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KALIFLOWER Volume 3, issue numbers 1/3/5/7/11/13/16/20/21/25/27/ 28/30/31/32/34/38/40/42/43/44/ 49/50/51/52 + Volume 4, issue no. 1 + original decorative envelope issued for Volume 3, nos. 1-14 (SF: May 6, 1971-May 11, 1972).

Quarto. Wrappers hand-sewn with yarn Japanese style. Printed offset, with different texture and colour papers and inks. Holograph texts reproduced in facsimile. Pagination varies (6pp.-18pp., including cover, with one double-page fold-out). Illustrated with drawings, photographs, cartoons, and occasional handwritten additions and one insert.

A broken run of 26 issues of this 'intercommunal newspaper', first published in April 1969 by the Sutter Street Commune in San Francisco. The Commune, which followed Digger principles and later became known as the Kaliflower Commune after the weekly newsletter it produced, was founded in 1967 by writer and editor, Irving Rosenthal, who also established the Free Print Shop that printed it. "Communal Archaeology", the front cover article of the first issue in the run, revealed for the first time that it was also inspired by the precepts of the nineteenth-century Oneida community, led by John Humphrey Noyes, and his book, 'The History of American Socialisms'.

Known as Kaliflower Day, the Commune's newsletter was handbound and delivered free every Thursday to the hundreds of new communes that grew up in the Bay Area and beyond in the wake of the hippie explosion, cross-pollinating ideas, needs, and information. Its main purposes were "to encourage people to live in communes, to help communes solve their social and survival problems, to give communes a sense of belonging to a larger social movement, and to provide a way for communes to get to know each other" (from the introduction to Kaliflower Volume 5, [item #173]).

The paper was never sent through the mail, and its main principles were "that it was to be free, that it was only to go to communes, that it would accept no money ads, that it would stay 'unknown', that individual contributors would be anonymous, that it would not be delivered unless requested, that it would be gentle and non-violent in tone, and that its circulation would be restricted enough to allow complete freedom of expression" (ibid).

Kaliflower's vision was of land trusts and organic farms that would feed the communes for free, in the hope of a new intercommunal era of working together. The paper's circulation increased by word of mouth, and grew rapidly in its third year. By Spring 1972 its editors had realised that they were working for a largely anonymous readership who "just read the ads", and they produced their final issue in June, shortly after the last issue in the run here (the back cover of which prints "Some Thoughts on the Future of Kaliflower").

Imbued with the Digger spirit of 'Free', each issue prints personal messages and ads. offering services and resources or requesting similar, alongside announcements of intercommunal picnics and performances by free theatre groups such as The Angels of Light, a Cockettes offshoot formed by Hibiscus, an early member of the Kaliflower Commune. Considerable space is devoted to correspondence from like-minded communities, alongside reports from rural and other communes and articles on the various practical aspects of living communally, including home childbirth; ecology; recycling; vegetarianism; macrobiotic recipes; sexual relationships and the tensions arising from living in polyamorous groups; tantra; yoga; the Free Food Conspiracy; living with a child; car sharing; and so on.

Small cover loss and evidence of mouse nibbling to lower right corner of Volume 3, #38, o/w all issues Very Good or better. A rare and exceptional run of this spectacularly beautiful manifestation of the communal living ethos.

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