Livingston: First Security Bank, 1981. A check written entirely in Brautigan's hand and signed by him. It's made out to "Franchise Tax Board," and in the memo section of the check Brautigan has written his social security number. The check, from Brautigan's First Security Bank account in Livingston, Montana, has... More about Personal check written and signed by Richard Brautigan
SF: Graham Mackintosh, 1968. First edition. Printed folder featuring childhood photos of Brautigan's daughter, Ianthe, with 8 seed packets printing a poem on each packet. One of the most charmingly conceived "books" of poetry very much redolent of the period when Brautigan handed out copies for free on the hippie-filled... More about Please Plant This Book
SF: San Francisco Arts Festival Commission, 1964. Folio. Broadside poem. First edition. Nicely illustrated by Richard Correll. Limited to 300 copies signed by Brautigan and Correll (Brautigan did not actually sign all copies). Originally issued as part of a collection of broadsides San Francisco Arts Festival: A Poetry Folio: 1964... More about September California
[NY]: Viking, [1995]. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. Important presentation copy warmly inscribed by Burroughs to his long-time friend, fellow drug researcher, and counterculture hero, Timothy Leary: "for Tim Leary, who contributed to my education more much more than I realized at the time. We are here to learn!... More about My Education: A Book of Dreams
n.p.: Mercury Records, [1959]. LP record in gatefold sleeve. Close and Brent, one playing the straight guy to the other's wild hipster, improvise great riffs about what is cool and uncool with many insider references to the Beat Generation and hipsters. A "Hip manual" booklet is bound-in explaining their concept... More about How to Speak Hip
[San Francisco: Privately published by the author, 1967]. Square 8vo. Pamphlet. First edition. Nice photo-documentary of the Haight-Ashbury hippie scene in its heyday and one of the scarcer books on the subject. Some light foxing to edge of front cover with a couple of spots on back, bright very good... More about Hippy Hi
SF: San Francisco Examiner, 1985. The poster proclaims: "Hinckle Free at Last Only in the Examiner" and reproduces a drawing by Crumb showing Hinckle and his hound dog being dragged away by three burly police officers. Printed in black and red on white card stock. Fine (14" x 21"). More about Poster featuring an illustration by R. Crumb promoting Warren Hinckle's column in the San...
SF: San Francisco Examiner, 1985. The poster proclaims: "Hinckle Free at Last Only in the Examiner" and reproduces a drawing by Crumb showing Hinckle and his hound dog being dragged away by three burly police officers. Presentation copy inscribed by Crumb to his publisher, John Martin of Black Sparrow Press... More about Poster featuring an illustration by R. Crumb promoting Warren Hinckle's column in the San...
n.p.: Ten Speed Press, [1971]. Oblong 16mo. Softbound. Second printing. Cartoons and text about dopers and drugs. Tiny remainder line to bottom edge, else fine. More about Dr. Natural's High Toy Guide
n.p.:n.p., [1968]. A slick-format counterculture magazine from London edited by Ian Duncan. Prints excerpts from the 1967 Dialectics Conference, "Fisheye Nudes" photographs, drawings, psychedelia, articles on exorcism, mandalas, and more. Couple of minuscule chips to fore-edge of cover and first couple of pages, else fine. More about Image, Spring 1968
n.p.:n.p., [1969]. Chicago's premiere underground paper. Articles on the Bank of America bombing, the Black Panthers, Gay Liberation, drugs, and various counterculture subjects. Also features Ron Cobb cartoons, prints Jerry Farber's "The Student as Nigger," and more. Covers and some pages printed in color. Fine (short tear to edge of..... More about The Seed, Vol. 5, No. 1, 1969
SF: Last Gasp, 2007. 4to. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. One of 40 numbered copies signed by Felver with an original signed and numbered print of the cover photograph of William Burroughs. Nice collection of Felver's photographs of the Beats and counterculture heroes from the sixties. As new. More about Beats
SF: Privately published, 1972. Single sheet with an interesting graphic design utilizing images of Marilyn Monroe, Bob Dylan, Timothy Leary, and Allen Ginsberg. The Cockettes were an LSD-inspired, gay liberation theatrical group of hippie drag-queens founded by Hibiscus, whose real name was George Harris. After a philosophical dispute with The... More about Handbill announcing "Earthquake" performed by Hibiscus and The Angels of Light
SF: Privately published, 1971. 4to. Single sheet illustrated with a line drawing of the Tinsel Tarts. The Cockettes were a group of LSD-inspired, hippie drag-queens, and some women, from the Haight-Ashbury. They brought their unconventional lifestyle to the stage in the form of song-filled, high-camp theatrical productions utilizing outrageous costumes... More about Handbill announcing The Cockettes' performance of ''Tinsel Tarts in a Hot Coma'' at the Palace...
