By George Berger
Oakland: PM Press, 2009 (Reprint edition)
Pages: 304
Dimensions: 5 in x 8 in
Cover: soft
Binding: perfect bound
Process: offset
Color: Black ink with black and white illustrations
Edition Size: unknown
ISBN-13: 978-1604860375

We're not sure how many music biography books Half Letter Press is gonna stock but when it comes to certain people, and Crass are among those people, we certainly think there are stories that have gotta be told and circulated. We are just digging into this book ourselves but it looks quite promising. From the back cover:

Crass was the anarcho-punk face of a revolutionary movement founded by radical thinkers and artists Penny Rimbaud, Gee Vaucher and Steve Ignorant. When punk ruled the waves, Crass waived the rules and took it further, putting out their own records, films and magazines and setting up a series of situationist pranks that were dutifully covered by the world’s press. Not just another iconoclastic band, Crass was a musical, social and political phenomenon.

Commune dwellers who were rarely photographed and remained contemptuous of conventional pop stardom; their members explored and finally exhausted the possibilities of punk-led anarchy. They have at last collaborated on telling the whole Crass story, giving access to many never-before seen photos and interviews.