ONDAATJE, Michael.
Running in the Family.
NY: W.W. Norton, [1982].: 1982
- $35
Hardbound in dust jacket. First American edition. Signed by the author. Very fine.
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Poster announcing a celebration for the 1968 Vernal Equinox.
GROGAN, Emmett & ANDERSON, Chester. Full-size poster offset printed in two colors. The poster bears the legend "Free City," and is the work of the Free City Collective, the name the Diggers assumed after they stopped calling themselves The Diggers the previous year. Features a psychedelic illustration of the heads of a man and woman, and lotus flowers, floating amidst a swirling, red, flame-like design. "The Vernal Equinox is your equinox. You are the first day of spring! 5:24 a.m. March 20, 1968 with afternoon dancing and food at the speedway meadow in Golden Gate Park and games and pleasures of imagination everywhere in the park." A very scarce poster, and one of the more elaborate items produced by the Free City Collective that disbanded just a few months after this event. A bit of soft creasing to top right corner, minute tear, near fine (23" x 17.5").- $650
- $650
Poster announcing “Psychedelic Art First West Coast Show” held at the Electric Tibet in Berkeley, 1967.
WELLER, Tom & KAGAN, Paul. Designed by Tom Weller with a photograph by Paul Kagan of a man wearing a suit of armor surrounded by a psychedelic border and lettering. As new (ca. 19.25" x 13.5").- $75
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Poster boldly printing in psychedelic lettering: “A Puff Of Kief in the Morning Makes a Man As Strong As a Hundred Camels in the Courtyard”.
GRIFFIN, Rick. Second and more striking printing as this was done in psychedelic colors whereas the first was b&w. Features an elaborate drawing of a hookah emitting smoke with marijuana leaves behind it. Produced to be sold in headshops of the period. Fine (20" x 14").- $75
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Poster by Rick Griffin announcing the Human Be-In.
GRIFFIN, Rick. First printing of one of Griffin's first and most historically important posters. Signed by Allen Ginsberg who was at the Human Be-in. The poster features an illustration of an American Indian with an electric guitar on horseback along with the text: "Pow Wow. A Gathering of the Tribes for a Human Be-In." Lists Allen Ginsberg, Timothy Leary, Gary Snyder, Jerry Rubin, Richard Alpert, and others as participants. The Be-In took place in Golden Gate Park in 1967---a watershed event that linked the Beat and '60s countercultures, and catapulted the Haight-Ashbury hippie scene into national prominence. Some creasing and wear, paper toned, few 1-inch edge tears, some sepia staining on back (not visible on front), a good only copy. However, rare signed by Ginsberg who was such an important presence at the event and his name is featured on the poster. Would look quite acceptable framed since most of the blemishes are on the edges and could be matted out.- $400
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[LA: Privately published, 1966].
Handbill announcing the "Freak-In" at the Shrine Exposition Hall in LA, 1966. Handbill, printed in black on yellow stock, for this early event from the burgeoning LA hip scene, taking place the same month LSD became illegal and preceding the famous riots on Sunset Strip. The featured performer was seven-year-old soul singer Little Gary Ferguson, and among the other performers were The Mugwumgs soon to be renamed The Mamas & the Papas. However, the most intriguing attraction was "The world-famous artist and sculptor VITO with his wife, his child and his entire entourage of dancers and freakers." Vito Paulekas was a noted bohemian and bizarre character in the LA hippie scene who was the leader of a band of "freaks" who lived a semi-communal lifestyle and engaged in "sex orgies and free-form dancing whenever they could." Their dancing at various clubs often overshadowed the main performers. He rented a rehearsal space to Arthur Lee and Love, as well as the Byrds, and he and his troupe (some of of whom became The GTO's a.k.a. Girls Together Outrageously) accompanied the Byrds on their national tour. Vito fell-in with Frank Zappa and he and his friend Carl Franzoni contributed to the Mothers first LP "Freak Out" (he also recorded a single of his own as "Vito and the Hands" titled "Where It's At"). Vito has been credited with first using the term "freaks" and "freak out" to describe the hippie scene, and he also appeared in several documentaries of the period including Mondo Hollywood and You Are What You Eat. The Freak-In was an Acid Test inspired event emblematic of the period offering "light show nirvana and optical psychout" and "The Way Out with the ecstatic sounds of eternity," as well as being a high-profile gig for Vito, a hugely influential, though under-publicized, member of the LA freak scene. Fine.- $60
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Yab-Yum poster.
