Elton Martin Anglada.
Jack in the Boox: My Life and Love with Ms. Schizophrenia Sexualis.
East Millstone: Tapestry, 1973.
Box with unbound sheets and three envelopes.
115 leaves, of which 15 are double-sided and three envelopes containing 9 sheets, of which 5 are double-sided.
Text in English and Spanish.
Edition of 500.
Signed.
Box Good, otherwise Very Good.
Jack in the Boox title sheet has a vertical crease.
Verso of second title sheet, the colophon is numbered "7/500" and inscribed to Rob / Renate and signed "Elton M. Anglada".
A typewritten sheet detailing technical issues with the creation and reproduction of the edition is present with a small handwritten correction in pen. This sheet is signed "G.".
An illustrated sheet (which appears twice in this edition) has a note written in pen to "Renate". It is unsigned though in the same hand as the inscription on the colophon.
A different sheet has a lengthy note written in pen to "Bob". It is also unsigned though in the same hand as the inscription on the colophon.
Two of the three envelopes have the author's Millstone N.J. address handwritten in pen with stamps affixed. Both have usual damage from being opened. One sheet has handwritten corrections and a handwritten signature.
The third envelope has "THE OFFICIAL SELF" typewritten on the envelope and also has damage from being opened. It contains various facsimiles of official documents, including certificate of naturalization, marriage license, letter of promotion to associate professor from Rutgers University, A letter from the Secretary of Chile seemingly accusing Anglada of espionage, etc.
Box top has three broken seams as well as fraying, creases and wear. Illustrated gummed label paper is intact, but has become detached from box top. Some toning, soiling and writing to top.
The sheets are largely clean and unmarked. The first and last page have some light toning.
A rare unbound publication by academic Elton Martin Anglada mixing narrative, poetry, drawings and visual poetry. Words are cut off the side of the page, Spanish takes over for a page or two at a time (though sometimes on an equal footing with English), the use of Don Quixote as metaphor and references to Gabriel Garcia Marquez, etc is interrupted by other narratives or thoughts. Language ceases to be of use as drawings, made with a line or characters, become the expressive form. A complicated and dense obscure offering from the 1970s.
Elton Martin Anglada, sometimes known as Anglada-Segarra, was born in Spain, apparently spent time in Latin America and taught at Princeton University, Rutgers University and perhaps other institutions. Aside from academic writing on Jorge Luis Borges and José Gutiérrez-Solana, the only apparent public work of his was a 1973 exhibition with David Burrows at Billy Apple's NYC alternative exhibition space Apple (See: Alternatives in Retrospect: An Historical Overview 1969-1975) and an except from "timothy apathy" that appeared in the 1977 little mag "Mag City" #2 edited by Michael Scholnick, Gregory Masters and Gary Lenhart.
OCLC locates two institutional holdings of this book: The Getty Research Institute and Biblioteca del Dipartimento di Lingue, Letterature e Culture moderne - LILEC in Bologna, Italy. Rare in the trade.
