i) A holograph postcard signed by Aldous Huxley, dated “23.1.59”. Approx. 45 words, including mailing address. Accompanied by a carbon typescript of Abrams’ letter to Huxley, dated January 19, 1958 [sic], attached with a paper clip, in which Abrams asks “Do you think you might be interested in coming to the University of Chicago during the spring at our expense to lecture on some aspect of parapsychology?” (a subject Abrams was studying at the time). Huxley replies that he has “commitments which will keep me here during the whole of the spring.” Postmarked ‘Hollywood January 26th 1959’. Together with: a...... More about A small collection of correspondence to Steve Abrams, including cards and letters from Aldous...

SF: Melonly Melonely & The Psychedelic Shop, 1967. First edition. 4to. Wrps. Unpaginated (80pp.). Front cover lettering by Peter Spoecker and drawings by Charlie the Tuna and Stern Paull. Prints full-page pen-and-ink psychedelic line drawings by 16 different artists, many of them reminiscent of the 'Outsider' art of Scottie Wilson in their ornately detailed style. Near Fine. More about Trips 66: An Everyman’s Primer of Trip Art

Lettering in red on an orange ground. 3.8cm. diameter. The slogan appeared in a variety of other forms, including posters and postcards. Near Fine. More about Original ‘60s LSD pin badge: “LSD Better Living Through Chemistry”

Bold lettering in black on a white ground. 3.8cm. diameter. An uncommon British LSD badge. Minor tarnishing, o/w Near Fine. More about Original ‘60s LSD pin badge: “I'm an £.s.d. addict”

SF: Design Unlimited & A Big Little Store, nd. Lettering in purple featuring an illustration of a sugar cube above a chalice with emanating rays in pink on an off-white ground. 3cm. diameter. Minor tarnishing to verso. Near Fine. More about Original ‘60s LSD pin badge: “Make Acid A Sacrament”

NYC: nd. Lettering and simple illustration of an LSD-dosed sugar cube on a red ground. 3cm. diameter. The slogan condenses a commonly found head shop poster of the day: “Taking a Trip? GO LSD. The Only Way to Fly! See Your Travel Agent”. Verso slightly tarnished, o/w Very Good plus. More about Original ‘60s LSD pin badge: “The Only Way To Travel”

SIGNED by Grace Slick in black ink. A double-sided blotter sheet designed by Mark McCloud featuring illustrations by John Tenniel, with a central image of Alice entering and emerging through a large mirror. The verso prints the image in reverse. 19cm. sq. Green version (there was also a version in pink). Divided into 900 perforated hits. Grace Slick's lyrics to her song, “White Rabbit”, written during December 1965 or January 1966 reportedly after an acid trip, famously uses imagery found in “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” and its sequel, “Alice Through the Looking Glass”, and Jefferson Airplane’s..... More about Alice Through The Looking Glass

SIGNED by Timothy Leary in silver ink. The show was held at the ArtRock Gallery in San Francisco between August 10 - October 10, 1995, with a reception hosted by Leary held on the evening of the first day. The colour poster reproduces three acid blotters in a mandala-like design, with the central one featuring Leary in profile. 48x33cm. Fine. More about An original poster announcing ‘Timothy Leary in Wonderland: An Exhibition of Blotter Acid Art’

Exhibitors’ brochure promoting a double-bill of “2 Big Hits in Hallucinary Color, Pot Heads Experimental Films Presents Psychedelic Sex Kicks” and “Wild Hippie Orgy - The Free Love Group in the Nudie Flesh”. Hollywood: Bartco., nd. (1967). 4to. 4pp. Includes synopsis, six b/w stills featuring naked body-painted hippies, and posters. “Up-tight Squares - Join the Hippies and their Hip Chicks they've scored for Acid, Pot & Grass! This Trip is for Real! This is Where It's At... It's a Sex Freak Out!”. Fine. More about Psychedelic Sex Kicks

Prints a simple design and phone number to recto. 6.2x10cm. Acid Rescue was one of many crisis hotlines set up in major cities across the US following the rapid increase in the use of drugs among young people in the late 1960s (Current, the Missouri-St. Louis’ University newspaper, reported that “the majority of trippers calling Acid Rescue are between 14 and 17.”). Old phone numbers and brief note written out to recto; verso bears an intense doodle. Good. More about An original contact card issued by the Acid Rescue Squad, an organisation founded in December...

