Modern Books and Manuscripts
Castalia Foundation for Psychedelic Research Presents Timothy Leary PhD and Richard Alpert PhD. How to use your head: a dialogue on LSD and consciousness expansion. A new theory of human nature based on recent neurological and pharmacological evidence. (1992.)
Sunday 29 November 8:30 pm tickets at Town Hall 3.00. Second Edition. 67.5 x 83.5 cm. woodblock print with titles blue, brown, green and red on black Murillo paper, one of 5 signed artist's proofs from a total edition of 23 with 18 of those printed as a signed, limited edition. N.p [Berkeley], n.p [Privately Published],
In fine condition. Institutionally rare. It is considered by the trade to be the first L.S.D poster.Ross used the original woodblocks and near identical inks to restrike this historic poster that was originally printed at Cooper Union in 1964 in an edition of around twenty. Almost the complete run apparently went to the Castalia Foundation. Alpert and Leary commissioned it for their first appearance at New York City's Town Hall venue. The style of the poster is rather 'mid-century modern'' as it would be two or three years before a recognizable 'psychedelic' canon of graphic design emerged from the Haight.
Stock Code: MO46060
