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Soft cover. Condizione: Good. 1st Edition. CIRCLE (1944-1948) the Bay Area's seminal literary journal. A synthesis of the surreal, eclectic, pacifist, and anarchist ideologies that formed the radical basis of the San Francisco Renaissance and was an influential precursor of the Beat Movement. CIRCLE Vol. 1, No. 3. Published by Circle, Berkeley, printed by The Greenwood Press, San Mateo, California, 1944. George Leite Editor, Assistant Editor, Bern Porter. First edition. Softcover, illustrated wrappers, 9" x 6.25", staple bound, 61 pages, illustrated with some headpiece decorations printed in brick red, and a Max Ernst painting reproduced in b&w. GOOD CONDITION: covers pulled from rear staples and disbound, spine is age toned with small tearing/wear at the ends, shelfwear, and a few light coffee droplets, internally, signs of age and use, otherwise bright, clean and unmarked and the red and black Kenneth Rexroth printed cover remains very bright. Circle number 3 is very scarce and hardly ever found. Cover by KENNETH REXROTH (1905-1982) Poet, Artist, Godfather of the San Francisco Renaissance. George T. Leite (1920-1985) controversial author, publisher, poet, taught experimental literature at UC Berkeley, owned an important bookstore and gallery space on Telegraph Ave in Berkeley, daliel's. He was friends with and published the works of Robert Duncan, Kenneth Rexroth, Henry Miller, William Everson, Philip Lamantia, Anais Nin, Jack Spicer and a devotee of the renegade Freudian Wilhelm Reich and his Orgone theory.

Unbound. Condizione: Very Good. No producer, place or date, presumed late 1960s, early 1970s. 1 inch in diameter. Lethal stickpin style back, best not to attach this when stoned. A pinback, dayglow yellow, providing people the useful knowledge that the wearer may be stoned, or at least wishes so. VERY GOOD condition. Some rusting to the reverse.

Unbound. Condizione: Good. no place or date. Presumed Boston circa 1970. Single sheet, 8 ½ by 11 inches. A handwritten (albeit photomechanically reproduced) flyer advertisement for a place call Syzygy on 108 Commonwealth Avenue in Boston (we think). A crapload of question marks adorn the flyer. Why, you ask, did we even bother? It strikes us as the perfect epitome of the hippie/counterculture movement. First, the shop was giving away (!) hand blown glass pipes with any purchase of $5 or more, AND, one could register to win a free WATER BED!!! No doubt the recipient of these would be the envy of Boston. Google sucked at turning up anything on this business btw. Sorry. GOOD condition. Some curling and creasing to this piece of art. Minor toning and spotting.

First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (22cm); tan cloth-covered boards, with titling stamped in black on spine; dustjacket; [vi],151,[1]pp. Modest shelfwear and rubbing, with dampstain to lower front cover; Good. Dustwrapper, designed by Pranas Lapé, unclipped (priced $4.95), with modest shelfwear and rubbing, corresponding dampstains to bottom front panel and front flap, and tiny green streaks to front hinge; Good. Hermansen explores youth versus establishment as, ".Sylvester Coldwater, a self-styled young radical who cannot quite free himself from the ultra-conservative ideals of his community. [and] Crazy Gregory, a Cocopah Indian and mathematical genius, who is completely lost in the practical world; of Gertrude the ding-a-ling, whose paramount obsession is sex; and of Little Prairie Dog, who nearly has a chance to avenge the collective humiliation of his people" (from front flap). [82574].

Condizione: New.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. EXTREMISTS RIGHT AND LEFT Concern: A Discussion Series. Published by Silver Burdett Company, Morristown, NJ, 1970. Softcover, illustrated wraps, side staple bound, 10" x 6", 56 pages, illustrated throughout with evocative b&w photographs and bold red and blue graphics. VERY GOOD CONDITION: former owners name stamp on the inside of front and rear covers, light bookplate remnants on inside front cover, light edgewear, some age toning and light signs of use and wear, overall tight, bright, clean and unmarked. Scarce 1970 work addressing the radical counterculture, race and extreme political polemics. The "Concern" series was a set of discussion booklets aimed at engaging students in critical thinking and discussion around various social issues. They were used in school settings to promote dialogue and understanding of complex topics like violence, poverty, and civil rights.