NY: Bell House Classics, 1969. P/b original. 143pp. + 16pp. ads. for other Bell House Classics, each with a lurid illustration. LSD porn and descriptions of acid orgies, “exclusevely (sic) for adults”. Wrappers slightly rubbed with patches of faint discolouration, o/w a tight, Very Good plus copy. More about Acid Party

Goteborg, Sweden (stated, actually USA): The United Fan Club Society, 1986. LP record (SMS-001-1). Sleeve photos of Jerry Garcia, one of them with Mountain Girl. Features edited recordings made during Stewart Brand’s Acid Test held at San Francisco State University, October 1-2, 1966 (The Grateful Dead, Mimi Fariña, the SF Mime Troupe and The Congress of Wonders were among the participants), interspersed with short interview segments with Ken Kesey and Jerry Garcia taken from a 1980 Tomorrow Show. Near Mint in sleeve. More about The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

An article by a union activist and pacifist, adapted from a radio commentary broadcast by KPFA, Berkeley, June 17 and 18, 1966. Front cover photo of Timothy Leary conducting "a wedding, LSD-style" + photo of the Mothers of Invention ("one of the many freak-out beat groups which are now mushrooming in the States and in Britain") + editorial comment. Also: four poems by Brian Patten; CND Easter 1967 demo flyer loosely inserted (the event is advertised on the last page). Slight edge-wear to back cover, o/w Very Good plus (unfolded). More about "The Case Against The Drug Culture" (3pp.), in PEACE NEWS #1603 (London: March 17, 1967

Aldringham, Suffolk: Practical Paradise Publications, 1978. First edition. One of 350 copies numbered and SIGNED by the author. 4to. Wrps., 277pp. + 8pp. introduction, 2 maps and 15 unnumbered plates featuring drawings of plants and the places visited and people encountered during the uninomial author’s two month visit to Colombia in 1971 and his time spent living among the Paez Indians of the Cauca area in 1973 and 1974. “Mama Coca is both a searing indictment of the monopolization of the cocaine traffic by the reactionary security services, and a passionate defence of the habit of..... More about Mama Coca

Lettering in black on a yellow and black ground. 3cm. diameter. The great banana-smoking hoax of Spring 1967 in America was originally designed to raise questions about the ethics of making psychoactive drugs illegal and prosecuting those who took them, but the joke was lost somewhere along the line and many took to actually smoking banana peel in the belief that they would get high, hence this badge's (presumed) tongue in cheek slogan. Rust spots to verso, o/w Fine. More about Original ‘60s pin badge printing the slogan “Banana Power”

London: Whisper Promotions, 1971. First edition. 8vo. Black leather-covered boards, stamped in gilt with the author's design on the front and a central spot on the back intended to represent a tab of Orange Sunshine. According to Barritt, the black leather and gold cover was designed to resemble a passport (though it doesn't); later copies were issued with a dustwrapper to help confused booksellers. 128pp. Illustrated throughout with the author's line drawings and sigils. SIGNED presentation copy to Barry Mason, founder of the Psychedelic Shamanistic Institute (of which Barritt was an associate): “To Barry with great love and..... More about Whisper: A Timescript

London: Calder & Boyars, 1972. First English-language edition. Grey boards. 92pp. Translation by Maurice Stang. Introduction by Derek Stanford (12pp.). “The four pieces in this volume are unique in that they are among the earliest artistic records of the hallucinogenic experience to be found in European literature. Charles Baudelaire and Théophile Gautier were among that group of distinguished young Frenchmen who, as the Club of Assassins, met under the auspices of a Dr. Moreau to experiment as to the psychological and mind enhancing effects of hashish and opium, and these four documents are a result of their experiences”..... More about Hashish Wine Opium

London: Peter Owen, 1974. First edition. Black boards. 288pp. SIGNED and inscribed by Joseph Berke to the book's publisher on the title page: “for Peter with warm regards Joe Berke ap 74”. One of the first studies to present a large survey of cannabis users (more than 500), quoting their experiences of the effects and relating these to factors such as personality and environment. Berke trained as a psychoanalyst with RD Laing (with whom he helped establish the anti-psychiatry centre at Kingsley Hall), organised the Dialectics of Liberation conference in 1967, and co-founded the..... More about The Cannabis Experience: An Interpretive Study of the Effects of Marijuana and Hashish

