n.p.: Privately published, 1960. Features a photo of a surfer riding a wave printed in blueish-green against a white background. The filmmaker would personally narrate the film when it was screened at various small venues. Scarce ephemera from earliest days of the surfing scene. Very fine (approx. 6.25" x 6.5"). More about Flyer for Walt Phillips' 1960 surf film, Surf Mania
Hermosa Beach, CA: Walt Phillips Productions, 1962. Features photos of surfers surfing. Printed in red and blue against a white background. Classic early poster from the heyday of surf culture. Very fine (approx. 9" x 12"). More about Poster for Walt Phillips 1962 surf film, Psyche Out!
NY/London: Award Books/Tandem Books, [1968]. Magazine-format publication devoted to "stripping the petals off the Flower Children" revealing "them to be floundering in a cesspool of sex, half-crazed with weird drugs, parasitic, selfish, diseased..." Sensational, scathing attack on the hippie subculture with articles and first-person accounts of "orgiastic parties" and "sexual..... More about The Great Hippie Hoax: A Scalding Indictment of the Phoney Movement That Has Trapped Thousands of...
Paris: Andre Balland, 1971. Oblong 8vo. Softbound (only issued softbound). First edition. A photographic ode to free love among a group of hippies. Lovely, atmospheric photos by John Ray showing hippies smoking pot, dancing, and then participating in an orgy. The accent is on sensual embraces and intertwined naked hippie... More about More Love
SF: Michael Zagaris, 1974. The photograph shows a blonde, bespectacled Lou Reed using the microphone cord to tie himself off while he injects a syringe into his right arm. This print is from the archive of Jon Goodchild, the original art director for OZ magazine until he was lured to... More about Original vintage print photograph of Lou Reed shooting up on stage at Winterland, 1974
NY: Roaring Fork Press, 1966. Photo-illustrated folder containing three groups of stapled sheets printing essays about the rock music scene. First edition. Each group of sheets is 4 pages and includes reproductions of concert handbills, photos, and clippings. Included is: "The View from the Dance Floor" by Bob Chamberlain, "From... More about Music, Man, That's Where It's At!
[SF]: Fantasy, [1957]. LP record. First printing, second issue (on lighter vs. dark red vinyl). Classic early Beat poetry readings accompanied by jazz. Fantasy promo sheet laid in. Very good plus. More about Poetry Readings in the Cellar with the Cellar Jazz Quintet
n.p.: Privately published, 1961. Features a photo of a surfer riding a wave printed in blue against a white background. Early ephemera from the heyday of surfing. As new (approx. 9.5" x 6"). Surfing paper ephemera of this vintage is scarce. More about Flyer for Grant Rohloff's 1961 surf film, Out of Control
n.p.: Privately published, 1963. Nicely designed handbill with photos of crashing waves, text in red and black. "Grant Rohloff personally brings you the indescribable power and excitement of a 'North Swell' his all new surfing adventure film." The ticket reproduces a photo of a surfer riding a wave. Couple of... More about Handbill and ticket for Grant Rohloff's film North Swell, ca. 1963
Cambridge, MA: Left Mailings, n.d. Pamphlet. First edition. Covers the student strikes of the late sixties, the Kent State killings, and more. Near fine. More about No Class Today No Ruling Class Tomorrow: Lessons of the Student Strike
[Berkeley: Rubin for Mayor Committee, 1967]. 8vo (we've also encountered a slightly larger format version of this---no priority known). Pamphlet. First edition of the author's first book. A promotional booklet for Rubin's campaign for mayor of Berkeley, stating his positions on the draft, marijuana, Vietnam, abortion, and more. Nicely designed... More about The Program: Jerry Rubin for Mayor of Berkeley
NY: ESP-Disc, 1965. The poster is illustrated with photos of The Fugs and when entirely unfolded the poster states: "Fugs Want to Thank You," but when folded differently it says "Fuck You." Originally issued in promo copies of the Virgin Fugs LP, but here offered separately. Also included is another... More about Folding poster proclaiming ''Fugs Want to Thank You.''
Detroit: Artists' Workshop Press, 1966. 4to. Mimeographed sheets, stapled. Fourth printing (of five) from this press. (Originally published by Sanders' Fuck You Press). Prints the lyrics to 26 Fugs' songs along with "Notes on The Fugs" by Ed Sanders. 1.5" corner chip to front cover, small chip to back cover, solid very good. More about The Fugs' Songbook
NY: Fuck You Press, 1965. 4to. "THE WORLD PREMIER OF THE FUGS! an unbelievable group of singers featuring Tuli Kupferberg on farto-phone, Brillo Box, finger symbols, & various percussion instruments; Ed Sanders on organ, sex-organ, & harmonica...dirty folk spews, rock & roll, poetry, Amphetamine operas and other freak beams..." The... More about Handbill announcing two momentous events in the history of the Lower East Side counterculture of...
SF: Privately published, 1965. 4to. "This weekend The Fugs! zany, satirical, beatnik, loud, rock 'n' roll group! on the West Coast only a month---see them now!" This was The Fugs first West Coast visit, the last stop on their "Fugs' Cross Country Vietnam Protest Caravan." In the Bay Area they... More about Mimeo handbill designed by Ed Sanders announcing an appearance by the Fugs at The Orb Theater in...
NY: Fuck You Press, 1967. Folio. Tabloid format, with the headline: "Poet Ted Berrigan Teaches Parot to Scarf Cock." Outrageous one-shot publication of humor and observation from the Fuck You Press, with many drawings by Ed Sanders. "Created, published, & edited by an anonymous spurt-phantom at a secret location on... More about The Dick, Vol. 1, No. 1, 1967 (all published
Buffalo: Frontier Press, 1965. 4to. Softbound. First edition. Prefatory poem by Charles Olson. Presentation copy inscribed by Sanders with a small drawing of a penis to poet, Will Inman dated the year of publication. White covers slightly toned, touch soiled, else near fine. More about Peace Eye
NY: Fuck You Press, 1964. 4to. Mimeographed sheets, stapled at the left edge. First edition. Corner crease to one page, else near fine. More about The Toe Queen Poems
NY: Fuck You Press, 1964. Mimeographed sheets, stapled at the edge. First edition of this item relating to "the famous Milesian poet philosopher, physicist, astronomer mathematician, cosmologist, urstoff-freak, absent-minded professor, & madman." Introduction by Aristotle (in Greek) followed by a blank page titled: "The Entire Extant Works of Thales the... More about A Valorium Edition of the Entire Extant Works of Thales!
Berkeley: FSM Records, 1965. Pamphlet. First edition. Prints the lyrics to Free Speech Movement protest songs that were issued on an LP record of the same name. Fine. More about FSM's Sounds and Songs of the Demonstration
Berkeley: KPFA-Pacifica, 1964. LP record. Speeches by Mario Savio, University President Clark Kerr, Willie Brown, and others, with location recordings from various rallies. Fine. More about Is Freedom Academic?
SF: Unicorn, 1958. Pamphlet. First edition. Schock takes us on a cynical tour through the Beat haunts of '50s North Beach making snide observations about the habitues. Illustrated with accomplished, evocative and lovely illustrations of beatniks at poetry readings, jazz clubs, etc., by Trubee Campbell whose drawings are much more... More about Life Is a Lousy Drag
[Chicago: SDS, nd]. Single sheet folded to make 7 pages. First edition. Very good. More about SDS: An Introduction
[Chicago: SDS, 1967]. 8pp. Pamphlet. First printing. Prints the SDS constitution as amended at the 1967 National Convention. Some soiling, else near fine. More about Students for a Democratic Society National Constitution