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

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

[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

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: 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

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

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

[Philadelphia]: [Philadelphia Caucus of RYM-2/SDS], [1969]. A flyer issued by the Philadelphia caucus of RYM-2 / SDS, which outlines the group’s participation in the Nov. 14-16, 1969 anti-war demonstration in Washington, D. C. The march, organized by the Vietnam Moratorium Committee, drew half a million protestors in what was the..... 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

Elburn, Illinois: Mascouten Press, 1983. First edition reprint. The title page defines Whoreson Crawl as “a type of surreptitious movement performed on all fours by an illegitimate person, usually resulting in negligible pain.” According to the editors, this collection of poems was the result of “a single 36-hour drinking and..... More