SF: KYA, 1958. Broadside poem. First edition. Signed by the author. A scathing anti-beatnik tract from O'Hara, a disc jockey at KYA the "Family Radio" station in San Francisco. In part: "A Beatnik is Grant Avenue with a beard on it's facade; / Beauty with a wart on its finger;..... More
No place: Tampa Records, no date [ca. 1950's]. LP record. Latin bongo music with a classic cover illustration featuring a seductive beatnik couple leaning against a lamp pole with the female beatnik scantily-clad and holding a long cigarette holder. Near mint record (one cosmetic scratch) in very good minus jacket..... More
NY: JMc & GHB editions, 2006. 16mo. First edition of this Paperback Original. An artists' book by Prince profusely illustrated throughout with images from sixties porn films. Fine. More
LA: Privately published, 2016. A pack of rolling papers given to VIP attendees of the Richard Prince curated High Times show that took place at the Blum & Poe Gallery in LA, 2016. The pack is illustrated with a b&w drawing of a "hippie" by Prince with his facsimile signature..... More
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
No place: Privately published, [ca. 1960]. Pamphlet. First edition. Each page features a cartoon drawing of a different type of person with a sarcastic text reproduced in holograph describing why the person is, or is not, a beatnik. Cover illustration of dejected beatniks lounging on a brick wall with guitars..... More
Milwaukee: Associated Press, 1960. A beatnik, Robert 'Bohemian Bob' Schweda, who barricaded himself inside a store window in protest, is seen being forcibly removed by the police who had to smash the window to remove him. Associated Press rubber stamp on the back, with the word "beatniks" written in ink..... More
[San Diego: Corinth/Leisure Books, 1966]. First edition of this Paperback Original. A classic of the genre featuring cover art by Robert Bonfils, arguably one of the best lurid exploitation covers of all time, rivaling (perhaps surpassing) his work on Narco Nympho. The design depicts naked female bodies writhing inside a...... More
[LA: Classic Publications, 1968]. First edition of this Paperback Original. Sensational short stories around the theme of sex and drugs including one about Helen who was addicted to sex and pot at 13, or Wendy, a hippie, whose psychedelic sex trips lasted for days. Fine and scarce thus... More
[NY: Headline Publications, 1962]. A satirical cartoon mag styled after Mad magazine. The Beatnik issue, with a cover illustration spoofing beatniks and an "8 page special BEATNIK pull-out-section." The beatnik section is a newspaper titled "Daily Beatnik" in which all the ads for popular products of the day are rewritten..... More
[Burbank: Seven Seventy Publishers, 1966]. Hippie exploitation mag that explores the adventures of "The Daring Breed," members of the younger generation who are "trapped, desperate, frantic to escape their everyday life. Frantic for new excitement, pleasures." These folks occupy their time with eveything from biker gangs, "Swingin' Wild Groups," draft..... More
Burbank: Seven Seventy Publishers, ca. 1967. Terrific, no holds barred Hell's Angels exploitation mag featuring "Slezzy [sic] Sensuous Sluts" and "Debauched Angel women all drug takers and very experienced swap artists." Filled with photos of naked biker woman having sex on bikes and a variety of other places often involving..... More
[NY: Dell Publishing, 1962]. A comic book featuring a cover illustration of a beatnik playfully placing his head on a tray being carried by a waitress serving a couple of elderly women. Very good minus. More
n.p.: n.p., n.d. [ca. 1968]. Outrageous hippie exploitation magazine. Generic cover photo of a naked woman posing for the camera deceptively creates the impression that this is a standard men's magazine, however it is largely devoted to reprinting Psychedelic Hippie No. 1, probably the best hippie exploitation mag ever. Includes..... More
[Burbank: Seven Seventy Publishers, ca. 1967]. One of the more extravagant hippie sleeze exploitation magazines (despite the misleading cover shot from a splatter film). Plenty of photos of naked cavorting hippies and other "way out nuts, kooks, goons, and flower people," with sections on "Haight-Ashbury Hippie Heaven," "The Swingers," "Incredible..... More
Sparta, IL: Candar Publishing, 1965. Exploitation "men's magazine" featuring the cover story: "Orgy-Cruise of the South Seas Beatniks." The title is a bit misleading since the story is really about adventurers who intrude upon a "primitive" tribe whose sexual mores are so loose they are considered the "Beatniks of the..... More
San Diego: Phenix Publishers, ca. 1968. 4to. A hippie exploitation mag with a cover blurb advertising a "nude hippie party with a naked rock band" named "The Monkey Wenches." Filled with photos of naked hippies frolicking outdoors and, of course, at the nude hippie party. Includes 18 pages of color..... More
Baldwin, NY: Jeflin Pub, 1960. Exploitation mag featuring the cover story: "Will the Beatniks Ruin America?" Several pages of photos of Beatniks in Greenwich Village (including one of the Miss Beatnik contest winner), London, and San Francisco. Rubber stamp to front cover, some wear to spine with 1-inch tear to..... More
NY: Cape Magazine Management Corp., 1960. Exploitation mag featuring the cover story: "I Lived in California's Beatnik Paradise." Includes several pages of photographs of the Venice West Beatnik scene including one of Eric "Big Daddy" Nord (founder of the legendary Gas House). Very near fine. More
North Hollywood: American Art Agency, 1964. A "men's magazine" featuring the cover story: "Greenwich Village Party Time" about the Beatniks in Greenwich Village. Includes several pages of staged and wonderfully ridiculous photos of a Beatnik party with shade-wearing, guitar-strumming, wine-drinking, beatniks with candles in wine bottles and modern art on..... More
[San Diego: Phenix Publishers, 1969]. Hippie exploitation magazine exposing "The True Inside Story of Hollywood's Naked Hippies." Lots of b&w (and some color) photos of hippies having sex, playing cards, smoking a mammoth hookah, dancing with a dog, body painting, playing guitar, etc. Small price sticker to front cover, else..... More
[NY: Dell Publishing, 1961]. A comic book featuring a cover illustration of beatniks in a dingy basement playing bongos, smoking pipes, drinking coffee, and lounging decadently. In their midst one of them is giving a speech: "Oh wad some power the giftie gie us to see oursels as others see..... More
No place: Privately published, ca. 1960. Photo illustrated handbill showing The Kellers in a couple of the guises they assume in their act, including the pair dressed as beatniks: "The Kellers as they appear in their new novelty as 'The Creeps'. Magic in the 'beat manner' it's way out." Printed..... More
No place: Privately published, 1960. A single octavo sheet folded to make four pages. Advertises a screening of the 1960 film "The Beatniks" at the Echo Drive-In in New Iberia, Louisiana, a noted hotbed of beatnik activity. A terrific item---the front cover features a dynamic illustration of a shade-wearing, bearded..... More
Mexico: Populibros "La Prensa," [1972]. Second printing of this Paperback Original. Features one of the most sensational,beautifully designed, drug exploitation covers in existence. There are covers that show women and syringes, women using syringes, but in the subset of woman-in-a-syringe covers---this is the best. Features an illustration of a beautiful..... More
