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a. "The Rules of the Game When You're Busted." Two sheets, four pages; printed on blue paper; double-sided. Edge-sunned, with slight edgewear; else near fine. Common sense; legal rights; etc.

b. "I Live." Short treatise on truth and empirical knowledge with reference to San Francisco Hippies as a tribe of American Indians, a forthcoming booklet explaining this treatise to be available at the Psychedelic Shop, etc. One-sided. Edge-darkened and chipped, not affecting text; very good.

c. "Police Chief Warns Hippies." Reprinted newspaper articles (March 22, 1967), with added emphasis and editorializing. Double-sided. Near fine.

d. "Beat the Heat." Six-point plan for keeping "busts to a neat minimum," emphasizing suspicion of strangers: "Don't do anything with a stranger you wouldn't do with a cop" and "A stranger is anyone, no matter how friendly, that you don't know very much about." One sided; dated 3/24/67, and an early indication that the days of the "Summer of Love" were already well past in early 1967. Very near fine.

e. "Correction: Mana is Cool." March 24, 1967. A two-sided retraction of an earlier statement decrying Mana Pardeahtan as an informer. Printed on blue. Age-darkening; else fine.

f. "Kirtan." Invitation to the Radha Krishna Temple for chanting, with sample chants. One side. Near fine.

g. "Saturday -- April 29 -- Santa Fe, N. Mexico." Subtle yet damning report on the developments leading to a scheduled June Be-In at the Grand Canyon, featuring a number of counterculture celebrities -- Ginsberg, Richard Alpert (later "Ram Dass," who was about to leave for India for his famous trip), Emmett Grogan and others. Dated 5/9/67. Once again, an early example of the apparent split between an idealistic movement and one that was self-consciously manipulated by savvy, ambitious self-appointed "leaders." Two-sided. Near fine.

h. "There is a Great Deal to be Silent About." Philosophical reflections. Dated 5/29/67. One-sided. Edge-sunned, corner-creased; otherwise near fine.

473. (Convention). Young Citizens Convention Rally. (Washington): (Young Citizens for Johnson) (n.d.). Program. Folded in eighths. Ink annotations. Very good. Paul Newman provided opening and closing comments and the narrative for a dramatic performance; speakers included Bill Moyers and Earl Warren, among others; performers included Barbara Streisand, the folksinging trio Peter, Paul and Mary, and others.

474. COSSERY, Albert. Men God Forgot. (Berkeley): Circle Editions, 1946. First American edition of the Egyptian author's first book, a collection of stories in which drugs, particularly hashish, play a central role. Henry Miller blurb. A crudely manufactured, small press edition. Rubbed; else fine in pictorial boards. An antecedent to the drug culture of the beat generation and later the counterculture.

475. (CRUMB, R.). CRUMB, Dana and COHEN, Sherry. Eat It. A Cookbook. San Francisco: Bellerophon (1972). A natural foods cookbook with R. Crumb illustrations throughout. Includes a centerfold section of Crumb drawings: "Kitchen Kut-Outs!" including "Hotshot Manny Mustard," "Bad Guy Billy Beercan," and others. Previous owner gift inscription. Quarto, near fine in wrappers.

476. (DAVIS, Angela). A Political Biography of Angela Davis. (NY): (Committee to Free Angela Davis) (1971). Second printing. Eight-page pamphlet summarizing Davis's biography and politics"the false difference between `personality' and `politics' can no longer be maintained"and presenting her as an embodiment of passionate commitment to egalitarian political ideals, persecuted by, and warring against, the mainstream society and its values. Fine in wrappers.

477. DIDION, Joan. Slouching Towards Bethlehem. NY: FSG (1968). The second book by this author who has been chronicling the postwar American dream with a biting accuracy and fierce humor that is unsurpassed in her generation. Small ink date written on front endpaper, otherwise fine in near fine dust jacket. A very nice copy of her first collection of essays, a landmark volume that set the tone for much of her later writing. The title essay is an early report on the hippies of Haight-Ashbury that looked at the dark side of that particular take on the American dream.

478. -. Same title, the uncorrected proof copy. Comparison with the published book reveals that Didion made textual changes in her foreword before publication, including both the addition and deletion of text. Also, Didion changed the dedication, making her adopted daughter, Quintana, the dedicatee rather than her husband, John Gregory Dunne. Fine in tall, spiralbound wrappers. Very scarce.

479. -. Same title, the first English edition (London: Deutsch, 1969). Fine in near fine dust jacket. An uncommon edition of this important book.

