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GIRL, 20.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1972) dj. Hardcover first edition - Amis's ninth novel - a "brilliant, ruthless, ultimately unnerving survey of current lunacies." 253 pp. Dust jacket design by Wendell Minor.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (prev owner's name stamp)
Book ID: 62523More details Price: $18.50 -
THE NEW SETTLER INTERVIEWS VOLUME I : Boogie at the Brink.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, not issued in hardcover.
Condition: SIGNED by the editor, and uncommon thus. Very near fine (a new copy).
Book ID: 30032More details Price: $30.00 -
DROP CITY.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Viking, 2003. First edition - 'A brilliant and vividly rendered wildwoods adventure about a hippie commune that attempts to establish itself deep in the wilderness of Alaska.' An evocation of the sixties, and a look at how that era affects us today.
Condition: Very near fine (tight and unread, but one corner slightly bumped.)
Book ID: 27885More details Price: $20.00 -
DROP CITY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Viking, (2003) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - 'A brilliant and vividly rendered wildwoods adventure about a hippie commune that attempts to establish itself deep in the wilderness of Alaska.' An evocation of the sixties, and a look at how that era affects us today. SIGNED on the title page. 444 pp. ISBN: 0-670-031720.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dust jacket (a few spots on the fore-edge of the textblock)
Book ID: 64864More details Price: $31.50 -
DROP CITY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Viking, (2003) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - 'A brilliant and vividly rendered wildwoods adventure about a hippie commune that attempts to establish itself deep in the wilderness of Alaska.' An evocation of the sixties, and a look at how that era affects us today. SIGNED on the title page. 444 pp. ISBN: 0-670-031720.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dust jacket (name on front endpaper)
Book ID: 69682More details Price: $28.50 -
SUBSISTENCE U.S.A.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Very near fine in a good only dustjacket. (some edgewear and overall light soiling to the dj, now protected by an archival cover.)
Book ID: 38102More details Price: $40.00 -
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 -
BURNT TOAST.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1971. Hardcover first edition - Author's first novel, published when he was just 25, based on his life on a 1970s commune in southern Vermont - considered the first fictional look at this back-to-the land movement, and still one of the best. Gould received the 2016 Arts Education Award from the Vermont Arts Council for his work as a writer, teacher, gardener and political activist. Illustrated with line drawings by the author. Back cover photograph of Gould and his dog, Old Pal, by Peter Simon. 176 pp. ISBN: 0-394469488.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated boards, no dust jacket as issued (slight spine slant)
Book ID: 80415More details Price: $35.00 -
HYPOCRISY OF DISCO: A Memoir.
Edition: First printing.
San Francisco: Chronicle Books, (2007.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An account of growing up (up to age 13) as the daughter of a wandering hippie mother and an absent father, in Northern California in the 1970's, and in New Mexico. Praise from Peter Coyote (who makes a brief appearance in this as a teacher at a free school) who calls this 'an insightful and riveting book about a hippie child gone bad.' SIGNED on the title page. 240 pp. ISBN: 9780811859455.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 39399More details Price: $30.00 -
IN THE COUNTRY OF THE BLIND.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Arcade Publishing, (2016). First edition - The 25th book by this award-winning author, published 60 years after his first. Set in the 1970s in far northern Vermont, this is the story of a 46 year old former stockbroker, going blind at age 46, who is living in a farmhouse near a hippie commune and bordering an old smuggling trail, not used to move drugs across the border. It is about learning to adjust to life with limitations, to be able to rely on the kindness of others, and is made more poignant by the fact that Hoagland himself has been dealing with diminishing vision for more than 10 years, 184 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 69054More details Price: $20.00 -
SUMMER OF LOVE.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
New York: Bantam, (1994). First edition - Her second novel, a finalist for the P. K. Dick award, a story of time travel from 500 years in the future to San Francisco in 1967. Drawings by Tom Robinson. 384 pp. ISBN: 0-553-373307.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 72291More details Price: $20.00 -
THE SLOW FARM.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
Condition: Very good in illustrated wrappers (some curling to the edges of the covers) .
Book ID: 79578More details Price: $16.50