Collection of 3 Original Dr TIMOTHY LEARY Book & Program Tabloids! 2 ARE SIGNED BY TIMOTHY LEARY! PAE Graded Near Mint '87'

closed on Friday, March 19, 2021

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These relics have never appeared in our auction until NOW! This is a collection of 3 Book & Program Tabloids by / or featuring Dr Timothy Leary. TWO ARE SIGNED by Leary himself! Unlikely that you'll see these in another auction anytime soon let alone hand signed copies! 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. 

 

THE SOUTHERN WILLAMETTE ALLIANCE - "Tools for Progressive Change in the Twenty-first Century" - Volume 11 No. 5 May 1991 - Beautiful flowing cursive HAND SIGNATURE by TIMOTHY LEARY in black ballpoint pen ink across his photo on the front cover -16 page "New Age Fair" newsprint tabloid - Features first page article "Inside TIMOTHY LEARY" by Peter Holden which features photos of Dr. Leary in the more than two full pages of the interview - First / Only Printing New Age Fair Tabloid Newspaper - 11 1/2" x 17 5/8" - EXTREMELY LOW print run primarily distributed at the event in May 1991 in Eugene OR & VERY unlikely you'll see another copy anytime soon! - Has some light handling bends and dings toning in the newsprint pages - Ultra Mega Scarce - PAE Graded: Near Mint "87"

 

JAIL NOTES - By TIMOTHY LEARY - Published by DOUGLAS BOOK CORPORATION - FIRST Printing paperbound edition printed in 1970 - 5 1/4" x 8 7/32" - 154+ pages - Beautiful fluid cursive dark blue ballpoint pen ink HAND SIGNATURE by TIMOTHY LEARY on inside front cover title page. Allen Ginsberg wrote the introduction to the book. From the back cover: "On the morning of September 13 1970 Timothy Leary escaped from the California prison where he had served seven months of a possible ten-year sentence for possession of marijuana. This book is Timothy Leary's account of that prison experience written as he was living through it. It is a strikingly original work in which dramatic narrative and spiritual reflection humor and anger intense emotion and philosophical detachment are inextricably intermingled." (Damp staining on cover inside front cover etc. - Leary signed this book at a New Age Fair in Spokane WA on May 19th 1991 for the consignee - This book has water damage from the book store sprinklers after a fire triggered them) - PAE Graded: Near Mint "83" - Hand signed copies of this edition of the book are EXTREMELY scarce!

 

THE BODY MIND SPIRIT AND EARTH EXPO - MAY 11-12 1991 at Lane County Convention Center in Eugene Oregon - EXPO GUIDE - First / Only Printing Newsprint New Age Expo Guide - 8 3/8" x 10 3/4" - 24 pages - TIMOTHY LEARY was the KEYNOTE speaker at this event as well as presenting a workshop - Interior pages feature a 1/3rd page announcement for Dr. Timothy Leary's lecture and 2 hour workshop (top of page 9) as well as a photo of him along with a brief one paragraph mini-history reporting his current activity - Has some rippling from exposure to the high humidity of Oregon along with general handling bends toning in the aged paper - EXTREMELY low print run & primarily distributed at the event - Ultra Mega Rare - PAE Graded: Near Mint "87"

 

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