd edition]

£5.00

"Africa Seems So Far Away & I The Indigene"

2 poems by Penny Rimbaud

The original edition published to coincide with Rimbaud's participation in 'Dinosaur Death Dance', a rock-opera by Japanther at PS122, New York, sold out quickly and is now available again. Recordings of two poems are also available on Japanther's 'Tut Tut Now Shake Ya Butt' LP.

210mm x 136mm, pp.24, printed on Strathmore Writing Natural White 118gsm wove, sewn into black card cover with Hahemühle Bugra Butten 130gsm dark red wrapper with letterpress printed title plate.

Hand numbered edition of 100

[2nd edition]

£6.00

"Freedom Is Such A Big Word"

An essay by Penny Rimbaud

Originally commissioned by Dazed & Confused magazine for their 'Freedom Issue' but pulled at the last minute. Rimbaud's finest writing on libertarianism pulls no punches. As controversial and thought-provoking as ever.

210mm x 125mm, pp.16, Printed on Strathmore Writing Natural White 118gsm wove, sewn into black card cover with Hahemühle Bugra Butten 130gsm brown wrapper with letterpress printed title plate.

Hand-numbered edition of 100

[2nd edition]

£5.00

"Catching Fire From A Distance"

by Youth

Collection of 12 poems and illustrations by Youth, with link to free download of 'Catching fire from a distance' album featuring music, textures and spoken word by Youth. Printed for sale at venues during Killing Joke's 2008 world tour.

210mm x 138mm, pp.28, printed on Strathmore Writing Natural White 118gsm wove, card jacket, 3-hole sewn with Harnemuhle Bugra Butten wrapper with letterpress printed title plate.

Hand numbered edition of 250

SOLD OUT

"Nobody's Child"

An essay by Penny Rimbaud

We are born whole. we are born ageless. we are born of nothing,
nobody's child but our own, but then we are named that we might come
to know ourselves as others wish to know us, as others want us to be.

210mm x 138mm, pp.28, printed on Strathmore Natural White 118gsm
wove, black card jacket, 3-hole sewn. Zerkall Ingres wrapper with
letterpress printed bookplate.

Hand numbered edition of 100

£6.00

"In the beginning ... was the word"

A poem by Penny Rimbaud

In the beginning there was nothing at all nor ever shall be.
Re-print of Rimbaud's performance poem. Printed for opening of the
‘Transparency' exhibition Antwerp 5th September 2008.

210mm x 138mm, pp.20, printed on Strathmore Natural White 118gsm wove
with trace flysheets, card jacket, 3-hole sewn with Harnemuhle Bugra
Butten wrapper.

SOLD OUT

"Turn On, Tune In, Cop Out"

An essay by Penny Rimbaud

Martin Luther King's dream is no longer a dream, it is an intellectual commodity, a plastic-wrapped piece of schmaltz, a gift-shop platitude as far removed from its revolutionary roots as a Che Guevara T-shirt:
one size fits All.

210mm x 136mm, 20 pages, laser copied print on Strathmore Natural White 118gsm wove, sewn-in black card jacket with Zerkall Ingres red wrapper.

Hand numbered edition of 100

£5.00

"Smile or Smirk? The da Vinci Mode"

An essay by Penny Rimbaud

"While we might, for example, go to ‘see' the Mona Lisa, we would almost certainly go to ‘look' at the work of Jackson Pollock. We go to see a movie, but we look at a landscape. The difference? Movies and the Mona Lisa do not question our perceived place in time and space, indeed they confirm it, whereas, both in their very different ways, a landscape or a Pollock challenge the consensual, demanding an involvement outside and beyond the predictable. But how did that come to be?"

210mm x 136mm, 20 pages, laser copied print on Strathmore Writing Natural White 118gsm wove, 3-hole sewn with coloured flyleaves, black card jacket with Zerkall Ingres wrapper and letterpress printed bookplate.

Hand-numbered edition of 100

£5.00

"The Conveniences of Philosophy"

An essay by Penny Rimbaud

Rimbaud contemplates the meaning of life in this tour de force of an essay, originally commissioned by the Idler.

