Item #44828 SCUM Manifesto (Society for Cutting Up Men). Valerie Solanas, Vivian Gornick, Maurice Girodias, intro., preface.

SCUM Manifesto (Society for Cutting Up Men)

New York: The Olympia Press, 1970. Very Good +. Item #44828

New York: The Olympia Press, 1970. Second Printing. 12mo; 52pp. Advertisement illustrations to rear. Photo-illustrated wraps. Edges of wraps rubbed; small nick to front wrap and front free endpaper; binding sound; pages unmarked; a Very Good or better copy of Solanas' radical feminist manifesto, arguing that men have ruined the world and it was up to women to fix it. The book surged in popularity following Solanas' attempted assassination of Andy Warhol in 1968, which the publisher Maurice Girodias details in the preface here.

Price: $250.00