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Artchie Strips: Andy Warhol in the Factory / Jane Fonda in the Max’s Episode / Rolling Stones in the Metropolis.

ARTCHIE, WARHOL, Andy, JAGGER, Mick; & FONDA, Jane. 4to. Photographic comic book in stapled pictorial wraps. First and only edition. Cover features a collage by Artchie of Mick Jagger hitchhiking while floating in outer space, with the entire book devoted to Artchie's drawings and photo-collages. Artchie was an elusive figure in the Factory orbit. It appears he was Archie Dukeshire, short-lived husband of Jackie Curtis who was also featured in her play "Vain Victory" in 1971, and who reportedly died in a scuba accident shortly thereafter. The first of the three "strips" is set in Warhol's Factory where Warhol and Brigid Berlin are featured prominently. The sequence opens with Artchie riding the Staten Island Ferry musing to himself when he gets the inspiration to use telepathy to transport himself to "a loft known as the Factory pulse central of the Andy Warhol World---what's ever happening that day---talk interviews super stars screening of movies and general nonsense.Any way I am here with my camera & tape." The story continues with Artchie meeting Brigid Berlin and Andy Warhol who, camera in hand, says "Why don't you get nude and I'll take some photos of you." Artchie then documents, utilizing photo-collage, the escapades surrounding Andy's Polaroid photo shoot involving Gerard Malanga, Bridgid Polk, and Artchie himself in various scenarios that evolve into a montage of nude photos of Artchie and Brigid. The second strip is devoted to Jane Fonda's visit to Max's Kansas City and features photos of her, Roger Vadim, Candy Darling (Warhol Superstar), and Eric Love in the famous back room at Max's. The final section is devoted to the Rolling Stones, revealing them in conversation at their Plaza Hotel suite and backstage at Madison Square Garden before their concert there, including photos of them on stage. A charming, entertaining, and little-known Warhol-related publication with a distinct DIY vibe, reflecting the Factory scene and the NYC avant-garde of the period. Long corner crease to front cover, both sides show some handling impressions and some modest wear and creasing, the pages are perfect, very good. Rare. No copies on OCLC and the only other copy we handled was 15 years ago.
  • $1,250
  • $1,250
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Americans and Mushrooms in a Naturalistic Environment: A Preliminary Report.

LEARY, Timothy; LITTWIN, George; & METZNER, Ralph. 4to. 10-page document mimeographed in purple ink, signed by Timothy Leary at top of first page, stapled at top left corner. First and only printing of this paper limited to "not more than 100 copies" for distribution by the authors. The earliest known report on the groundbreaking research into magic mushrooms by Leary and the Harvard Psilocybin Project, an important precursor to the Psychedelic Revolution that began a few years later. When a 1957 issue of Life magazine published Gordon Wasson's account of the mind-altering properties of the magic mushrooms he discovered in Mexico it piqued Leary's interest. Shortly after he was hired by Harvard in 1959 to conduct doctoral research in the Psychology Department's Center for Research in Personality Leary went to Mexico and tried the mushrooms firsthand. Upon his return he and Richard Alpert established the Harvard Psilocybin Project, the first research where the drug was given in "comfortable home-like surroundings" rather than a clinical setting, often with Leary and Alpert taking the drug along with the students. The majority of the participants reported "pleasant, educational, and even life-changing experiences," and Leary's mushroom experiments went on to include Ginsberg, Kerouac, Burroughs, Huxley, Watts, and many other artists and musicians (before Leary was expelled from the university). The beginning of the worldwide cultural change brought about by the Psychedelic Revolution and the burgeoning hippie subculture can be traced to this paper. Published a couple of years before the Acid Tests and before Leary's experimentation with LSD (a drug that would remain legal for another four years). Fine. Very rare, the only copy we've encountered and OCLC turns up just one copy, appropriately enough, at Harvard University.
  • $4,000
  • $4,000
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1st International Psychedelic Exposition.

LEARY, Timothy & KLEPS, Art. Pamphlet. First edition. Program for this little-known but significant hippie convocation held over five days at, believe it or not, the Forest Hills Country Club. The club allowed their grounds to be used for the building of an expansive hippie enclave with teepees, exhibits, and booths set up for the purpose of introducing and disseminating hippie crafts and psychedelic culture to the general public. The program features a long text outlining the goals of the exposition: "Certainly the Psychedelic manifesto of love and peace is a necessary and positive approach to the problems of our times.welcome to the happy, strange, wonderful, colorful, befuddling, changing, clashing, harmonious, happy world of psychedelics.listen to a flute, get high, turn on, tune in." Also announces the participation of various exhibitors and attendees including a text about each. The participants include: The League for Spiritual Discovery "whose commitment to the psychedelic communal experience has enabled them to suvive the rigors of several Millbrook winters," Art Kleps and The Neo-American Church, Peter Max, The Group Image (multimedia entertainment commune), Meher Baba, The Psychedelicatessen (famous early head shop), The Blue Dome (light show), Sri Ram Ashrama (Yoga community), Peter Stafford "who will play a tape of music and poetry and other material especially selected for people who are tripping," and hippie presidential candidate Louis Abolafia who's "looking for a running mate," among many others. A very hippiesque booklet with accomplished psychedelic illustrations printed with split fountain inks of various colors---a great zeitgeist item. Very good plus, faint dampmarking to bottom of back cover, not visible on the inside of the back cover, or on any pages. A thoroughly attractive copy of a charming hippie rarity.
  • $650