200mm x 140mm, 20 pages, laser copied print on Strathmore Writing Natural White 118gsm wove, 3-hole sewn with yellow flyleaves, black card jacket with grey wrapper and letterpress printed bookplate.

In a hand-numbered edition of 100

£5.00

"How?"

A poem by Penny RImbaud

"Just as the Bush/ Blair coalition seeks to stifle our political and social freedoms, so the cultural tyranny of the likes of Saatchi and Murdoch seeks to subjugate the precious intimacies of our authentic inner-being. My response to these acts of cultural heresy is "How?" - Penny Rimbaud.
Dedicated to the memory of Allen Ginsberg.

210mm x 142mm, 24 pages, laser copied print on Beckett Expression Prairie 118gsm wove, 3-hole sewn with red flyleaves, black card jacket with green wrapper and letterpress printed bookplate.
In a hand-numbered edition of 100

£5.00

The Sound of Stones in the Glass House

by Christian Brett & Gee Vaucher

Document of the text panels featured in The Sound of the Stones in the Glass House exhibition premiered at 96 Gillespie gallery, October 2006.

420mm x 148mm, 32 pages, double-sided lasercopy print on Strathmore 118gsm wove, 5-hole sewn with trace paper wrap jacket.

In an edition of 50 copies, signed & hand-numbered

SOLD OUT

"Methinks"

A poem by Penny Rimbaud

A powerful response to the modern-day Reichstag: 9-11. Specially presented here in the form of a chapbook on the occasion of the Sound of Stones in the Glass House exhibition at 96 Gillespie (which features "Methought" an edited version of the poem).
148mm x 105mm, 8 pages, digital laser print on 118gsm Strathmore natural wove, 3-hole sewn.

Edition of 250 copies

SOLD OUT

"Everybody is suspicious – The Patriot Act"

By Martina Grosz & Hanns-Christoph Koch

Transcript of radio documentary commissioned by Deutschland Radio, Berlin. The text contains interviews with American citizens whose lives have been effected by the introduction of the Act. Includes extracts from a speech by Cornel West, interviews with librarians and activists, along with the author of the US Patriot Act: Viet Dinh.
210mm x 132mm, 32 pages, digital laser print on 118gsm Strathmore natural wove, 3-hole sewn with flysheet and 3-colour letterpress printed card cover.

Edition of 100 hand-numbered copies

SOLD OUT

"In the beginning … was the word"

A performance poem by Penny Rimbaud

Originally published May 2005 in an edition of 50 copies. This booklet illustrates the large scale text panels by Christian Brett, which formed part of a joint exhibition of works with the artist Gee Vaucher. The poem, performed by Crass Agenda, and the exhibition, took place during the TEXT05 Festival at the Exeter Phoenix, May 2005.

210mm x 140mm, 16 pages, two colour digital inkjet print on 118gsm Strathmore Writing natural white wove, 3-hole sewn, presented in black paper folder with graphic front plate.

2nd Edition

SOLD OUT

"Censorship by Omission and the Economics of Truth"

by Christian Brett

A 10,500 word text written in response to the events of 9-11 and the 2nd Gulf War, exploring the manipulation of and by the media and the dismantling of democracy. Although originally completed in November 2003 and submitted as part of a fine art degree, much of the text is still very relevant to today.

210mm x 148mm, 32 page pamphlet printed on 118gsm Strathmore natural wove, 3-hole sewn with letterpress card cover.

2nd Edition of 100 copies

SOLD OUT

Download Endnotes & Bibliography for the above text. Includes extensive notes along with short afterword regarding the figures quoted relating to contracts awarded to ‘re-build’ Iraq and Afghanistan.


