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THE LIFE OF THE THEATRE.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, not issued in hardcover.
San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1972. First edition - A log of the voyages of the Living Theatre (founded in 1947 by Beck and Judith Malina) in the 60's, followed by troupe's imprisonment in Brazil in 1971.
Condition: Some toning to the spine and back cover, otherwise fine in stiff illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 12986More details Price: $50.00 -
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER: Post Prison Writings and Speeches.
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York: Random House, 1969. dj. SIGNED hardcover - Edited and with an introduction by Robert Scheer. Includes the Playboy Interview, an open letter to Ronald Reagan, a letter describing Cleaver's first encounter with the Black Panthers and more. Laid in is a newspaper clipping dated 12/7/75 by Kathryn Cleaver on "Why Eldridge Cleaver has come home." SIGNED on the title page by editor Robert Scheer. 211 pp.
Condition: Very good in a very good dustjacket (toning to endpaper from clipping, price-clipped dj.)
Book ID: 14429More details Price: $35.00 -
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER: Post Prison Writings and Speeches.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, 1969. dj. Hardcover first edition - Edited and with an introduction by Robert Scheer. Includes the Playboy Interview, an open letter to Ronald Reagan, a letter describing Cleaver's first encounter with the Black Panthers, essays on Stokeley Carmichael, the death of Martin Luther King and more. 211 pp
Condition: Ex-library with the usual markings, but overall tight and clean in a near fine dj.
Book ID: 26638More details Price: $15.00 -
CHEECH & CHONG: THE UNAUTHORIZED AUTOBIOGRAPHY.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Simon Spotlight Entertainment (SSE), (2008). SIGNED first edition - An account of the decades long relationship between these two entertainers who became counterculture icons. "The straight dope of one of the most popular comedy teams of all time." SIGNED on the title page by Tommy Chong and dated 5 -31-08. 243 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (light crease on front cover)
Book ID: 85681More details Price: $45.00 -
86'D.
Edition: First printing in wrappers.
Condition: Very near fine in illustrated wrappers (usual light toning to pages).
Book ID: 90432More details Price: $50.00 -
THE PEOPLE'S GUIDE TO MEXICO.
Edition: Fifth edition
Santa Fe, NM: John Muir Publications. (1983.). A good example of this often reprinted classic counterculture travel guide. Note to this edition mentions that this edition is greatly expanded - almost twice the size, and with more pictures - and also comments on the rapid changes taking place in Mexico. Illustrated. 579 pp plus Index. ISBN: 0-91252815x.
Condition: Very good in illustrated wrappers (full color cover now)
Book ID: 40968More details Price: $12.00 -
REVOLUTION FOR THE HELL OF IT.
Edition: Trade paperback, 9th printing.
New York: Dial Press, 1968 (1970). Described on the cover as "The Book That Earned Abbie Hoffman a 5 Year Prison Term at the Chicago Conspiracy Trial" this was a proclamation by this radical activist and co-founder of the Yippie movement calling for a counterculture revolution against poverty, racism and the Vietnam war. Includes (in a very small font) his first pamphlet publication titled "Fuck the System." Illustrated with black and white photographs. The cover photograph of Abbie jumping, rifle in hand is by Richard Avedon. 231 pp.
Condition: Near fine (previous owner's name on first page)
Book ID: 88006More details Price: $20.00 -
THE MAGIC TORTOISE RANCH.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Crown Publishers, (1972) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, set in the 1960s commune couterculture, the story of eight damaged people brought together by love and desperation to the Magic Tortoise Ranch, a daring experiment in communal living. 218 pp.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 90574More details Price: $17.50 -
WHAT'S THIS CAT'S STORY? The Best of Seymour Krim.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Paragon House, 1991. dj. Hardcover first edition - Posthumous collection of writings which become, in effect, an unofficial history of the rise of the counterculture in New York city. Included is an essay on the Kerouac legacy, another on the influence of the New Yorker magazine, an unpublished excerpt from his prose poem 'Chaos' and more. Foreword by James Walcott. Index, 194 pages. ISBN: 1557784701.
Condition: Very good in a very good dustjacket (a tight copy with some shelfwear to the edges, fading and some soiling to the dj.)
Book ID: 16031More details Price: $17.50 -
THE DAYS GO BY LIKE BROKEN RECORDS: A No Hope Collection.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, not issued in hardcover.
San Francisco: Slave Labor Graphics, 1995. First edition - Includes the first 6 issues of the comic book 'No Hope' (lifesyles of the poor and bored) plus other rare and unpublished comics, including the mini-comics 'Help' and 'Life Makes My Head Hurt.'
Condition: Near fine in stiff wrappers (black line on bottom edge.)
Book ID: 14993More details Price: $15.00 -
THE ULTIMATE GAME: The Rise and Fall of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh,
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dustjacket (bottom edge of textblock slightly bumped).
Book ID: 73330More details Price: $25.00 -
DAMAGES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Arbor House, (1986) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second book, set in the 60s and 70s, featuring Joe Hank King, a domineering father and the charismatic and "undisputed leader of the counterculture revolution" and the daughter who eventually gets her revenge on him for a lifetime of inflicted damages. 274 pp. ISBN: 0-.87795805.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 84065More details Price: $17.50