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Barrett, Raina. First Your Money, Then Your Clothes. My Life and Oh! Calcutta! NYC: Morrow, 1973. 8vo, 166 + 14-page photo insert. Hardbound in dust jacket. Fine. $35
Middle-class housewife drops out, sheds clothes on stage.



Beagle, Peter. I See by My Outfit. NYC: Viking, [1965]. 8vo, 249pp. Hardbound in dust jacket. Trivial wear to edges of dust jacket. $45
“Cross-country by scooter: an adventure,” by the author of A Fine and Private Place.



Burroughs, William Jr. Speed. Foreword by Allen Ginsberg. NYC: Olympia Press, 1970. 191pp. Paperback. Merest rubbing. $35
Paperback original. First edition of Bill Junior’s first book. Wry, matter-of-fact account of teen-age meth-freak’s downward spin.



Burroughs, William Jr. Speed. Overlook Press edition. Afterword by William Steinbeck Jr. Woodstock, NY: Overlook Press, 1984. 8vo, 170pp. Hardbound in dust jacket. Like new. $35
Second US edition, with a thoughtful and sober reminisence by John Steinbeck’s kid.



Chaplin, Michael. I Couldn’t Smoke the Grass on My Father’s Lawn. London: Leslie Frewin, [1966]. 8vo, 173pp, 13 photo plates. Hardbound in dust jacket. Dust jacket a bit worn. $45
Memoir of the London freak scene by Charlie Chaplin’s kid. First edition.



Ford, Clay. Berkeley Journal. Jesus and the Street People — A Firsthand Report. NYC: Harper & Row, [1972]. 8vo, xii + 109pp. Hardbound in dust jacket. Fine. $35
The God Squad hits the bricks in Berkeley.



Franklin, H. Bruce. Back Where You Came From. NYC: Harper’s Magazine Press, [1975]. 8vo, xvii + 219pp.Hardbound in dust jacket. Fine. $35
Franklin, a tenured professor of literature at Stanford, was fired for his revolutionary politics. Part memoir, part political critique of postwar America.



Goldstein, Andrew. Becoming. An American Odyssey. NYC: Saturday Review Press, [1973]. 8vo, 118pp. Hardbound in dust jacket. Sticker on front. $25
“A young man’s pilgrimage through the radicalism of the sixties, and his return.”



Harris, David. Dreams Die Hard. Three Men’s Journey Through the Sixties. NYC: St. Martin’s / Marek, [1982]. 8vo, 341pp. Hardbound in dust jacket. Fine. $25
An account of three lives: reformer Allard Lowenstien; author Harris, a protégé; and Dennis Sweeney, another protégé, who murdered Lowenstein in 1980.



Harris, David. Goliath. Introduction by Joan Baez. NYC: Richard W. Baron, 1970. 8vo, 136pp. Hardbound in dust jacket. Fine. $25
Autobiographical account and analysis of the politics of draft resistance.



Harris, David. I Shoulda been Home Yesterday. NYC: delacorte, [1976]. 8vo, 234pp. Dust jacket slightly sunned. $25
Another memoir by war resister Harris, this one thoughtful and well-paced.



Kamstra, Jerry. The Frisco Kid. NYC: Harper & Row, [1975]. 8vo, 261pp. Hardbound in dust jacket. Price clipped; tight copy. $30
First edition. Memoir of SF’s North Beach in the heyday of the beat scene.



Newman, Charles. A Child’s History of America. Some Ribs and Riffs for the Sixties. Chicago: Swallow Press, 1973. Square 8vo, 307pp. Hardbound in dust jacket. Excellent. $30
TriQuarterly editor’s journal of his eventful travels in 1968: cops and kids clash in the Haight, students and workers revolt in Paris, tanks crunch down the streets of Prague.



Rader, Dotson. I Ain’t Marchin’ Anymore! NYC: McKay, [1969]. 8vo, viii + 180pp. Hardbound in dust jacket. Fine. $35
First edition. Memoir of Columbia strike, march on Pentagon, more.



Rossman, Michael. The Wedding within the War. Garden City: Doubleday (Paris Review Editions), 1971. 8vo, 397pp. Hardbound in dust jacket. Fine. $25
Insider’s account of the Free Speech Movement and life in the new left.




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