Detroit: Artists' Workshop Press, September/ December 1965 (actually c. February 1966). Edited with an introduction by John Sinclair for the Wayne State University Artists' Society (Sinclair attended graduate school at Wayne State University, and wrote his thesis on "Naked Lunch", before dropping out in autumn 1965). 4to. Card wrps., 15 mimeographed sheets, stapled. Cover photograph of Magdalene Sinclair on the WSU campus in 1965 by Robin Eichele. Includes contributions by George Tysh, Allen Van Newkirk, Dave Sinclair, Jerry Younkins, Jerry Butler, Richard Covert, John Sinclair, Roy Polhamuns, Henry Malone, and Robin Eichele. The sixth volume in the..... More about FREE POEMS AMONG FRIENDS Vol. 1

Detroit: Artists' Workshop Press, Winter 1965/66. Ed. John Sinclair. 4to. Card wrps., mimeographed sheets, stapled. 98pp. Prospectus announcing the magazine whe're and this issue and an order form for both laid in, as issued. Front cover depicts John Dana, Charles Moore and Stanley Cowell in concert from a photograph by Magdalene Sinclair. Two-colour back cover designed by Jerry Younkins to resemble a United States flag with dollar signs, skulls and cross-bones in place of stars (some copies have a table of contents printed instead after the press ran out of the flag covers). The first section, edited by..... More about WORK/3

Tabloid newspaper format (28pp.). Ed. Allen Van Newkirk and John Sinclair (the latter resigned after the first issue following an editorial dispute). Produced by the revolutionary poet and radical Allen Van Newkirk and incorporating Change, Guerrilla was intended as a monthly newspaper of contemporary culture, but only two issues were published (it subsequently changed to a broadside format and its title was altered to Guerrilla: The Free Newspaper of the Streets). The first issue, printed in an edition of 5000 copies and featuring art and layout by Gary Grimshaw, includes contributions from Diane di Prima; Michael McClure;..... More about GUERRILLA - A Monthly Newspaper of Contemporary Kulchur #1 & 2 (all published). Detroit:...

Original handbill designed by Gary Grimshaw announcing the Russ Gibb-promoted Rising Eye Dance-Concert & Light Show at the Grande Ballroom, Detroit, May 19-20, 1967, featuring Scott Richard Case, December's Children, Thyme, and Odds & Ends. 28x21.5cm. SIGNED by Gary Grimshaw. Features ancient Egyptian motif with an Eye of Horus, snake/bird, etc. Printed in purple on thin white stock. Fine. More about RISING EYE DANCE-CONCERT & LIGHT SHOW

Ed. Mike Aldrich. 4to. 24 mimeographed typescript sheets, printed rectos only on different colour paper stocks, alternated with dittoed duplicated sheets in aniline purple. Stapled at top corner. Subtitled Incense Terah, International Edition. Aldrich founded the first college chapter of LEMAR (Legalise Marijuana) at SUNY-Buffalo in 1967, and it appears he produced Incense as an outpost of Trans-Love Energies Unlimited, the "total cooperative tribal living and working commune" recently founded in Detroit by John Sinclair, Leni Sinclair and Gary Grimshaw (Trans-Love was the successor to the Artists' Workshop and produced rock concerts, light shows, books, pamphlets, posters, and..... More about INCENSE #13 (Buffalo, NY: Trans-Love Energies Unlimited Commune, September 1967

Ed. Dave Sinclair and Tom Mitchell. 4to. Card wrps., mimeographed sheets, stapled. 94pp. + 6pp. double-page fold-out insert + 8p. insert. "Front cover of Trans-Love Energies in action by Magdalene Sinclair" (the MC5 on stage at the Grande Ballroom); back cover design by Gary Grimshaw. Contributors to this final issue include Robert Kelly; Clayton Eshleman; Jim Burns; Robin Eichele; George Bowering; George Tysh; Lee Harwood; Allen Van Newkirk; Andrei Codrescu; David Gitin; Ron Caplan (fold-out); Jim Semark; Larry Eigner; Ron Levine; Michele Clark; Joan Miller; Janet Fox; Wes Magee; Jack Hirschman; John Sinclair; and the editors... More about WORK/5. Detroit: Artists' Workshop Press/Trans-Love Energies, May 1968

First printing (of three), with 'Place Stamp Here' stamp to verso upper right corner. No poster is known to exist for this gig. Illustration of a grinning skull with the words 'Kiss Me' in the eye sockets, printed in pink and brown. Mentions upcoming gigs by the MC5, Frost, and the Stooges. Fine. More about Original postcard featuring artwork by Donnie Dope announcing the Grateful Dead at the Grande...

SIGNED by Gary Grimshaw. 28x21.6cm. Printed in deep pink on white stock. Illustrated. Cary Loren (Destroy All Monsters) has described Gary Grimshaw as "a crucial element whose artistic creations supplied the backbone of the Trans-Love/Grande Ballroom experience." Faint crease to lower left corner, o/w Near Fine. More about MOTOR CITY ROCK & ROLL! Original handbill designed by Gary Grimshaw announcing 'Motor City...

