San Francisco, CA: Family Dog Productions, 1966. First Edition, Third Printing. Single Sheet. A poster (appx. 14&1/8" x 20") announcing a "Dance Concert" with performances headlined by the 13th Floor Elevators, along with Moby Grape, during November 11-12, 1966 at the Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco. The American artist Steve Renick (of whom we can find no information & who appears to be known only for this poster) created the..... More

New York, NY: Anchor Books, 2003. First Trade Softcover Edition. Softcover. Former Rolling Stones editor and columnist Greil Marcus collected the writings of Lester Bangs (1948 – 1982) into, what he calls, “the story, ultimately, of one man’s attempt to confront his loathing of the world, his love for it, and to make sense of what he found in the world and within himself” (xviii). As a music critic, Lester..... More

San Francisco, CA: Family Dog Productions, 1966. First Edition, Second Printing. Single Sheet. A poster (appx. 14" x 20") announcing performances headlined by the Great Society & also featuring Big Brother & the Holding Company, the Grass Roots & Quicksilver Messenger Service (referred here in its early form as "Quick Silver Messenger Service") during February 26, 1966 at the Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco under the title of "King Kong..... More

San Francisco, CA: Book, 1966. First Edition, First Printing. Single Sheet. A poster (appx. 14&1/4" x 18") announcing a "Dance Concert" with performances headlined by Big Brother & the Holding Company, along with Oxford Circle & Lee Michaels, during December 9-10, 1966 at the Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco. The great Spanish-American artist Victor Moscoso (b. 1936) created the artwork & graphics reproduced here, & "Moscoso" in facsimile cursive handwriting..... More

San Francisco, CA: Family Dog Productions, 1966. First Edition, Third Printing. Single Sheet. A poster (appx. 14&1/4" x 20") announcing a concert with performances by Big Brother & the Holding Company, along with the Sir Douglas Quintet, during October 15-16, 1966 at the Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco. The acclaimed American artist Stanley Mouse (b. Stanley George Miller, 1940) created the artwork & graphics reproduced here, in collaboration with the..... More

Chicago, IL: Quadrangle Books, 1967. Second printing. Hardcover. “LSD is dangerous,” writes William Braden (1930-2008), “but its greatest danger may not be what we commonly suppose. There may be fear and peril in a ‘bad trip,’ but a ‘good trip’ may possess features which fundamentally challenge our religion and our God. This is the first book to make the connection between the LSD experience and some of the main currents..... More

New York, NY: Clarkson Potter Publishers, 1998. First Edition, Fourth Printing. Hardcover. “How the [Grateful] Dead…survived to speak to successive generations is the subject of this intensely provocative and personal narrative. Social critic and biographer Carol Brightman, who was active in the political struggles of the era, presents a Whitmanesque tableau of America’s colliding countercultures. Here’s the Dead—with their original fondness for folk, bluegrass, and blues; their immersion in psychedelics;..... More

New York, NY: Random House, Inc., 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. "On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues. Five years, four months and twenty-nine days later, on April 14, 1965, Richard Eugene..... More

San Francisco, CA: Family Dog Productions, 1966. First Edition, Second Printing. Single Sheet. A poster (appx. 14&1/4" x 20&1/2") announcing a concert with performances headlined by Captain Beefheart & his Magic Band, along with the Oxford Circle, during June 17-18, 1966 at the Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco. The acclaimed American artist Stanley Mouse (b. Stanley George Miller, 1940) created the artwork & graphics reproduced here, & "Mouse! (logo)" in..... More

Boise, ID: Boise State University, 1974. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. As the back covers of Wayne Chatterton & James H. Maguire's "Western Writers Series" pamphlets suggest, "This continuing series, primarily regional in nature, provides brief but authoritative introductions to the lives and works of authors who have written significant literature about the American West. These attractive, uniform pamphlets, none of them longer than fifty pages, will be useful to the..... More

Deadwood, OR: Wyatt-MacKenzi Publishing, 2018. First Trade Softcover Edition. Softcover. “’Hi, I’m Ron,’ he said. ‘They call me Pigpen.’ He tipped the brim of his hat and nodded as he entered the store. My first impression was, ‘Pigpen’” Really? Who would introduce themselves as that? The next one bounced in, looking a lot younger than he was. ‘I’m Bobby, they call me Bobby.’ Next was a shorter, stocky guy with..... More

Berkeley, CA: Neon Sun, 1975. First Edition. Softcover. "Maybe I should cry./ I don't know what's got me./ Do walls hear?/ I want to sleep./ I got too high./ Brain is leaking out my ears./ It's on the turned-off record.// Let's meet somewhere else./ I want to sleep." ("Sound," pg. 8) A collection of poems by John Ceely, a hard-living workman-poet who we cannot find much information about- we surmise..... More

London, England: Ferry Press, 1966. Limited First Trade Edition. Stapled Wrappers. "The pain of being a candy bar/ in a pub- oh madness it's/ beautiful not to be included,/ but it's lonely too and makes you remember/ the social instincts one can't ever foil!/ They're so great! Feeling like a man- what's better than that?" ("Explanatory Ways," first poem in this collection in its entirety) The first publication by Tom..... More