Richard Hell, Artifact: Notebooks from Hell 1974–1980. Hanuman Books, 1990. First edition. Series VII, No. 37. 77 pp.
Selections from Richard Hell's notebooks spanning 1974 to 1980. An intimate record of the writer and punk pioneer's creative process, observations, and literary experiments.
Hanuman Books was an independent publishing series founded in New York in 1986 by Raymond Foye and Francesco Clemente and printed in Madras, India. Produced in a distinctive pocket-sized format inspired by Indian devotional books, the series featured vividly colored covers and intimate editions by the avant-garde's most influential writers, artists, musicians, and filmmakers.
Condition: Signed by the author. One page loose. Cover with two small tears; otherwise very good.
Dimensions: 4 1/8 × 2 3/4 in.
