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Aya, Roderick, and Miller, Norman. Editors. The New American Revolution. Epilogue by Christopher Lasch. NYC: Free Press, [1971]. 8vo, x + 342pp. Fine. $25
“Rebels in Eden: The Structure of Mass Political Violence in America” by Richard Rubenstein, “Social Origins of Black Consciousness” by James Turner, “Black Students: Revolutionaries or Reformists?” by W.E. Perkins and J.E. Higginson, “Revolt of the Young Intelligensia: Revolutionary Consciuosness in Post-Scarcity America” by Richard Flacks, and other essays from Academia.



Beidler, Philip D. Scriptures for a Generation. What We Were Reading in the ’60s. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, [1994]. 8vo, 254pp. Hardbound in dust jacket. Very fine. $25
The heart of the book is a 175-page encyclopedia of authors who influenced the sixties.



Bernard, Sidney. This Way to the Apocalypse. NYC: Horizon, 1969. 8vo, 252pp. Hardbound in dust jacket. Fine. $25
First edition. Essays on popular culture, politics, and literature.



Brustein, Robert. Revolution as Theatre. NYC: Liveright, [1971]. 8vo, 170pp. Hardbound in dust jacket. Fine. $35
First edition, review copy with publisher’s slip laid in. Includes an account of the 1970 Yale strike in support of Black Panthers on trial in New Haven; a consideration of revolutionary style and tactics in the light of drama theory; more.



Divoky, Diane. Editor. How Old Will You Be in 1984? NYC: Avon, 1969. 350pp. Paperback. Light crease in spine. $25
Paperback original. More than 250 articles and drawings from the high school free press.



Farber, Thomas. Tales for the Son of My Unborn Child. Berkeley 1966-1969. NYC: Dutton, 1971. 8vo, 211pp. Hardbound in dust jacket. Fine. $35
First edition. Carefully rendered portraits from the streets of Berkeley.



Gerzon, Mark. The Whole World Is Watching. A Young Man Looks at Youth’s Dissent. NYC: Viking, [1969]. 8vo, xiv + 274pp. Hardbound in dust jacket. Fine. $20
First edition. Harvard sophomore’s “honest, perceptive and finely balanced appraisal of today’s generation gap.”



Greenfield, Jeff. No Peace, No Place. Excavations Along the Generational Fault. NYC: Doubleday, 1973. 8vo, 286pp. Hardbound in dust jacket. Jacket slightly rubbed. $25
First edition. Journalist Greenfield examines the demise, in the 1960s, of the myths of the 1950s.



Kempton, Murray, and others. Trials of the Resistance. Introduction by Murray Kempton. NYC: A New York Review Book, 1970. 8vo, 246pp. Hardbound in dust jacket. Spine faded. $25
Essays on Dr. Benjamin Spock’s trial by Paul Lauter, Florence Howe, and co-conspirator Michael Ferber, with a collaborative look at political and legal aspects of the doctrine of conspiracy by Noam Chomsky, Herbert Packer and Ronald Dworkin. Also Andrew Kopkind on the trial of GI war resister Capt. Howard Levy; Emma Rothschild on the trial of the Oakland Seven; Francine du Plessix Gray on the Catholic Ultra-Resistance; Jason Epstein on Bobby Seale’s testimony at the Chiacgo Conspiracy Trial; on legal and philosophical dimensions of the doctrine of conspiracy.



Kostelanetz, Richard. Editor. Seeing Through Shuck. NYC: Ballantine, 1972. viii + 343pp. Paperback. Fine. $25
Twenty-five essay questioning some dubious premises that prop up society’s institutions.



McNeill, Don. Moving Through Here. Introduction by Allen Ginsberg. NYC: Knopf, 1970. xiv + 235pp. Hardbound in dust jacket. Fine. $25
First edition. Columns originally published in The Village Voice.



Murray, William. Previews of Coming Attractions. Scenes and Faces from the Permanent L.A. Fun Game. NYC: World, [1970]. 8vo, xiv + 302pp. Very slight rubbing. $30
First edition. Includes “The Hell’s Angels – A People Problem,” “The Free Press Faces Life,” more.



Rinzler, Alan. Editor. Manifesto Addressed to the President of the United States from the Youth of America. NYC: Macmillan, [1970]. 8vo, 228pp. Hardbound in dust jacket. Fine. $25
First edition. “From radical Left to libertarian Right; from the privileged and the disenfranchised; from blacks, whites, Indians and Chicanos; 29 men and women face the country on the question of survival.”.



Seligson, Tom. To Be Young in Babylon. Introduction by Nat Hentoff. NYC: paperback Library, 1971. 237pp. Paperback. Fine. $25
“What’s it like to be young and displaced in the United States today? A dramatic, prsonal account of teen-age revolutionaries.”



Stickney, John. Streets, Actions, Alternatives, Raps. A Report on the Decline of the Counterculture. NYC: Putnam’s, [1971]. 8vo, 352pp. Hardbound in dust jacket. Dust jacket somewhat rubbed. $30
First edition. Review copy, publisher’s slip and promo letter laid in.



Williams, Liza. Up the City of Angels. NYC: Putnam, [1971]. 8vo, 283pp. Hardbound in dust jacket. Slight wear at corners of dust jacket. $30
First edition. A selection from the author’s weekly columns in the Los Angeles Free Press.



Williams, Paul. Pushing Upward. Pictures by Dale Lewis. NYC: Flash, [1973]. 8vo, 319pp. Wrappers. Sticker on front. $20
First edition. Crawdaddy editor’s miscellany.




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