Autograph draft of the mission statement of Merlin by Alexander Trocchi, circa 1954. With Richard Seaver and Austryn Wainhouse, Trocchi edited Merlin from 1952-1955.
Typescript of "Tapeworm" by Alexander Trocchi, 1946. Published posthumously in Invisible Insurrection of A Million Minds: A Trocchi Reader edited by Andrew Murray Scott in 1991.
Typescript draft of "The Rum and the Pelican" by Alexander Trocchi. Adapted from an episode in James Fidler and published in Merlin, Volume 2, Number 3 (1954).
Typescript draft of Alexander Trocchi's response to "Alex Trocchi Gives a Party" by Felix Scorpion in the International Times, Number 55 (April 25-May 8, 1969).
"Potlatch: An Interpersonal Log" by Alexander Trocchi served as number 4 of the Sigma Portfolio. Self-publishing was a key aspect of Project Sigma and the Sigma Portfolio texts produced by Trocchi were circulated on a subscription basis. Project…