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Haight-Ashbury
Beggs, Larry. Huckleberry’s for Runaways. NYC: Ballantine, 1969. Paperback, 307pp. Illustrated. Fine. $25 | Paperback original. Activist memoir by the priest who sheltered runaways during the heyday of the Haight. | |
Brilliant, Ashleigh. Haight-Ashbury Song Book. Songs of Love and Haight. Second edition. SF: H-B Productions, [1967]. 8pp. Tabloid. Fine. $200 | Second edition. Cover subtitle not obscured against background. Parodies of popular songs, exalting and satirizing the hippie scene. Fragile, scarce, and very corny. | |
Cohen, Allen. Published anonymously. “On the third anniversary of the murder of John F. Kennedy...” [A declaration of a prophecy of independence, expanded text.] Signed by Allen Cohen. [SF: privately printed, November 1966]. Single legal size sheet. Fine. $200 | A long meditative broadside by Oracle editor Allen Cohen reprinting his “Declaration of a Prophecy of Independence,” with additional text denouncing police harassment of Lenore Kandel and announcing the founding of HIP, the Haight Independent Proprietors alternative merchants association. | |
Diggers. Poster. How Do You Want to Live? Free City Convention, Carousel Ballroom, May, 1968. SF: Privately printed, [1968]. 9.25 by 14.5 inches. Printed in black, yellow and red on cream stock. Fine. $600 | A memento of the notorious last blast of the Carousel before it was closed and Bill Graham reopened it as the Fillmore West. | |
Haight-Ashbury. Handbill. The Psychedelic Shop’s First Christmas Party. C. C. Botner, artist. [SF:] Psychedelic Shop, 1966. 5.5 x 8.5 inches, printed in black on one side of white paper. Fine. $100 | A nicely psychedelicized Santa Claus astride a motorcycle. | |
Oracle. Oracle no. 12. Allen Cohen, ed. SF: Oracle, 1968. Tabloid, 32pp., illustrated. Minor foxing. $125 | Symposium 2000 AD and the Fall issue. With ‘Tap City,’ by Lew Welch; and Philip Whalen, Michael McClure, and art by Alton Kelley, Bob Schnepf, and Martin Linhart. | |
Oracle. Oracle no. 2. Allen Cohen, ed. SF: Oracle, 1966. Tabloid, 12pp., illustrated. Fine. Slightest yellowing along the edge. $250 | Youth Quake issue. With two illustrations by famed Beat artist Bruce Conner. | |
Oracle. Oracle no. 5. Allen Cohen, ed. SF: Oracle, 1967. Tabloid, 24pp., illustrated. Tear in top right cover corner; good flat copy. $400
Oracle. Oracle no. 6. First edition, second state. Allen Cohen, ed. SF: Oracle, 1967. Tabloid, 32pp., illustrated. Minor tear in edge; fold. Very nice copy. $350 | The Aquarian Age issue. Cover by Rick Griffin. The cover price of the first printing is 15 cents. Apparently preceded by the rainbow-colored, split fountain variant. | |
Oracle. Oracle no. 6. Second edition. Allen Cohen, ed. SF: Oracle, 1967. Tabloid, 32pp., illustrated. Dog-ears on cover corners. $250 | The Aquarian Age issue. Cover price 25 cents. | |
Oracle. Oracle no. 7. Second edition. Allen Cohen, ed. SF: Oracle, 1967. Tabloid, 52pp., illustrated. Folded; very nice copy. $100 | The Houseboat Summit issue. New cover, lacks photo credit. | |
Oracle. Oracle no. 8. Second edition. Allen Cohen, ed. SF: Oracle, 1967. Tabloid, 40pp., illustrated. Folded. Very nice. $150 | The American Indian issue. This second edition has a hippie madonna-with-child photo on page 17. | |
Oracle. Oracle no. 9. Mandala man variant, red cover. Allen Cohen, ed. SF: Oracle, 1967. Tabloid, 32pp., illustrated. Folded. $100 | Psychedelics, Flowers and War issue. Mandala man back cover. With Timothy Leary, Ralph Metzner, Michael McClure, and prominent local psychics and scenesters Gavin Arthur and John Cooke. | |
Oracle. Set no. 1. Oracle 1–12, with variant versions and associated publications. With P.O. Frisco, the Oracle’s immediate predecessor, and Harbinger, an immediate successor. Also included are are alternative versions of issues nos. 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10, which contained significant design changes. Also a home-grown parody, Orifice. This set includes a virtually perfect copy of the rare split-fountain, rainbow-hued version of issue no. 6, cover by Rick Griffin. San Francisco: Oracle, 1966-67. A detailed description of the collection is available. Nineteen pieces in all. sold | A full run of the legendary psychedelic newspaper of the Haight-Ashbury, plus associated publications. Editor Allen Cohen likes to call it “The Rosetta Stone of the Hippies.” Pioneering in its use of graphics, split-stream printing and underground distribution network, the Oracle served as spokesman, catalyst, conscience, and subsistence livelihood for the Haight. | |
Simon, John. The Sign of the Fool. Memoirs from the Haight-Ashbury, 1965-68. NYC: Ace, [1971]. 189pp. Paperback. Excellent, uncirculated copy. $75 | Paperback original. Biker’s memoir of the Haight-Ashbury. | |
Von Hoffman, Nicholas. We Are the People Our Parents Warned Us Against. Chicago: Quadrangle, 1968. 8vo, 279pp. Hardbound in dust jacket. Dust jacket rubbed. $35 | First edition. Unaccountably esteemed, third- and fourth-hand stories in an early journalistic account of the heyday of the Haight, one of the first to adopt the condescending but tolerant “mature” view of the hippies. | |
Wolfe, Burton. The Hippies. NYC: Signet, 1968. 207pp. Paperback. Spine creased. $35 | Paperback original. Engaging first-hand report from the Haight-Ashbury. | |
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