S.M.S. Shit Must Stop No.1, 1968

First issue (of 6, all published) of the phenomenal art collection in a portfolio, assembled by William Copley in an edition of approx. 2000. Published by The Letter Edged in Black Press, New York and sent to subscribers over the course of 1968. Portfolio, 28 x 18 x 2 cm, contains 11 small-scale multiples in various media such as prints, photographs, die-cut assemblages, and texts.

Contributions by James Lee Byars (Black Dress), La Monte Young & Marian Zazeela (Two Propositions in Black) Christo (Store Front), Walter de Maria (Chicago Project), Richard Hamilton (A Postal Card for Mother), Kaspar Koenig (4 photos), Su Braden (Project for a Bridge), Julien Levy (pills), Sol Mednick, Nancy Reitkopf, and Irving Petlin (cover design). Also contains a list of contents and handy sequence of insertion sheet. The shipping box shows regular signs of aging, while the portfolio and the items within are in mint condition.