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4-Piece Shangri L’Affaires Fanzine Lot
This is an auction for a 4-piece lot of vintage Shangri L’Affaires (affectionately known as “Shaggy”) fanzines. SHANGRI L’AFFAIRES was the “Official Organ” of the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society. Published from very late 1940 to the 1980s, it was one of the first and best “clubzines,” a term for a fanzine produced by and for members of a science fiction club and financed through the club’s treasury. Such zines often have a reputation for insularity and a monotonous focus on club activities, but SHANGRI L’AFFAIRES quickly grew from a single sheet bound with one of several other titles to a popular general-interest fanzine that often exceed 40 pages in length, and featured work from fans and pros well-removed from Los Angeles. Forrest J Ackerman was its founding editor, but he soon passed the job onto a series of well-known fans including Walter Daugherty, Charles Burbee and Francis Towner Laney. From the late 1940s through the mid-1950s, it appeared sporadically. But in the late 1950s, club members pooled their funds to purchase a state-of-the-art Gestetner mimeograph. Under co-editors John and Bjo Trimble, and later Fred Patten and Ted Johnstone, “Shaggy” became extremely popular, so much so that distribution was eventually restricted to club members, contributors and those who sent letters of comment; the huge number of fanzines received in reply made it impossible to continue “trading” with every fanzine publisher. In the late 1960s, editor Ken Rudolph published a series of even larger and more elaborate issues, but this energy inevitable waned, and the title was eventually let go in favor of the more newsletter-like De Profundis in the 1980s.
Note that because all of the issues in this lot issues were printed using the mimeograph process, print-runs were less than a few hundred, as mimeo stencils would wear out well before 500 copies. Therefore, ALL (all auction pieces were printed via mimeo) these Locus issues are extremely rare and tough to find in any condition. This is your opportunity to obtain super-rare copies of this historical fanzine.
We are a veteran owned company. Please look at the pictures carefully to determine what you believe the condition of collecitible is. We are currently accepting consignments. Email us a aeronhouse1994@gmail.com or visit our website, www.ahauctionhouse.com. We are currently seeking Star Wars related consignments.
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