[Debord, Guy] Raymond la Science (pseud.) La java des bons enfants, accompagnée de trois portraits linogravés, dont deux loupés de Jean-Michel Alberola. Grignan: Colophon, 7 Juillet 2006. 22 p.; ill.; 18 cm.; cream cover with text in red and black, uncut pages. One of 130 copies, including 30 signed and numbered by Jean-Michel Alberola (ours #26).

Reproduces the lyrics of the anarchist / Situationist song “La Java des bons enfants”, along with 3 illustrated portraits by Jean-Michel Alberola. The song (and lyrics) were first featured in “Pour en finir avec le travail. Chansons du prolétariat révolutionnaire”, an LP released in 1974 (nore detailed here: https://situationnisteblog.com/2015/04/06/pour-en-finir-avec-le-travail-lp-1974/). While the author of the song is identified as “Raymond la science” – the pseudonym of Raymond Callemin, a notorious member of the anarchist Bonnot Gang – this was a Situationist detournement: Guy Debord is the rightful author of the lyrics,while Francis Lemmonier wrote the music. The first verse reads (translation is mine)

On the Rue des Bons Enfants,
Everything is sold to the highest bidder,
There used to be a police station,
And now it’s gone,
A fantastic explosion,
Didn’t leave a single brick,
We thought it was Fantômas,
But it was the class struggle.

We locate a single copy of this rare volume on OCLC, at the French National Library.