Search Results: Sixties from Lorne Bair Rare Books

San Francisco: Frank Reynolds / Hells Angels Motorcycle Club, 1968. First Edition. Quarto (26.75cm); twelve (12) five-color broadsides (measuring 20cm X 26cm), printed on rectos only and housed in an illustrated portfolio on glossy cardstock. A few stress creases and some subtle toning along the spine-fold of the portfolio, else Fine. An off-the-wall collection of free-form poems written by Freewheelin' Frank Reynolds, former Secretary of the San Francisco chapter of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club. The broadsides reproduce hand-lettered, illustrated poems written by Reynolds in the mid-1960's, printed by the Diggers, and issued the year after his 1967 memoir written with Michael McClure. Content ranges from personal history and camaraderie within the club to things of a more mystical and metaphysical nature - references to Satan, astrological signs, and alternately written in an optimistic tone or with a pervading sense of doom. The mystical and metaphysical realm would continue to hold Reynolds's… Read More

Newark: Abas Magazine, 1969. First Edition. Three issues. Tabloid; on newsprint; each issue 12pp. Horizontal mailing folds (as issued); mailing labels to front pages; text slightly toned - Good or better, and complete. Scarce, short-lived underground paper produced by a Newark, New Jersey high-school collective. Masthead of no. 7 suggests that it is the first issue to be produced by offset in tabloid format; earlier issues were (apparently) mimeographed and sold only by mail. The masthead indicates that Abas was the successor publication to a high-school underground mimeo sheet named Column,"suggesting that the paper's editor(s) were either still in or just out of high school when these issues of Abas were produced. Heavy on free UPI syndicated material; the original writing at a suitably low level to support the high school thesis. The paper appears (per OCLC) to have ceased publication after ten issues. Institutional holdings are scattered and meagre; none others in commerce (2013).

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1967. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Gray cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 126pp. A fine copy but for a small shadow left by the laid-in publisher's review slip on the front endpaper. In the original dustwrapper, bottom flap corner clipped by publisher but $2.95 price remaining at upper corner; touch of creasing to base of rear panel, still Very Good to Near Fine. Nice copy of this somewhat uncommon late-career novel for young adults, a cautionary tale of the evil effects of LSD. By the prolific pulp and sci-fi author K.F. Crossen. Under the same pseudonym (derived from "mechaber," Hebrew for "author"), Crossen penned the popular series of Milo March mysteries between 1952 and 1973, and this is the only non-March novel to use the "M.E. Chaber" pseudonym. Interestingly, the fifth March novel (The Splintered Man, 1955) also used LSD as a central plot device, one of the earlier appearances of synthetic hallucinogens in fiction.

Washington DC: United States Commission on Civil Rights, 1975. First Edition. Octavo (22.75cm.); white pictorial card wrappers; vi,239pp. Just About Fine.

New York: Random House, 1969. First Edition. Quarto. Pictorial boards; dustjacket; 148pp; illus. Flexible vinyl record tipped on inside of rear board (as issued). Mild rubbing to board edges, touch of toning at spine ends; Near Fine. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $5.95 on front flap), slightly rubbed at extremities, a shade sunned on spine; still Very Good or better. Recipes, philosophy, and photographs from the Massachusetts restaurant made famous by Arlo Guthrie's 1969 counterculture anthem. In addition to photographs by Howell Conant and Benno Friedman, includes stills from the 1969 Arthur Penn film that starred Guthrie, James Broderick and Pat Quinn.

New York: Dialogue [Dialog] Publications, 1966. Staple-bound bi-montly periodical. Single quarto issue; pictorial glossy paper wrappers; 39pp; illus. Mild external spotting and soil, still Very Good. CPUSA-sponsored magazine of radical art and literature, edited by Joseph North, long-time CPUSA apparatchik and Daily Worker editor. Walter Lowenfels was the Associate Editor, responsible for most of the creative content. Contributors to the current issue include Max Geismar, John Howard Lawson, Herbert Aptheker, Mari Evans, and others; with artwork by Siqueiros, Larry Rivers, Charles White, and Joseph Hirsch. Laid into this issue is an offset-printed broadside (11" x 8-1/2") announcing a symposium on "The Creative Artist & Social Commitment" at the Hotel Woodstock, New York.

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, [1967]. First Edition. Octavo (21.25cm.); publisher's cloth in white photo-illustrated dust jacket; [8],184pp. Jacket a bit dust-soiled, top extremities foxed, else Very Good and sound. Self-help for female alcoholics and drug addicts.

New York: Dialog Publications, 1966. Staple-bound bi-monthly periodical. Single quarto issue; pictorial glossy paper wrappers; 39pp; illus. Clean, tight copy, Near Fine. CPUSA-sponsored magazine of radical art and literature, edited by Joseph North, long-time CPUSA apparatchik and Daily Worker editor. Walter Lowenfels was the Associate Editor, responsible for most of the creative content. Contributors to the current issue include Alvin Simon, Aaron Kramer, Alvah Bessie, Robert Gover, others; artwork by Rockwell Kent, Albert Handell, Marvin Cherney and Ralph Fasanella.

New York: McGraw-Hill, 1968. First Edition. Inscribed on front endpaper to Detroit newspaperman William Noble: "To Bill Noble / with many thanks and best wishes," signed twice, dated March, 1973. First printing. Octavo. Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 207pp; maps. A fine copy in unclipped, Near Fine dustwrapper. Analysis of the 1967 Detroit riots from the perspective of a Detroit Juvenile Court judge. A valuable account, filling in many personal anecdotes not included in the 1968 President's Commission report.

