HANUMAN. THE LIVING EMBODIMENT OF KARMA

YOGI. AS A PUBLISHER, THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS.

THERE ARE FIFTY HANUMAN BOOKS; FORTY-NINE OF

THEM TINY. POCKET BOOKS FOR PEOPLE WITH SMALL POCKETS. THEY ARE ALL

QUITE SPECIALLY MAGICAL.

Rene Ricard's God With Revolver is the only regular sized Hanuman title. Published in 1990, it is super scarce and very, very brilliant. Ricard, in addition to being a Warhol Factory star, early champion of Julian Schnabel and Jean-Michel Basquiat and a great poet, was also the artist responsible for the cover of Joe Mckenna's Joe's First Issue. 
 

Thirty five today by Rene Ricard. 
 

Almost half of the complete run of the Hanuman mini series. Handmade in India and distributed from the Chelsea Hotel in New York between 1986 and 1992, the Hanuman books were edited by Raymond Foye and Francesco Clemente. 
 

Almost all of the rest of them. 
 

Robert Frank's One Hour being the last of them. Shot between 3:45 and 4:45 p.m. on July 26, 1990, the book has a script by Frank. 

Photo pages from One Hour. 
 

Six of the best. At least, by that, we mean, IDEA favourites. We have a few of these for sale individually. Try these links; Patti Smith (signed), David Hockney, Bob Dylan, Candy Darling. 
 

The rarest of all the Hanuman books is Jack Kerouac Manhattan Sketches. It fell foul of the Kerouac Estate and is not supposed to exist. But this wouldn't be a complete set of Hanuman books without it. So of course we have it. 

As a set, it is both a huge, vast, exhaustive library of counter culture / lower downtown NYC avant-garde literature, and small enough to fit in a shoe box. Quite something. 

We have one complete set. On the button below. Gotta get them (and it's a lot easier to do it all in one go).