No Binding. Condizione: Good. MACUNAIMA (1969). A Brazilian Cinema Novo masterpiece, considered one of the most important films in Brazilian history. Directed by Joaquim Pedro de Andrade, in Portuguese with English subtitles. A box office hit in Brazil, it was released in a dubbed version for American audiences in 1972 by New Line Cinema. Illustrated by underground New York psychedelic comic artist Frank Mell. His incredible work is similar to legendary R. Crumb Comics, but much less known. His work is in the collection of the Oakland Museum, he illustrated psychedelic album covers, posters, and his work can be found in counter culture periodicals. Original MOVIE POSTER, Offset lithograph on paper, 37" x 24.5". GOOD Condition: stored rolled for decades, so the colors remain very bright, the bottom margin has some waviness and shorelining/staining, the top edge has some light creasing, there are a few light smudges here and there and a few signs of wear, but overall the poster is solid, bright and clear. An epic psychedelic adventure fantasy on Brazilian themes and myths, based on a Modernist novel written in 1928 by Mario de Andrade (no relation to the film's director), the metaphorical, savagely satirical film has drawn comparisons to the work of Fellini, John Waters and Lina Wertmuller. A revealing allegory of Brazil's complex racial and cultural history with subtle references to its repressive military rule. Like the musical style Tropicalia gave the world a uniquely Brazilian beat, Macunaima exhibits a strong Brazilian identity. When the film was first released in the United States, its most sensational elements were played up. In a comprehensive 1976 essay about it in the media review journal Jump Cut, author J.R. Molotnik wrote that the movie had been dubbed "Jungle Freaks" for its U.S. release and was advertised in the Village Voice as "95 Minutes of Brazil Nuts." "New Line Cinema, the film's U.S. distributor, was clearly seeking to attract the Voice's avowedly offbeat readers with promises of an exotic spoof," Molotnik wrote. "The movie buff likely to attend such an 'underground' film was thus readied for a far-out lighthearted film, one bearing little resemblance to the 'heavy' classics of Latin American revolutionary cinema." Will be shipped carefully rolled in a sturdy mailing tube.

First edition. 15 x 23 cm. 268 pages. Original green cloth. Very good, near fine, condition. Clean and tight copy. [International Library of Sociology]. Contains among others: A socio-historical model of countercultures.The comparative analysis of communal groups; People, The group myth; Initial collective life; Early failure; Time in the established order; On the phenomenology of time; Time orientations in communal groups; The diachronic worldly utopia; Synchronic time in communal groups; Apocalyptic time in communal groups; The end of history and utopian times etc. etc. Sprache: english.

No Binding. Condizione: Very Good. STAY IN THE STREETS FREE THE PANTHERS ORIGINAL PINBACK BUTTON, 1.75" inches in diameter, printed in red, blue and yellow with a graphic Black Power raised fist in the center. No date, circa 1968. Issued by the Black Panther Party for Self Defense to raise funds and support for the legal defense of Party members imprisoned by the state and federal government. EXCELLENT CONDITION: the edge has some tiny light spots of discoloration, the back is oxidized, overall a bright, wearable and relevant original piece from the era when protestors voices were heard. The Black Panthers were emblematic of the Black Power Movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Following the assassination of Malcolm X in 1965, Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton formed the Black Panther Party. After Martin Luther King was assassinated in 1968, the Panthers grew rapidly into a national revolutionary party with over 5,000 members in cities across America.

Condizione: New.

Soft cover. Condizione: Good. 1st Edition. Peoples Forum, Vol. I, No. 17, March 1, 1977. Published by Peoples Temple of the Disciples of Christ, San Francisco, CA. First edition, broadsheet format, one folded sheet, four pages printed on newsprint. GOOD CONDITION: tender at the folds with tiny chips/wear, some edge tears/wear, and light age toning, otherwise bright and clean. Scarce. In April 1976, Jim Jones' Peoples Temple launched Peoples Forum. Distributed on the street by Temple volunteers and dropped on doorsteps throughout San Francisco, it served as the Temple's monthly newspaper and main source of promotion and communication. The header shows three faces of different races, civil rights related imagery Jones used to advertise his interracial religious movement. Jones' increasing radicalism and connection to the civil rights movement became apparent with the Peoples Forum. While early issues contain articles on "subjects as diverse as killer bees, Muhammed Ali, freedom of the press, and Jones hosting a TV show," later editions are more radical, illustrating Jones' support for Huey Newton and the Black Panther Party. In late 1976 Peoples Forum covered a story about the FBI's role in the death of Black Panther Party leader Fred Hampton. The cover photo from this March 1, 1977 edition shows Jones and Newton shaking hands. Peoples Forum exemplifies the increasing involvement Peoples Temple had in California with Black rights leaders, racial issues, and activism. Additionally, Peoples Forum denounced and exposed the rising dangers of neo Nazism in San Francisco. Jim Jones' Peoples Temple is notorious for the way it ended in on November 18, 1978 with more than 900 people dying in a mass murder suicide at the Peoples Temple Settlement in Jonestown, Guyana. The majority of the Jonestown massacre victims were black women.

