Vietnam and The Sixties, The Sixties 4
501. (Free Speech). Appellant's Opening Brief: People of the State of California, Plaintiff and Respondent, vs. Mario Savio and 571 Others, Defendants and Apellants. (Berkeley): (Privately published) (n.d.) [1966]. A brief prepared by Savio's lawyers for the trial stemming from his involvement in the Free Speech Movement. Savio and Michael Rossman were the leading advocates of students' rights to free speech and the protests engendered by the Free Speech Movement were the key events of the early '60s in triggering a full-fledged and organized student protest movement throughout the country that lasted throughout the decade, touching on a host of subjects and rewriting the rules of political discourse in this country. This copy bears the ownership signature of Michael Rossman, co-founder of the Free Speech Movement. An excellent association copy of an important document. Moderate soiling to cover and edges; otherwise near fine in wrappers.
502. FULLER, R. Buckminster. Untitled Epic Poem on the History of Industrialization. Highlands: Jonathan Williams, 1962. Advance review copy, with publisher's slip laid in. A 227-page poem, the first published poetic work by the inventor of the geodesic dome, among other accomplishments in design and architecture. Fine in wrappers, in near fine dust jacket, with a printed acetate overlay which is chipped at the upper corners on either side of the spine crown. Uncommon.
503. GELBER, Jack. On Ice. NY: Macmillan (1964). First novel, third book, by this playwright whose first play, The Connection, won an Obie Award in 1960. Fine in near fine dust jacket.
504. GINSBERG, Allen. Reality Sandwiches. (San Francisco): City Lights (1963). A title in the City Lights Pocket Poets series. Together with Kaddish and Planet News, the three small chapbooks form the central accomplishment of Ginsberg's work as a poet during this period and stand as the volumes by which his reputation was secured as an American poet of major stature and not just as a figure of the "Beat" movement. These poems date from the period 1953-1960. This copy is signed by Ginsberg in 1966. Dampstaining across bottom page edges and outer corners, not affecting any text. Very good in wrappers.
505. GINSBERG, Allen. Planet News. (San Francisco): City Lights (1968). Another title in the City Lights Pocket Poets series, these being poems from the Sixties. A volume that firmly places Ginsberg in the center of the Sixties counterculture with a poem about the "First Party at Ken Kesey's with the Hell's Angels" as well as the intensely political "Wichita Vortex Sutra." The dedicatee of the collection is Neal Cassady, whom Ginsberg calls "the secret hero of these poems." Cassady was the model for Dean Moriarty, the main character of On the Road, Jack Kerouac's classic novel of the Beat Generation, and he was also the driver of Kesey's famous psychedelic bus in the Sixties. As an individual, he provided a link between the impulses of the Beat movement and those of the counterculture, and Ginsberg's dedication both reaffirms that link and becomes, itself, another such connection. This copy is inscribed by Ginsberg in 1976. Recipient's owner signature; near fine in wrappers.
506. GOLDEN, Jeffrey. Watermelon Summer. Philadelphia: Lippincott (1971). A journal of a young, upper middle class college student who goes to work for a small black cooperative farm organization in rural Georgia. Fine in a very good, price-clipped dust jacket.
The Rarest Grateful Dead Concert Poster
507. (Grateful Dead). Original Poster for the Anderson Theatre Hell's Angels Benefit. New York, November 23, 1970. Approximately 23" x 35", printed in black, blue, green, red and yellow, with an image of a skeleton riding a motorcycle across the face of a tombstone, reaching for marijuana plants growing on the graves. A less-accomplished image than many of the San Francisco psychedelic posters of the period, this was reportedly done by a couple of the Angels' girlfriends with an artistic bent. A near fine copy, framed, of an exceptionally rare Grateful Dead posterperhaps the scarcest of them all -- which had no professional production or distribution.
508. (Grateful Dead). REICH, Charles and Jann Wenner. Garcia. A Signpost to New Space. (NY): Straight Arrow (1972). The Rolling Stone interview with Jerry Garcia, plus a "stoned Sunday rap" with Garcia, Reich and Mountain Girl. This is the very scarce hardcover edition. Small stains upper edge of pages otherwise fine in a near fine, price-clipped dust jacket. An uncommon book and the most extensive published statements by Garcia about the Dead, the Sixties and the elements behind their music that made it special for successive generations.
