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This is a special collection of 7 historic Rick Griffin Related Booklets and Cards.
LAST GASP CATALOG - WINTER 1991 - First / Only Printing Underground Publication Catalog Printed on Newsprint - 8 13/32" x 10 1/2" - Black and white front cover features RICK GRIFFIN's pen & ink artwork "Art & Death" reproduced following his demise in August of 1991 - Rick originally created the image in 1989 - Plenty of small black and white repros of Underground Comix inside - VERY limited distribution - Light handling wear - Uncommon to Scarce - PAE Graded Near Mint "87"
THE GREAT POSTER TRIP: ART EUREKA - By Cummings G. Walker editor & Richard D Teater designer - Published by Coyne & Blanchard Palo Alto 1968 - First / Only Known Printing Quality Soft cover Book - 8 3/8" x 10 15/16" - Full color front cover by RICK GRIFFIN features his interpretation of the internationally famed Mouse & Duck - Includes more than 200 poster images including 30 in full color - (including many not featured in Grushkin's "The Art of Rock"). Features poster artworks by RICK GRIFFIN GREG IRONS ALTON KELLEY STANLEY MOUSE WES WILSON VICTOR MOSCOSO BOB FRIED GEORGE HUNTER PETER KEYMACK JIM BLASHFIELD BONNIE MACCLEAN MICHAEL WOOD EAST TOTEM WEST and many others. The FIRST BOOK on San Francisco's PSYCHEDELIC DANCE POSTERS! - Light wear to cover - PAE Graded Mint "91"
GRATEFUL DEAD VOL. II - Song Book published in 1976 by Ice Nine Publishing Company Inc. - A subsidiary of Warner Bros. Publications Inc. - First Printing Song Book - 9" x 12" - 104 pages - Features full color RICK GRIFFIN front cover of crow near wheat shafts from the "Wake of the Flood" LP cover painting - Also reproduces the "Wake of the Flood" Griffin cover in sepia tones on a full page inside - Music inside is from "Wake of the Flood" "Mars Hotel & "Blues for Allah" - Minor wear has a couple of silverfish bites out of the front cover one of which is in the green background of the front cover while the others are on the spine in the black background color - PAE Excellent "79"
GRATEFUL DEAD - WITHOUT A NET -Song Book from 1990 features full color Griffin artwork from the tour poster on front cover - Beautiful B+ shape - Inquire WITHOUT A NET - Grateful Dead Song Book - Published in 1991 Warner Publications Inc. - First Printing Song Book - 9" x 12" - Glossy front cover features full color illustration by Rick Griffin "Without A Net" (from the tour poster & LP etc.) - 4 pages of full color photos of the Grateful Dead on stage inside along with 75 pages of music from the recording of the same name - Sticker removed from glossy back cover light wear lower right corner is dinged a bit - PAE Near Mint "81"
THE GOSPEL OF JOHN - 24 Page Christian Publication featuring FULL COLOR Plus BLACK & WHITE illustrations by RICK GRIFFIN - Originally published as a newsprint tabloid (which hardly ever surfaces these days) this is the later slick paper version which first began appearing in 1980 - This copy is from one of the later printings (possibly from the 1990's or early 2000's since it has a website listed on the back cover) that appeared prior to the recent republication of the work as a hardcover book and smaller booklet - 8 1/4" x 10 57/64" - Full color front and back covers by RICK GRIFFIN full color "Hosanna" illustration in the centerfold along with Rick Griffin illustrations on every page within 24 pages with Rick Griffin artwork integrated into the text - Quality paper and printing - Uncommon & getting scarcer in this format since the new editions came out in 2008 - PAE Mint "95"
FD-671123 - TURKEY TROT Card - BIG BROTHER AND THE HOLDING COMPANY (with JANIS JOPLIN ) - MOUNT RUSHMORE - Nov 23 1967 - First/Only Printing Concert Handbill printed on tan card stock - 5" x 6 31/32" - Great Rick Griffin "Thanksgiving" style artwork brown printing on the tan card stock - Announces start of Winter season of Family Dog concerts at the Avalon - - Big Brother & the Holding Company (with Janis Joplin) - Blank Back side variant card - PAE Mint "93"
ROBERT HUNTER Card (Grateful Dead lyricist) -"Tales of the Great Rum Runners" - 1974 - First Printing Promotional Postcard - 5 1/4" x 5 1/4" - Rick's "Pirate on Galleon deck" painting from the album cover. Round Records was the Grateful Dead's own short lived record company to distribute their solo albums like “Garcia Compliments” “Keith & Donna” and “Seastones with Phil Lesh”. PAE Mint "93"
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