Large octavo (24cm). Blue cloth in pictorial dust jacket, with blue topstain; 329,[3]pp; black and white illustrations throughout. A square copy, slightly pushed at spine ends, with mild spotting to fore-edge, else Very Good or better. Jacket unclipped (priced 8.95), lightly rubbed, spine-sunned, with a few tiny stains to verso: Very Good. Stories by the members of a communal farm in Vermont, including fiction, philosophy, and how-to guides. Title from the nickname for the farm's wood-burning stove. By the people of Total Loss Farm: Alicia Bay Laurel, Hugh Beame, Peter Gould, Marty Jezer, Joan Marr, Raymond Mungo, Doug Parker, Robert Payne, Jeanne Pepper, Verandah Porche, Connie Sivler, Ellen Snyder, Richard Wizansky, et al. [62747].

Original wraps. Condizione: Good. First Edition. 5 1/2 X 8 1/2 Inches. 30 PP. The Sojourner Truth Organization was known for its Marxist-Leninist orientation and commitment to grassroots activism. Their literature was influential in shaping revolutionary thought during a tumultuous period in American history. The STO adopted the concepts of opposing white supremacy, supporting union organizing in factory settings, defending anti - imperialist and national liberation struggles and the communist platform in general. This booklet explains why the Sojourner Truth Organization will not join the Revolutionary Union and the Black Workers Congress. Original printed wraps as issued. Rear cover contains ads for publications from the Insurgent Worker Press in Chicago. Wear to edges and corners. Separation at spine, although it is holding. OCLC locates "6" copies, but it appears that all but one have a reproduction cover.

Unbound. Condizione: Good. Owen, Tony (illustratore). First Edition. Single sided printed poster, approximately 735mm x 580mm in size. Curled from being rolled, small nick to bottom edge, number in pen to reverse, otherwise quite bright and clean. 'Truth, Trust and Justice Present the Bull in a Chinashop', possibly a comment on the Vietnam War, with ?Benjamin Franklin and Abraham Lincoln in the upper corners, and Adam and Eve to the bottom smoking a peace pipe, but the meaning is not immediately apparent to this cataloguer Size: Elephant Folio (Oblong). Poster.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. MEMORIA DEL FORO: 1er [PREMIER] FESTIVAL NUEVO CANTO LATINOAMERICANO, Abril 1982, Ciudad De Mexico CREA, UNESCO, INBA, FONAPAS, CASA DE LAS AMERICAS [FORUM REPORT: 1st [PREMIER] NEW LATIN AMERICAN SONG FESTIVAL, April 1982, Mexico City] In Mexico City between March 30 and April 5, 1982, the First Festival of Canto Nuevo was held at the National Auditorium in collaboration with UNESCO and Casa de las Américas. It was an important music festival promoting the New Song Movement, Protest Music and early World Music, and is considered a significant multi cultural event in Mexico, Latin America and the Caribbean. This is the very rare report (limited to only 1000 copies) issued by the organizers. Published by the Planning Directorate and the Dissemination Department of the Promotion and Social Communication Directorate of CREA, Mexico City. First (and only) edition, September 1982. The print run was 1,000 copies (from the colophon). Softcover, printed paper wrappers, 11" x 8.25", 168 pages. Text in Spanish. VERY GOOD Condition: The covers have scraping to the spine margins, shelf/corner wear and some creasing but remain bright and clean, internally just a touch of age, otherwise tight, bright, clean and unmarked. Scarce. The Nueva Canción (New Song) Movement in Mexico, also known as Canto Nuevo, was a musical and cultural phenomenon rooted in the broader Latin American and Caribbean Nueva Canción movement. It emerged in the late 1960s and 1970s as a response to social and political issues, using music as a tool for social commentary, cultural preservation and the fight against authoritarian regimes. The genre is distinguished by Latin folk sounds, traditional Indigenous instruments, and lyrics that highlight social injustices, specifically the exploitation of workers, dictatorships, and authoritarianism. Due to political lyrics and the desire to provoke social change, the government censored many artists who were part of the movement. Some musicians faced exile, torture, or death by right wing dictatorships. The movement was crucial in protesting dictatorship, fascism, and social injustice and cultivating a culture where Indigenous voices and music was heard. A crucial aspect of the Nueva canción genre is that many songs were influenced by Mexican corrido, narrative songs about history, oppression, vaquero life and lamenting the fascist occupation of their county. Festival Participants included: ARGENTINA - César Isella; CUBA - Silvio Rodríguez and Noel Nicola; MEXICO - Los Folkloristas, Me caì, Onta, Amparo Ochoa, Nachón, Gabino Palomares, Foro, M. Alejandro; PERU - Nicomedes Santa Cruz; URUGUAY - Daniel Viglietti; BRAZIL - Manduka; CHILE - Quilapayun; NICARAGUA - Carlos Mejía Godoy and Los Palacaguna, Luis Enrique Mejía Godoy and Grupo Mancotal; PUERTO RICO - Roy Brown; VENEZUELA - Ali Primera and Lilia Vera; EL SALVADOR - Yolocamba I Ta From the Introduction: "In April 1982, the First Festival and Forum of New Latin American Song was held in Mexico City. It brought together the most representative exponents from various countries of our continent, both in the performance and composition as well as in the theoretical aspects of this new musical genre, which is gaining greater importance every day in the cultural sphere of America. CREA, FONAPAS, and the INBA, with the collaboration of UNESCO and the Casa de las Américas, held this event to support and promote this youth movement to reconquer and strengthen the cultural expressions of our peoples. With this objective and the purpose of continuing the work this compilation of the material gathered during the Forum has been prepared. It highlights the different positions held by the best ethnomusicologists of Latin America regarding New Song.".

