Both almost invisible on the Internet:
- Chris Marker’s The Forthright Spirit (Wingate, London, 1951), a translation of Le Cœur net (Paris, 1949), a novel by the film maker. An amazon.co.uk listing here, this site declares that it’s “about two days in the lives of a network of friends & memories, centering around a solitary airmail pilot caught in a rainstorm over the jungles of Vietnam in the aftermath of ‘a major war’. The dust jacket says nothing much about the author other than that he ‘likes radio more than literature, cinema more than radio, and music most of all.'” Dalkey thinks it should be reissued.
- Barbara Moore, CookPot (ReFlux Editions, 1985), cover visible here, something of a Fluxus cookbook, with recipes by La Monte Young & Carolee Schneemann and probably others. Mentioned in Owen F. Smith’s Fluxus: the history of an attitude; evidently this was originally to be published by Fluxus in the 1970s, then wandered over to Dick Higgins’s Something Else Press, and then Moore printed it herself in 1985.
I recently purchased two copies of Barbara Moore’s “Cookpot.” These transactions were on the heels of Printed Matter’s exhibition of Money for Food Press publications earlier this year (2006), a time when I was searching for books by Brian Buczak. (“Cookpot” was designed by Buczak.)
It’s a terrific compilation of artists’ contributions, and includes a stenciled cover by Buczak, along with an original photograph by Peter Moore. It was made in an edition of around 350 copies.