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The Society of the Spectacle

The Society of the Spectacle
by Guy Debord
 
Translated by Fredy Perlman, Tony Verlaan, Paul Sieveking, Michel Prigent, Colin Carsten and John Fullerton.
 

The Society of the Spectacle
by Guy Debord
A Black & Red Translation
unauthorized
Detroit
1970

The Society of the Spectacle
by Guy Debord
 
Practical Paradise Publications
c/o Compendium Books London NW1
Published November 1977
"The Society of the Spectacle,translation by Fredy Perlman and others,published jointly by Radical America and Black & Red,Detroit, 1970; extensively revised by Tony Verlaan snd Paul Sieveking,Brooklyn,1971;final corrections by Michel Prigent, Colin Carsten, and John Fullerton, London, 1972. Published in a limited duplicated edition of 200.

The Society of the Spectacle
Printed by Practical Pirate Publications
b.m. Mattoid
London WC1N 3XX
1981
 

The Society of The Spectacle
by Guy Debord
Black & Red
Detroit
1977
The first English translation was published by Black & Red in 1970. It was revised in 1977, incorporating numerous improvements suggested by friends and critics of the first translation.

The Society of the Spectacle
by Guy Debord
Rebel Press Dark Star
London
UK edition of the Black and Red translation 1983
Contains the following dedication

The Society of the Spectacle
by Guy Debord
Rebel Press/Aim Publications
London 1987
UK edition of the Black & Red translation
#This edition is dedicated to the memory of Fredy Perlman
(1934-1985) "Having little, being much"

The Society of the Spectacle
by Guy Debord
Translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith
Zone Books
New York
1994
Contains the dedication, "I should like to dedicate the translation to the memory of a true friend of this book, Fredy Perlman, who, with a handful of comrades, published it in English for the first time, and kept it in print for more than twenty years.
Donald Nicholson-Smith
Brooklyn, 1993"