Collection: Counterculture

NY: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1970. First edition. 181pp. 8vo; two-tone black and green cloth boards; white spine titles; dust jacket. Light shelfwear; mild dust soiling to textblock top; former owner's bookplate on front pastedown. Unclipped ("$5.95") jacket with moderate wear and light soiling,... More

San Francisco: Frank Reynolds / Hells Angels Motorcycle Club, 1968. 4to; 12 color broadsides (10-1/4 x 7-7/8 in.) printed rectos only & housed in an illustrated card portfolio. Corner wear & light soiling along spine of portfolio; altogether near fine. A portfolio of illustrated, hand-lettered... More

[London]: Prism Ltd, [1969]. Presumed first edition. 143pp., printed rectos only; title-page and floral border graphics printed in purple. Octavo; dark gray textured-paper stamped in gilt to front board and spine; dust jacket. Moderate bump to head of spine, with some splitting to the paper;... More

San Francisco: Idlewild Publishing Company, 1967. 79pp. 4to; saddle-stapled in illustrated card wraps. Front wrap rubbed and lightly creased; rear soiled; one spot of soiling to bottom fore-edge of the textblock. About very good. Photobook documenting the Haight-Ashbury hippie scene at the height of its... More

Yellow Springs, OH: Community Publications Cooperative, 1973. 176pp.; illus. Octavo; perfect-bound in illustrated wraps.  Light bumping to crown of spine; mild shelfwear. Very good or better; a nice copy. An autobiographical account of life on a 1960/70s hippie commune, Saddle Ridge Farm, in rural Oregon.... More

"I am becoming a man who can turn on the Ecstatic Joy of psychedelic experiences whenever I want. And when you get right down to it, this Ecstatic Joy of life is the one, the only desirable goal, the one that all other goals are... More

 Berkeley, CA: Shambala Publications, 1970. Translated by Dinah Livingstone. Foreword by Nobel Prize-winner Miguel Ángel Asturias. First American edition (preceded by the 1969 UK edition, and the German-language edition of 1968).  4to. Glossy pictorial boards, as issued without jacket. 36pp.; illus. Sunning to front board,... More

San Francisco: Alternatives Foundation, 1971. First edition. 4to. Perfect-bound in photo-illustrated wraps. 195pp.; illus. Light soiling and toning to wraps; hinge and corner wear. Very good: clean and with no creasing to spine; binding strong and secure. One of five book-length volumes in Richard Fairfield's... More

San Francisco: The Haight Ashbury Tribune, [1968]. Unbound newsprint tabloid, 15 x 11-1/2 in. [15], 1pp., illus., with covers and centerfold in three-color gradient. Horizontal fold crease; a few short fore-edge tears; toning to leaves. Very good or better.Hippie rag whose first editor (unmentioned here)... More

NY: Movement Speakers Bureau, [circa 1969]. Unbound tabloid offset on better-than-newsprint quality paper stock. 23, [1]pp., illus., mostly b&w. Horizontal fold crease; some small open tears along fore-edge. Very good or better.Publication advertising speaking engagements by members of the Movement Speakers Bureau, a broad coalition... More

First Japanese edition of this set of three children’s coloring books, each volume signed and inscribed by Laurel on the title page in the year of publication. In “Sylvie Sunflower,” a young girl gives a tour of her life on a rural commune, replete with... More

Los Angeles: MPS Corporation, 1968. Saddle-stapled in printed brown paper wraps, 10-3/4 x 8-1/4 in. 63; 32pp. Both volumes near fine, with light toning throughout and some oxidation to staples. Volume 2 with light bumping/creasing to bottom corner. Complete two-issue run of this colorfully designed... More

 NY: Bang Publications, 1969. [20]pp. Unbound tabloid, 16-1/2 x 11-3/4 in. Pictorial newsprint wrappers; illustrations throughout. Light toning; diagonal crease to bottom corner of second leaf. Near fine, and unfolded. Seventh issue of sex activist Louis Abolafia's pornographic tabloid, consisting of nude photos, stories and... More

NY: Bang Publications, 1969. [20]pp. Unbound tabloid, 16-1/2 x 11-3/4 in. Pictorial newsprint wrappers; illustrations throughout. Mild soiling to covers; a few minor snags fore-edge; light toning to newsprint. Very good or better, and unfolded. Sixth issue of this publication from the heyday of New... More