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562. KOPIT, Arthur. Indians. A Play. NY: Hill and Wang (1969). Award-winning play which critiqued contemporary American society by portraying the taming of the American West as an exercise in greed and stupidity. Fine in fine dust jacket with a touch of wear at spine crown. An important play, uncommon in the first edition.
563. KRASSNER, Paul. How a Satirical Editor Became a Yippie Conspirator in Ten Easy Years. NY: Putnam's (1971). A collection of Krassner's satirical essays from The Realist. Near fine in like dust jacket, with minor fading and wear to spine.
564. (KUPFERBERG, Tuli, ed.). Birth, No. 3, Books 1 and 2. (NY): (Birth) (1960). Birth #3 is a two-volume issue entitled "Stimulants: An Exhibition." Book 1 contains Alcohol, Marihuana and Peyote, and an Allen Ginsberg journal excerpt; Book 2 contains Opium, Tobacco, Tea & Coffee, and Various Stimulants. Kupferberg, in addition to being a poet in his own right, was later a member of the influential band, The Fugs. Each volume about very good in wrappers: book one missing staples; book two has some soiling to covers. For both:
565. -. Same title, No. 3, Book 2 only. Fine in stapled wrappers.
Fuck You Press D.H. Lawrence Book
566. (LAWRENCE, D.H.). HARRIS, Marguerite. Maxims & Aphorisms from the Letters of D.H. Lawrence. (NY): (Ed Sanders/Fuck You Press) (1964). One of 250 copies, this being copy #27. Stapled pages. A mimeographed production from Sanders' famous press, which published a number of important volumes in the early Sixties. Sanders, himself also a poet, was also a musician and a member of The Fugs. Cover pages edge-darkened; else fine.
Timothy Leary's Self-Published Novel
567. LEARY, Timothy. What Does WoMan Want? (Dexter): (88 Books) (n.d.) [1976]. Leary's only novel, written while he was imprisoned in San Diego in 1975 and self-published (Joanna Leary owned and operated "88 Books") after his release in 1976. Leary uses the form of a science fiction novel to reflect on the period of his exile in Switzerland, 1971-2, with flashbacks to earlier periods. Thick quarto, one of 5000 numbered copies in wrappers, this being the putative first issue, with "Vulcan-8" on page (iv) unchanged. Wrappers somewhat edgeworn, thus only good. An unusual, uncommon book by one of the influential psychedelic gurus of the Sixties.
568. LEARY, Timothy. Flashbacks. Los Angeles: Tarcher (1983). Leary's autobiography. Fine in near fine reflective dust jacket with some light flaking and a bit of wear at spine crown.
569. LEGMAN, G. The Fake Revolt. NY: Breaking Point (1967). A 32-page diatribe against the Sexual Revolution, the New Left, drugs, hippies, etc., with the unusual twist that rather than being written from the perspective of the conservative far right it is a socialist critique, written from the perspective of the "old left," with Soviet Russia and Communist China in the background as the models against which U.S. culture and counterculture are weighed and found wanting. Owner name on title page; covers rubbed and worn; very good in stapled wrappers.
570. LESTER, Julius. The Angry Children of Malcolm X. Nashville/Boston: Southern Student Organizing Committee/New England Free Press (n.d.). First separate edition of this essay, an offprint of an article that appeared in Sing Out magazine in 1966 and was collected in Lester's book, Look Out, Whitey, Black Power's Gonna Get Your Mama. Two sheets, 11" x 17", folded to make 8 quarto pages. 3/4" tear along foredge; smudge on front cover. Overall very good. Very scarce "A" item by Lester. We have not seen or heard of other copies.
Rare d. a. levy Signed Limited Edition
571. LEVY, D.A. More Withdrawed or Less. (Cleveland): (Renegade Press) (n.d.). Levy's third book, published the same year as his first two. Although this is identified as copy no. 8 of 100 numbered copies, the author reportedly destroyed most copies and it is estimated that no more than 10-15 copies are extant. Levy was the leading poetic figure of the Cleveland underground throughout the mid-Sixties. He committed suicide in 1968, becoming one of the very few counterculture martyrs, one who died before compromising himself or his ideals. Signed by the author. Owner name; very near fine in stapled wrappers. A legendary rarity by one of the most important and most widely admired poets of the Sixties.
d. a. levy's Most Famous Book, Inscribed to Another Poet
572. LEVY, D.A. North American Book of the Dead. Cleveland: Free Lance Press, 1965. Probably his most well-known book, published as usual by his own press and, as noted by his bibliographer, "a typically bad Free Lance production with horrendous errors throughout." This copy is warmly inscribed by the author in the year of publication to another poet: "to will inman/ for being/ and for being/ a good friend/ + a perhaps a/ great human being/ d.a. levy/ 65." Folded once vertically, and edge-darkened; very good in stapled wrappers. An excellent association copy of an enormously scarce book.
573. LEVY, D.A. Red Lady. (Vancouver): (Blewointmentpress) (1970). Prose. Second edition and the first Canadian edition, published posthumously. One of 700 numbered copies. A near fine copy in stapled wrappers.