Beloit, Wisc.: Stash Press, 1969. First edition. 4to. Wrps., 265pp. Compiled by James R. Gamage and Edmund L. Zerkin. The foreword describes the book as “the most extensive and detailed index to the professional writing of the subject available [dealing] with every significant discipline concerned with marihuana (including: medical, psychiatric, psychological, pharmacological, chemical and bio-chemical, botanical, sociological, anthropological, religious, legal, etc.)”. Features Author and Subject sections, with index. Steve Abrams' copy, with front cover inscribed in pencil: “With love to SOMA - from LEMAR” (SOMA, the Society for Mental Awareness, was founded by Abrams in 1967..... More about A Comprehensive Guide to the English-Language Literature on Cannabis (Marihuana

University of Idaho Laboratory of Anthropology, 1985. 4to. Stapled wrps., 31pp. Compiled by Priscilla Wegars and reprinted from Northwest Anthropological Research Notes, Fall 1985. Very Good. More about An Annotated Bibliography of Opium and Opium-Smoking Paraphernalia

NY: Thomas Dunne Books, 2010. First edition. 306pp., including 19pp. full-page photographs. “A wide-sweeping narrative of sex, drugs, and rock’n’roll (and more drugs) that runs from Laguna Beach to Maui to Afghanistan, Orange Sunshine explores how America moved from the era of peace and free love into a darker time of hard drugs and paranoia” (dw. blurb). Includes interviews with former members of what the police dubbed the 'Hippie Mafia'. The Acid Brotherhood (so-called, though women played their part) started in 1966 when a biker gang from Anaheim led by John Griggs held up a Hollywood..... More about Orange Sunshine: The Brotherhood of Eternal Love and Its Quest to Spread Peace, Love, and Acid to...

Np: privately printed, nd. (1962). First edition, second (bowdlerized) issue. 4to. Stapled wrps., unpaginated (52pp.). Photo-illustrated throughout. Includes “The Pot Smokers”, Lenny’s spoof on marijuana users, and other routines. The book was originally distributed for a concert by Lenny in San Francisco, after which he was arrested on obscenity charges. Believing that the four-letter words in the book may be used against him in court, he asked Lawrence Ferlinghetti to destroy the copies he was distributing. Most of them were destroyed, but some copies had the supposedly offensive words overstruck with typed x’s, as here (later..... More about Stamp Help Out! And Other Short Stories

Brighton, Sussex: Unicorn Bookshop, 1971. First edition. 4to. Printed green wrappers, 32pp., stapled. Illustrated throughout with old steel engravings. Includes hash cultivation tips, recipes, descriptions of effects, and quotes from classic writings on the subject. One of the Unicorn Bookshop’s best sellers, subsequently reprinted several times. Wrappers somewhat edge-faded and lightly creased along spine, o/w Very Good. Felix Dennis’s bookplate affixed inside upper wrapper. More about Leaves of Grass: A Compendium of Marijuana

Caerfyrddin, Wales: Unicorn Bookshop, 1973. Third edition. Sm. 4to. Glossy wrps., 32pp., stapled. Cover design by Malcolm Smith. Small stain to lower part of upper wrapper; slightly rubbed; overall, Very Good plus. More about Leaves of Grass: A Compendium of Marijuana

An original chart display box made “for the Official use of Law Enforcement Agencies” in California identifying specimens of hypnotic and stimulant drugs. SF/LA: Department of Professional & Vocational Standards, no date (c. 1955). Pale blue printed card package fastened by staples to verso. 21.5x27x0.8cm. The display features 27 small window compartments containing 1, 2 or 3 (dummy) pills, each one made to “resemble as closely as possible the actual drugs named”. The pills are identified below each window, several of them with their slang synonyms, including Nembutal (Yellow-Jackets), Seconal (Red Birds), Sodium Amytal (Green Dragons), Tuinal (Rainbows)..... More about CALIFORNIA STATE BOARD OF PHARMACY DRUG DISPLAY BOX

Berkeley, CA: And/Or Press, 1979/ Oakland, CA: Cherniak/Damele Publishing Co., 1983. First editions. 4to. Wrps., 150pp. + 208pp. Both volumes lavishly illustrated with colour photographs throughout. “The ultimate photojournalistic and ethnobotanical celebration of cannabis” (blurb to first volume). Preface by Timothy Leary and back cover blurb by Richard Schultes to second volume. First volume Fine; minor corner creasing to lower wrapper of second volume, o/w Near Fine. Not commonly found together. More about The Great Books of Hashish. Volume One: Book One - Morocco, Lebanon, Afghanistan, the Himalayas +...

