Some 60’s British movie tie-ins 
British Cold War pulp. Half right about the future - the Russians sweep into London, but they don’t buy property and football teams and politicians
Meanwhile the Americans are just duking it out with the commies on the moon
The commercial 60’s
Counterculture non-fiction
Mass market Hemingway
I’m feeling these Faber covers - later than I thought (1968 and 1971)
1970’s black Britain
Note to self
Selling France to the Anglo. Two strategies.
Penguin 1965, 1961, 1962
I think this one needs its own picture to be appreciated in all its Mod glory
Public information booklet by Hull City Council, UK, early 80’s
Hippy trail guidebooks 1971, 1975
I know I should remember why I have the script for the David Essex episode of This Is Your Life. Code name “County”. See what they did there?
British exploitation covers for Chester Himes 1969
1710, The History of the Great Genghis Khan, compiled in Paris from Arabic and Turkish sources for Louis XIV, with a map of Central Asia. Found in a charity book shop on the English south coast.
I just realized that 1710 map of Central Asia is upside down. Another try:
Material from Penguin Books organization The Puffin Club, staple of British middle class childhood in the 1970’s
London School of Economics 1972
Black Dwarf, 1969
Not sure Time Out would consider this a ‘selling cover’ today. On Ulster Loyalists, 1972
Big Flame, Operaismo-influenced UK group, 1976 @katforrester
Anarchist analysis of use of colonial anti-insurgency tactics in domestic policing, Cienfuegos Press 1981. Relevant in today’s US context @KimAtiWagner
Another document with contemporary relevance. British government report on use of torture against terrorist suspects in Northern Ireland, 1972. Look at the list of ‘procedures’
1978, Trotskyist publication protesting the H Blocks
I probably don’t need a copy of the electoral code of the Republic of Guinea
1927. The play that brought the word ‘robot’ into English
I’m probably not the right home for this 1873 history of Mormonism, inscribed by the author to a friend, possibly the Harper’s journalist Archibald Constable. I pulled it out of a box at a house clearance in Fort Greene.
This literally just fell out of an old pb. Nice design on this 60’s Penguin bookmark for Georges Simenon. Something for @sarahw or is Maigret too cozy for you?
Fro bros
Oh man I just found this again. Harold Pinter wrote this, uh, highly personal message when we read together at a protest soon after the start of the Iraq war. I did my thing, then he got on stage and ...
... barked out this. We were in a church, I think. Maybe St Martin in the Fields. It’s not much of a poem, but it makes its point. There was one of those awkward English silences.
You are now entering Free Sulsted. I’d post spreads from this how-to guide to defending your autonomous community against the state but it’s quite specific and you know how things are these days. Published in the Orkney Islands by Stuart Christie’s Cienfuegos press, 1981
English fiction c. 1970
My grandfather had a 1st edition of The Doors of Perception. He died when I was quite young and I never found out if his curiosity went any further
George Orwell, for the ‘Britain in Pictures’ series 1947. ‘Typically English is Mr Orwell’s capacity to look with critical eyes upon his fellow citizens. It is part of his love for them.’
I paid less than 2 shillings for this
Sometimes I wonder if he’s actually dead
Sometimes I wonder if he’s actually dead
Underground London 1934, all 100% true and properly reported
Accounts by WW1 conscientious objectors about isolation, enforced silence and other conditions in prison, 1918
Derring-do: ‘for younger readers’ 1877
