I found issue 5 volume 7 in the garbage of a university. It’s amazing! I’ve never read anything by Ginsberg or Burroughs and this seems like a good way to start.

Nice list

Hi ! Can someone confirm me whether the fuck you Press “books”, such as Roosevelt After Inauguration, were staple bound or just free paper leaves ?

Thanks a lot!

Roosevelt after Inauguration was staple bound as were most of the Fuck You publications, but that said I have seen copies of Roosevelt that were collated but were never stapled. I have seen a couple issues of Fuck You Magazine that way as well. They were never stapled at all; not that the stapled were removed at a later date.

Can anyone tell me which issue contained something by Antonin Artaud, which text it was, and who the translator was?

I have an issue of the magazine that has no volume or issue # on the cover, just “Fuck You, a magazine of the arts, June, 1965.” On the second page it says “Number 5, Volume 9, June/July 1965.” The front cover has different graphics on it from the one you show. Does anyone know what the discrepancy is about? Thanks!

Jack

As you can see with the comment about the stapling on Roosevelt, FY items were definitely put together differently. I have heard of different papers being used on various publications as well (like Platonic Blow for example or the colored vs uncolored covers for the pirated Cantos of Pound). So it is possible that different graphics were made as well. Maybe Sanders ran more copies of the text than the covers and had to make extra covers. If you can please scan it and we can add it to the archive as a possible variant.

Hi Jed,

Thanks very much for your reply. I’ve heard quite a few stories about the inconsistency of FY and other publications, including bad collating, upside down pages, and loads of other variants. You obviously are an expert, and I’m sure you’ve seen many. An interesting fact about this copy and the others in my collection is that they were Jackson Mac Low’s copies. They came directly from his estate, as did some other interesting stuff that I was lucky enough to get. I don’t have a scanner hooked up to my computer, but I will ask someone I know to help me with it, and I’ll send you what seem to be the “odd” pages in this issue. Thanks again for your theories of how this might have happened. I’ll be in touch soon.

Regards,
Jack

That is very interesting about Jackson Mac Low. If you care to share, what other type of material was in his estate? What type of little mags and books did he have/read? I have been meaning to get a copy of DOINGS for quite some time. Have you read that book?

To help complete your bibliography of Peace Eye bookstore, may I add that there was a catalog # 4 1/2 which featured Sazbo’s collection of books he used as collateral against a loan from Ed Sanders.
The cover of the catalog can be seen at this link:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bookstreet/3389151188/

Thanks.

There is an Ed Sanders exhibit at The Arm in Brooklyn. Details: http://thearmnyc.com/news/2009/06/ed_sanders_show_at_the_arm

I hear there are paste-ups of the various Fuck You, a magazine of the arts issues as well as rare and virtually unseen ephemerial items. The opening in on July 10th.