NY: Grove Press, 1971. 4to. Single sheet illustrated with a still from the film. The Cockettes were an LSD-inspired, gay liberation theatrical group of hippie drag-queens, and some women, from the Haight-Ashbury counterculture. They brought their unconventional lifestyle to the stage in the form of various song-filled theatrical productions utilizing... More about Handbill issued by Grove Press announcing the availability of The Cockettes' film Tricia's...
[SF: Last Gasp, 1971]. 4to. Pamphlet. First edition. Drawings by John Flowers. Photographs by Clay Geerdes. Outrageous photographs of The Cockettes, a notorious LSD-inspired, hippie drag-queen theatrical group from San Francisco whose members also included women. These photos were intended to be cut out and made into paper dolls that... More about The Official Cockettes Paper Doll Book
SF: Privately published, 1972. The film was directed by Gregory Pickup and shot in a SF loft converted to a performance space and sound stage. The star, Hibiscus (a.k.a. George Harris), was the leader of The Angels of Light, a group he formed after leaving his previous group, The Cockettes..... More about Poster announcing a screening of Pickup's Tricks, a film starring Hibiscus, The Angels of Light,...
SF: Privately published, 1972. The Cockettes were a group of LSD-inspired, hippie drag-queens, and some women, from San Francisco. They brought their lifestyle to the stage in the form of various song-filled theatrical productions utilizing outrageous costumes, or the lack thereof. Their provocatively decadent behavior brought them a cult following... More about Poster for The Cockettes performance of ''Journey to the Center of Uranus.''
n.p.: Privately published, ca. 1968. The bearer of this card is "classified in Class 6-Z until PEACE DECLARED by General Hershey Bar...by President Doctor Spock...by President Richard Nixon." Instructions on the back of the card on how to "burn or 'boil' your non-draft card and to surrender the ashes...please alter..... More about Spoof draft card printed on both sides issued by General Hershey Bar, noted antiwar activist who...
n.p.: Privately published by the author, ca. 1970. 4to. Original xerox sheets stapled at the corner, as issued. First edition, first issue (without the additional note to front cover). Limited to 300 copies. Fine. Scarce. More about Documents on Police Bureaucracy's Conspiracy Against Human Rights of Opiate Addicts &...
NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1970. Thick 4to. Softbound (no hardbound issued). First printing. An exhaustive compendium of virtually everything relating to the cultural change of the '60s. Interesting graphics, photos, collage art, and reprinted texts are used to chronicle the people, movements, and events of the decade. White covers slightly... More about The Movement Toward a New America: The Beginnings of a Long Revolution
NY: Link Books, [1974]. Narrow 4to. Softbound. First edition. Foreword by Ken Kesey. Cover art by Rick Griffin. Boldly inscribed by Wavy: "Good luck always Wavy Gravy Hugh Romney vice versa." Wavy has also done a drawing of the Hopi symbol for emergence. Wavy recounts his escapades during the sixties... More about The Hog Farm and Friends
Amsterdam: Joy Publications, 1969-1974. Tabloid format, early issues on newsprint, later issues on coated stock. Suck was founded in Amsterdam in 1969 by Bill Levy, Germaine Greer, Heathcote Williams and others. It was among the most important underground newspapers of the period, not only because of its enlightened stance on... More about Suck: First European Sexpaper, Nos. 1 through 8 (all published
SF: Intersection, 1968. Oblong 16mo. Pamphlet. First edition. Catalog of events for this festival of underground art which took place at various venues in San Francisco, 1968. Essays by Ralph Gleason, James Broughton, David Meltzer, Robert Duncan, and others, trace the development of the poetry, jazz, and painting of the... More about Rolling Renaissance: San Francisco Underground Art in Celebration 1945-1968
n.p.:n.p., [1999]. A local newspaper from Maui featuring a full-cover color illustration by Rick Griffin of an eyeball riding a surfboard. Very fine. More about Maui Time, July 19, 1999