574. (LEVY, D.A.). "The River" in The Silver Cesspool, Vol 2. Cleveland: Renegade (1964). Small, underground Cleveland literary magazine, mimeographed on multi-colored paper and published by Levy's own press. Signed by Levy at his contribution and by several other poets. Near fine in wrappers.
575. (LEVY, D.A.). "Pollack" and "A Night at Uxmal" in The Silver Cesspool, Vol. 4. Cleveland: Renegade, 1964. Other contributors include Kirby Congdon, Lewis Turco, Judson Crews, a.o. Footprint and ink notes on announcement page; else near fine in wrappers.
d. a. levy Manuscript Poems
576. (LEVY, D. A.). Two Typescript Poems, "Reality Jew" and "Purgatorio." Two typescript poems submitted to Ted Berrigan for publication in C, the literary magazine he edited in the mid-Sixties. Postmarked April 30, 1965 and with a self-addressed stamped envelope in D. A. Levy's hand for their return. "Reality Jew" is a two-page carbon typescript, with several holograph corrections in Levy's hand and several ribbon-copy corrections as well. The subtitle of the poem is "(or what its really like to be the angel of death)" to which Levy has added in holograph "in cleveland)." Several erasures have been typed over by the poet including the final three lines of the poem. Levy's typed signature and the date "64" are at the end of the second page. "Purgatorio" is a clean, ribbon-copy eight-line poem. Manuscript material by Levy has rarely shown up on the market and this is particularly interesting as it shows him reaching out and attempting to connect with the underground poetry movements outside of Cleveland. Folded for mailing; near fine.
577. (LEVY, D.A.). The Mary Jane Quarterly, Vol. 2, No. 1. Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1966. Mimeographed, hand-produced literary quarterly published by Levy. Contributions by Margaret Randall, Robert Lowry, Diane Wakoski, Levy, and others. Pages vary in color and size; the larger pages are edgeworn. Near fine in stapled wrappers.
578. (LEVY, D. A.). ukanhavyrfuckincitibak. D.A. Levy: A Tribute to the Man, An Anthology of His Poetry. Cleveland: Ghost Press (1968). Posthumous compilation and tribute to Levy, one of 1000 copies. Tall, thick quarto, with photographic cover, bound with black tape spine, with five wood- or linoleum-cuts by the author bound in. Laid into this copy is a three-page obituary by "rjs," the editor of this volume, entitled "As a Matter of Record - The Previously Promised Distortions and Speculations on the Suicide of D. A. Levy," and including a poem excerpt of Levy's entitled "Collect 200 Stars and Discorporate." A fine copy.
579. LILLY, John Cunningham, M.D. The Mind of the Dolphin. Garden City: Doubleday, 1967. The third of Lilly's books on dolphins, focusing both on the nature of nonhuman intelligence and on the possibility of interspecies communication. What began as a series of scholarly studies in the Fifties transformed itself in the Sixties, in conjunction with psychedelic drugs and other consciousness-altering disciplines and experiences, into an unparalleled exploration of the nether reaches of mind. Lilly's later books, which detail sensory deprivation experiments, near-death experiences and other extreme states of consciousness, arose directly out of his ground-breaking work with dolphins. Most of what he learned about dolphins -- and seemed to be radical theory and understanding at the time -- has become part of accepted common knowledge today. This copy is inscribed by the author to Dr. and Mrs. Fred Lord, reportedly another early pioneer of dolphin studies. Near fine in dust jacket. Books signed by Lilly are uncommon.
580. (LSD). BLEWETT, D.B., Ph.D. and CHWELOS, N., M.D. Handbook for the Therapeutic Use of Lysergic Acid Diethylamide-25. Individual and Group Procedures. (Regina, Saskatchewan): (n.p.) 1959. The first LSD guidebook, 81 mimeographed sheets in a plain black binder, written by colleagues of Abram Hoffer and Humphrey Osmond, Canadian researchers who pioneered therapeutic uses of LSD in the 1950s. The authors reject the prevailing psychotomimetic model of LSD trips in favor of a psychedelic or consciousness-expanding model. They also reject the contending notion that LSD is most useful in small doses as an adjunct to orthodox psychotherapy, in favor of inducing a transcendental state with large doses in guided sessions. Only a few copies of the handbook were printed for private circulation. This copy belonged to Abram Hoffer, under whose tutelage it was written. It is dated on the title page, and signed "Pers[onal] copy A. Hoffer, MD" at the foot of the preface. Hoffer made numerous marginal comments and corrections to the text. An historic copy of a rare, revolutionary text, and a landmark study, providing real insight into experiments with LSD before they became a highly politicized (and polarized) issue. We have only heard of one other copy ever being offered on the market. Fine in binder.
581. (LSD). HOFFER, Abram and Humphrey Osmond. The Hallucinogens. NY: Academic Press, 1967. Scholarly work by two of the foremost researchers in the field, aimed at chemists, biochemists, psychologists, sociologists and research physicians. The most exhaustive single volume overview of the research done on psychedelics, particularly LSD, to that date. Previous owner name on front pastedown. Very good in dust jacket with some wear at spine crown and a few edge tears and chips.
