A first edition from a run of 4,000 copies. This volume brings together a collection of 90 black-and-white photographs by Dennis Hopper, taken between the ages of 25 and 31 during the early to mid-1960s. The photographs are complemented by writings from director and curator Walter Hopps, poet and playwright Michael McClure, and Hopper himself. American actor, director, and artist Dennis Hopper is best remembered for his work in film and is considered a prominent member of New Hollywood, a movement from the 1960s through the early 1980s that.....
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The rare second and final issue of the short-lived Detroit radical underground newspaper Guerrilla, edited by Allen Van Newkirk and an editorial team at the Detroit Artists Workshop Press. Contributors include notable figures such as Sun Ra, Diane di Prima, Michael McClure, and more. Born during the Detroit summer riots of 1967 and at the height of the Detroit Free Press literary movement, Guerrilla positioned itself as a revolutionary voice for radical thought, poetry, and news. This issue features poetry by Diane di Prima and Robert Kelly; essays.....
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The Oracle of Southern California, a newspaper based in Los Angeles and a member of the Underground Press Syndicate, was part of a network of countercultural newspapers and magazines from the 1960s. Inspired by the San Francisco Oracle, The Oracle of So. Calif. frequently featured psychedelic art and neo-pagan ideologies, capturing the spirit of the hippie and psychedelic counterculture. Published for only one year (1967–1968), its ninth issue, released in January 1968, covered topics such as Indigenous and Native American ideologies and knowledge, psychedelics, sex, religion, and music. It.....
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A scrapbook of images, drawing, stories and news clippings documenting life and the legal battles at Lou Gottlieb's Morning Star Ranch commune, which he established in 1966 in rural Sonoma County, California near the towns of Occidental and Sebastopol. The commune was also called The Digger Farm for its association with the SF guerrilla theater/activist group The Diggers. It played a central role in the California counterculture and hippie movement. Ramon Sender was said to be the first resident to move into Gottlieb's commune. Sender co-produced the Trips Festival with.....
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The rare October, 1965 mimeographed second printing of the Fugs’ Songbook, from the counterculture NYC band founded in 1964 by poets Ed Sanders and Tuli Kupferberg. In a custom-made protective mylar jacket.

Condition: Good, a relatively large previous moisture staining to lower left corner, visible on all interior pages and front and back covers; the number "2" with a dash is written next to four songs in blue felt pen on the Table of Contents. Priced accordingly.
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