Verlag: Psychedelic Review, San Francisco, 1971
Erstausgabe
Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Drawings and graphics; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 92 pages; 1971 Psychedelic Review. Issue #11, the final issue published. Soundly bound in original graphic pictorial covers from art by Lee Conklin. Light handling wear and superficial soiling to cover covers. Mild stress creasing top corner of the front cover and a small area of soiling bottom edge rear. This concluding issue includes a section devoted to Conklin, with multiple examples of his distinctive psychedelic illustrations. Guest edited by Ira Einhorn. A scarce and visually arresting issue marking the close of one of the most influential periodicals of the psychedelic era. VG.
Paperback. Zustand: Good +. first edition. 6 x 8 in. Black paper wraps. Condition is GOOD+ ; covers clean but with some indents and rubbing, front upper right corner has small surface loss, edges have light wear. Binding tight. Text spotless. Poetry. RGR.
First printing. (192) pp., 5.25 x 8 inches. Perfect-bound in printed card covers. Designed and photographed by Marshall Henrichs. Illustrated throughout with black-and-white photographs. Toning to edges and slight waviness to pages; light wear to edges of covers and a couple of small closed tears to back cover. An experimental visual book of counterculture or new age philosophy, designed in the spirit of such predecessors as McLuhan's The Medium Is The Massage and Fuller's I Seem To Be A Verb. (The title is the catalog number assigned to the book by the Library of Congress.) The author was an antiwar and environmental activist as a student, and something of a hanger-on with many significant countercultural figures; he claimed significant roles, for example in the creation of the first Earth Day in Philadelphia in 1970, but his claims were disputed.Just days before he was set to go on trial for the 1979 murder of his girlfriend Holly Maddux, Einhorn fled the country. He was extradited and returned in 2001, after a four-year international legal process; retried for the crime (he had been initially convicted in absentia), he was sentened in 2002 to life in prison without parole. He died in prison in April 2020.Einhorn used the handle "Unicorn" from the translation of his last name, and so became known as the "Unicorn Killer." Though the book is not uncommon, signed copies are decidedly scarce.