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 16 pgs., heavy white paper wrapper in color, interior pages in newsprint with B&W photos and art work. All pages are complete, intact and unmarked. Some moderate tanning to the newsprint over the years. This was a news stand copy so no labels, stamps or markings and only a faint indication of a previous fold. Shipping costs can be combined for purchases of up to 3 Tabloids, if purchased on the same day and shipped to the same address. NWPTB202101171.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. VG/NF 32 pgs. in heavy white paper with B&W photos. All pages are complete, intact and unmarked. Interior pages are still remarkably clear and bright. This was a news stand copy so no labels, stamps or markings and no indication of a previous fold. Shipping costs can be combined for purchases of up to 3 Tabloids, if purchased on the same day and shipped to the same address. NWPTB202101171.

First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); navy blue cloth with titles stamped in silver on spine; red topstain; dustjacket; [x],131,[3]pp. Modest wear to covers, else Fine. In the second state typographic dustjacket (the first was pictorial, and suppressed); unclipped (priced $4.95), showing modest wear, with mild spine fading, some resultant foxing, and faint abrasion to lower edge of front panel; Very Good+. One of the earliest titles (and certainly one the of earliest novels) published by the short-lived Straight Arrow imprint, the publishing arm of Rolling Stone. Written by Anita Hoffman under a pseudonym, Trashing is simultaneously a walk through the underground scene, the love story of Anita and Abbie Hoffman, and a manifesto of the Yippie movement. [82328].

1 Bl., 60 S., 1 Bl. 4°, Orig.-Pappbd. mit Titelporträt Gustav Mahlers. Coronoa-Collection, 46-47. - Partituren für Klavier-Hauskonzerte allein oder zu zweit im Corona-Lockdown. - Passend hierzu IV. Symphonie, 4. Satz: Wir genießen die himmlichen Freuden drum tun wir das Irdische meiden. Kein weltlich Getümmel hört man nicht im Himmel. - Einband mit starken Gebrauchsspuren. - Dazu: Doublette des II. Heftes in roter Orig.-Broschur. 500 gr.

S. 14-50. 8°, Orig.-Broschur. - Widmungsexemplar. Erste Ausgabe. - Erschien 1935 bei Langen Müller erneut. - Mit einer handschriftl. Widmung des Verfassers an Dr. Albert Soergel auf dem Vorsatzbl., signiert und datiert 1933. - Dietzel/Hügel 575. 250 gr.

Original wraps. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. 11 1/2 X 16 Inches. 8 PP. Original September, 1971 issue of LAST HARASS, an anti-war periodical out of Fort Gordon, GA. Classic 1970's GI Underground newapaper featuring anti-war, drug and GI Rights articles. Rear cover features a large Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers cartoon!

