Bryan Ray Turcotte, Christopher T. Miller

Limited first edition of Fucked Up + Photocopied laid in original wood box.

• Fucked Up + Photocopied: Instant Art of the Punk Rock Movement.
• Bryan Ray Turcotte (American).
• Christopher T. Miller (American).
• Los Angeles / Corte Madera: Kill Your Idols / Gingko Press, 1999 / 2015.
• 49 numbered copies, this being number 40.
• Unbound with sewn signatures and original boards and belly band loosely laid into original wood box with silkscreened cover.

Published in 1999, Bryan Turcotte's Fucked up + Photocopied — issued by his Kill Your Idols imprint by Ginko — was rightly hailed at the time as the first real reckoning with and appreciation of the art and culture of American punk flyers. With essay and interviews from Brendan Mullen, Jello Biafra, Pushead, Mike Watt, Lorna Doom, Tony Alva, Ian Mackaye and Malcolm McLaren, among other, and featuring art from the likes of Winston Smith (Dead Kennedys) and Raymond Pettibon (Black Flag), the book offered a comprehensive overview of the form. Arranged both topically and geographically, sections and bands included: San Francisco, skate rock, Los Angeles and the Valley, Slash Magazine, "stolen" art, Texas, the Midwest, Boston, DC, New York, the Weirdos, X, the Germs, The Ramones, Misfits, Necros, Sonic Youth, D.O.A., as well as innumerable smaller groups from the period.

Since its original publication, the book has gone through numerous printings and editions, including an expanded edition in celebration of the book's fifteenth anniversary. As part of that project, Ginko also issued this deluxe limited edition of the first edition: one of just 49 copies housed wood box with a silk-screened cover, it assembles an unbound copy of the 1999 edition, sewn but unopened, with the original boards loose. It is, essentially, unusable as issued. And as such, a particularly appropriate "fuck you" to the collectibles market. One that won't, however, stop us from selling it. It does, at the very least, display well.

A scarce and unusual example of this now standard reference on American punk.