Amarillo, TX: Baxter Lane Co., 1969. An anti-hippie flyer listing the requirements for membership in the Belligerent Student and Happy Hippie Society including: being "obligated to demonstrate conformity by: indulgin' in like free and prosmiscuous love; blowin' the 'mind' with drugs, spongin' meals off the squares; stealin'; demonstratin'; screaming 'Pigs!'..... More
n.p.:n.p., [1970]. Kitsilano: Privately published, ca. 1970. 4to. Suggests The Psychedelic Shop, Phase 4 Coffee House, Horizon Book Store, and several other places as shopping destinations for arts, crafts, and hip accouterments. Illustrated with a circular psychedelic drawing divided into 8 sections---one for each of the stores listed. Very near..... More
n.p.: Pot Head Experimental Films,1967. Printed in day-glo orange, pink, and purple featuring an illustration of a shade-wearing hippie couple and a scantily-clad hippie gal. "UP-TIGHT SQUARES Join the HIPPIES and their HIP CHICKS they've scored for ACID, POT, & GRASS! THIS IS WHERE IT'S AT...IT'S A SEX FREAK OUT."..... More
NY: Privately published by the Yippies, 1968. 4to. Illustrated with a photograph of a pre-Columbian sculpture of a laughing figure. Signed by Paul Krassner. The handbill states: "MACY'S GIANT NEW-NATION CELEBRATION to help free us from the property fetish, macy's will become a liberated zone SATURDAY, June 8, from 1..... More
Santa Fe: Bajada Pass Media, 1971. 4to. Softbound. First edition. An over-the-top, erotic photo-novel in magazine format with dialog balloons for the characters in the photos. Prints three stories about hippies involved in various sexual escapades including much nudity, drug references (especially marijuana), and countercultural themes. Minute tear to cover..... More
Santa Cruz: Psychedelic Education Center, 1993. Tabloid, folded as issued. Prints "The Sayings of Michael Hollingshead," also articles on LSD and astrology, drug shamans, mushrooms, ketamine, Kirlian photos of peyote, contributions by Michael Horowitz, Bruce Eisner, and much more. Illustrated with photographs and drawings. Touch of toning to edges, about..... More
n.p.:n.p., [1972]. Tabloid, folded as issued. Published by the Red Mountain Tribe. Soledad Brothers, Vietnam, revolutionary calendar, counterculture issues with the accent on Revolution, etc. Paper slightly toned, else fine. More
NY: Exposition Press, [1973]. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. "In the cold, beautiful Arizona desert, Tripper and her Tribe got zonked on peyote---In an instant the universe became manifest, exploding into galaxies of light and color, from a forgotten and unknowable origin, completely obliterating the past. It was the..... More
n.p.:n.p., [1967]. As a favor to Jeanne Rose, who designed clothes for the Jefferson Airplane and others, Janis consented to be in a fashion shoot for the Style section of the S. F. Chronicle. She's part of a Carnaby-Street-meets-Haight-Ashbury shot with several other models in Sixties mod/psychedelic clothes. This is..... More
[SF: Stolen Paper Editions, 1966]. Pamphlet. The correct first edition (with the text printed sideways, only one page of "God/Love" poem, partial Stolen Paper insignia to back cover). Variant issue with brown and white rather than black and white covers, no priority known. Kandel was active as a poet in..... More
NY: Viking, 1973. 4to. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. Inscribed by Kesey with a drawing: "For Lee: / For whom there is / Frolick! / Ken Kesey / May, 1976 (line drawing of stars and stripes)." Also inscribed by fellow Prankster Ken Babbs: "For Lee Mars and / slow..... More
[NY]: Viking, [1992]. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. Signed by Kesey in silver marker. Very fine. More
[NY]: Viking, [1992]. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. Signed by Kesey in pink marker including a touch of sparkly embellishment with artistic flourishes and then elaborately rubber-stamped with Alaskan totem symbols. Fine. More
NY: B.B. Sales, 1968. First edition of this Paperback Original. Published as an Olympic Photo-Reader. A novelization of the film about "what it's like to spend a wild weekend with drug-happy, sex-mad motorcyclists...sharing all their weird hangups." Lavishly illustrated with unbelievable photos of naked bikers and their female cohorts, including..... More
Burlington, VT: Neo-American Church, 1975. Tabloid. The correct first edition of Klep's detailed, and very entertaining account of life at Leary's Millbrook enclave during its heyday. Features a large front cover map of the Millbrook estate. This precedes book publication by two years. Kleps, a former associate of Leary, founded..... More
[NY: ESP-Disc, 1965]. A small pamphlet measuring 4" x 3." First edition. A flip-book showing a fully clothed, American-flag-waving Tuli Kupferberg taking his clothes off. Originally included in promo copies of the Virgin Fugs LP, but here offered separately. Fine. One of the scarcest Fugs-related items... More
n.p.:n.p., [1967]. A counterculture literary mag from England. Reprints Tuli Kupferberg's "Fuck Nam: A Morality Play" in its entirety, illustrated with photographs of Vietnamese war victims. Also prints "Dada" by Jim Drake and more. Laid into this copy are 5 pages of additional editorial commentary from the publisher. Fine (trivial..... More
[NY: Birth Press, 1966]. 4to. Mimeographed sheets, stapled. First edition. A play against the war in Vietnam, illustrated with newspaper clippings. Fine. One of Kupferberg's scarcer items. More
New Rochelle, NY: Arlington House, [1972]. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. Rabid anti-hippie tract discussing "new hippie goals: incest and child molesting," "American hippies---drug-crazed Mansons or gentle flower children?," "the hippie church where where couples copulate on a giant cross," and more. Very fine, crisp copy... More
[Cambridge, MA: Privately published, 1963]. Pamphlet (single sheet folded to make four pages). Leary was the principal author of this statement that was published in Januray of 1963, just a few months before he was fired from Harvard when it became clear that he needed a non-university context for his..... More
n.p.:n.p., [1951]. Offprint from the Dec. 1951 issue of the Journal of Personality. First separate printing of one of the earliest psychology papers authored or co-authored by Leary. The text reproduces two of the charts that Leary devised for measuring personality traits. These charts were widely used for many years..... More
LA: J. P. Tarcher, 1983. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. Superb presentation copy inscribed as a birthday gift to longtime friend, Allen Ginsberg: "To Allen, a birthday present with love & gratitude Timothy Leary." On the same page as the inscription Ginsberg has written: "Allen Ginsberg skimmed thru w/notes..... More
Paris: Dead Language Press, [1959]. Square 16mo. Single long sheet folded three times to make a booklet. First edition of Maclise's first publication. Cover design printed in black with text in red. Very near fine. Rare. More
[NY]: Privately published, 1951. This handmade announcement is for the production of "Four Plays" that were performed at the Beck's NYC apartment from August 15-20, 1951 (only 20 people were invited to each performance). The plays were: "Childish Jokes: or Crying Backstage" by Paul Goodman, "Ladies Voices" by Gertrude Stein..... More
Providence, RI: Model(?)Art Co., 1958. Beat-era marijuana spoof item: "Marri-Warner Tobacco Co. Old Reefer Unfiltered Cigarettes A Blend of Selected Leaves and Processed Poppy." Also states: "The Smoke That Sends You" and "Fly High With Old Reefer." This brand "sold only to undiscriminating smokers" promises to give you "happy dream..... More
