THE ACID TEST [Original Acid Test Banner]
Large original painted canvas banner likely utilized in one of Ken Kesey's final Acid Test events and based on Kesey's infamous limited edition ACID TEST album.
Large original painted canvas banner likely utilized in one of Ken Kesey's final Acid Test events and based on Kesey's infamous limited edition ACID TEST album.
Magazine published by the UK organization Shelter, an advocacy organization for the Homeless.
Wonderful and sizeable collection of over 100 photographs documenting a small group's road trip to Woodstock and weekend there.
Flyer for a Memorial Day rally for disarmament on May 27th, 1978 at the United Nations.
Official mimeographed newsletter of the Committee of 100, a prominent British anti-war group whose first president was Bertrand Russell and whose initial hundred public signatories included Christopher Logue, Herbert Read, Lindsay Anderson, and Gustav Metzger. This handsomely printed bulletin includes reports on relevant news stotries of the day: China's atom bomb tests, phone tapping of dissidents by the British police, pirate radio stations in London, and more.
Poster picturing four sweaters wearing a number of buttons with pacifist themes, like "Make love not war" and "Stop creeping proliferation."
Translated from the French by B.R. Brewster. Includes Bourges' interviews with crucial figures in the events of May '68: Jacques Sauvageot, Alain Geismar, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, and Jean-Pierre Duteuil.
Bilingual pamphlet presenting the case for boycotting Del Monte canned fruits and vegetables.
An outstanding example of (presumably) amateur political protest art, depicting the House Un-American Activities Committee as a rabid King Kong on the verge of seizing the helpless damsel Civil Liberties.
Small archive representing what is perhaps the only remaining trace of a fascinating, prescient, but ultimately unrealized utopian project of the counterculture.
Infamous image of a personified Justice and Statue of Liberty being graphically assaulted by a gang of laughing police officers, under the eye of an American eagle.
First printing of these collected essays challenging the prevailing psychological model of the drug abuser, signed by co-editor Coombs in the year of publication.
First edition of this critical investigation of American policing, covering seventy-two cities across the US over the course of two years.
One photo shows two elaborately dressed hippies dancing at a celebration at the Panhandle.
Poster made in support of Iranian political prisoners and protesters against the last Shah of Iran, the U.S
Early, short-lived Bay Area environmentalist newsletter. This issue features Nathan Hare on Black Ecology, an interview with Hare by Edward Washington, and an article on the Marquesa Islands.
Early, short-lived Bay Area environmentalist newsletter. This issue focuses on local American government at the county level, and features a Manifesto for Citizen Counterrevolution by Ted Radke as well as an essay by Jean Giono.
Collection of original art and collage from New York underground artist Kasoundra Kasoundra.
Technical work on interpersonal behavior and personality evaluation by a pre-psychedelia Timothy Leary, written during his tenure as Director of Psychology Research at the Kaiser Foundation Hospital in Oakland.
True first of the counter culture classic from Muir and illustrator Peter Aschwanden, collaborators on the self-published 1969 standard HOW TO KEEP YOUR VOLKSWAGEN ALIVE.
Weekly pacifist publication, this a special issue focused on nuclear disarmament edited by Bruce Birchard, a Quaker activist and leader of the watchdog group National Action/Research on the Military Industrial Complex.
Publication of the defense committee for Ricardo Chavez Ortiz, calling for a Day of Brotherhood ("Dia de Hermanidad") and urging donations to his defense fund.
Text in German; parallel introductory text in Russian, English, and French. Catalogue for an exhibition held on the occasion of the "Xth World Youth Festival," collecting agitprop and other (mostly) political art from over 50 countries.
Broadside issued by the provisional Governing Board (Junta Patriotica) to the people of Caracas, dated two days after the January 23, 1958 coup deposing Venezuelan dictator Marcos Perez Jimenez (see text and translation below).
Homage of sorts to 1968's RONALD REAGAN / THE MAGAZINE OF POETRY.