2 Bl. [1 gefalt. Lage] Gr.-8°. Auf Bütten. - Druck in Rot u. Schwarz. - Hrsg. von Martin Bodmer u. Herbert Steiner. - Faksimiliert sind die Signaturen verschiedener Schriftsteller wie Rilke, Thomas Mann, Hermann Hesse. - Der Germanist Markus Fischer nimmt den Zusammenfall von Pandemie und neunzigjährigem Jubiläum der Zweimonatsschrift zum Anlass, an das Periodikum der Bremer Presser in einem Zeitungsartikel zu erinnern: Vergessen sind die lateinischen Bedeutungen von Corona als Kranz, Ring, Kreis und Krone, vergessen das als Corona bzw. Geison bezeichnete Kranzgesims antiker Tempel [.] Und wer denkt schon an Paul Celans Gedicht ,Corona aus dem Jahre 1948. [.] In Zeiten solcher Wortvergessenheit ist es vielleicht gut, sich an Dinge zu erinnern, die den Namen ,Corona tragen und schönere Assoziationen wachrufen als an die durch besagtes Virus verursachte Infektionskrankheit. Zu diesen schönen Dingen zählt etwa die Zeitschrift ,Corona , die vor neunzig Jahren zum ersten Mal erschien, gedruckt 1930 in München ,auf Zanders Federleicht Papier , in bewusster Abgrenzung zum gewöhnlichen Papier der alltäglichen Zeitungen und Journale. (ADZ, 08.05. 2020). - Vgl. Rodenberg, Nachtrag S. 14f. 200 gr.

Condizione: Fine. A flyer for a protest at the Newark Selective Service Building organized by The Resistance on May 6, 1968. The bulk of the flyer reproduces the poem "I sing of Olaf glad and big" by e.e. cummings, a poem themed around a conscientious objector. The flyer, printed by The Resistance, describes C.J. Hinke's public refusal to register. Hinke was known for documenting and supporting conscientious objectors, promoting nonviolent resistance, and connecting American antiwar activism to global pacifist networks. The Newark action reflected strategies that aligned closely with his outlook: refusal of military service, public challenge to conscription systems, and solidarity with those facing prosecution for draft resistance. Single sided flyer, 8 ½ x 11, fine condition.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 32 pgs., heavy white paper wrapper in color, interior pages in newsprint with B&W photos and art work. All pages are complete, intact and unmarked. Some mild tanning to the newsprint over the years but the color is still remarkably bright. There is some foxing around the edges of the wrapper and some tiny tears along the leading edge of the centerfold pages. This was a news stand copy so no labels, stamps or markings and only a faint indication of a previous fold. Shipping costs can be combined for purchases of up to 3 Tabloids, if purchased on the same day and shipped to the same address. NWPTB202101170.

First Edition. Tabloid (43cm); illustrated newsprint wrappers; 20pp; illus. Trivial wear and dustiness to wrappers, else Fine, unfolded and without postal markings. Contents include contributions by Dan Berrigan, R. Tadpole, and others, with part II of an interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono. [50355].

Poster. Condizione: Very Good. 19.75" x 15.5". Poster. Color lithograph. Army green font and a multi-colored illustration with a caption spanning the poster's border. The illustration done by Mark Morris: a bouquet of wildflowers sprouting from an overturned soldier's helmet, each flower's center with an image of an expressive person's face (a grandmother, a child, three soldiers, and a Vietnamese woman included in these images). The flowers petals printed in pink, red, and yellow. The border caption printed in red. It reads: Condemn a draft board or recruiting center as a public health hazard, leafleting - street corners & shopping centers, set up high school assemblies on the draft, mail big things to your draft board to be included in your draft file, circulate "we won't go" statements in high schools, picket draft board members' homes and businesses, talk-ins at draft boards & recruiting centers, bar military recruiters from high schools & colleges, demand draft counselors in high schools, draft card turn-ins, demonstrate at induction centers/recruitment centers - March 19th. With a black caption blocked in yellow: Who pays for war? You do. / Who profits from war? They do. / A teach-in where you work, April 14th / Tell off your tax collector, April 15th / Confront the corporations, April 20th-30th. An address for the New Mobilization Committee is printed under the red border: 1029 Vermont Avenue Northeast, Washington, D.C. 20005. A truly striking image from the anti-war protest movement, the people's countenances springing from a soldier's helmet perfectly demonstrates the human cost of war. North Carolina State University, "New Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam (New Mobe), March on Washington Map". The committee that commissioned this poster's printing was known colloquially as the New Mobe, founded in 1969. The New Mobe was one of many student groups that advocated for resisting the draft during the Vietnam War. Groups like the New Mobe shed light on the often-predatory practices of the draft and on the damage the war inflicted on American and on Vietnamese lives. This poster provides a wealth of information on the kinds of actions the New Mobe and other groups performed in order to voice their opposition to the draft and to the war. Light wear to the poster's surface, four pieces of masking tape on the poster's verso (these were likely applied to the verso shortly after the poster was printed).

