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HIGH PLAY: Turning On Without Drugs
Edition: First printing.
New York: Coward-McCann, (1970) dj. Hardcover first edition - A work of parapsychology by a noted authority on the works of Edgar Cayce. "In these extraordinary 'adventures in the Edgar Cayce approach', Dr. Bro tell how it is possible to achieve ecstasy without drugs and reach optimums in dealing with truth, beauty, and goodness." Includes discussion on encounter groups, meditation, ESP,fasting, LSD therapy and more. Introduction by Hugh Lynn Cayce. 256 pages
Condition: Very good in yellow cloth with navy blue lettering in a very good dust jacket (price-clipped, minor edgewear).
Book ID: 88754More details Price: $21.50 -
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: $8.50 -
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: 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 -
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: 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 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 -
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: $12.50 -
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 -
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED TO THE CLASS OF '65?
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, (1976.) dj. SIGNED 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. Inscribed by BOTH Medved and Wallechinsky on the front endpaper and uncommon thus. Illustrated with photographs. 285 pp. ISBN: 0-394-400747.
Condition: Very good in a near fine dust jacket (lower corners bumped) .
Book ID: 85644More details Price: $45.00 -
JOURNEY TO NOWHERE: A New World Tragedy.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1981. dj. Hardcover first edition - Thought provoking book inspired by the mass suicides at Jonestown in Guyana and a serious look at the forces which were influential in the creation of the People's Temple, Shiva Naipual, the brother of Nobel prize winning author V.S. Naipaul and an award winning writer also, was born in Trinidad. Index. 336 pp. Originally published in Great Britain under the title 'Black and White.'. ISBN: 0-671-424718.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (slight spine slant, prev owner's name, price-clipped dj.)
Book ID: 26975More details Price: $14.50 -
JOURNEY TO NOWHERE.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1981. dj. Hardcover first edition - Thought provoking book inspired by the mass suicides at Jonestown in Guyana and a serious look at the forces which were influential in the creation of the People's Temple, Shiva Naipual, the brother of Nobel prize winning author V.S. Naipaul and an award winning writer also, was born in Trinidad. Index. 336 pp. Originally published in Great Britain under the title 'Black and White.'. ISBN: 0-671-424718.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket.
Book ID: 25013More details Price: $16.50 -
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 -
DREEMZ.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Very good in a very good dust jacket (some wear to the ends of the dj spine).
Book ID: 63772More details Price: $15.00 -
DREEMZ.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 45953More details Price: $18.00 -
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: $12.50 -
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 -
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 -
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: $13.50 -
SOMEBODY'S THINKING OF YOU.
Edition: First edition.
New York: Panda Prints, (1966) dj. Hardcover first edition - A simple little book on the true meaning of friendship, 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. Small format, approx 7 1/2 inches tall by 4 inches, unpaginated (26 pp)
Condition: Fine in gray illustrated cloth in a very good dust jacket ( price-clipped).
Book ID: 85335More details Price: $13.50 -
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 -
WHITE KIDS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Summit Books, (1979) dj. Hardcover first edition - "A revolution, a crime, a remarkable boy, a honeymoon, a war - A generation revealed 1970-1979." Wolff's first book, a series of essays which show what happened to some white kids after the 60s ended - including the story of Angela Atwood, a neighbor of his family who helped kidnap Patricia Hearst as a member of the Symbionese Liberation Army - although he uses a quote from James Baldwin as an epigraph: ". . .the troubles of what people failed to impress me as being real troubles." Wolff is best known now for his trilogy of unflattering books about Trump's presidency. 316 pp. ISBN: 0-671400010.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (remainder line, slight spine slant)
Book ID: 85429More details Price: $35.00