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594. MAX, Peter. God. NY: Morrow, 1970. Illustrating the words of Swami Sivananda. Approximately 5 3/4" square; one nick to upper front cover, else fine in illustrated boards.
595. McLUHAN, Marshall and FIORE, Quentin. The Medium is the Massage. An Inventory of Effects. NY: Random House, 1967. An illustrated expansion upon McLuhan's popular theories on media and metaphysics. Tall, thin quarto; this is the seldom-seen hardcover edition, near fine in good pictorial dust jacket, with a significant diagonal edge tear on the rear panel. The title of the related essay, "The Medium is the Message," became a byword of the era and entered the language as such.
596. McMURTRY, Larry. All My Friends Are Going to Be Strangers. NY: Simon & Schuster (1972). McMurtry's roman à clef about his days in Palo Alto at Stanford University, discovering and hanging out with Ken Kesey's crowd of hipsters and, later, "pranksters." A fine novel that also serves as a sort of documentary history of a pivotal moment in the history of the counterculture. Inscribed by the author: "For Blair / One About/ A writer for/ Starters/ Larry ." A tinge of fading to author's name on spine; else fine in fine dust jacket.
597. -. Another copy. Cloth slightly sunned at top edge; else fine in very near fine, dust-soiled jacket.
598. -. Same title, the uncorrected proof copy. Very good in tall, fragile, padbound wrappers with the rear cover detaching, in a custom quarter leather clamshell case. Scarce.
599. McNEIL, Don. Moving Through Here. NY: Knopf, 1970. McNeil was a staff writer for The Village Voice and this volume reproduces his articles on the counterculture for the critical period from the Central Park Be-In on Easter Sunday, 1967 to a tragic confrontation with police at Grand Central Station a year later. An important document of New York's underground. Owner gift inscription on title page; else fine in fine, price-clipped dust jacket. Introduction by Allen Ginsberg; epilogue by Paul Williams.
600. (Media). Radical Software, No. 3. (NY): (Radical Software) (1971). Includes Gregory Bateson's "Restructuring the Ecology of a Great City" and much on alternative and leading edge media, including video cassettes, cable television, etc. Edges and folds sunned and worn; otherwise about near fine.
601. (Medicine Ball Caravan). GRISSIM, John, Jr. We Have Come For Your Daughters: What Went Down on the Medicine Ball Caravan. NY: Morrow, 1972. Chronicle of an ill-fated attempt by Warner Brothers to create a movie documenting a counterculture caravan promoting a hippie lifestyle and values. Bookplate front flyleaf and foxing to top edge; else near fine in near fine, spine-faded dust jacket.
602. MELVILLE, Keith. Communes in the Counterculture. Origins, Theories, Styles of Life. NY: Morrow, 1972. Combines personal account and historical perspective. Blurbs by Alan Watts and communalist Robert Houriet. Very near fine in like jacket with minor foxing.
603. MITCHELL, Don. Thumb Tripping. Boston: Little Brown (1970). The author's first book, a novel about hitchhiking, tripping and other counterculture encounters. Near fine in an evenly soiled white jacket; about very good.
604. (Music). The Age of Rock. NY: Vintage (1969). Collection of essays and articles on rock, focusing on the Sixties. Richard Fariña on Bob Dylan and Joan Baez; articles by Tom Wolfe, Ralph Gleason, Jon Landau and others. Rubbed and read; dampstain has affected the glossy photographs, otherwise about near fine in wrappers.
605. (Native Americans). Rainbow People, Vol. 1, No. 1. (Gresham): (Rainbow People) (n.d.). [1970]. First issue of this paper, combining Longhouse News, the official organ of Kanonsonnionwe Kahnawake branch of the Six Nation Confederacy together with the Cherokee Examiner and miscellaneous other pieces. Edited by native peoples and includes political news and much cultural information and reports, including pieces written in the Cherokee language, Tsalagi. Paper darkening; else fine.
606. -. Same title, Vol. 1, No. 3. (John Day: Rainbow People, n.d. [1970]). Includes the Cherokee Examiner as well as news reports from the Rosebud Sioux Herald, the University of Oregon, and other sources, including an interview with/article on the American Indian Movement -- a very early piece on AIM. Pages darkening; else fine.
607. NEVILLE, Richard. Play Power. London: Cape (1970). First edition of this collection of essays about the counterculture by the former publisher of OZ magazine, who was sentenced to jail for obscenity in one of the most celebrated cases of the time. Very good in edgeworn dust jacket, and with a pocket attached to the rear pastedown, as issued, with an "Underground Alamanac" board game -- "Headopoly" -- laid in. An uncommon and unusual artifact of the time.
608. (NIXON, Richard M.). Nixon's the One. (Washington): (United Citizens for Nixon-Agnew) (n.d.). [1968]. Audio excerpt from Nixon's August 8, 1968 Nomination Acceptance Speech, in the form of a 6" 33 1/3 rpm flexible record. Fine. A remarkable memento of an era.
609. NORMAN, Gurney. Divine Right's Trip. NY: Dial, 1972. A countercultural "folktale" about a young man named Divine Right and his cross-country trip in a '63 VW bus named Urge. Serialized in The Last Whole Earth Catalogue. This copy is near fine in a dust jacket missing a thumbnail-size chip at the lower edge of the front panel. Inscribed by the author in 1975: "To Ruth & Martin,/ Remembering our good time/ together, January 27, 1975./ Your new friend/ (Johanna's old friend)/ Gurney Norman/ and, of course,/ Chloe." Norman, a Kentucky native and friend of Wendell Berry, was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, where he became friends with Ken Kesey, Ed McClanahan and others. McClanahan provides a dust jacket blurb. Kesey, Berry, McClanahan, Stewart Brand and several others receive acknowledgements. An uncommon book signed.