17.1x10.9cm. Verso prints two illustrated ads. in blue ink, one for a local record shop and the other for local underground paper Fifth Estate. The list of performers billed include Arthur Brown (or) Tim Leary, Frost, The Amboy Dukes, The Bonzo Dog Band, The Stooges, Pink Floyd, Savage Grace, Kim Fowley, Alice Cooper, Satan (himself), Bob Seger, SRS, Früt, and The Pleasure Seekers (featuring Suzi Quatro, younger sister of promoter Mike Quatro). At least four of the acts were never under contract for the event, however, and were falsely advertised by Mike Quatro - Arthur Brown..... More about BLACK MAGIC & ROCK & ROLL. Original postcard with multi-colour psychedelic artwork by...

28x21.5cm. Printed in black on yellow/orange stock, illustrated with a line drawing of Leary. Noticeable creasing to left side and lower left corner, o/w Near Fine. More about Original handbill for a 'Free John Sinclair' benefit to be held in Ann Arbor, Michigan, January...

Tabloid newspaper format. 16pp. Front cover image of Janis Joplin. Contents include news of court hearings for the White Panther Three (John Sinclair, Pun Plamondon and Jack Forrest); the problem of heroin ("Death drugs are weapons in the hands of the pigs"); the fifth communication from the Weather Underground; report from a White Panther demonstration at the Capitol building in Lansing; more. Old central horizontal fold, o/w Very Good plus. More about ANN ARBOR ARGUS - White Panther Community News Service #31 (Ann Arbor, MI: October 15, 1970

32.4x24.7cm. SIGNED by Gary Grimshaw. Features a central photo-illustration of Sinclair flanked by two marijuana leaves. Printed in red and green on mustard-colour thin card stock. Fine. More about FREE JOHN NOW! Large handbill designed by Gary Grimshaw announcing a benefit concert for John...

33x24.7cm. SIGNED by Gary Grimshaw. Features a cartoon illustration of a stoned hippie with speech bubble: "Ten years for smoke ain't no joke!". Printed in red and purple on white stock. Minor creasing to lower corners, o/w Fine. More about A BENEFIT FOR THE JOHN SINCLAIR FREEDOM FUND! Large handbill designed by Gary Grimshaw announcing...

Ann Arbor, MI: Rainbow People's Party, December 1971. Tabloid newspaper format, folded, as issued. 28pp. Illustrated with photographs (by Leni Sinclair, David Fenton and others) of Bobby Seale; Ed Sanders; Jerry Rubin; Archie Shepp; Phil Ochs; Commander Cody and his Lost Planet Airmen; David Peel; Joy of Cooking; John Lennon and Yoko Ono; Up; the MC5 (at the Grande, October 1968); Pun and Genie Plamondon; more. Features quotes from, among others, Bobby Seale, Rennie Davis, Leni Sinclair, Ed Sanders, and Jerry Rubin ("This is a night which will go down in history right along with Chicago..... More about JOHN SINCLAIR FREEDOM RALLY. Original program

SIGNED by Gary Grimshaw. 28x21.5cm. Features an illustration of a marijuana leaf. Printed in green and orange on white stock, with the slogans "John Is Free!" and "Free All Marijuana Prisoners!". Fine. More about FIVE YEARS OF STRUGGLE VICTORY CELEBRATION. Original handbill designed by Gary Grimshaw...

NY: Douglas, 1972. First edition. Cloth. 366pp. SIGNED by the author on the front free endpaper (at Artrock, a now defunct poster store in San Francisco). Designed by Gary Grimshaw and printed on different coloured papers. Illustrated with 100+ photos, graphics, concert posters, etc. The collected writings of the former MC5 manager and White Panther, assembled by him in prison with the help of Leni Sinclair, including a series of documents and underground newspaper columns from the era of the White Panther Party and its successor, the Rainbow People's Party, and the saga of the MC5..... More about Guitar Army. Street Writings/Prison Writings

LA: Process Media, 2007. 8vo. Wrps., 302pp. New edition, with an introduction by Michael Simmons and including previously unpublished photographs. SIGNED and inscribed by the author on the title page to the pot campaigner Steve Abrams: "For Steve - thanks a million! With love John Sinclair London 10-11-2008". An interesting association copy since both Abrams and Sinclair, born three years apart, were from the Midwest and both committed themselves to cannabis law reform. Famously, Abrams organised the full-page advertisement petitioning for reform which appeared in The Times in July 1967, an idea launched in the wake..... More about Guitar Army. Rock & Revolution with MC5 and The White Panther Party

The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor: Bentley Historical Library, 2004. First edition. Wrps., 36pp. (photo-illustrated). SIGNED by John Sinclair on the title page, and inscribed with the White Panther rallying cry: "Total Assault on the Culture!". The booklet provides a concise history of Sinclair's countercultural activities; a text by Cary Loren; reprints the 'Manifesto of the Artists' Workshop Society'; and includes a 61min. CD assembled by Sinclair featuring recordings made between 1964-66 from the Artists' Workshop Program in Detroit (Robert Creeley; James Semark; George Tysh; Dave Sinclair; Hank Malone; Gary Johnston; Robin Eichele; Bill Harris; and..... More about John Sinclair and the Culture of the Sixties