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ABUSE OF POWER
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Viking, 1969. An analysis of how we came to wage the kind of war we never intended to wage in Vietnam.
Condition: Very good (some wear to cover, prev owner's name blacked out.)
Book ID: 12287More details Price: $10.00 -
WATER SQUATTERS: The Houseboat Lifestyle.
Edition: First printing, a large trade paperback original.
Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1975. First edition - A book which exemplifies the 70s (although there are still more than 400 houseboats in Sausalito and Marin County, some of them are now AirBnBs, which exemplifies our era!) "A documentary of handmade houses afloat, with photographs mainly from Sausalito, Seattle, Sacramento Delta, and foreign lands, with information on marinas, galley recipes featuring houseboat soup, how to cope with children and animals aboard" and more. Illustrated with a map, drawings by Bill Oetinger and black and white photographs throughout. Large format. 127 pp. ISBN: 0-88496020X.
Condition: Very good in illustrated wrappers (gift inscription inside front cover, minor wear to covers) .
Book ID: 86657More details Price: $45.00 -
DO YOU BELIEVE IN MAGIC? The Second Coming of the 60's Generation.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Times Books, (1987.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A thoughtful comprehensive look at the 1960's published twenty years after the Summer of Love in San Francisxo - The story of the American 1960s generation and its 'passage' to a promising middle life, from the times of rebellion - sexual, economic, anti-war, getting high, anti-materialistic - to the present realities - and the extent to which they still maintain the values, ideals, and philosophies of the past. Now that another 20 years has passed, it is interesting to read this book and to see what further changes have occured to this generation. Notes, resource list. 418 pp. ISBN: 0-81291225X.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (short closed tear to dj at top of spine.)
Book ID: 39417More details Price: $18.00 -
HOW THE WEST IS ONE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Macmillan, (1972) dj. Hardcover first edition - A book which came out of the New Age movement of the 1960s to early 1970s and the mind/body awareness experiences at Esalen in California's Big Sur, by the author and teacher who helped to establish this Institute. Illustrated with drawings by Ira Friedlander. 156 pp.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 88752More details Price: $18.50 -
DREAMS DIE HARD.
Edition: First thus- a trade paperback.
San Francisco: Mercury House, 1993. SIGNED - "Three Men's Journey Through the Sixties" - An account of three men who, as friends and opponents, fought the battles of the idealistic '60's; a story which was inspired by the murder in 1980 of one of the three: the attorney Allard Lowenstein, by another, the anti-war and civil rights activist, Dennis Sweeney. Harris, the third of these men, the former husband of Joan Baez, was himself imprisoned for his refusal to be drafted for the Vietnam War, Originally published in 1982. 341 pp. ISBN: 1-56279-034x.
Condition: SIGNED on the title page by the author. Near fine.
Book ID: 23674More details Price: $26.00 -
DREAMS DIE HARD.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, 1982. dj. Hardcover first edition - "Three Men's Journey Through the Sixties" - An account of three men who, as friends and opponents, fought the battles of the idealistic '60's; a story which was inspired by the murder in 1980 of one of the three: the attorney Allard Lowenstein, by another, the anti-war and civil rights activist, Dennis Sweeney. Harris, the third of these men, the former husband of Joan Baez, was himself imprisoned for his refusal to be drafted for the Vietnam War, 341 pp. ISBN: 0-312-219563.
Condition: Fine in a very good dust jacket (price-clipped, one short closed tear to back panel of dj.)
Book ID: 32000More details Price: $20.00 -
DREAMS DIE HARD.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1982.) dj. Hardcover first edition - "Three Men's Journey Through the Sixties" - An account of three men who, as friends and opponents, fought the battles of the idealistic '60's; a story which was inspired by the murder in 1980 of one of the three - the attorney Allard Lowenstein - by another, the anti-war and civil rights activist, Dennis Sweeney. Harris, the third of these men, the former husband of Joan Baez, was himself imprisoned for his refusal to be drafted for the Vietnam War.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 46705More details Price: $22.50 -
DREAMS DIE HARD.
Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )
New York: St Martin's, (1982.). First edition - "Three Men's Journey Through the Sixties" - An account of three men who, as friends and opponents, fought the battles of the idealistic '60's; a story which was inspired by the murder in 1980 of one of the three - the attorney Allard Lowenstein - by another, the anti-war and civil rights activist, Dennis Sweeney. Harris, the third of these men, the former husband of Joan Baez, was himself imprisoned for his refusal to be drafted for the Vietnam War, Publisher's letter laid in which comments that Harris "looks back in sorrow and makes us weep for what we could have been."
Condition: Good in printed cream wrappers (toning to the covers, crease to upper corner of front cover.)
Book ID: 47844More details Price: $25.00 -
REUNION: A Memoir.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, (1988.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Both a personal memoir and an account of one of the most politically tumultuous periods in American history by an active participant in it. Among other things, Hayden was in Mississippi with Martin Luther King, in Hanoi in 1967 with his wife, Jane Fonda, and was one of the Chicago Eight along with Black Panther Bobby Seale, Abie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin and Rennie Davis. Photographs. Notes, index. 541 pp,. ISBN: 0-394-565339.
Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 93040More details Price: $20.00 -
HOW TO BE A NONCONFORMIST
Edition: First thus- a slim trade paperback.
New York: Scholastic, nd [1968]. First edition - A short and ironic book, written while Karg - a lifelong socialist and member of the Solidarity movement - was a 16 year old junior working as a cartoonist on her high school paper. It includes her intricate pen-and-ink drawings and wry commentary which captures the era of flower children and anti-war demonstrations, with observations like "Avoid socks. They are the fatal giveaway of a phony nonconformist" and "nonconformists smile only sarcastic and sardonic smiles." Unpaginated.
