Good Company.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, [1982]. Square 8vo. Softbound. First edition. Hobo accounts of life on the road, supplemented with the author's recollections of living among them. Illustrated with photographs. Very good. More
Counterculture
Original FBI wanted poster for Patty Hearst, Emily Harris, and William Harris.
Washington, DC: Federal Bureau of Investigation, 1974. Prints photos and descriptions of each. "The above individuals are self-proclaimed members of the Symbionese Liberation Army and reportedly have been in possession of numerous firearms including automatic weapons. William Harris and Patricia Hearst allegedly recently used guns to avoid arrest. All three..... More
Poster announcing ''The Only Correspondence Dinner'' at the Cafe LaMamelle in San Francisco, 1984.
n.p.:n.p., [1984]. The event was sponsored by Inter Dada 84 and The New York Correspondence School of San Francisco. Features a design utilizing an array of Ray Johnson bunny faces each with a different mail artist's name. As new. More
"Burning of the Midnight Lamp" b/w "The Stars that Played with Laughing Sam's Dice".
England: Track Records, 1967. 45 rpm record. One small cosmetic scratch, else near mint in plain white sleeve. More
Jimi Hendrix Electric Church: A Visual Experience.
n.p.:n.p., [1969]. Program/tour book issued in 1969 and distributed at concerts. Features 20 pages of photos of Hendrix and The Experience. Nicely designed to look like a gatefold LP with triptych covers that fold over the pages. Some light creasing to covers, small patch of modest staining, very good. Scarce..... More
Music is My Only Friend.
Germany: Historical Museum of Hannover, 2007. Hardbound in photo-illustrated boards. First edition. Catalog for an exhibition about the American music scene of the '60s including rock, jazz, and blues. Profusely illustrated with psychedelic poster art. Fine. (German text.). More
The Belligerent Student & Happy Hippie Society International Membership Certificate.
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
Handbill welcoming visitors of Kitsilano, Vancouver, Canada to visit the hip merchants located on 4th Street.
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
One sheet day-glo poster advertising two hippie exploitation films offered as a double-bill, "Psychedelicsex Kicks" and "Wild Hippie Orgy".
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
Red Auction.
NY: Sotheby's, 2007. Softbound. First edition. Foreword by Bono. Catalog for this charity auction for AIDS relief in Africa featuring works by Ed Ruscha, Richard Prince, Damien Hirst, Banksy, Christo, Jasper Johns, et al. Signed on the cover by Damien Hirst and U2 frontman Bono both of whom were instrumental..... More
Handbill issued by the Yippies announcing an action at Macy's department store in NYC, 1968.
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
Handbill issued by the Yippies proclaiming: ''PEOPLE GET READY.''
n.p.:n.p., [1968]. Prints a long text about the "International Youth Festival" to be held in Chicago for the 1968 Democratic convention. "...there will be music playing and people swaying, dancing in the streets...agents of the Pothead's Benevolent Association have planted hundreds of pot seeds...free people, free pot, free music, free..... More
Thunderhead Photo Phantasies.
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
LSD: My Problem Child: Reflections on Sacred Drugs, Mysticism, and Science.
LA: J. P. Tarcher, [1983]. Softbound. First American edition. The autobiography of the man who discovered LSD, including recollections of his time spent with Timothy Leary, Aldous Huxley, Gordon Wasson, and others. Fine (few minute specks of wear). More
Mimeo handbill announcing a reading by Herbert Huncke at Le Metro Cafe.
[NY: Fuck You Press,1964]. 4to. "Attention poets, historians, flame brains, spaceouts, & madmen Herbert Huncke Reads! from his absolute work." This was a very early reading for Huncke preceding publication of his first book. Le Metro was an important, though short-lived, mid-sixties showcase for the N.Y.C. avant-garde. A 1964 reading..... More
Filmmusiktage Koln 1991.
Koln: Filmmusiktage/Institute fur Popkuktur, 1991. 4to. Softbound. First edition. Program/catalog for this event relating to rock (and other modern music) used in film. Covers Punk, Blacksploitation, psychedelic films, and more. Illustrated with photographs throughout. Slight toning to page edges, else fine. (German text.)... More
Berkeley Tribe, Vol. 6, No. 17, Jan. 7-14, 1972.
n.p.:n.p., [1972]. Tabloid, folded as issued. Published by the Red Mountain Tribe. Soledad Brothers, Vietnam, revolutionary calendar, articles on counterculture issues with the accent on Revolution, etc. Paper slightly toned, else fine. More
Weatherman.
No place: Ramparts Press, [1970]. Softbound. First edition. A solid reading copy. More
S. M. Lipset: Social Scientist of the Smooth Society.
[Madison, WI: SDS, ca. 1969]. Pamphlet. First edition. Touch of sunning, else fine. More
Break Out & Do It Now.
[Chicago: SDS, 1968]. Pamphlet. Second printing. Fine. More
Original photograph (recent print) of Janis Joplin in Buena Vista Park, 1967, as part of a fashion shoot.
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
Poster annoucing Peter Kaukonen's Traveller LP.
n.p.: Privately published, ca. 1980's. Features a collage illustration and psychedelic lettering by "Graham & Sargent" printed in purple against a silver background. Peter Kaukonen is the older brother of Jorma Kaukonen of The Jefferson Airplane and an accomplished musician in his own right. Fine (17" x 11")... More
Garage Sale.
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
Sailor Song.
[NY]: Viking, [1992]. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. Signed by Kesey in silver marker. Very fine. More
Sailor Song.
[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