509. (Grateful Dead). HARRISON, Hank. The Grateful Dead. (London): W.H. Allen/Star (1975). First British edition of this controversial history of the Grateful Dead. Only issued in paperback in the U.K. This edition is revised from the original U.S. edition, published in 1973. A new introduction by the author explains that several characters involved in activities of questionable legality had their identities hidden in the first edition but were here identified. Smaller format than the original, with fewer photographs and without the Neal Cassady/Grateful Dead flexi-disk; still, quite uncommon. Small ink notation on half-title; very good in pictorial wrappers.
Signed by Jerry Garcia
510. (Grateful Dead). Promotional Photograph. 8" x 10" promotional photograph of the Dead, circa late '80s. Signed by Jerry Garcia in orange magic marker, vertically over his image in the photo. Fine.
511. (Grateful Dead). HUNTER, Robert. A Box of Rain. (NY): Viking (1990). Collected lyrics of the Dead's main lyricist, collaborator with Jerry Garcia on most of their most memorable songs. Quarto. Fine in fine dust jacket.
512. (Grateful Dead). WASSERMAN, Dan. Original Art for Jerry Garcia Obituary cartoon. Original art for this syndicated cartoonist's Garcia obituary, with a drawing of Garcia's guitar resting against a tree beside a flowing river, with lyrics from "Uncle John's Band": "It's the same story the crow told me,/ it's the only one he knows./ Like the morning sun you come,/ and like the wind you go." Fine. One of the most touching visual memorials to the Dead's lead guitarist.
513. GREGORY, Dick. Nigger. NY: Dutton, 1964. Uncorrected proof copy of this landmark autobiography by the black comedian and social activist. Long galley sheets bradbound into blue card-stock covers. Tape shadows on covers; else fine. A very scarce state of an important book.
514. -. Same title, the first edition. Owner bookplate partially removed from front flyleaf. Foxing to page edges; staining to top of cloth; still about very good in dust jacket.
515. GROGAN, Emmett. Ringolevio - A Life Played for Keeps. Boston: Little Brown (1972). One of the classic memoirs of the Sixties, by a co-founder of the Diggers and one of the important figures of the counterculture. A controversial book, as Grogan's opinions and perspectives were not shared by all. He died a few years later, reportedly of a drug overdose, but rumors persisted that it was in fact retaliation for the degree to which he had antagonized people over the years. Fine in near fine dust jacket.
516. -. Another copy. Near fine in very good dust jacket.
517. GUTHRIE, Arlo. Alice's Restaurant. NY: Grove (1968). The "novelization" of Guthrie's famous song, illustrated with cartoon drawings by Marvin Glass. Some darkening to covers; still near fine in wrappers.
518. (GUTHRIE, Arlo). "Alice's Restaurant" in Broadside #80 and "Alice's Restaurant Massacree" in Broadside #81. (NY): (Broadside) (1967). First appearance in print of Guthrie's famous song -- really an extended improvisational monologue, here presented in several versions, as prose. Two small stains to cover of #80; else each volume is fine in stapled wrappers. For both:
519. (GUTHRIE, Arlo). BROCK, Alice May. Alice's Restaurant Cookbook. (NY): Random House (1969). The cookbook from the restaurant Arlo Guthrie made famous with his song and movie, with a recorded introduction by Guthrie on a flexible record still tipped in to the rear endpaper. Signed by Brock. A few stains from use; very good in dust jacket.
520. (GUTHRIE, Arlo). This is the Arlo Guthrie Book. NY: Amsco (1969). Photo and songbook. Quarto in wrappers, with fold-out photographic cover. A near fine copy.
521. HALBERSTAM, David. The Unfinished Odyssey of Robert Kennedy. NY: Random House (1968). A portrait of RFK by a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and an account of the last nine months of Kennedy's life, during which time he matured as a politician and seemed to embody the hopes of a wide cross-section of the American people and to hold the promise of reconciliation in a nation polarized on many fronts. An uncommon title. Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
522. HANSEN, Al. A Primer of Happenings & Time/Space Art. NY: Something Else Press, 1965. An early expression of what is now known as performance art and in the Sixties were called "happenings" -- alternative theater with an emphasis on the startling and the improvised. Near fine in near fine dust jacket with mild staining to rear panel.