London: Red Shift Research Collective, nd. (1977). First edition. Stapled wrps., 16pp. Produced and edited by Chris Render. Illustrated with line drawings by Graeme Jackson and the author. The first native psilocybin mushroom guide to be published in the UK. Includes sections on the history, identification, harvesting and preserving, dosage and effects of psilocybin. Bibliography. Very Good plus. More about A Guide To British Psilocybin Mushrooms

London: Hassle Free Press, 1979. Second edition, revised, with redesigned glossy colour cover. Stapled wrps., 32pp. + 4pp. colour photo-insert. Illustrated with line drawings by Graeme Jackson, Alexandra King, and the author. Very Good. More about A Guide To British Psilocybin Mushrooms

Np. (Santa Fe, New Mexico): privately distributed by Flame Schon (formerly Diane Rochlin), nd. (c. 2008). DVD PAL, colour, 89 mins. “This is a feature documentary about a young girl’s descent into drugs. Shot in late-sixties London, we see ravishing Caroline - black makeup around her eyes and tattooed head to toe - become a junkie. We come to understand not only the drug lure of the era, but also the soul of a free spirit who is caught in the grip of forces she cannot penetrate or comprehend. Like a butterfly caught in a web, Caroline struggles..... More about DOPE. A Film by Diane Rochlin and Sheldon Rochlin (1968

Berkeley, CA: Wingbow Press, 1974. First edition. Lge. 8vo. Wrps., 140pp. Illustrated throughout with photographs and drawings. A book about three “drug-giving plants” (hashish, coca and opium), providing information on how to grow them and prepare them for use. A later chapter is titled “New Immigrants and Stoned Global Villagers.” Near Fine. More about The International Cultivator’s Handbook

Two flyers announcing a conference organised by the Young Members Organisation of the London Co-operative Society and held at Conway Hall, May 11, 1969, featuring speakers Steve Abrams, Caroline Coon, Michael Schofield, and others. Abrams has made a few jottings in red felt tip on one of the handouts, including mention of Richard Branson and his magazine, Student, which published an article by him later in the year. Some wear and creasing. More about DRUGS IN SOCIETY

Np. (Madison, Wisc.?): United States National Student Association, nd. (c. 1967). Broadside printed in black on white paper, folded in four (28x56cm. unfolded). A widely disseminated chart compiled by Dr. Joel Fort intended for college students, providing information on, and describing the effects of, various mind-altering drugs, including alcohol, narcotics, stimulants, cannabis and LSD (Fort, the so-called 'hippie Doctor of Haight Ashbury', always argued that alcohol was a much more dangerous drug than cannabis). Minor edge-staining to upper right corner, o/w Very Good plus. More about Comparison Chart of Major Substances Used For Mind-Alteration

(Washington, DC): National Student Association, c. December 1966 (second printing). The transcript of a taped debate between Allen Ginsberg and Dr. James H. Fox from a seminar given before the NSA Convention at the University of Illinois, August 24, 1966. Eighteen numbered sheets, printed rectos only. Minor pencil annotation in Ginsberg's hand at head of first page. During the debate Ginsberg questioned at some length the notion of bad trips, citing exaggerated examples of LSD casualties reported by the press, in particular the New York Post, and took issue with the language of psychosis..... More about Seminar on Marihuana and LSD Controls

SF: privately printed, July 1971 (cover sheet states: “For 6 P.M. EDT Release Wednesday July 14, 1971, Bastille Day!”). Nine quarto sheets printed recto only, stapled in upper left corner. A polemical statement written (in fact, dictated) anonymously by Ginsberg in his ultimately successful attempt to free Leary from prison in Switzerland and gain him safe political asylum. The last page prints the names of 25 of the statement's sponsors (named ‘San Francisco Bay Area Prose Poets’ Phalanx’ by Ginsberg). As well as Ginsberg, these include Ken Kesey, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Michael McClure, Robert Creeley, Lenore Kandel..... More about Declaration of Independence For Dr. Timothy Leary (July 4, 1971): Model Statement in defense of...

SF: Hermes Free Press, July 1971. First edition, limited to 200 copies. Pamphlet (two folded sheets of recycled lavender paper printed in black [8pp.]). The lower wrapper prints the names of thirty of the statement's sponsors. Allen Ginsberg has SIGNED this copy in black ink below the list, and added to it the names of Robert Duncan and Joanne Kyger. This edition, printed by the Hermes Free Press (an offshoot of Zephyrus Image), contains minor revisions and a re-ordering of the text from the previous editions. Fine. More about Declaration of Independence For Dr. Timothy Leary July 4, 1971: Model Statement in Defense of the...

