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[002125] Reactions: Gazette Litteraire Internationale, VI. Switzerland: First Edition. French language, some English, very large double sided sheets, folded, letterpress, from Swiss publisher. Some ink damage to one small portion of one page. $15.00

[002124] Reactions: Gazette Litteraire Internationale, V. Switzerland: First Edition. French language, Some english, very large double sided sheets, folded, letterpress, from Swiss publisher. Some ink damage to one small portion of one page. $15.00

[002701] . Berkeley Tribe, Vol. 2, No. 6 February 13-20, 1970. Berkeley, CA: Red Mountain Tribe, 1970. First Edition. Tabloid. Near Fine. Articles about the Berkeley Police, Huey Newton, Black Panthers, poems (including one by Konstantin Berlandt), ads (Steve Miller & Elvin Bishop at the Family Dog, movies, other concerts, etc), "Ecology and the Police State," drawings, classifieds, etc. Newsprint is rather yellowed, else a fine copy. $15.00

[003781] Farber, Jerry. The Student as Nigger. New Orleans, LA: Pocket Books, 1970. 5th Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Good. "School is where you let the dying society put its trip on you." "For students, as for black people, the hardest battle isn't with Mr. Charlie. It's what Mr. Charlie had done to your mind." "To be real in school is to be revolutionary." This indictment of the American school system was called "the underground's first classic" by Esquire Magazine. Some wear and creasing to covers/spine, interior is very good.

SOLD

[002449] Hall, Tim, Ed .. Struggle: A Magazine of Proletarian Revolutionary Literature, Vol. 8, No. 3, Fall 1992. Detroit, MI: Detroit Branch of the Marxist-Leninist Party , 1992. First Edition. Wrappers. Very Good. Small tear at top of back cover, very slight soiling, else fine. Thirty-six pages, stapled in light blue wrappers. $5.00

[002450] Hall, Tim, Ed .. Struggle: A Magazine of Proletarian Revolutinary Literature, Vol. 9, Nos. 1-2, Spring-Summer 1993. Detroit, MI: Detroit Branch of the Marxist-Leninist Party , 1993. First Edition. Wrappers. Good. A few dogeared pages, small bend to top corner of front cover. 36 pages, bound in bright yellow wrappers. $5.00

[002451] Hall, Tim, Ed .. Struggle: A Magazine of Proletarian Revolutinary Literature, Vol. 9, No. 4, Winter 1993-1994. Detroit, MI: Detroit Branch of the Marxist-Leninist Party , 1993. First Edition. Wrappers. Good. A few dogeared pages, slight soiling. 36 pages, bound in white wrappers printed in red. $5.00

[002448] Hall, Tim, Ed .. Struggle: A Magazine of Proletarian Revolutinary Literature, Vol. 7, No. 4, Winter 1991-92. Detroit, MI: Detroit Branch of the Marxist-Leninist Party , 1992. First Edition. Wrappers. Very Good +. Forty pages, stapled in bright yellow wrappers printed in black and red. This issue commemmorates "Struggle Night," which took place February 15, 1992 and was billed as "an evening of revolutinary and protest poetry, songs, drama and art." Wrappers are slightly soiled, else fine. $5.00

Unzipped Souls: Jazz Journey Through The Soviet Union [001046] Minor, William. Unzipped Souls: Jazz Journey Through The Soviet Union . Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1995. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine / Fine. From the dustjacket: "Surely the perseverence, resilience, and survival of that very embodiment of freedom, jazz, in the U.S.S.R. speaks volumes about the singular worth and immense strengths of our indigenous art form. William Minor, taking the reader on a tour of the Soviet jazz circuit in the twilight of communism, personalizes the phenomenon with accounts he gathered from folks who, in the face of seemingly insurmountable obstacles, both participated in carrying off this cultural coup and continue to perpetuate the jazz idiom." -- W. Royal Stokes, editor of Jazz Notes and author of Swing Era New York: The Jazz Photographs of Charles Peterson. $15.00

[002083] Priaulx, Allan, & Sanford J. Ungar. with an introduction By James Jones . The Almost Revolution: France 1968. New York, NY: Dell, 1969. 1st Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. Includes eight pages of photographs. About very good, with some edgewear and rubbing. A nice tight, square copy with an uncreased spine. $10.00

[003177] Roszak, Theodore. From Satori to Silicon Valley: San Francisco and the American Counterculture. San Francisco: Don't Call it Frisco Press, 1986. First Edition. Wrappers. Very Good. An essay on the legacy & failings of 1960s counterculture, and the shift to a technological society. Fifty-six pages, bound in glossy black-and-white wrappers. Some small bends at extremities of the covers, else fine. $12.00

[002700] Scherr, Max, Ed.. Berkeley Barb, Vol. 10, No. 6, February 13-19, 1970. Berkeley, CA: Berkeley Barb , 1970. First Edition. Tabloid. Good. Features an interview with Charles Manson, Freak Brothers comic, article on Fidel Castro, vintage ads, local political news, ads (Sam Shepard's play La Turista at the Magic Theatre, concert ads, classifieds, etc.). Some small tears at extremities, folded in center, yellowed pages, a few small stains, bends at page bottoms. $15.00

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[002091] Schlesinger, Arthur Jr.. Violence: America in the Sixties. New York, NY: Signet, 1968. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. Published as "Signet Special Broadside #5." Quotes from the back cover: "The young are tired of alibis...they can no longe abide the official hypocrises" & "The murder within five years of John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, and Robert Kennedy raises somber questions about he character of contemporary America." The book is 96 pages. Covers show slight wear, crease to spine. $7.00

Anarchos - Eastside Anarchist Group [002123] The Eastside Anarchist Group. Anarchos #2 (Spring 1968). New York, NY: The Eastside Anarchist Group, 1968. First Edition. Wrappers. Very Good. Contents: Vietnam - and the White Refrigerator; Eighteen Rounds of Total Revolution; Forms of Freedom; Towards a Liberatory Technology. The article "Vietnam - and the White Refrigerator" begins "Tell me, white, fat-cat, middle-class America: how do you live with yourself? How can you endure yourself? How can you stomach yourself?" Includes a list of other anarchist publications, Covers are slightly soiled, staples rusting, bend to top corner of back cover & pages. 64 pages, stapled into heavy textured wrappers printed in black and red. Quite scarce. $15.00

[003069] Whitmer, Peter O. With Bruce VanWyngarden. Aquarius Revisited: Seven Who Created the Sixties Counterculture That Changed America (William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Ken Kesey, Timothy Leary, Norman Mailer, Tom Robbins, Hunter S. Thompson) . New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1987. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good / Fine. 260 pages. Includes photographs, and an index. Some light wear at head & tail of spine, else fine in a fine dustjacket. $17.00

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