[Berkeley]: n.p., [1969]. An 8 ½” x 11” two-sided flyer printed in purple and black and announcing a Memorial Day march to the People’s Park following numerous violent incidents beginning on May 15. Recto features a photograph of men digging in the park and verso features an illustration of an..... More
New Milford, NJ: Maranatha Press, 1972. Tabloid format printed on newsprint, 4 pp, photographs. A promotional piece announcing Jesus Joy!, a Jesus movement musical event featuring Maranatha, Rock Garden, Danny Taylor, Andrae Croch and the Disciples, and Lillian Parker. In Jeanne DeFazio's Berkeley Street Theatre: How Improvisation and Street Theater..... More
Springfield, Massachusetts: New Unity, 1971. The inaugural issue of this underground newspaper out of Springfield, Massachusetts that apparently ran for at least a decade. In a long section titled, “What Is New Unity?”, it’s described as “for the people and for rank & file,” “against those who prosper at the..... More
Springfield, MA: Smash, [1970]. 4to; stapled, photo-illustrated wrappers, 24 pp, illus. The first (and last?) issue of this radical high school student publication out of Springfield, MA. Women’s liberation, community policing, what a drag high school is, pig-this and pig-that, a nice UAW/MF centerfold poster (‘Armed Love’), etc. A well-done..... More
New Haven: View from the Bottom, 1970. A single issue of the underground paper from New Haven, CT. This issue includes a long report - with photographs - from a New Haven protest against the arrest of the Chicago 8 and members of the Black Panther Party, which led to..... More
Bowling Green, Ohio: Anarcho-Media Collective, 1972. 8vo; stapled, wrappers (7” x 8 ½”), 17 pp, illus. The first (?) of only two issues published of this countercultural anarchist journal by students at Bowling Green State Univ. in 1972. Most of the content is reprinted from LNS and includes stories on..... More
New York: V. R.-Leviathan Publications, Inc., 1969. Tabloid format, stapled, printed in red and black on newsprint, 55 pp, illus. Although folded at one time, this copy has been stored flat, darkening at fold, newsprint slightly browned, but a Near Fine example. The inaugural issue of this influential underground paper..... More
[Philadelphia]: The Free University, 1971. First edition. A course catalog for the Spring 1971 semester of the Free University, an alternative university funded by the University of Pennsylvania’s student government. Includes an introductory letter from co-directors Robert S. Brody and Don Cooper followed by a list of courses with descriptions..... More
[Brooklyn]: Butterfly Collective, 1972. Five corner-stapled leaves, 10 pp, illus. Some offsetting to front cover, else Near Fine. No record for this publication in OCLC. An independent publication by a collective at Brooklyn College. Articles critical of the Jewish Defense League, on women’s lib issues, the establishment of the “liberation library,”..... More
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Chico, CA: Chico Rising, 1971. Tabloid format printed in black on newsprint; 12 pp.; 16 pp. Two consecutive issues of this underground, Berkeley Barb-style newspaper out of Chico, CA, which still exists today as the alternative Chico News & Review. Contents include standard countercultural fare, including abortion rights, legal rights..... More
Minneapolis: The Little Free Press, 1971. Two consecutive issues of this left-libertarian, anarchist publication from Minneapolis. Content for issue 4 is devoted to the editor’s conception of what a free world might look like: an open borders utopia where everyone would do creative, fulfilling work and share all the spoils..... More
New York: Realist Association, 1961. 4to.; stapled wrappers; 32 pp. A double issue of the irreverent, satirical magazine edited by Paul Krassner. Feature articles include, "College Teacher in Mississippi" by Dave Berkman and "Political Prisoners in Franco's Spain" with an article by prominent murdered atheist, Madalyn E. Murray (Madalyn Murray..... More
New York: The Realist Association, 1964. A single issue of the irreverent, satirical magazine edited by Paul Krassner. This issue includes, “Confessions of a Guilty Bystander” by Krassner, an article on the “Yugoslavian Eichmann”, Andrija Artukovic, leader of the Ustashi (many gruesome photos), a short essay by Terry Southern, a...... More
New York: The Realist Association, 1968. First edition. Quarto (27 cm). Wrappers printed on newsprint; 16 pp.; illus. Newsprint slightly browned, else a Fine copy. More
[New York]: Resurgence Youth Movement, [196-]. A two-sided mimeographed flyer from the Resurgence Youth Movement, a small anarchist group operating in the Lower East Side during the 1960s. Founded by Jonathan Leake and Walter Caughey, as the late Bill Goring noted, the group “espoused a mixture of anarchist revolution, Black..... More
New York: Breaking Point, 1967. First edition. An anti-hippie screed excoriating sexual liberation, the drug culture, faux-intellectualism, and COOL, which is the “new venereal disease.” Stapled green wrappers (6 ” x 9 ¼”), 32 p. Some foxing to the top edge, light edge wear, about Near Fine. More
Madison: Links, [1968]. First edition. Tabloid format newspaper printed in black on newsprint; unpaginated [12 pp.]; illus. No issue number or date is provided, but we believe this to be the second issue of this underground high school newspaper, published in September 1968. By the early 1970s many underground high..... More
Palo Alto: Palo Alto Resistance, 1969. Tabloid format printed in black on newsprint, 24 pp, illus. A scarce single issue of the national newspaper of The Resistance, an anti-war organization that was instrumental in organizing against the draft. Includes an article by Staughton Lynd, SDS leader, Bob Ross, a Plain..... More
London: INK Publishers, Ltd., 1971. Tabloid format printed in various colors on newsprint; 20 pp.; photographs. A single issue of the British countercultural paper founded by “OZ” editor Richard Neville in 1971. “INK” was Neville’s attempt to bridge the counterculture and the liberal establishment, although the paper barely lasted a...... More
New York: V. R.-Leviathan Publications, Inc., 1969. Tabloid format printed in red and black on newsprint, 38 pp, illus. Newsprint slightly browned, but an about Fine copy. A single issue of this influential underground paper, which distinguished itself among other underground publications by offering its readers a professional design and..... More
New York: Exit Magazine, 1989. The fourth of five full issues (a sixth was partially completed) of this controversial large format magazine founded by George Petros and Adam Parfrey in NYC in 1983. As described by Petros in the introduction to The EXIT Collection (Tacit Press, 1998), EXIT was “…an..... More
[Philadelphia: Philadelphia Caucus of RYM-2/SDS], [1969]. Two-sided, screenprinted flyer measuring 8.5" x 11" produced by the Philadelphia caucus of RYM-2 / SDS. The recto features color artwork of an American flag-draped skeleton celebrating on a pile of dead bodies. On the verso is a brief analysis of the U.S. ruling..... More
Philadelphia: Plain Dealer, 1970. A single issue of this short-lived Philadelphia underground newspaper, which began and ended in 1970. Content for this issue includes an article on Philadelphia's repression of demonstrations by the noted social activist, Peter Countryman, an update on the exoneration of two policemen accused of murdering a...... More
Philadelphia: Plain Dealer, 1970. A single issue of this short-lived Philadelphia underground newspaper, which began and ended in 1970. Content for this issue includes a raid on the Black Unification Society, the military on Philadelphia universities, a terrific yellow and black centerfold titled "Free the Panther 21 or Babylon Will..... More
New York: Picture Magazine, 1969. 4to; magazine format, 74 pp, illus. A single issue of the strangely uncommon countercultural music magazine, which includes interviews with musicians Grace Slick and Frank Zappa and hobo Richard Wilson, “the Pennsylvania Kid;” an article by Nat Hentoff on Republican John Lindsay and one on..... More