[Washington, D.C.]: U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare - Welfare Administration, Children's Bureau, 1964. First Edition. Quarto. Staple-bound wrappers (softcover); 85pp. Clean, tight and unmarked; Near Fine. Includes reports of various subcommittees including Services for Adolescent Girls; Families & Children of Agricultural Migrants; Parent & Family Life Education; etc.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1963. First Edition. Octavo. Black cloth-backed boards, lettered in turquoise and white on spine; dustjacket; black top-stain; 274pp. Turquoise endpapers slightly mottled, as usual; else a Fine, straight, unworn copy, with top-stain even and unfaded. In the original Janet Halverson dustwrapper, unclipped, very faintly dusted on lighter portions and a shade sunned on spine, still a sharp, bright example, Near Fine and far better than usually seen. Sontag's first novel, an experimental narrative in picaresque form, one of the major literary debuts of the Sixties.

The Hague: Vrije Academie / Psychopolis, [1970]. First Edition. Tabloid (ca 60cm x 40cm); on newsprint, unpaged [46pp], chiefly illus. Vertical and horizontal folds (as issued?); some puckering to paper at intersection of folds; mild toning to fold-lines and extremities, but still a complete, well-preserved copy, easily Very Good. Annual "catalogue" for this experimental art academy in The Hague, founded in 1933 as a studio where "vrije" took on a double meaning: "...poor talented students could study without payment...[and] admissions requirements were not set...anyone could register...there was no set program in which the student should take an exam...education was dominated by personal development and individual expression." In 1968, under the Directorship of George Lampe, the institution changed its name to "Psychopolis" and became something of a countercultural mecca, a "bustling breeding ground for bohemians and avant-gardists who walked in and out of the classes, but where exciting works of… Read More

Berkeley: Kept Press, 1964. First Edition. Octavo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed card wrappers; 16pp. First (apparently only) issue. Mild external wear; internally fine. All content appears to have been produced by Kauffman, including the opening piece "Russia Sits This Out", a data heavy if frenetic, opinion piece concerning the foolishness of the idea that fighting in Vietnam will slow down the progress of Russia or China in any way. We find no evidence that a second issue ever appeared.

Berkeley: Red Mountain Tribe, 1971. Tabloid (42cm); newsprint, with illustrated cover in orange and brown; 24pp; illus. Faint horizontal fold at center (as issued), with some light toning to the extremities; Near Fine. A radical left newspaper from Berkeley, published by a contingent who left the Berkeley Barb, and containing a mix of politics, sex, and drug-related content. This issue contains a center spread calling for support of The White Panther Defense Fund, as well as a list of things women can do to deter rape.

New York: Flatiron Press, 1962. First Edition. Octavo. Printed wrappers; [iv, 16pp]. Inscribed inside front wrapper to the Greenwich-village folk-music impresario Izzy Young, dated 1962. Mild discoloration to front wrapper, else Fine. A significant association, joining two of the great figures of the 1960s folk revival. Allan Block (1923-2013) was the long-time proprietor of the Allan Block Sandal Shop, on West 4th Street, which would become one of the twin hubs of the Greenwich Village folk scene of the Sixties. The other hub was Izzy Young's Folklore Center, located a few blocks away on MacDougal Street, and performances from either venue were known to disperse from one locality only two coalesce at the other; Bob Dylan, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Geoff and Maria Muldaur, Dave Van Ronk, and a host of others were frequent visitors to both venues. This book scarce, as are all of Block's early collections published under the "Flatiron Press" imprint.

New York: Viking Studio, 1999. First Edition. 4to. 34cm x 27cm. Publisher's black cloth boards. Dustjacket. Titled in silver to spine, clean and bright in a strong pictorial dustjacket. A near fine copy. 276pp. Internally clean. 313 illustrations, 56 of which are in colour. A lavish coffee table photo memoir of the height of chic, high fashion cool featuring every face from Twiggy, to Shrimpton, Jagger, and The Who. [63261].

Los Angeles: Ward Ritchie Press, 1968. First Edition. Octavo. Pictorial card wrappers; 86pp. Mild external rubbing; text clean, tight and unmarked; VG+ to NF. Edited collection of essays on the subject of African-American representation in news media. Contributors include Ralph McGill, Armistead Pride, Charles Evers, Ray Williams, Tommy Jacquette, and others.

New York: Belmont Books, 1970. First Edition. 12mo (18cm). Pictorial card wrappers; 140pp. Slight, uneven fading to edge-stain, else a pristine, apparently unread copy of this mass-market paperback original, very Near Fine. Blaxploitation novel in which an African-American Vietnam vet loses himself in the psychedelic free-love excesses of the East Village. We suspect "Peter Turner" to be a pseudonym.

Washington DC: Nuclassics & Science Publishing Company, 1972. First Edition. Octavo (22cm). Cloth boards; dustjacket; 72pp. Fine, in lightly rubbed and dusted, Near Fine dustwrapper. Brief epistolary novella, portraying a long-distance romance between an African-American soldier in Vietnam and his sweetheart in the U.S. The authors were both members of the Physics department at Howard University. Carl L. Shears, who wrote frequently under the pseudonym "Sagittarus" [sic], was the founder and editor of Nuclassics & Science Publishing Company. STEPHENS (Checklist of Vietnam War Literature) p.70.

New York: Grove Press, Inc, 1968. First US Paperback Edition. First Printing. Octavo (17.75cm); pictorial card wrappers; [ii],[6],7-232 + [6]pp ads. A Fine, unread copy. Fanon's first book, originally published as Peau noire, masques blancs in 1952. "Written out of his experiences and observations as a Negro and a psychiatrist in the Antilles, this book is concerned with the warping of the Negro psyche by a "superior" white culture" (from front flap of the first edition). BLOCKSON 60.