480. (Disarmament). Rally for Peace and Disarmament. (Toronto): (Canadian Peace Congress) (1960). Text of the proceedings of the February, 1960 rally. With addresses by W.E.B. DuBois, Rockwell Kent, and Pablo Casals, among others. Rockwell Kent illustration on front cover. Very near fine in wrappers.

481. (DODGE, Jim). De Vaca in a Vanishing Geography. (n.p.): (n.p.) (n.d.). Poetry. One of 500 copies printed in the spirit of friendship and community, without author names, price, or copyright information. Name and address of Jim Dodge printed on "anti-copyright" page. Covers sunned and mildly worn; pages darkening with age; else near fine in saddle-stitched wrappers.

482. DOYLE, Kirby. Sapphobones. Kerhonkson: Poets Press (1966). Poetry, much of it with an erotic edge. Covers edge-sunned; near fine in stapled wrappers.

483. (Drugs). Botanical Museum Leaflets, Vol. 20, No. 6. Cambridge: Harvard, 1963. Includes Albert Hoffmann's "The Active Principles of the Seeds of Rivea Corymbosa and Ipomoea Violacea," which in part recounts his discovery of LSD twenty years before. Also includes R. Gordon Wasson's "Notes of the Present Status of Ololiuhqui and the Other Hallucinogens of Mexico." Small stains and creases to cover; otherwise near fine in stapled wrappers. Dated November 22, 1963the day President Kennedy was shot.

484. DUNCAN, Robert. The Cat and the Blackbird. San Francisco: White Rabbit Press (1967). One of 500 copies: "Lithographed in an edition of 500 copies and then plates then destroyed." Story by Duncan, illustrated by Jess. Fine in ringbound cardstock covers. Uncommon.

485. DYLAN, Bob. Tarantula. Hibbing: Wimp Press (n.d.). Early edition of the author's famous underground book, a mimeographed edition printed in his native Minnesota. "Author's royalties from the sale of this book are being donated to the Caladan Free School. Publisher's profits will contribute to the furtherance of Woodstock Nation"i.e., post-1969 edition. This book was to have been published in 1966, when Dylan was at the height of his influence. A trade edition went to the galley stage before being pulled. Dylan's motorcycle accident removed him from the public eye for years and it was a different worldhaving been through the polarizing effects of the Vietnam war and the political upheavals of the late Sixties and early Seventieswhen this book was finally formally published. Dylan had been eclipsed by his times, and while still a legendary figure his influence was not even a shadow of what it had been a few years earlier when he galvanized both the folk music scene and the young protest movement. This piracy links the counterculture to its roots in the poetry and protest of the early Sixties coffee shops. Fifty-four pages, 8 1/2" x 11" sheets, stapled. Final pages detaching from staples; else a fine copy of the only book written by the legendary singer whose poetry and songs transformed both folk and rock music in the Sixties.

486. (DYLAN, Bob). Sing Out!. Vol. 12, No. 4, October-November, 1962. Dylan is featured on the cover of this folk song magazine, shortly after his first album had appeared and before his second. Music and lyrics of three Dylan songs are reproduced and there is a lengthy article about him and his music, which quotes him extensively on a variety of subjects. A very early look at Dylan and his reception in the folk music world. Near fine in stapled wrappers.

487. EINHORN, Ira. 78-187880. Garden City: Doubleday, 1972. Poetry/prose/ tract/photography by a noted Philadelphia hippie who was later accused of murder and disappeared. Fine in fine dust jacket.

488. (The Farm). GASKIN, Stephen. This Season's People. A Book of Spiritual Teachings. Summertown: Book Publishing Co. (1976). Spiritual teachings in the form of essays, aphorisms and quotes, by the founder of The Farm, an important and still ongoing alternative community in Tennessee that grew out of the psychedelic counterculture of the Bay Area of the late Sixties and the back-to-the-land movement. As a part of The Farm's drive toward self-sufficiency, it started its own publishing company, among many other small enterprises. This volume is a pocket-sized paperback, attractively designed and heavily illustrated. Covers slightly rubbed but still a near fine copy in illustrated wrappers.

An Important Richard Fariña Archive

489. FARIÑA, Richard. An Archive of Correspondence Relating to his First Story Accepted for Publication. A file consisting of one long typed letter signed by Fariña, two short autograph letters signed, the typed contract signed by Fariña giving permission to publish "With a Copy of Dylan Under My Arm" in New Campus Writing III, along with retained carbons of associated correspondence. Dated December 8, 1958 to December 12, 1959.