		"The Mystic Saxophonist" Walt Whitman Short extract from The Mystic Trumpeter, letterpress printed using Stern, the new metal type design by Jim Rimmer. With frontispiece illustration by JJ Grandville. 178mm x 130mm, pp.8, three-colour letterpress print on Zerkall 120gsm white deckle-edged stock sewn into black card cover with Hahnemühle Bugra Butten Pastell dark red 130gsm wrapper and letterpress printed title plate. Hand numbered edition of 75 £10.00

		"We Want Everyone Facebook and The New American Right" An essay by Tom Hodgkinson 'At the time of writing, Facebook has 66 million active users - including 8 million in the UK - and 2 million new ones join each week. But you won't catch Tom Hodgkinson volunteering his personal information - not now that he knows the politics of the people behind the social networking site.' 208mm x 134mm, pp.20, printed on Strathmore Natural White 118gsm wove, sewn-in black card cover with Hahnemühle Bugra Butten Pastell blue 130gsm wrapper and letterpress printed title plate. Hand numbered edition of 100 [3rd edition] £5.00

		"Africa Seems So Far Away & I The Indigene" 2 poems by Penny Rimbaud The original edition published to coincide with Rimbaud's participation in 'Dinosaur Death Dance', a rock-opera by Japanther at PS122, New York, sold out quickly and is now available again. Recordings of two poems are also available on Japanther's 'Tut Tut Now Shake Ya Butt' LP. 210mm x 136mm, pp.24, printed on Strathmore Writing Natural White 118gsm wove, sewn into black card cover with Hahemühle Bugra Butten 130gsm dark red wrapper with letterpress printed title plate. Hand numbered edition of 100 [2nd edition] £6.00

		"Freedom Is Such A Big Word" An essay by Penny Rimbaud Originally commissioned by Dazed & Confused magazine for their 'Freedom Issue' but pulled at the last minute. Rimbaud's finest writing on libertarianism pulls no punches. As controversial and thought-provoking as ever. 210mm x 125mm, pp.16, Printed on Strathmore Writing Natural White 118gsm wove, sewn into black card cover with Hahemühle Bugra Butten 130gsm brown wrapper with letterpress printed title plate. Hand-numbered edition of 100 [2nd edition] £5.00

		"Catching Fire From A Distance" by Youth Collection of 12 poems and illustrations by Youth, with link to free download of 'Catching fire from a distance' album featuring music, textures and spoken word by Youth. Printed for sale at venues during Killing Joke's 2008 world tour. 210mm x 138mm, pp.28, printed on Strathmore Writing Natural White 118gsm wove, card jacket, 3-hole sewn with Harnemuhle Bugra Butten wrapper with letterpress printed title plate. Hand numbered edition of 250 SOLD OUT

		"Nobody's Child" An essay by Penny Rimbaud We are born whole. we are born ageless. we are born of nothing, nobody's child but our own, but then we are named that we might come to know ourselves as others wish to know us, as others want us to be. 210mm x 138mm, pp.28, printed on Strathmore Natural White 118gsm wove, black card jacket, 3-hole sewn. Zerkall Ingres wrapper with letterpress printed bookplate. Hand numbered edition of 100 £6.00

		"In the beginning ... was the word" A poem by Penny Rimbaud In the beginning there was nothing at all nor ever shall be. Re-print of Rimbaud's performance poem. Printed for opening of the ‘Transparency' exhibition Antwerp 5th September 2008. 210mm x 138mm, pp.20, printed on Strathmore Natural White 118gsm wove with trace flysheets, card jacket, 3-hole sewn with Harnemuhle Bugra Butten wrapper. SOLD OUT

		"Turn On, Tune In, Cop Out" An essay by Penny Rimbaud Martin Luther King's dream is no longer a dream, it is an intellectual commodity, a plastic-wrapped piece of schmaltz, a gift-shop platitude as far removed from its revolutionary roots as a Che Guevara T-shirt: one size fits All. 210mm x 136mm, 20 pages, laser copied print on Strathmore Natural White 118gsm wove, sewn-in black card jacket with Zerkall Ingres red wrapper. Hand numbered edition of 100 £5.00

		"Smile or Smirk? The da Vinci Mode" An essay by Penny Rimbaud "While we might, for example, go to ‘see' the Mona Lisa, we would almost certainly go to ‘look' at the work of Jackson Pollock. We go to see a movie, but we look at a landscape. The difference? Movies and the Mona Lisa do not question our perceived place in time and space, indeed they confirm it, whereas, both in their very different ways, a landscape or a Pollock challenge the consensual, demanding an involvement outside and beyond the predictable. But how did that come to be?" 210mm x 136mm, 20 pages, laser copied print on Strathmore Writing Natural White 118gsm wove, 3-hole sewn with coloured flyleaves, black card jacket with Zerkall Ingres wrapper and letterpress printed bookplate. Hand-numbered edition of 100 £5.00

