Simon Ford

Very rare first and only 1999 edition on Black Dog Publishing of the definitive book on COUM & Throbbing Gristle, fully illustrated thoughout. Includes Mute oversize card.

Very rare 1999 postcard, reproducing COUM Transmission's “Prostitution” press release, announcing the forthcoming publication of the “Wreckers of Civilisation” book for Black Dog Publishing.

** condition: (book) VG+** Softcover book with illustrations.  RARE OOP! "These people are the wreckers of civilisation", exclaimed the conservative Member of Parliment Nicholas Fairbairn in 1976. His outburst was meant to describe four artists and musicians - Genesis P-Orridge, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Peter Christopherson and Chris Carter. What "these people" had done to deserve such an epithet, and what they were about to do, is the subject of this book. From the forword by Jon Savage: "Wreckers of…