Unbound. Condizione: Good. Weege, Wm. (illustratore). First Edition. Single sided printed poster, approximately 480mm x 635mm in size. Lightly creased generally, crease to bottom third with small tear to right hand margin, very light foxing mainly to borders, small scuff to top right hand corner, but generally quite bright and clean. "The top half of the poster has a photographic image or movie still showing a large room full of costumed figures lying on the floor. The background of the bottom half of the poster is a pink and black topographical map. In the centre of the poster there is a large photographic image of a woman in lingerie she has the letters: "H A T E" tattooed on the fingers of her left hand. There is a white field that divides the poster across the centre horizontally and obscures the female figures pubic area. The field has a photo of a button with the text: "Kill For Peace / Kill For Freedom / Kill Vietnamese / Kill, Kill", the rest of the field has the text: "In every government on earth there is some trace / of human weakness, some germ of corruption / and degeneracy. Thomas Jefferson". The female figures right leg is partially obscured by a round photographic image of a male figure dressed as an Egyptian Pharaoh and female figures in the foreground reaching up to him" (Oakland Museum of California). William Weege was born in the US in 1935, he studied printmaking, collage and sculpture at the University of Wisconsin and is now Professor Emeritus at the UW-Madison Art Department Size: Atlas Folio. Poster.

Original wraps. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition, First Printing. 8 1/2 X 11 Inches. 237 PP. Original first printing copy of Leary's only novel (oversized short essay). #2109 of 5000 copies produced. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY LEARY ON THE LIMITATION PAGE PRECEEDING THE TITLE. Inscribed, "S.M.I.L.E. / To Giana - You tell me!! and I'll listen. Timothy Leary 876." Leary's poetic and philosophical attempt to reinterpret Freud's question through the lens of 1960s human potential, psychology, and spiritual evolution, making it part of his larger body of thought. Orignal paper wraps clean and tight. COPIES SIGNED BY LEARY AND NOT HIS PARTNER JOANNA ARE SCARCE.

Broadside, with text offset printed in black on white stock, measuring 10" x 8.5". Two thin razor cuts (neither affecting legibility); Very Good. Announcement written not long after the formation of the Committee to Defend the Conspiracy, stating their intentions toward assisting the Chicago 8 (aka Conspiracy 8) defendants: Bobby Seale, Abbie Hoffman, Tom Hayden, Rennie Davis, John Froines, David Dellinger, Jerry Rubin, and Lee Weiner. "The undersigned have formed a Committee to Defend the Conspiracy. Through newspaper ads and mailings we intend to raise funds urgently needed for the legal defense of these eight men and to clarify the critical political and civil libertarian issues at stake." Among the undersigned are Peter Babcox, Julian Bond, Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Judy Collins, Norman Mailer, Susan Sontag, I.F. Stone, and others. 83872.

First Edition. Slim octavo (22.25cm); pictorial wrappers; [32]pp; illus. Subtle toning to two edge of front wraper, else Near Fine. Though never as popular or widely-circulated as its brethren like The East Village Other and The Berkeley Barb, nor as political as such radical-left undergrounds as The Black Panther and New Left Notes, John Wilcock's Other Scenes probably deserves pride of place as the most daring, creative, and experimental of the alternative press papers of the late Sixties. It was also probably a function of Wilcock's comparative maturity (he was already in his late thirties in 1967) far less reliant on the sort of psychedelic mish-mosh that defined the aesthetic of most other underground papers of the period. Described in the masthead as "a revolutionary newsletter concerned with art, politics, sociology, sex and the creation of a more equitable society," Other Scenes was heavily influenced by both the Fluxus and mail-art movements as well as Andy Warhol's avant-pop aesthetic (Wilcock was a regular Factory denizen). The paper operated as much as a virtual underground club for its subscribers as it did a vehicle for news distribution; according to the masthead of an early issue, Wilcock distributed the paper "twenty times a year from wherever its editor happens to be," and his mailings often included "surprises" including "newsletters, newspapers, letters, brochures and discoveries that I make in all parts of the world." Contents include contributions by David Herres, Robert Wolf, Liza Williams, Clem Gorman, John Wilcock, and others. [54886].