
HOFFMAN, Abbie
Square Dancing in the Ice Age
NY, Putnam's, (1982). A review copy of Hoffman's collection of pieces written while he was a fugitive in the 1970s. Inscribed by the author "To Elliot [sic] Fremont-Smith/ Elliot - So where's the ten bucks? Abbie Hoffman/ CA." Eliot Fremont-Smith, former book critic for the New York Times, Editor-in-Chief of Little Brown publishing company, founding member of the National Book Critics Circle, was working at The Village Voice at the time of this title's publication. As a book critic in the 1960s, he was famous for reviewing edgy and transgressive books that had previously been viewed as outside the realm of polite literature; like Hoffman, he rewrote the rules about what was acceptable for publication and for discussion. A good association between the prominent counterculture figure -- co-founder of the Yippies -- and perhaps the most influential book reviewer of the era that threw off the final trappings of censorship (or so we thought). Foxing to the edges of the text block; near fine in a very near fine dust jacket with publisher's promotional material and author photo laid in.
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