London: Peter Owen, 1975. Two volumes (264pp. + 160pp.). First editions. Volume 1- The Founding of the Modern Tradition: From Coleridge to Crowley. 264pp. Illustrated. Preface by Brian Aldiss. Contributors include De Quincey; Coleridge; Théophile Gautier; Charles Baudelaire; Gerard De Nerval; Wilkie Collins; Arthur Rimbaud; W.B. Yeats; Aleister Crowley; and others. Near Fine in dw. Volume 2 - The Psychedelic Era: From Huxley to Lennon. Contributors include Timothy Leary (“LSD is Air”, a reprint of a portion of Trip 16 of “High Priest”, and the first appearance under this title); Alan Watts; William J. Craddock; Andrew..... More about The Hashish Club: An Anthology of Drug Literature

Second state ($1.50 price and ‘collectors' edition’ printed on the front cover) of the premiere issue of the most celebrated of all dope mags, founded by the head of the Underground Press Syndicate and cannabis rights activist, Thomas King Forçade. Illustrated throughout. Contents include “Recollections of a Lady Dealer”; an excerpt from “Terra II” by Timothy Leary; Tantric yoga; hemp; John Wilcock; more. Very Good plus. More about HIGH TIMES - The Magazine of High Society #1 (NY: Summer 1974

NY: Stonehill, 1978. First edition. The scarce clothbound issue. 4to. 418pp.+ 24pp. colour photo-insert. Profusely illustrated throughout, including many rare graphics from the Fitz Hugh Ludlow Library. Main contributors are the drug historians Michael Aldrich, Michael Horowitz and Richard Ashley. One of the four appendices (30pp.) prints “Trans-High Market Quotations”, a record of international dope prices based on actual transactions between July 1976 and August 1978. A Very Good plus copy in slightly edge-torn dw. Overall, an excellent copy of the most complete reference work ever published, and the first of its kind anywhere..... More about HIGH TIMES ENCYCLOPEDIA OF RECREATIONAL DRUGS

NY: Abelard-Schuman, 1974. First US edition. Black cloth. 256pp. The autobiography of the British academic who, at the suggestion of Aldous Huxley, brought LSD to Harvard and turned on Timothy Leary, setting in train the ‘60s psychedelic revolution. Light shelfwear to lower edges, o/w Very Good plus in the Joseph del Gaudio-designed dustwrapper. More about The Man Who Turned On The World

Approx 724 words and 826 words respectively. In the first letter, Hollingshead writes to Harris that he is “eager and anxious to hear about HOMEGROWN Vol 1 No 1”, announces his plans to “bring out FLOW again… limited to 1,000 copies” (it was published in January 1978), and mentions his “old friend from many years back”, Ira Cohen, who “has been putting out several limited signed editions of his own and friends’ poetry printed on Nepalese rice paper”. Further on, he wonders if Harris still wants him “to keep an eye out for exceptional material that..... More about Two typed aerogramme letters signed, the first to Lee Harris, editor of Home Grown magazine,...

Mimeographed sheets, each printed on both sides. The first, addressed to Prof. Dr. J. Ariens Kappers, concerns “the subject of the lecture delivered at the ceremony of being accepted as Professor Extraordinary in Neuro-Anatomy at the University of Amsterdam on May 17th, 1965, entitled: ‘Some Modern Conceptions About The Structure And Function Of The ‘Eye Of Shiva’, The Pineal Gland Or Epiphysis”. The second is addressed “to Prof. Dr. P.C. Kuiper, head of the mental clinic in Amsterdam where he [Huges] was kept for three weeks as an involuntary ‘patient’ after performing a trepanation on himself” (Huges..... More about Two open letters by Bart Huges, dated Amsterdam August 23 and December 31, 1965 respectively

Amsterdam: F.I.T. (Foundation of Independent Thinking), 1973. First edition. 16mo. Wrps., tape-bound. Unpaginated (56pp., rectos only). Printed in blue, with 12 colour illustrations on transparent parchment paper. Text in English. Includes sections on “The Mechanism of Brainbloodvolume”, “Drugs and psychovitamins”, “The Ego”, and a 20pp. glossary of terms. The introduction outlines a method of studying the mechanism of bloodbrainvolume and instructs the reader to assume “the position of Bauer-on the floor with knees and elbows on cushions - read aloud the ‘Text Book of Brainbloodvolume’ whilst copying it by hand ten times on paper equal in..... More about Text-book of Brainbloodvolume

