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DL is glad to announce the publication of Nate Orton's The Passenger, now available at the DL website and better motel rooms. Risograph printed in blue and gold by Kate Davis from the original drawings, which were made in parking lots and rearranged with packing tape.

Unicorn tattoo. From Salvador Ottolenghi and Ugo Rossi's rare 1894 pamphlet on the tattoos of convicts in Siena.

@luddites200 I see him with it on the desk as he penned the White Heat speech. "...no room for Luddites in the Socialist Party."

Interesting to come across this: Former Labour Party Prime Minister, Harold Wilson's copy of that classic C19th work of Luddite fan-fiction, Frank Peel's 'Rising of the Luddites' for sale for $300 from @divisionleap in Langlois, Oregon, USA divisionleap.com/pages/books/31…

@alice_notley @OhioStateRBML We noted the three European edition issues in the original description- love those issues as well. So much great work there, and such amazing covers- would be great for a publisher to reprint them someday. Thank you.

@OhioStateRBML @divisionleap There were nine issues.

RBML recently acquired all six issues of Chicago, the little magazine poet Alice Notley edited from 1972-1974. (Thanks, @divisionleap!) Check out the catalog record here: library.ohio-state.edu/record=b108588….

@OhioStateRBML So glad this is in the collection, thank you. Chicago is wonderful.

Seaweed was an historically foraged food in the Azores , & I’m tempted to think that this was something of a talismanic vessel for a new life, based in a mode of sustenance from the old. The use of baling twine, that most west coast of binders, brings the geography full circle.

A handmade book of pressed seaweed and snapshots documenting the family tree of a family of Azorean immigrants to California around the turn of the last century. I love the way it joins natural and family history.

Map to get to Disarmament City, the occupation campsite set up in Central Park as part of the June 1982 anti-nuclear protests in New York City. #radicalcartography

A superb example of youth bibliographic and comic fandom in a lonely decade, and the overwhelming desire to publish your own fanzine - even if it existed in only a single copy. #zines #fanzines

This last issue also promises a Volkswagen commercial on the cover, and it delivers. The final page is a fold out leaf clipped from another magazine, with additions by Paul.

Throughly enjoying cataloguing these three unique, handmade fanzines made by 2 brothers in Huntington Park, California in 1962, documenting their obsessions with comics, book hunting and stamp collecting.

@shrimpskimpi You stopped the murder of a crow / by a murder of crows

Program for a 1949 performance by John Cage & Merce Cunninham at Reed College in Portland, Oregon (my alma mater). Tempting to wonder who might have been in the audience, as Lew Welch, Gary Snyder and Philip Whalen all were attending Reed at the time. #reedcollege

Yayoi Kusama. From the rare 1977 limited edition book Shigashu Nana 7, a collaboration with the poet Masataka Sekoh and artist Masatoshi Tamaki. #yayoikusama

@rusdaboss serendipity and desire

how do you choose what books to acquire?

@OhioStateRBML So glad to see that Chainsaw in the collection!

New additions to the Riot Grrrl Zine Collection are now available! A few examples pictured below -- Chainsaw, Alabama Grrrl, & The Visible Woman -- all from @divisionleap. To learn more, visit the collection's finding aid: library.osu.edu/collections/SP….