"Stone Free" b/w "If 6 Was Nine".
[Burbank]: Reprise Records, 1968. 45rpm record. One cosmetic scratch, the letter "d" has been added in ink to "Stone Free" label, else near mint record in plain white sleeve. More
Counterculture
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
Promotional postcard stating "Steal This Postcard".
Worcester, MA: Contemporary Classics, ca. 1983. A postcard announcing reprints of Steal This Book and other titles, issued when Abbie's brother, Jack became involved in revitalizing Abbie's career after he surfaced from living underground. Fine. 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
Folding invitation for the opening of the first exhibition of "Punk Art" at the Washington Project of the Arts, 1978.
Washington, DC: W.P.A, 1978. Features an altered image of Mona Lisa offset printed on a folded brown paper bag. Mona Lisa image by Miller, Ringma, and Hoppe, paper bag design by Alice Denney. The first "Punk Art" exhibition and the one that coined the phrase "punk art." The show featured..... 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
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
Mr. Sunset: The Jeff Hakman Story.
[London]: Gen X Publishing/General Publishing Group, [1997]. Square 4to. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. Interesting account of Hakman's adventures in the world of surfing and hashish smuggling. Top edge of pages slightly rippled from moisture, else near fine in like dust jacket with a minute puncture to spine... More
A Bibliography of the Auerhahn Press & it's Successor Dave Haselwood Books.
Berkeley: Poltroon Press, 1976. Hardbound in full decorated cloth with printed spine label. First edition. Presentation copy inscribed (in pencil) by Alastair Johnston to Bob Hawley publisher of Oyez Press: "the alleged book lovingly inscribed to Bob Hawley, yr servant, the author, Alastair Johnston." The following items are laid in..... 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
Psychedelic Solution Gallery exhibition announcement card set 1986-1995.
NY: Psychedelic Solution, 2003. A complete set, plus extras and variants, of invitations and announcements for the 23 exhibitions held at the Psychedelic Solution Gallery between 1986 and 1995. This is the third state of the packaging for these cards, in a red envelope with a b&w label printing a...... 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
Pull My Daisy.
NY: Grove, [1961]. First edition of this trade Paperback Original. Kerouac's "ad-libbed" text for Robert Frank's beat film Pull My Daisy. Illustrated with stills from the movie. Bright, near fine copy with a touch of barely perceptible fading to the colored spine lettering. More
Beat Culture and the New America: 1950-1965.
NY: Abbeville Press, 1995. 4to. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. Prologue by Allen Ginsberg. Excellent book documenting the Beat influence on the art, music, fashion, and popular culture of the '50s and '60s. Issued to coincide with the 1995 landmark exhibition at the Whitney Museum. It traces the Beat..... 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
Saturday Review, June 1983.
Columbia, MO: Saturday Review Magazine, 1983. This issue features a cover photo of Kesey in his barn with the original Prankster bus along with a substantive profile of him. Also pieces on Garrison Keillor, Philip Glass, and more. Fine. More
The Collector's Guide to Psychedelic Rock Concert Posters, Postcards and Handbills 1965-1973.
Berkeley: Privately published by the author, n.d. [early 2000's]. Thick 4to. Plastic comb binding. Revised and expanded from the previous edition published in 2000 (this edition consistes of 664 numbered pages). A mammoth undertaking listing all the issue points needed to distinguish between the various original printings and reprints of..... More
Allen Ginsberg: An Annotated Bibliography, 1969-1977.
Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1980. Hardbound in cloth-covered boards, issued wthout dust jacket. First edition. Minute, faint touch of wear to spine corners, else fine. More