Ginsberg's copy of "L'internationale hallucinex" (1970)

included envelope to Allen Ginsberg, signed/dated (1994)

contents of the envelope to Allen Ginsberg

prospectus and exhibition announcement

Paris, France: Le Soleil Noir (booklet set), 1970.
Enclosure: 8.375" x 4.5" x 0.75", glossy stock with red background and back printed overlay, tab enclosed on verso, containing 8 booklets and a flyer.
"Manifestes de la génération grise et invisible": 8.25" x 4.375" (when folded); 8.25" x 8.625" (unfolded), 16 pages, staple-bound.
"La marchandise ou la vie" essay: 8.25" x 4.375" (when folded); 16.5" x 8.625" (unfolded), single sheet, printed both sides, four pages when unfolded.
"La marchandise ou la vie" photos #1: 8.25" x 4.375" (when folded); 8.25" x 35" (when open), single sheet, printed one side, eight panels, accordion folded.
"La marchandise ou la vie" photos #2: 8.25" x 4.375" (when folded); 8.25" x 35" (when open), single sheet, printed one side, eight panels, accordion folded.
"La marchandise ou la vie" photos #3: 8.25" x 4.375" (when folded); 8.25" x 35" (when open), single sheet, printed one side, eight panels, accordion folded.
"La marchandise ou la vie" photos #4: 8.25" x 4.375" (when folded); 8.25" x 35" (when open), single sheet, printed one side, eight panels, accordion folded.
"Ligne noire": 8.25" x 4.375", 32 pages, dark blue ink on white paper, staple bound.
"Petit livre peau-rouge": 8.25" x 4.375", 16 pages in red wraps, staple bound.
"Le crépuscule des enculés": 8.375" x 8.375", single sheet, red ink, folded in once.

L'internationale hallucinex, the third release of the series Les cahiers noirs du soleil as published by Le soleil noir (Paris, France) in Spring 1970. This is a set of booklets in a wrap-over enclosure, tabbed in back. 

Burroughs contributes "La génération invisible" ["The Invisible Generation"], "Post-scriptum à La génération grise & invisible" [Post-script to the Grey and Invisible Generation"], and "Abstrait" ["Abstract"] to the first booklet in the box, entitled "Manifestes de la génération grise et invisible", at pages 1-5. This is accompanied by a photograph of Burroughs' face taken by Lufti Özkök (uncredited).

Other contributors to this item include Claude Pélieu, Carl Weissner, Jeff Nuttall, Ed Sanders, Jean-Jacques Lebel, and others.

This copy of the item was Allen Ginsberg's and contains a small envelope sent to him in 1970, which he signed on the recto in 1994. Inside this envelope are a prospectus for "L'internationale hallucinex" and an announcement for an exhibition – printed on silver-colored paper, and another prospectus for Joyce Mansour's "Ça". This copy was likely at one point sold through Pacific Book Auctions, in sale #327 ["The Edwin Blair Collection of Beat Literature", 2006], as item #170. I received this item roughly fifteen years after the sale, so it may have passed through a number of hands.

Maynard & Miles B56.
Shoaf II.72.

Contents:

• Various: "Manifestes de la génération grise et invisible":
• William S. Burroughs: "la génération invisible" (essay, translated by Mary Beach and Claude Pélieu)
• William S. Burroughs: "post-scriptum à La génération grise & invisible" (essay, translated by Mary Beach and Claude Pélieu)
• William S. Burroughs: "Abstrait" (prose, translated by Mary Beach and Claude Pélieu)
• Lufti Özkök: photography of Burroughs, uncredited
• Claude Pélieu: "Buy Bonds Burn a Baby" (collage)
• Claude Pélieu: "3 manifestes de la génération grise & invisible" (essays)
• Claude Pélieu: "Fuck War" (collage)
• Ed Sanders: "Young Consuela..." (poetry)
• Ed Sanders: "Kill me & butcher me..." (poetry)
  
• Ed Sanders: "The fat old banker fascist..." (poetry)
• Claude Pélieu: untitled collage
• Jeff Nuttall: "Dear Marge..." (drawing/poetry)
• Claude Pélieu: "Mini Brutes" (collage)
• Carl Weissner: "Derniers spasmes dans le haut-parler génétique" (essay)
• Carl Weissner: "Qui a maquillé la bataille de jéricho?" (prose)
• Carl Weissner: "Station Identification??" (prose)
• Claude Pélieu: untitled collage
• Carl Weissner: "post-scriptum aux manifestes de la g.g." (essay)
• advertisment of books by William S. Burroughs, Claude Pélieu, Carl Weissner, Jeff Nuttall, and Ed Sanders
•  Jean-Jacques Lebel: "La marchandise ou la vie" (essay and photographs):
• "Classe contre classe"
• "La mort de l'art"
• "Porter la revolution dans la vie"
• "Plus vous achetez moins vous jouissez"
• "La logique de la marchandise"
• "Les flics du capitalisme"
• "Une technique de masse"
• "La C.G.T. defend la publicite... et la marchandise donc le capitalisme"
• Jean-Jacques Lebel: "La marchandise ou la vie [#1]" (20 photographs)
• Jean-Jacques Lebel: "La marchandise ou la vie [#2]" (20 photographs)
• Jean-Jacques Lebel: "La marchandise ou la vie [#3]" (20 photographs)
• Jean-Jacques Lebel: "La marchandise ou la vie [#4]" (20 photographs) 
• Various: "Ligne Noire":
• Jean-Michel Goutier: "Crevez l'ecran!" (essay)
• Pierre Vandrepote: "Erection de l'écriture" (essay)
• Hubert Haddad: "Oracle attendu" (essay)
• Gérard Durozoi: "Logue aux graphes" (poetry)
• Gilles Plazy: "...lettres au Soleil Noir..." (letter)
• Jean-Paul Bourre: "...lettres au Soleil Noir..." (letter)
• G. O. Chateaureynaud: "John le joueur." (poetry)
• A. Malclès: "enfin reconnu le recoin..." (poetry)
• François Leperlier: "Soleil abortif" (poetry)
• François Leperlier: "Le tocsin est a la carotide" (poetry)
• François Leperlier: "Tard de lestre" (poetry)
• François Leperlier: "Le point de retour invisible en moi..." (poetry)
• Didier Paschal-Lejeune: "Operation <<Oulipo>>" (essay)
• Françoise Seloron: "Lit Nº 5" (poetry)
• Alain Maciotta: "Darkness" (poetry)
• Thierry Agullo: "Variations sur la reine" (concrete poetry)
• Ben: "Mon actuelle position est" (essay) 
• Marcel Kahn: "Petit livre peau-rouge" (prose)
• Un groupe antonome: "Le crépuscule des enculés" (essay)