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Labyris Books Benefit Poetry Series [Audre Lorde, Dolores Prida, Erica Jong]

$350
  • Binding: Poster. Offset. 9 ¾ x 12 ⅓ in. Very good, with mild toning to recto and substantial at verso, not affecting poster image or t
  • Publisher: Labyris Books
  • Location: New York
  • Date: 1973
  • Seller SKU: 10357

New York: Labyris Books, 1973. Poster. Offset. 9 ¾ x 12 ⅓ in. Very good, with mild toning to recto and substantial at verso, not affecting poster image or text. Poster for the a reading series at P.S. 41 in Greenwich Village to benefit Labryis Books, the first-and at the time of this reading, only-feminist bookstore in New York City.

Named for the double-sided ax wielded by Amazon warriors, Labyris was an important meeting place for feminist readers and intellectuals during its tenure in New York's Greenwich Village from 1972-1977. Founded in 1972 by lesbian feminist activists Marizel Rios and Jane Lurie, it was a hub of lesbian-separatist thought in New York, and led the way for subsequent feminist bookstores like Womanbooks on the Upper West Side, Women's Works (later La Papaya) in Brooklyn's Prospect Heights, and Djuna Books in the West Village.

An document of lesbian poetry from the first feminist bookstore in New York.

Offered by Fugitive Materials

Fugitive Materials
Specializing in Archives & Collections, Black Liberation, Central & Latin America, Feminism, Lgbtq+, Middle East, Radicalism, Social Movements and Underground Art.

Fugitive Materials is committed to the preservation of radical, lesser-known, and alternative histories, and to the disruption of informational privilege through archiving, publishing, and bookselling. We specialize in global material cultures of resistance: the detritus of radical social movements, queer histories, counterculture, pedagogy, urbanism, uprisings, and art. We organize, catalog, and place archives, ephemera, and primary-source documents with universities and museums around the world. As members of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America (ABAA), we buy and sell books, periodicals and ephemera and locate rare and out-of-print publications. Fugitive Materials also publishes books, zines, and catalogs, oftentimes prompted by archival materials we handle

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Daylon Orr
686 Sterling Place
2nd Floor
BROOKLYN, New York 11216
Phone/Text: (917) 239-1385

All items subject to prior sale. Returns will be accepted for any reason within a week of receipt. Please provide advance notice of the return. All books and ephemera are graded to general antiquarian guidelines, with fine being our highest grade.

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