[London]: [Jeff Nuttall], 1964. First edition. 46pp; mimeographed on green and yellow leaves. Side-stapled in illustrated self-wraps, the rear cover of which is 1/4-inch shorter, as called for. Wear and splitting to wraps at spine, small burn mark at head of rear cover and final few leaves; good to very good.
Reportedly one of just 50 first edition copies of this account of a 1964 party by polymathic artist Jeff Nuttall (1933-2004), produced using the cut-up technique pioneered by William S. Burroughs, whose work Nuttall championed in his landmark My Own Mag. The book's title makes allusion to Welsh artist Islwyn Watkins, a friend of Nuttall's who described the genesis of the work in an interview with David Moore on realitystudio.org: "The context of that was Jeff and his wife Jane decided to hold a party at their house in Salisbury Road and invited a range of people — Group H members, Writers’ Forum members and other people — to attend the party but they had to bring with them a text which described the party and what went on in the party so that it was a forecast of what happened. As well as this he tape-recorded the actual party and the idea was that all these accounts would be cut up and reassembled to produce an analogy to the party but not a logical description of it. As well as taking my forecast of the events of the party along to the house that night I took with me four or five accounts written by pupils I was involved with at the time in school who were remedial education pupils and they, in fact, wrote accounts of the party featuring, of course, me, and one of those accounts was Mr Watkins Got Drunk & Had to be Carried Home." OCLC locates 9 institutional holdings.
