THE POOR & THE SUPERPOOR. 1972. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH

NYC: Create Situations, n.d. (circa 1972) 

22 x 14.5cm, 46pp plus wrappers (with an image of marble busts of Mao, Lenin, Stalin and Beethoven(!) on the cover and reverse a reproduced news cutting of the Brooklyn riots of 1971. This was the first translation into English of Debord’s texts (“Contributions serving to rectify the opinion of the public concerning the revolution in underdeveloped countries”, “The explosion point of ideology in China”, “Two local wars” and Class struggles in Algeria”) three which were republished from IS nr 11 although the China text is slightly earlier. A very good example with slight wear to wrappers with some minor rubbing to extremities of the covers.