[DRUGS & COUNTERCULTURE] GRIMSHAW, GaryBiblio.com
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83099San Francisco: Rainbow Graphics. c. 1972. Original silkscreen in colors 56cm x 43cm approx. 22" x 17". Signed in plate bottom center. Light edgewear and soil; toned on verso with a few clear tape remnants from hanging; Very Good. Unbacked.<br /> <br /> Grimshaw is best-known for his iconic rock concert posters but this is one of a number of designs he created for the non-profit cannabis cooperative Amorphia following his move to San Francisco from Detroit around 1970. Uncommon; not seen at auction and not separately catalogued in OCLC though we note copies at National Institutes of Health and University of Wisconsin. Rainbow Graphics unknown
196882020Buffalo NY: SUNYAB LeMar 1968. First Edition. Quarto 28cm; pink sheets with text mimeographed in black on recto and verso and stapled at upper left corner; 8pp. Mild handling some very subtle toning to text edges; Near Fine. A substantial document prepared by Michael Aldrich head of LeMar International for the 21st Congress of the United States National Student Association USNSA which from 1947-1978 functioned as the dominant national union of students in the U.S. responsible for an extensive variety of student organizing throughout its history. The contents clearly aimed to educate covered such topics as psychological dependence the physical effects of marijuana whether marijuana contributes to insanity the commission of crimes or leads to heroin usage with discussion of the drugs' positive properties in comparison to alcohol usage. The document concludes with 34-point list of notes and sources and a plug for both the LeMar Information Kit $2.50 and back issues of The Marijuana Review. An uncommon survival not separately listed in OCLC. 82020. SUNYAB LeMar] unknown
1970231661970. Narcotics raids arrests rehabilitation scenes and evidence displays across Florida in press photographs and magazine pages. Photograph archive spanning Miami Fort Lauderdale Pasco County and related Florida sites from 1970 to the early 1990s establishing how drug control operated through police action newspaper circulation and treatment institutions during the War on Drugs. Produced for press use by newspaper staff photographers wire services and law enforcement publicity channels the group shows the public face of narcotics enforcement at the point when South Florida had become a major corridor in the national drug economy and anti drug policy was being made newly visible through staged photographs official briefings and widely circulated arrest imagery. Named figures included such as Bob Gladden Larry Csonka Jim Kiick Admiral Rickover Carl Mingo and several rehab subjects identified by hand on the versos. The photographs depict suspects detained searched paraded identified displayed beside seized contraband and in other cases shown within rehabilitation settings revealing how law enforcement courts newsrooms and treatment programs handled the same crisis through different institutional forms.<br /> <br /> Photo archive of 18 press photographs including 16 silver gelatin press photographs and 2 wire photos approximately 8 x 10 inches Florida 1970 to early 1990s. The core images show narcotics policing in action: a helmeted officer beside a paddy wagon crowded with detainees; a bench filled with young men under detention in an interior holding space; two handcuffed men led from a courthouse or station entrance; a police-released mugshot with typed caption identifying former New England Patriots running back Bob Gladden after arrest in Fort Lauderdale on a marijuana charge; and a street arrest with an armed officer escorting a suspect between parked cars. Several photographs center on the staged display of evidence including tables covered with packets of drugs stacked currency pistols taped "cookie sheets" and open suitcases packed with bricks or cutting materials. One image shows a narcotics dog inspecting rows of luggage; another shows officials at microphones before a sign for the Vice President's National Narcotics Border Interdiction System; another records cocaine seized from a concealed boat compartment. The group also includes rehabilitation scenes with young adults identified en verso in cursive extending the archive beyond arrest photography into treatment culture. Versos carry a dense record of press handling and editorial use including Miami Herald staff photo stamps dated Dec. 15 1970 and Jan. 5 1971 a St. Petersburg Times credit and clipping backing for a Pasco County drug ring case dated May 29 1974 typed bureau captions circled editorial notations such as "cocaine" "marijuana" "drug raid" and "Operation Crackdown" plus handwritten shot descriptions and date-used stamps.