[Willem de Ridder, ed] - LOVE; America's First Reader Written Magazine. No. 40

[Willem de Ridder, red] - LOVE; America's First Reader Written Magazine. No. 40 - Beverly Hills USA / [Amsterdam] - Love International - 1976 - 1st edition - [74] pp - Stapled wrappers - 17,5 x 27,5 cm. - Cover artwork: Elsa del Puerto.

Condition: Good.

Underground sex magazine by Fluxus artist Willem de Ridder (1939-2022) with pornographic stories written by the subscribers themselves. Illustrated with black and white porn photos (again submitted by the readers themselves) and comics.

This issue with CHRISTMAS cover, a she-male photo session, 'Hilda's comic strip by Chauvin', photos from 'Enforced Sex The Nightmare of Punishment' by Leo Madsen and 'How Love moved to Italy'; the background to De Ridder's move to Italy (he was no longer able to pay the rent to landlord Filarski due to the confiscation of a large part of the circulation of number 33).

¶ LOVE was founded in December 1974 and was distributed in exile from Italy from 1976 onwards. It was available in 'Limited Edition' for up to 1001 paid subscriptions of $25 per year (12 issues). Not in NCC. An image of a cover of a Dutch version of the magazine can be found in 'Onder de toonbank' p. 237.