Valerie Solanas’s S.C.U.M Manifesto was a extraordinarily provocative radical feminist publication written in a time of deep political unrest in America. While its ideas were polarising and based on black and white and moralising assessments of gender, it is considered to be a fundamental text for feminist theory because of its reading of the fatal state of the world, the responsibility than men carry and her urgent call to action. This is the copy of the poet Astra, and has an ownership signature on verso of cover. Beautiful feminist history association. The book began its life as a self-published pamphlet in New York.

London: The Olympia Press, 1971. First UK Edition. Introduction by Vivian Gornick 52 p.Pamphlet. Good. A read copy, visible folds, discolouration of the cover, occasional underlinings. Can be hard to find, and particularly nice to find with history of feminist ownership.