SCUM Manifesto, revised edition with two letters.
Revised Edition
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with two TLS by Solanas
Solanas, Valerie. SCUM Manifesto. The Correct Valeria Solanas Edition. New York: Valerie Solanas, (1977).
Folio; newsprint; four leaves, eight pages; typescript additions stapled to top of page 5; addressed by hand, stamped and franked on final page.
A remarkably clean copy of the revised first edition of Valerie Solanas’s incendiary manifesto. Prior to this edition, Solanas released the original SCUM in October 1967, and Maurice Girodias’s Olympia Press published an altered edition in August 1968 to a widespread audience, much to Solanas’s dissatisfaction. In the brief forward contained herein, Solanas accuses Girodias of changing significant portions of SCUM against her wishes and states that this edition is the version that should have made it to print ten years prior. This copy, addressed in ink to Mark Zussman at Oui Magazine, is postmarked July 15, 1977, and includes two additional portions of text on a typescript left stapled to page five: “beyond his own physical sensations, having nothing to express” and “When aging and death are eliminated why continue to reproduce?”
Together with:
Solanas, Valerie. Typed letter signed, “Valerie Solanas,” to MOB, August 19, 1977; one leaf, recto only, corrected throughout in type.
Solanas lists her monetary demands made to various publications perceived to have “ripped off” SCUM. The primary targets of her ire are the Village Voice, Zodiac and L’Espresso, and her compensatory figures range from $50,000 to $3 million. In addition, Solanas calls for the firing of Michael Chance of High Times as well as jail sentences meted out to employees from every publication mentioned in this letter. A ranting letter, written in the aggressively hostile, paranoid tone for which Solanas is best remembered.
Together with:
Solanas, Valerie. Typed letter signed, “Valerie Solanas,” to MOB, September 3, 1977; half leaf, recto and verso, corrected throughout in type and ink; annotated.
This letter functions as an emendation to a letter written on September 2. The correspondence is the continuation of Solanas’s letter to the Italian publication Il corriere della sera, which was scheduled to run details of a court order pertaining to the author. Solanas instructs Zussman to alter the previous letter to include a threat to “punch all Boetti’s teeth out.” Solanas gives a few pre-conditions before giving her approval for Zussman to “put deep scars on her face.”
Together with:
A franked envelope address in type to MOB care of Mark Zussman.
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