NY: Caedmon, 1973. Double LP record (TC 2074). Gatefold sleeve, with cover photograph of the author by Philippe Halsman and liner notes by Philip Thody. Features interviews with Huxley conducted by John Chandos recorded on July 7 and 11, 1961 in London, including a final section on psychedelic drugs. In her biography of Huxley, Sybille Bedford deals at some length with this series of important interviews, writing that “The point of the interview is that it has left us with such a characteristic record not only of Aldous’s thought but of Aldous’s way of expressing it.”..... More about Speaking Personally

First printing. 4to. Wrps., 146pp., perfect bound. Edited by David E. Smith. The second issue of this long-running journal, originally conceived by Smith as a house organ for the Haight-Ashbury Free Medical Clinic of San Francisco. Contents include contributions from Timothy Leary (a text on the religious experience reprinted from the Psychedelic Review #3); John Luce (“Hippies and the Media”); Meher Baba (“LSD and the Highroads”); extensive book reviews; a bibliography on religion and mental health; research findings on congenital malformations induced by mescaline and LSD in hamsters; a report on incidents in the Haight-Ashbury and “some uncommonly..... More about JOURNAL OF PSYCHEDELIC DRUGS Vol. 1, #2 (SF: The Haight-Ashbury Medical Clinic, Winter 1967-68)...

San Cristobal, NM: Toad Books, 1971. First edition. Psychedelic multi-colour wrps., 218pp. Illustrated throughout. The second Boo Hoo bible, including “The Great Millbrook Snot Bust” and “The Neo-American Church Catechism and Handbook: A Review”, the first printing in book form of two articles by Timothy Leary, and “Call to Alms for the Battle of Millbrook” by Leary, Kleps and William Haines. Wrappers slightly rubbed and creased. Very Good. More about The Boo Hoo Bible

London: Quartet Books, 1984. First edition. Lge. 4to. Black cloth, embossed with a marijuana leaf on the upper board. Unpaginated. Beautifully illustrated throughout with colour photographs from Lebanon and Nepal by Suomi La Valle, accompanied by a scholarly text by John Julius Norwich, who had lived for three years in Lebanon (and first tried hashish when he was with the British Embassy in Beirut in the early 1960s): “My own purpose will be to try to put this extraordinary plant in its historical and literary perspective: to assess the effects – political, cultural and even etymological – that..... More about Hashish

Offprinted from Journal of Personality Vol. 20, #2 (December 1951) in a limited number of copies for the authors' use. 8vo. Tan wrappers printed in black; stapled. SIGNED by Timothy Leary on the front cover. The first separate printing of one of the first works co-authored by Leary, including diagrams of the interpersonal circle, and his early psychological model for conceptualising, organising and assessing personality behaviour and traits. Years later, while confined at California Men’s Colony Prison near San Luis Obispo, Leary took personality tests he had himself designed. Using his expertise to present..... More about The Interpersonal Dimension of Personality

Millbrook, NY: Kriya Press, 1967. First edition. Sm. 4to. Glossy wrps. with psychedelic design, stapled. 52pp. A guidebook based on the practices of the League for Spiritual Discovery, containing 20 photographs showing activities at the Millbrook commune, including a wedding ceremony at which Leary officiated. One of approximately 500-1000 copies, available at the time only via mail-order through the ashram. Lower right page corners slightly damp-affected, with very light staining to lower corners of wrappers, which are slightly rubbed and moderately age-toned; small brown mark to a few pages; o/w Very Good. One of Leary’s rarest titles. More about Start Your Own Religion

NY: Douglas Book Corp., 1970. First edition of the first Douglas Books publication. Silver boards. 8vo. 154pp. Photo-illustrated. Preface by Allen Ginsberg (in which he describes Leary as a “hero of American consciousness”). Leary's account of his prison experiences in San Luis Obispo, published about three or four months after his escape, including notes from his prison diary and concluding with an account of his 1969 visit to Morocco with Rosemary Leary and a description of the psychedelic trip they took accompanied by music from their “winter guru Jimi Hendrix”. Near Fine in dw. More about Jail Notes