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Section B: MAGIC, MODERNITY, MACABRE, MADNESS
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Section E: LITERATURE AND POETRY
Section F: PUNKS AND FREAKS
Section G: SITUATIONS
Section H: COMIX AND GRAPHIX

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Section D: ALTERED STATES

[41] GINSBERG (Allen). Consulting I Ching Smoking Pot Listening To The Fugs Sing Blake.
First issue, limited edition. 45.7 x 33 cm., text and illustrations in black on off white wove paper, printed on one side only, 30/100. Pleasant Valley, New York, Kriya Press of Sri Ram Ashrama, 1967. £400
Ginsberg has signed and dated this copy in San Francisco in blue biro on the foot of the page, thus:
“Allen Ginsberg SF ‘68”.
A few dustmarks, near fine. Very rare in commerce but well represented in institutional North American libraries. Morgan AA6.
Illustrated with a smoking hookah, daisies and a Fly Agaric.

[42] GRIFFIN (Rick). MOUSE (Stanley). &. KELLEY (Alton). Trip or Freak. Quicksilver Grateful Dead. Big Brother &. The Holding Company. Winterland. Halloween. October 31st.
Original handbill. 9.5 x 17.5cm., titles in black in a psychedelic font by Griffin and Mouse. N.p., [San Francisco], n.p., [Tea Lautrec Litho?], n.d., 1967. £375
The central motif is an image of the head of Lon Chaney as Erik the Phantom of The Opera, this set on a field of miniature versions of Erik in red on a vivid orange background
Fine. Grushkin 2.183. for the poster, illustrated in p-185.” “One particularly sought-after piece is the 1967 Halloween poster known as “Trip or Freak”“.
A scarce collaboration by three of the “Big Five Psychedelic Poster Artists” of the Bay Area.
A macabre image that unites Rock music, ghostly Halloween film fun, the LSD induced sense of a confrontation with death and mortality and very fine printing.

[43] GRIFFIN (Rick). & MOSCOSO (Victor). Lucifer Rising/Oracle.
Original poster. 57 x 71 cm., double poster overprinted in vivid psychedelic pinks, greens, reds, orange and blues on thick paper stock, signed by Moscoso on lower right corner, float mounted, framed and glazed. Berkeley & San Francisco, Berkeley Bonaparte & Oracle, c. 1967. £600
Near fine.

[44] [HARTWEG (Norman).]. Can You Pass the Acid Test? Allen Ginsberg. The Fugs, The Merry Pranksters, Neal Cassady, The Grateful Dead, Roy’s Audiooptics, Movies. This Saturday Night. Bring Your Own Comfort. Here’s Where it’s At.
Later issue. 58 x 45.5 cm., a multimedia work printed in polychrome on checquered blue with extensive handcolouring,inking and glittering, on thick white stock, signed by Kens Kesey and Babbs, Gretchin Fetchin and five other Merry Pranksters. N.p., [Oregon?], n.p. [Intrepid Trips?], n.d., c.1990s. £1200
Near fine. A crisp and clean copy.
The archetypal poster but much improved.

[45] LASCAULT (Glbert). (Text). SCANREIGH ([Jean-Marc]). (Artist). Le Jeu Du Minotaure Aux Cornes Rouges.
Original board game. Quadrilateral, approx. 27 x 43.5 cm. [folded], 54.7 cm. (unfolded), original light blue cloth backed boards, titles in Prussian blue, onlaid white paper label with titles in black and illustration in black, blue red, green, the rules in a large irregular box in the centre with text in green and dark blue, colophon/imprint in black on the upper right corner, this surrounded by 39 numbered boxes arranged in irregular rows with overlapping illustrations in green, yellow, red, dark blue and black on white, French text, 24/300 copies hand-numbered and signed by artist and author in pencil. N.p. [Paris?], Baby Lone Ed., Le 15 XI
1988. £250
Near fine, slight rubbing on right corner of upper portion. Very rare commercially and institutionally with no copies on OCLC, RLIN, BN-OPALE-PLUS.
A strange game governed by surreal logic and altered states of consciousness, phantasmagorical transmutation and scarification and also brief death and rebirth into a desert environment.

[46] MAYTAG (Ken). Prayer For Kif.
First edition. 49 x 31 cm., an illustrated broadside poem, conservation framed and glazed. Santa Barbara, Unicorn Press. 1967. £75
In fine condition. Institutionally and commercially rare with one only on O.C.L.C..
With a beautiful stylized illustration of a Kif plant in green on creme coloured stock.

[47] NARCO-PULPS. An Uncut sheet of ‘Dope Fiends Cards’.
First printing. 44.5 x 62.5 cm., arranged as 36 paperback illustrations in colour with descriptions on reverse. N.p., [San Francisco?] , n.p, [Prion Books Ltd.], n.d., c. 2000 £60
Fine. Scarce.
A modest but evocative and beautifully printed uncut sheet for a series of novelty postcards. This includes pulp classics such as Brown`s “Monkey On My Back”, “Junkie”, “Man With The Golden Arm” and of course “LSD Lusters”.

[48] ROSS (Robert). 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. Sunday 29 November 8:30 pm tickets at Town Hall 3.00.
Second Edition, an artist’s proof and a copy of the published version. 67.5 x 83.5 cm. woodblock print with titles blue, brown, green and red on black Murillo paper, the published state 11/20 of a limited edition, the proof one of a handful, both signed by the artist. N.p [Berkeley], n.p [Privately Published], 1992. £2000
In fine condition. Both states are rare both institutionally and commercially; with no copies found on OCLC. 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.

[49] WESTERN SCIENTIFIC PRODUCTS. Drug Identification Poster.
Original poster. 96.5 x 63.5 cm., printed in colour on thick white paper stock. North Hollywood, Western Scientific Products, copyright 1972. £55
Near fine, rolled, one bump.

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Section A: AGITATION, PROPAGANDA, ANARCHY, REVOLUTION, URBAN TERROR
Section B: MAGIC, MODERNITY, MACABRE, MADNESS
Section C: ART, DESIGN ETC
Section E: LITERATURE AND POETRY
Section F: PUNKS AND FREAKS
Section G: SITUATIONS
Section H: COMIX AND GRAPHIX