523. HARRIS, Mark. Mark the Glove Boy or, The Last Days of Richard Nixon. NY: Macmillan (1964). An account of the political demise of Nixon which was published shortly after the assassination of JFK -- an event that changed the entire tenor of the work and gave it a new and more chilling context. Fine in near fine dust jacket.
524. HAYES, Billy. Midnight Express. NY: Dutton (1977). Nonfiction account of an American youth caught smuggling drugs in Turkey and sentenced to jail there -- an experience of brutality unprecedented in his theretofore relatively sheltered life. Made into a movie. Near fine in a dust jacket with a closed gutter tear on the front spine fold; else near fine.
525. HEINLEIN, Robert A. Stranger in a Strange Land. NY: Putnam (1961). The author's landmark book, winner of the Hugo Award for best novel of the year, and one of the most influential books on the counterculture of the Sixties. A view of Earth's culture from the perspective of an innocent Martian named Valentine Michael Smith, this was in reality a critique of social constructs and constraints and a vision of a utopian society based on free love and communalism which became a model for any number of hippie experiments and introduced several new words to the language, the most lasting of which has been the verb "to grok," meaning to understand or appreciate fully. This is a fine copy in a very near fine dust jacket with several very small, closed edge tears. A scarce and important book, and exceedingly uncommon in this condition.
526. (Hell's Angels). REYNOLDS, Frank as told to Michael McClure. Freewheeling Frank. Secretary of the Angels. NY: Grove (1967). Autobiography of a principal member of the famous motorcycle club, co-written by a noted Beat poet. Spot to foredge; near fine in near fine dust jacket.
527. (Hell's Angels). REYNOLDS, Frank. 666. The Hymn to Lucifer. (San Francisco): (Hell's Angels) (n.d.). Portfolio collection of 12 four-color broadsides, approximately 8" x 10", in illustrated cardstock folder. Reproduces hand-lettered, illustrated sheets by Reynolds. Evidently, originally to have been given out free. Owner name on folder, a few corner spots, and slight wear to folder; still near fine.
528. (Hell's Angels). THOMPSON, Hunter S. Hell's Angels. NY: Random House (1967). First book by Thompson, inventor of "gonzo journalism," which may be defined as "journalism as immersion," which is exactly what he did for this book: Thompson spent a year following or hanging out with the Angels, ending up getting stomped by several of them -- a high or low point of participatory journalism, depending on your perspective. Near fine in dust jacket. An attractive copy of an increasingly difficult book to find.
529. HENDERSON, David. Felix of the Silent Forest. NY: Poets Press, 1967. Black poetry, with an introduction by LeRoi Jones. One of 2000 copies, published by an important Sixties press and printed at the Kriya Press in Millbrook, New York, a center of counterculture activity in the mid-Sixties. Fine in stapled wrappers.
530. HENDRIE, Don, Jr. Blount's Anvil. (Amherst): Lynx House Press, 1980. A novel of underground political activists styled after the Weather Underground, and with a plot line based on the incident in which several young radicals were killed in Greenwich Village when the bombs they were working on accidentally detonated and destroyed a building. This is the hardcover issue, signed and additionally inscribed by the author. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. A significant novel, similar in tone to Robert Stone's Dog Soldiers. John Irving blurbs.
531. HERNTON, Calvin C. The Coming of Chronos to the House of Nightsong. (NY): (Interim Books) (1964). An early book by this black writer, this being one of 300 copies. Inscribed by the author to another poet in the year of publication. One spot and some edge-darkening to covers; still about near fine in stapled wrappers.
532. HESSE, Hermann. The Glass Bead Game. (Magister Ludi). NY: HRW (1969). First edition of this new translation of the book that some consider Hesse's masterwork, re-published at the height of the resurgence of his popularity during the late Sixties, with a Peter Max-like psychedelic dust jacket design. Spine cloth creased; else near fine in near fine dust jacket.