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Memoirs
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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