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These relics have never appeared in our auction until NOW! This is a collection of 2 original first edition paperback books by Dr Timothy Leary. One is SIGNED by Leary himself on the first page! Unlikely that you'll see either book in another auction anytime soon let alone a hand signed copy of NEUROPOLITIQUE! Timothy Leary was one of the most visible figures of the 1960's counter culture. The one time Harvard professor was an early advocate of the psychedelic experience and consciousness expanding substances.
NEUROPOLITIQUE - By TIMOTHY LEARY with Robert Anton Wilson and George A. Kooperman - Published by Falcon Press in 1988 - Inside title page features a beautiful flowing blue ink ballpoint pen HAND SIGNATURE by TIMOTHY LEARY - FIRST Printing High Quality Paperbound Book (1988) - 5 23/64" x 8 5/16" - 187 pages - Hand signed copies are EXTREMELY scarce! - Very light toning at edges - Beautiful A-/B+ to B+ condition - Leary hand signed this book for the consignee at a New Age Fair in Spokane WA on May 19th 1991 - We could NOT find another pristine hand signed copy of this book anywhere on the web currently!
Timothy Leary Ph.D. has been a world-renowned psychologist a defrocked Harvard professor a relentless champion of brain change a reputed drug guru a stand-up philosopher and a prisoner of the Nixon administration. He has been called the most dangerous man on the planet.
While in prison at time in solitary confinement he wrote the first version of this book. "I must confess that at that time I was alienated a bit daft and given to occasional fits of irritation. So color the first version of this book indigo—as in Jail House Blues." Now revised and updated Neuropolitique presents some of Dr. Leary's best ideas his reflections on the past and his hope for the future.
THE POLITICS OF ECSTASY - By TIMOTHY LEARY - Quality paperbound book published by College Notes & Texts in 1968 (First Edition by this publisher) - Worn copy (has former owner's name & tele in blue ball point pen ink on inside front cover) aging / toning in the paper pages etc. - 5 5/16" x 8 17/64" - 376 pages - VERY early edition of this seminal Leary classic - This book seldom offered for sale in the range of 50.00 on up at used book websites.
A review of the book:
"Writings that sparkle with the psychedelic revolution. The Politics of Ecstasy is Timothy Leary's most provocative and influential exploration of human consciousness written during the period from his Harvard days to the Summer of Love. Includes his early pronouncements on the psychedelic movement and his views on social and political ramifications of psychedelic and mystical experience."
"Here is the outspoken Playboy interview revealing the sexual power of LSD-a statement that many believe played a key role in provoking Leary's incarceration by the authorities; an early outline of the neurological theory that became Leary's classic eight-circuit model of the human nervous system; an insightful exploration of the life and work of novelist Hermann Hesse; an effervescent dialogue with humorist Paul Krassner; and an impassioned defense of what Leary called "The Fifth Freedom"-the right to get high."
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