<br /> <br /> The earliest prints fall at the threshold of the modern War on Drugs while later additions carry the record forward into the crack era and the more theatrical seizure photography of the 1980s and early 1990s. Florida is central to that story not only as a site of smuggling and interdiction but as a place where narcotics enforcement became highly visual with press conferences celebrity linked arrests tactical raids canine inspections and rehabilitation coverage all translated into newspaper images for public consumption. The present grouping combines an earlier core of related press photographs with later additions and it preserves a strong visual record of how narcotics control was communicated to the public through local papers wire distribution and agency captioning. Light surface wear minor edge and corner handling editorial markings and stamps to versos scattered adhesive residue and toning; overall very good condition. A concentrated Florida press record of the machinery publicity and human management of drug enforcement across two decades. unknown
196882927New York: Youth International Party 1968. First Edition. Original illustrated poster offset printed in black red and green on white stock measuring 89.5cm x 58cm 35.25" x 22.75". Clean and fresh; professionally conserved to remove old tape adhesions; a few small repairs at margins; Near Fine. Professionally mounted too archival canvas.<br /> <br /> Manifesto of the Youth International Party founded by Abbie and Anita Hoffman Jerry Rubin Paul Krassner and Nancy Kurshan in the Hoffman's New York apartment on December 31 1967. The poster is largely comprised of the Yippie flag - a pot leaf superimposed on a red star in a sea of black - with text printed in red and white. The "New Nation" statement in the manifesto was meant to embody the group's ethos for an entire generation. OCLC notes a single holding UC Davis; we note one other held at OMCA. Youth International Party unknown
192963853Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company 1929. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 20.5cm; evergreen cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; iv89-3471pp. Small faint dampstain to upper left corner of rear cover else a fresh very Near Fine copy. Dustjacket is price-clipped showing light wear mild dust-soil a few small tears and creases and a corresponding faint dampstain to upper rear flap fold; Very Good. Lengthy volume by the former assistant attorney general for the Justice Department responsible for enforcing the Volstead Act from 1921-1929. "She worked closely with both the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and the Anti-Saloon League to build public support for the federal efforts. She also used liquor prosecutions to generate headlines. A number of times Willebrandt sat in the courtroom while one of her assistants pressed a case. Since women government lawyers were quite a novelty in the 1920s her actions generated press coverage. Similarly she focused much of her action on corruption cases that grew out of the violation of prohibition again headline grabbers. She did not seek press notice gratuitously but as a part of a Justice Department campaign to showcase prohibition enforcement activity and to make a case to the public for cleaner government. Willebrandt published first in syndicated newspaper column form and then as a book The Inside of Prohibition her vision for effective prohibition law enforcement. She called for clean government greater coordination between national and local officials and especially for common people to take responsibility for seeing the laws enforced" Badr Jehad and Mark Weir. "Prohibition's Portia: Mabel Walker Willebrandt." online resource. An attractive copy uncommon in commerce. The Bobbs-Merrill Company unknown
192637144Paris, Terquem 1926 Grand in-4, demi-maroquin brun a coins, dos a nerfs richement orne, couv. conservees. Vignette de titre, frontispice coul., 18 eaux-fortes en noir dont 9 hors-texte et 7 culs-de-lampe, le tout augmente d’une suite en sanguine de toutes les illustrations avec des remarques par Henri Le Riche la suite des culs-de-lampe et de la vignette de titre sont en fin de volume.
1860va1770Poulet-Mallassis et de Broise Broché sous emboitage 1860 "EDITION ORIGINALE. In-12 (12,7 x 19,2 cm), broché, couverture jaune imprimée, sous chemise cartonnée avec pièce de titre et date au dos, et étui cartonné assorti, 304 pages, exemplaire à grandes marges, avec un portrait ajouté de l'auteur d'après E. de Roy. Edition originale de ce poème de Charles Baudelaire, dans lequel l'auteur explore le lien entre création poétique et drogues. L'ouvrage est structuré en deux parties, dont la première s'intitule ""Le poème du haschisch"" et la seconde ""Un mangeur d'opium"" ; pliures d'usage au dos, quelques petites rousseurs aux plats, mors inférieur de la chemise un peu fragilisé, par ailleurs bel exemplaire. Livraison a domicile (La Poste) ou en Mondial Relay sur simple demande."
