By: Ted Dunn

Ted Dunn — Wed, 20 Jan 2016 19:53:00 +0000

I am proud to say I have one of the silver printings in my collection. One of those instances of coming across it when searching for something else but knowing immediately its’ importance. You were right Jed to include this in your Top 23 list.

By: BIGCRUX

BIGCRUX — Thu, 14 Jan 2016 11:03:20 +0000

I have the single sheet Invisible Generation ‘REPRINTED FROM INTERNATIONAL TIMES’…looks the same as above except instead of City Lights distribution panel in the lower corner there is a subscription form for IT

By: BIGCRUX

BIGCRUX — Thu, 14 Jan 2016 01:01:17 +0000

so what exactly is ‘issue 14.25″? Great article, Jed. Great follow up, BM.

By: Barry Miles

Barry Miles — Tue, 12 Jan 2016 10:17:00 +0000

This is an interesting choice, Jed. As the publisher of International Times, and consequently of the half issue 5.5, I’d like to make a few remarks. The printing dates you give come from my Burroughs Bibliography (I did everything except the books in Maynard & Miles) and I think I will have say that, in retrospect, they are clearly wrong. It’s true that the first printing, in silver ink, silk-screened on card, was delivered to my bookshop on Christmas Eve, and that I called Bill to let him know it was in, and he came over to see it and collect some copies. We certainly didn’t sell all 200 of the print run on that one day. The reason we changed the colour of the ink was that Bill complained that you couldn’t see the words with silver on white. Michael English suggested doing it in gold and Bill agreed. It was not a question of creating a limited edition – there is no limitation stated as far as I remember – but making the thing legible. Michael and his design partner Nigel Waymouth (sic) often had legibility problems with their silk-screens, it was all a new venture. As you say, the IT poster came shortly after Michael had designed the poster for the UFO club, and he was only just getting into his stride. I cannot imagine where I got the December 26th printing date for the gold poster from. It must have been Michael – who is sadly no longer with us so I can’t ask him – but even then, I should have known better than to believe it. Nothing happens in Britain on December 26th. It is Boxing Day, a public holiday, and nothing is open, certainly not the print shop that Michael used. Also, we had not yet sold all the first run of the posters so there was no real urgency. I imagine it was three or four days later that we ran off a further 1600 or so copies. There are several reasons for the relative scarcity of the poster. We had several hundred subscribers and, at least technically, they were all entitled to a copy (though its hard to believe that we bought cardboard tubes and rolled them up and sent them out). Also, even then, there were collectors who wanted everything. Subsequent to that, all the half and quarter issues of IT have become collectors items for people wanting a complete run. The scarcest of all being issue 14.25, which was also a poster. As far as cut-ups go, there seems to be more interest in it now than any time since the late seventies when there was a spurt of interest – mostly from german writers. Now we have people like Dodie Bellamy whose “Cunt Ups” is an obvious example (from Tender Buttons Press). There was considerable interest caused by the Cut-Ups show held at the Vienna Kunsthall a couple of years ago, also in the cut-ups aspect of the Burroughs show at the Photographers Gallery here in London where Andrew Wilson from Tate Britain and I gave a talk on the history of Cut-ups. Andrew and I are presently working (slowly) on a cut-up bibliography which I will send in as a post when ready. I very much enjoyed the piece – thought provoking.

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