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SPIT IN THE OCEAN, ISSUES 1-7 (ISSUE 1 SIGNED BY WENDELL BERRY) and SPIT IN THE OCEAN, ISSUE 1 (2ND PRINTING)

Eight books: The full set of seven first-edition issues of the Ken Kesey-led and inspired publication "Spit in the Ocean" - Issues 1 though 7, all first editions - plus the 1977 Second Edition of Volume I. Octavo, 8.4 in. x 5.5 in. Volume 1 (1974): Signed by poet Wendell Berry on page 15 (with his printed photo and fiction story). Light tanning to covers. Spine crease. Back cover used as a mailer, with stamps and address label (to Carolyn Ferguson/CBS Morning News). Light thumbing to front corners. Good Plus. Volume 2 (1975): Sunning to spine. 1 in. x 1.5 in. dark liquid stain to upper front right corner of front cover that drips over the fore-edge. Good Plus. Volumes 3, 4, 5 (1977/78/79): Very light shelfwear to edges of covers. Very Good Plus. Volume 6, "The Cassady Issue" (1981): Shelfwear to edges. Light thumbing to front corners. Address and phone number of Ken Kesey's farm handwritten in ink to verso of front cover. Good Plus. Volume 7 (Edited by Ed McClanahan, Penguin Books: 2003; 8.4 in. x 5.25 in.): Very light shelfwear. Very Good Plus. Volume 1 (Second printing: 1977): A few spots to far upper left corner of front cover and top of spine. Very Good. Ken Kesey, Wendell Berry, Timothy Leary, Jack Cassady, Ken Babbs, Paul Krassner, Studs Terkel, Larry McMurtry, Hunter S. Thompson, Tom Wolfe, Robert Hunter and many others contribute their poetic voices in this transitional era.