Condition: Very good in illustrated wrappers (some toning but no creasing or tears)
Book ID: 93506More details Price: $50.00 -
DEMON BOX.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Viking, (1986.) dj. Hardcover first edition - His 4th book, a reflection of America and his life, messy, contradictory and controversial, in the 20 years since his release from prison after conviction on a drug charge in 1967. Includes several stories by 'Grandma Whittier' including 'Little Tricker the Squirrel Meets Big Double the Bear" as well as tales of foreign excursions and the title essay which says that madness can and must live on. 384 pp. ISBN: 0-670-809128.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (remainder line)
Book ID: 58816More details Price: $21.00 -
ENCOUNTER: A Weekend with Intimate Strangers.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Grossman, 1970. dj. Hardcover first edition - A re-enactment of an actual encounter weekend. ISBN: 0-670-29399-7.
Condition: Very good in good dust jacket (edgewear to dj.)
Book ID: 17255More details Price: $14.50 -
THE MILKSHINE-CURRY EASY BUZZARD READER: Featuring: The Uneven Number of Lips' Baby-Batter Recipe Book
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, not issued in hardcover.
San Francisco: Two Windows Press, (1970.). First edition - One of only 1050 copies. Cover photographs by the author. A wonderful piece of the 1960's counterculture, this begins with 'me and the tv/ were watching each other/ and right in the middle/ of the bestpart/ I got up to pee/' Unpaginated.
Condition: Fine (as new) in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 28418More details Price: $15.00 -
LONESOME CITIES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, (1968.) dj. Hardcover first edition - An early book of love poems and lyrics by this singer and songwriter. 111 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket (price-clipped).
Book ID: 91241More details Price: $15.00 -
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED TO THE CLASS OF '65?
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, (1976.) dj. Hardcover first edition - In 1965, Time Magazine selected the senior class of Palisades High School in suburban Los Angeles for the cover story article on American teenagers "on the fringe of a golden era". This book includes interviews from 30 members of that class at their 10th reunion, in which they describe what it was like to come of age in the 60s and 70s. The authors were both members of the original class. Illustrated with photographs. 285 pp. ISBN: 0-394-400747.
Condition: Good+ in good dust jacket (prev owner's name, several short tears and other edgewear to dj, price of 10.00 still present on flap)
Book ID: 93229More details Price: $18.50 -
MAKING PEACE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Warner, (1991.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in the midst of the anti-war movement of the 1960s. 327 pp. ISBN: 0-446-515418.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dust jacket. (gift inscription)
Book ID: 58728More details Price: $16.50 -
THE WESTBANK GROUP.
Edition: First printing.
Los Angeles: Sherbourne Press, 1970. Hardcover first edition - Rather strange novel about a group marriage, written half as a sociology treatise, and half emphasizing the group sex.
Condition: Very good+, lacking the dj.
Book ID: 20833More details Price: $14.50 -
SHARON TATE: A Life.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Da Capo Press, (2016). First edition - This biography, by the author of the classic book on the Manson cult, "The Family" "takes a close look at Tate's lifeÑfrom her itinerant childhood and early career in fashion to her transition to film, passionate marriage to the brilliant and troubled Roman Polanski, and violent murder at the hands of the Manson family cult. Sanders's 'Sharon Tate' offers new insights into what happened on the night of her death and explores new motives for the targeting of the Polanski household." IIlustrated with drawings by Rick Veitch and photographs. 271 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 67346More details Price: $21.50 -
DREEMZ.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 45953More details Price: $18.00 -
THUNDER LABOOM.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Viking, 1974. dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel about a topless and bottomless bar in San Jose - by an ex-professor who is also an ex-stripper. Terry Southern called this the best book ever written about burlesque. ISBN: 0-670-711292.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 24265More details Price: $25.00 -
THE WIND THAT BLOWS IS ALL THAT ANYBODY KNOWS.
Edition: First printing.
Los Angeles & New York: Stanyan Books / Random House, (1970) dj. Hardcover first edition - Quotes from Thoreau's writings, edited and with an introduction by Rod McKuen, who refers to Thoreau as the first drop-out. Illustrated with photographs by Helen Miljakovich. A book which reflects in both words and pictures the hippie culture of the late 1960s. Small format. Unpaginated. Photographic endpapers.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (some shelfwear, toning to dj, price of 3.00 on dj flap)
Book ID: 90700More details Price: $16.50 -
THANK YOU FOR SO MANY THINGS.
Edition: First edition.
New York: Panda Prints, (1968) dh. Hardcover first edition - A simple little book, not much more than an expanded greeting card (in fact the author is best known as the designer for the Panda Print greeting cards), but a book which is very much a product of its time - written and illustrated by the author, printed on bright pink stock throughout. Small format, approx 7 1/2 inches tall by 4 inches, unpaginated (26 pp)
Condition: Fine in red illustrated cloth in a very good dust jacket (small chip to upper edge of back cover of dj, partially price-clipped).
Book ID: 85334More details Price: $14.50 -
SOMEBODY'S THINKING OF YOU & THANK YOU FOR SO MANY THINGS (2 book set)
Edition: First editions.
New York: Panda Prints, (1966. 1968). Hardcover first editions - Two simple little gift books, not much more than expanded greeting cards (in fact the author is best known as the designer for the Panda Print greeting cards), but which are very much a product of their time - written and illustrated by the author, the first is printed ivory stock, the second on bright pink stock throughout. Small format, approx 7 1/2 inches tall by 4 inches, unpaginated (26 pp)
Condition: Both books are fine -one in gray illustrated cloth, the other in red illustrated cloth - in a very good dust jackets (price-clipped).
Book ID: 85336More details Price: $25.00