Fariña's first and only novelBeen Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me, published in 1966featured an irreverent, pot-smoking anti-establishment protagonist, Gnossos Pappadopolos, who bridged the gap between the beatniks of the Fifties and the hippies of the late Sixties. In 1958, Fariña was a student at Cornell, working on the literary magazine, studying with James McConkey, and writing. One of his stories, originally printed in The Cornell Writer, is here provisionally accepted for publication (space permitting), and Fariña's permission is sought, as well as biographical information. He responds with a letter sketching his life history, including having written a novel that "is at present suffering a third revision." While he seems very pleased to be selected for publication in a literary collection (he downplays a later acceptance of one of his stories by Ladies Home Journal as being commercial and nonliterary), a year later, after the book has been published and he still has not received a check for his work, his tone is rather peeved.

Fariña was one of the pivotal literary figures of the Sixtiesthe embodiment of hip, and always at the center of the action. Thomas Pynchon attended Cornell at the same time as Fariña and was a friend and admirer of Fariña who, as a folk singer with his wife Mimi (Joan Baez's sister), was at the center of the protest movement that later evolved into the Sixties counterculture. It is said that Bob Dylan's song, "Positively 4th Street" ("...you've got a lot of nerve, to say you are my friend...") was aimed at Fariña. In part because of his early deathin a motorcycle accident on the way to the publication party for his novelhe has retained a mystique as an archetypal romantic figure of the era, and thus as a writer whose influence and importance are much greater than the volume of his literary output would suggest. Manuscript or autograph material of Fariña's is practically unheard of. This archive is a unique glimpse at the pivotal moment of first publication for one of the most important writers of his time.

490. FARIA, Richard. Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me. NY: Random House (1966). Advance uncorrected proof copy of the author's first and only novel, a high spot of the literature of the Sixties. Fariña was killed in a motorcycle accident on the way to the publication party for this novel, an event that firmly entrenched both book and author in the mythology of the Sixties. Tall galley sheets printed on rectos only, ringbound in blue card-stock wrappers. A near fine set of this rare prepublication state, in an attractive custom clamshell case.

491. -. Same title, an advance review copy of the first edition. Owner bookplate front flyleaf (of a moderately well-known novelist); else very near fine in like jacket with review slip laid in. Scarce in nice condition, and rare in an advance issue.

492. -. Another copy of the first edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. Enthusiastic Thomas Pynchon blurb. A virtually perfect copy of a Sixties classic.

493. -. The reissue of this book (NY: Viking, 1983) with a new introduction by Thomas Pynchon which details their relationship at Cornell and afterward. Issued simultaneously in paperback and hardcover, this edition was printed on cheap paper which is browning with age. A very small hardcover printing, which has now become quite scarce.

494. FARQUHARSON, Robin. Drop Out! (London): Anthony Blond (1968). British university professor takes LSD, drops his day job, writes about his experiences and insights, gets published. A retrospective introduction by the author qualifies the somewhat extreme stance of his contemporaneous writings, but their conviction remains. Top page edges foxed; else fine in a foxed, price-clipped, near fine dust jacket.

495. FEIFFER, Jules. Pictures at a Prosecution: Drawings & Texts from the Chicago Conspiracy Trial. NY: Grove Press (1971). The noted cartoonist, who sat in on the trial, assembled a volume of his illustrations and excerpted court transcript, sometimes rearranged for dramatic effectiveness, in an attempt to capture the nearly absurd flavor of the trial. Quarto in wrappers. Covers splayed; near fine in wrappers.

496. FERLINGHETTI, Lawrence. To Fuck is to Love Again. NY: Fuck You Press, 1965. Poetry, published by Ed Sanders underground press. Stapled multi-colored mimeographed sheets. Some edge-darkening; near fine.

497. FETHERLING, Douglas. Travels by Night. A Memoir of the Sixties. (Toronto): Lester Publishing (1994). Memoir of a Canadian writer who came of age in the Sixties, and was involved in the cultural renaissance underway in Canada at the time. Fine in fine dust jacket and signed by the author. Margaret Atwood blurb.

498. FIDDLE, Seymour. Portraits from a Shooting Gallery. NY: Harper & Row (1967). Case histories of and interviews with drug addicts from Exodus House, an East Harlem drug clinic. Very near fine in like dust jacket.

499. FISCHER, Charles. Trips. (n.p.): Futility House (1994). Drug reminiscences from the Sixties. Fine in wrappers. Introduction by Kent Anderson, author of Sympathy for the Devil. Vivid short stories which depict the sense of adventure that was associated with much drug use in the Sixties.

500. FOSS, Daniel. Freak Culture. NY: Dutton, 1972. An analysis of the counterculture that aims to examine the main tenets of its rebellion and the possible directions they point toward for the mainstream culture. Very near fine in like dust jacket with one edge tear on the front panel. Quite dated now, it seems, although many of the values and agenda items of the Sixties do indeed seem to have been incorporated into the mainstream culture at this point.

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