		"The Conveniences of Philosophy" An essay by Penny Rimbaud Rimbaud contemplates the meaning of life in this tour de force of an essay, originally commissioned by the Idler. 200mm x 140mm, 20 pages, laser copied print on Strathmore Writing Natural White 118gsm wove, 3-hole sewn with yellow flyleaves, black card jacket with grey wrapper and letterpress printed bookplate. In a hand-numbered edition of 100 £5.00

		"How?" A poem by Penny RImbaud "Just as the Bush/ Blair coalition seeks to stifle our political and social freedoms, so the cultural tyranny of the likes of Saatchi and Murdoch seeks to subjugate the precious intimacies of our authentic inner-being. My response to these acts of cultural heresy is "How?" - Penny Rimbaud. Dedicated to the memory of Allen Ginsberg. 210mm x 142mm, 24 pages, laser copied print on Beckett Expression Prairie 118gsm wove, 3-hole sewn with red flyleaves, black card jacket with green wrapper and letterpress printed bookplate. In a hand-numbered edition of 100 £5.00

		The Sound of Stones in the Glass House by Christian Brett & Gee Vaucher Document of the text panels featured in The Sound of the Stones in the Glass House exhibition premiered at 96 Gillespie gallery, October 2006. 420mm x 148mm, 32 pages, double-sided lasercopy print on Strathmore 118gsm wove, 5-hole sewn with trace paper wrap jacket. In an edition of 50 copies, signed & hand-numbered SOLD OUT

		"Methinks" A poem by Penny Rimbaud A powerful response to the modern-day Reichstag: 9-11. Specially presented here in the form of a chapbook on the occasion of the Sound of Stones in the Glass House exhibition at 96 Gillespie (which features "Methought" an edited version of the poem). 148mm x 105mm, 8 pages, digital laser print on 118gsm Strathmore natural wove, 3-hole sewn. Edition of 250 copies SOLD OUT

		"Everybody is suspicious – The Patriot Act" By Martina Grosz & Hanns-Christoph Koch Transcript of radio documentary commissioned by Deutschland Radio, Berlin. The text contains interviews with American citizens whose lives have been effected by the introduction of the Act. Includes extracts from a speech by Cornel West, interviews with librarians and activists, along with the author of the US Patriot Act: Viet Dinh. 210mm x 132mm, 32 pages, digital laser print on 118gsm Strathmore natural wove, 3-hole sewn with flysheet and 3-colour letterpress printed card cover. Edition of 100 hand-numbered copies SOLD OUT

		"In the beginning … was the word" A performance poem by Penny Rimbaud Originally published May 2005 in an edition of 50 copies. This booklet illustrates the large scale text panels by Christian Brett, which formed part of a joint exhibition of works with the artist Gee Vaucher. The poem, performed by Crass Agenda, and the exhibition, took place during the TEXT05 Festival at the Exeter Phoenix, May 2005. 210mm x 140mm, 16 pages, two colour digital inkjet print on 118gsm Strathmore Writing natural white wove, 3-hole sewn, presented in black paper folder with graphic front plate. 2nd Edition SOLD OUT

		"Censorship by Omission and the Economics of Truth" by Christian Brett A 10,500 word text written in response to the events of 9-11 and the 2nd Gulf War, exploring the manipulation of and by the media and the dismantling of democracy. Although originally completed in November 2003 and submitted as part of a fine art degree, much of the text is still very relevant to today. 210mm x 148mm, 32 page pamphlet printed on 118gsm Strathmore natural wove, 3-hole sewn with letterpress card cover. 2nd Edition of 100 copies SOLD OUT

		Download Endnotes & Bibliography for the above text. Includes extensive notes along with short afterword regarding the figures quoted relating to contracts awarded to ‘re-build’ Iraq and Afghanistan.