(KESEY, Ken). ANTHONY, Gene
Summer of Love: Haight-Ashbury At Its Highest
Millbrae, Celestial Arts, (1980). Signed by Ken Kesey in 1987. A photographic tour of the high point of the Haight-Ashbury hippie community, from November 1965 to January 1967. The Summer of Love is usually spoken of as being the summer of 1967, with the era defined by its beginning at the Human Be-In in January, 1967. For this book -- and generally for the denizens of Haight-Ashbury during this period -- the Human Be-In represents the end of that community, and the beginning of its being overrun by commercialism and drowned by fame and notoriety. Ken Kesey, whose Trips Festival and Acid Tests defined the era, makes approximately a dozen appearances: text and photos by Anthony; foreword by Michael McClure. Near fine in wrappers.
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