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Trashing.
SF: Straight Arrow, 1970. First edition in second issue dw. (the first issue was suppressed by World Publishing, who distributed the book for Straight Arrow; also known as the ‘Pig Mask’ jacket, it featured a nude photograph by Raeanne Rubenstein of Abbie wearing a Nixon mask and Anita Hoffman in a pig mask). 132pp.
The ‘fictionalized’ memoir of life in the yippie underground by Abbie’s wife in which she recounts her life from her first LSD trip to her wedding in Central Park.
Near Fine in dw.
Together with: a group of four typed letters dating from September and October 1970, including three carbon copies of letters from the publisher’s printer pertaining to an “attorney’s opinion of the question of whether our printing of the novel ‘Trashing’ could expose us to criminal liability”, and one to the printer from Alan Rinzler, the president of Straight Arrow, sent “in the hope… that you can press ahead with the printing”.
