Manifesto LAX

Los Angeles: [No Publisher], 1976. First Edition. First and only issue of an underground paper edited by Eve's Hollywood author Eve Babitz and featuring work by a diverse group of Californians in her orbit at the time including actors Steve Martin, Carrie Fisher, and Ronee Blakley, as well as songs by The Eagles ("Hollywood Waltz") and infamously Manson-adjacent producer Terry Melcher.

Loose sheets, varicolored and slightly stiff, as well as illustrations by Vanhamersveld on white paper, housed in an illustrated envelope, hand-numbered. Copy #29 of an unknown limitation, undoubtedly scarce. From the collection of writer Michael Elias, who is featured in one of the photos herein. A series of four photos by Elisa Leonelli entitled "Insect Fear" is included in a separate manila envelope. Fold-out poster also included. Includes photos (one of Ed Ruscha), poems, and short stories. Contents complete. Near Fine. Main envelope edge-worn, its gummed flap attached to verso of one illustration. Similarly one "Insect Fear" photo is adhered to its envelope.

An unusual hip '70s L.A. publication, a "harebrained scheme" to make a monthly underground paper conceived, according to Babitz's biographer, by her in a drunken night with graphic designer John Van Hamersveld. Features some of Steve Martin's earliest published work, including a story about eating poodles reprinted from a 'zine Babitz edited in 1973.

Carrie Fisher, the late actress best-known as Princess Leia in the original Star Wars, contributes a poem and a story. She was a habitue of Babitz's favorite watering hole, Ports, according to Lili Anolik, and a fellow fan of wearing hats. That's about all that is on record about Fisher's involvement with this project.