582. (LSD). GANNON, Robert. "My LSD Trip" in Popular Science. December, 1967. A Popular Science reporter describes his own acid trip. Wrappers edgeworn; good copy.
583. (LSD). ROSEMAN, Bernard. LSD. The Age of Mind. Hollywood: Wilshire Book Company, 1969. Reissue of a title originally published in 1963 by this self-help publishing house. Photoreproduces the author's wife's calligraphy for the entire text, with illustrations by her. Initials on top edge; else fine in wrappers.
584. (Magazines). Treason! Vol. 1., No. 1. (NY): (Free School) (Summer 1967). Radical political magazine published by the New York Free School, originally the Free University of New York, an alternative college. Includes a review by Charles Johnson of Black Skins, White Masks; a play; artwork; a course listing for the Free School, including courses offered by Johnson, Paul Krassner, Will Inman, and others. Very good.
585. (Magazines). Eye. (NY): (Hearst) (March 1968 - May 1969). A short-lived attempt to create a Life-magazine style monthly aimed at the hip youth culture, with numerous articles on counterculture trends, fashions and celebrities. Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, the Beatles, Rolling Stones, and Bob Dylan make prominent appearances as do younger figures on the scene such as Laura Nyro, Arlo Guthrie and others. Interviews with and articles about Timothy Leary, Abbie Hoffman, the draft, the I Ching, and others. Various celebrity pieces: "Mick Jagger Raps About Politics, Movies and Money"; "Gracie Slick, Peter Fonda, Julie Nixon and Frank Zappa Tell What Turns Them On," etc. Also issue-oriented articles: "The Viet Vet - How Does He Feel?"; "The Blondes of '68 - Seductive AND Smart"; etc. The first 10 issues -- i.e., all the 1968 issues -- had a detachable centerfold poster, 19"x25", printing a column entitled "The Electric Last Minute" with the latest news, gossip and events on one side and a graphic on the other. Subjects of the graphics include Aretha Franklin (done by Milton Glaser), the Beatles (from Yellow Submarine), Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, psychedelic Tarot Cards, Mick Jagger, and others. Several of the centerfold posters are still bound in; others are detached and laid in. Very near fine and remarkable to be found complete with the poster inserts still intact. A revealing glimpse at a particular moment in time, when counter-culture icons such as Hendrix and Morrison were just starting to be portrayed as larger-than-life celebrities, and showing the strange mix of vanity and commitment that characterized a certain portion of the youth culture at that time. A complete run, 15 magazines, 10 posters:
586. (Magazines). The Mother Earth News, Vol. 1., No. 1. (Hendersonville): (Mother Earth News) (1970). First issue of this influential magazine, which helped start the "back to the land" movement among counterculture youth and older dropouts. Includes instructions for making a Plains Indian tipi, making yogurt at home, freelance cartooning, and other ideas and articles for self-help and self-sufficiency. Also contains "Four Changes," "the first draft of a work in progress by Gary Snyder." Newsprint; pages darkening; else fine.
587. (Magazines). Scanlan's, Vol. 1, No. 1. (NY): (Scanlan's) (1970). Relatively short-lived magazine that addressed a more radical fringe than Eye, above, with a more hard-edged political stance. Includes Hunter S. Thompson's "The Temptations of Jean-Claude Killy," an article on Altamont by Sol Stern, "The Adventures of Tin," and others. Mild surface staining; near fine.
588. -. Same title, Vol. 1, No. 2. Fine, lacking the recording of the Lt. Duffy interrogation.
589. -. Same title, Vol. 1, No. 3. Includes Robert Altman photographs of the Wheeler Ranch; Ernest Hemingway's cub reporter pieces; Graham Greene on Graham Greene; more. Light dust-soiling; else fine.
590. -. Same title, Vol. 1, No. 5. Includes R. Crumb illustrations, Ralph Steadman illustrations, Latin American revolutionary poetry, more. Slight edgewear; else fine.
591. (Magazines). The Organic Morning Glory Message, Nos. 2-4, 6-7. (San Francisco): (Organic Morning Glory Message) (Nov. 1970 - April 1971). Five issues. Edited by "Brother Lee." A New Age journal for "natural living," published by former members of the Morningstar commune and emphasizing health and nutrition -- including ideas which at the time were deemed radical but have since become part of conventional wisdom (e.g., avoidance of hydrogenated fats, etc.). Alicia Bay Laurel artwork in several issues. A seminal new age publication. Overall, the issues are near fine.
592. (Marijuana). DRAKE, William Daniel. The Connoisseur's Handbook of Marijuana. (San Francisco): (Straight Arrow) (1971). Small oblong quarto, heavily illustrated. Red ink "X" on verso of half-title, otherwise fine in near fine dust jacket.
593. MARNHAM, Patrick. Road to Katmandu. NY: Putnam's (1971). "An account of life on the hippie trail from Istanbul to Katmandu." Foxing to top edge; near fine in near fine, spine-faded and price-clipped dust jacket.