610. OCHS, Phil. Songs of Phil Ochs. (NY): Appleseed (1964). The first book by this influential folk singer, with an introduction by him and a foreword by one of the editors of the folk music magazine Broadside. Contains "Talking Vietnam," a humorous, early anti-war song, among other examples of the "protest" music that he, Dylan and a handful of other folk singers were popularizing at that time. A few inconsequential spots on the first few pages; else fine in stapled wrappers.
611. "PANAMA ROSE," i.e., COHEN, Ira. The Hashish Cookbook. (n.p.): Gnaoua Press (1967). Small press, low-budget cookbook with recipes and antidotes. Mild spine-sunning; else fine in stapled wrappers.
612. PHILLIPS, Louis. Theodore Jonathan Wainwright is Going to Bomb the Pentagon. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall (1973). Advance reading copy of a novel the publishers claim will be "to the 1970's what Catcher in the Rye was to the 1950's and Catch-22 was to the 60's." Spine lettering faded; diagonal watermarks across lower outer corner; otherwise near fine in wrappers. A coming-of-age-in-the-Peace-Movement novel which was not as successful, it appears, as its publisher had hoped.
613. (Photographs). BAILEY, David and EVANS, Peter. Goodbye Baby & Amen. NY: Coward McCann, 1969. First American edition. Folio. Photographs of celebrities and other key figures of the decade, mostly from New York and London. Near fine in jacket with slight wear at spine extremities.
614. PINTAURO, Joseph. The Peace Box. NY: Harper & Row (1970). Small, square volume with multicolored drawings by Norman Laliberté. Fine in illustrated boards.
615. PIRSIG, Robert M. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. NY: Morrow, 1974. Uncorrected proof copy of Pirsig's classic inquiry into values and treatise on Quality. The first issue proof, in red wrappers, with pagination reproduced from holograph. A landmark of the literature that grew out of the Sixties counterculture and uncommon in proof form. Near fine in wrappers.
616. -. Same title, the first edition. A near fine copy of a fragile, perfectbound book, spotted on top edges, in a dust jacket. A fairly nice copy of a book seldom found in such condition. A surprise bestseller, this book was reprinted numerous times, and the first edition is quite scarce.
617. PIRSIG, Robert. Zen in Minnesota. (Minneapolis): (Minnesota Zen Meditation Center) (n.d.). Small, oblong octavo in wrappers; a treatise on Zen at the opening of the Zen Center in Minneapolis -- the first time that an ordained Zen Master had taken up residency anywhere in the U.S. between the east coast and California. Small spots on covers; near fine.
618. (Poetry). GITLIN, Todd. Campfires of Resistance. Poetry from The Movement. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill (1971). Anthology of engaged poetry, with work by Marge Piercy, John Sinclair, Philip Levine, Allen Ginsberg, Will Inman, D. A. Levy, Diane DiPrima, Tuli Kupferberg, Gary Snyder and others. Very good in moderately rubbed dust jacket with a number of edge tears. Gitlin has since become one of the foremost media critics in the country.
619. (Psychedelic Art). KELLEY, Alton. "Memorial." (n.p.: n.p., n.d.) [1969]. Handbill by Kelley announcing a concert by the Grateful Dead at the Carousel Ballroom in San Francisco on May 30, May 31 and June 1. Art of Rock pg. 179, 2.160. 7" x 11". Days of the week crossed out, as usual, as they didn't match up with the dates. Else fine.
620. (Psychedelic Drugs). Psychedelic Review, No. 9. (NY): (Psychedelic Review) (1967). Magazine edited by Ralph Metzner, with Timothy Leary identified as Contributing Editor. With a Leary/Metzner contribution, a long poem by Leary himself, Stewart Brand on a Native American Church peyote ceremony, psychedelic artwork, and much else. Near fine in wrappers.
621. (Psychedelic Drugs). Journal of Psychedelic Drugs, Vol. I, No. I. San Francisco: University of California Medical Center (1967). Edited by David E. Smith, M.D. First issue of this journal, with a number of lengthy, scholarly articles on "Psychedelic Drugs and the Law." With a bibliography. Quarto; small stain to rear cover. Near fine in tapebound wrappers.
622. (Psychedelic Drugs). Journal of Psychedelic Drugs, Vol. I, No. II. "Psychedelic Drugs and Religion." San Francisco: Haight-Ashbury Medical Clinic (1967-68). Edited by David E. Smith, M.D., Medical Director of the clinic. Includes pieces by Timothy Leary, Meher Baba, others. Quarto. Near fine in wrappers.
623. (Psychedelic Drugs). CRAHAN, Marcus E. Pre-Columbian Hallucinogens. (Los Angeles): The Bulletin, 1969. Offprint of an article published in the journal of the Los Angeles County Medical Association on Native American uses of mind-altering drugs. The original title of the article was "God's Flesh and Other Pre-Columbian Phantastica." A single folio sheet, folded to make four pages, inside an oversize card-stock wrapper with a pre-Columbian motif on the front cover. One of 150 copies printed for "Roxburghe-Zamorano Meeting, Los Angeles, 1970." Wrappers a bit rumpled; very good.