KAGAN, Paul. Features Kagan's photograph of a naked hippie couple with the man sitting in a lotus position and the woman sitting in his lap, a common symbol in Buddhist iconography. This embrace occurs amidst a multicolored, psychedelic paisley-pattern background. This poster was a familiar sight in headshops of the era. A couple of tiny chips, barely perceptible small tear, very near fine (22" x 28").- $50
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Original hand-tinted photograph by noted rock photographer Chuck Boyd of Mick Jagger on stage wearing an Uncle Sam hat with Mick Taylor partly visible behind him.
BOYD, Chuck & JAGGER, Mick. The photograph is printed on matte board and signed beneath the image and dated "L.A. CA. 1970." Boyd started as a publicity photographer for a radio station in LA, and was published in the popular teen magazine Tiger Beat, before he got a contract with Sunn Amplifiers to be their official photographer. It is through the connection with Sunn that he had unlimited access to the rock stars and concerts of the '60s and '70s. His photos were collected in the book "Forever Young: The Rock and Roll Photography of Chuck Boyd." Fine with Boyd's studio label to the verso (bit of adhesive residue to top edge of verso). Photo measures 7" x 5" with larger white border.- $350
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Lavish catalog from the notorious Psychedelicatessen headshop in New York’s East Village.
LEARY, Timothy & HOFMANN, Albert. 4to. Folder featuring a silk-screened, psychedelic, Day-Glo cover design. Inside the folder are 7 sheets of paper printed on both sides in various colors featuring psychedelic art advertising their products, along with an order form with an elaborate ornamental border. The Psychedelicatessen was the first headshop in NYC, and one of the first in the country following closely on the heels of The Psychedelic Shop in the Haight-Ashbury. Located in the East Village not far from Ed Sander's Peace Eye Bookstore, the Fillmore East, and Tompkins Square Park, they were perfectly located to be the preeminent purveyor of drug accoutrements and hip publications, and a hang-out for the NYC counterculture. From the beginning their presence reverberated through the undergroud community with a photo-illustrated spread in OZ magazine, and they even made it into the mainstream media when they were written up in Time magazine. Also at the outset, they were the subject of constant police harassment due to their suspected involvement with the LSD trade. The Psychedelicatessen flourished for about two years from 1966 until September of 1968 when the police finally busted them for selling large quantities of LSD, hashish, marijuana, speed, and various other hallucinogens as detailed in the New York Daily News (turns out the proprietors were members of the psychedelic religion The Church of Mysterious Elation and their homes and church were also raided). We frequented the shop back in the day, and sentimentally have kept an eye peeled over the last 50 years for items issued by them, especially this catalog that was their most elaborate production (they also issued a psychedelic poster advertising the store and did eye-catching ads in NYC underground papers). We've handled this only once before and have seen one other copy in commerce over these many years, with no copies on OCLC. A true rarity and major highspot of psychedelia from this venerated space for the hippie counterculture of the period. Small stain and trivial wear to folder, contents fine.- $3,000
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All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace.
BRAUTIGAN, Richard. 4to. Broadside poem. First edition, second issue (with illustrations of dogs and photo of computers as the background). Ephemeral publication that was given away free on the streets of the Haight-Ashbury during the "Summer of Love." Published by Brautigan's friends at the Communication Company who were responsible for the daily flow of broadsides that kept the Haight community updated on current events. Very fine.- $350
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Torrid Twins.
LYNN, Jack. First edition of this Paperback Original. The twins are of course a couple of nymphomaniacs. The sensational and humorous cover illustration features them naked and on fire coming directly toward the viewer, as a speeding car races across the backgound. Crisp, very near fine.- $25
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Woman from Another Planet.
LONG, Frank. First edition of this Paperback Original. "She had the body and passions of a woman---but the soul of a demon." Terrific cover illustration of a semi-robotic woman with a small, red, unsavory space creature behind her with stars twinkling all around. Barely perceptible touch of foxing to top edge, else crisp and very near fine.- $35
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