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Vintage Paperbacks:Drugs & Counterculture

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1 Bellmore, Don
Flesh a Go Go (Leisure LB 1198)

Corinth San Diego, CA 1967 First Edition Soft Cover Very Good 
Vintage sex paperback. Painted GGA cover (probably Bonfils). Go Go dancer, counter-culture themes. San Francisco setting. Cover copy reads: "In San Francisco the by-word was flesh-a-go-go...the gyrating dancers just warming up for things to come." / Gently read condition. Light toning/mottling. Slight bumping to edges. Light toning to spine. Pages lightly edge-tanned but clean and supple. 
Price: 35.00 USD
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2 Bogar, Jeff
Confessions of a Chinatown Moll (Uni-Book 69)

Universal New York, NY 1953 Paperback Original Paperback Good 
Vintage digest paperback with Good Girl GGA cover art. San Francisco Chinatown serting. Drug use, hashish, marijuana themes. Cover copy reads: "A glimpse behind the bamboo screen into the world of plush harems, hashish and the machinations of the orient..." / Cover bright with some feinger creasing, nicking and short creases along edges. Small chip from head of spine. Back cover shows some longer creasing (reinforced with archival rice paper). 
Price: 65.00 USD
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3 Bruce, Lenny; John Cohen (ed)
Essential Lenny Bruce, The (Ballantine U7086)

Ballantine New York, NY 1967 First Printing Paperback Fine 
Paperback Original. Lenny Bruce photo cover. First printing. / Unread or gently read condition. A few very faint scratches in cover gloss. A very faint reading-crease and one small chip from hinge. Pages edge tanned, but supple. Binding square and solid. 
Price: 15.00 USD
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4 Burroughs, William S.
The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead (Dell 9734)

Dell / Grove New York, NY 1971 First Printing Paperback Fine 
Dell/Grove paperback.Photo cover. / Gently read condition. Light reading-creases to spine and toning to spine and book edges. Pages faintly edge tanned, but supple. Binding square and solid. 
Price: 20.00 USD
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5 Carter, Alex (pseudonym of Charles Boeckman)
Free Lovers, The (Beacon Signal B629F K)

Universal Publishing New York, NY 1963 Paperback Original Soft Cover Fine 
Attractive, vintage mass market/pocket paperback with colorful Good Girl GGA painted cover art. Cover copy reads: "They make love in trailer camps...or in dimly lit jazz halls. Their girls are bored at 20 and ready for any experiment. They are the thrill-starved kids of the new lost generation." / Unread or gently read condition. Pages lightly age-tanned but clean and supple. Binding square and solid. 
Price: 12.00 USD
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6 Cashman, John
The LSD Story (Fawcett Gold Medal d1716)

Fawcett Gold Medal Greenwich, Conn. 1966 Paperback Very Good 
Vintage paperback. Drug use, psychedelic themes. Gently read condition. Binding square and solid. Small splitting to spine ends. Pages lightly edge-tanned but supple. 
Price: 5.00 USD
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7 Cassill, R. V.
Lustful Summer (Avon T-281)

Avon New York, NY 1958 Soft Cover Very Good 
Attractive, vintage mass market/pocket paperback with colorful GGA painted cover art. Beatnik, counter culture themes. Cover copy reads: "A brilliant and scalding study of a lost, lonely, beautiful Beat Generation girl" / Cover is bright with a reading crease near spine and a small (closed) split at bottom of front hinge. Slight speckling, toning. Pages faintly edge tanned, but supple. Binding square and solid. 
Price: 12.00 USD
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8 Chaber, M. E.
Splintered Man, The (Perma M 3080)
Schulz, Robert
Perma 1957 First Paperback, First Printing Soft Cover Very Good 
First paperback edition. Bright cover showing light bumping to corners and light reading-wear to spine. Drug-use, hypo, torture/sadism cover. Pages lightly age-tanned but clean and supple. Binding square and solid. 
Price: 11.50 USD
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9 Chase, James Hadley
The Marijuana Mob (previously published as: Figure It Out For Yourself) (Eton E116)

Eton New York, NY 1952 First thus Soft Cover Good 
Attractive, vintage mass market/pocket paperback with colorful painted cover art. First printing under this title. Drug use, marihuana themes. Cover copy reads: "A terrorific tale of kidnapping, murder, dopre-peddling and politics." / Cover is bright but shows some bumping and rubbing to edges. Short (closed) nicks to spine ends. Pages faintly edge tanned, but supple. Binding square and solid. 
Price: 55.00 USD
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10 Coxe, Peter M.
Four Heads Are Better Than Two (Eros Goldstripe GN-2)

Eros / Goldstripe / Global Press Wilmington, DL 1970 First Edition Soft Cover Very Good 
Vintage erotic paperback, sleaze. Photo cover art with 70+ b&w photos throughout. Attractive hippy models. Cover copy reads: "Find out what really goes on in today's middle-class suburbia where everyone is encouraged to do his or her thing!" / Cover is bright showing some long but faint creases. Large but shallow damp stain to foredge of text block, One 2-page spread shows some text bleed onto a photo and a repaired corner. Binding square and solid. 
Price: 20.00 USD
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11 Coxe, Peter M.
Four Heads Are Better Than Two (Eros Goldstripe GN-2)

Eros / Goldstripe / Global Press Wilmington, DL 1970 First Edition Soft Cover Fair 
Vintage erotic paperback, sleaze. Photo cover art with 70+ b&w photos throughout. Attractive hippy models. Cover copy reads: "Find out what really goes on in today's middle-class suburbia where everyone is encouraged to do his or her thing!" / Covers show long heavy creases. Some wavering to outer page edges from dampness. binding solid. 
Price: 10.00 USD
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12 Daniel Casriel, M.D.
The Story of Synanon (Book Co. 13)

Book Co. of AMerica Beverly Hills, CA 1963 First Paperback Paperback Very Good 
Paperback history of the Synanon drug rehabilitation program founded by Charles E. Dederich, Sr., in 1958, in Santa Monica, California. Drug use, narcotic themes. Black and white cover. Unread or gently read condition. Some toning to edges. 
Price: 10.00 USD
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13 Dexter, John
Carnaby Consort (Leisure LB 1175)
Bonfils, Robert
Corinth San Diego, CA 1966 First Edition Soft Cover Very Good 
VIntage sex paperback. Painted GGA cover (likely Robert Bonfils). Swinging London / beatnik themes. Cover copy reads: "He wooed his way to England's throne!" / Cover shows some speckling and dusting to edges. Short horizontal split across spine (superficial). Binding square and solid. Pages lightly age-tanned but clean and supple. 
Price: 25.00 USD
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14 di Prima, Diane
Memoirs of a Beatnik (Traveller's Companion Series TC-451)

Traveller's Companion / Olympia New York, NY 1969 First Edition Soft Cover Fair 
Semi-fictionalized account of Di Prima's association with the Beat movement in New York's Greenwich Village. Green mass market with nude/body-paint cover. / Numerous heavy creases (mostly to the back cover). Deep 1/3" indentation to front cover, effecting 1st 15 pages (no text loss). Heavy bumping to spine ends and superficial horizontal split to spine. Binding slightly cocked but solid. Some dog-earred pages. 
Price: 30.00 USD
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15 di Prima, Diane
Memoirs of a Beatnik (Traveller's Companion Series TC-451)

Traveller's Companion / Olympia New York, NY 1969 First Edition Soft Cover Very Good 
Semi-fictionalized account of Di Prima's association with the Beat movement in New York's Greenwich Village. Green mass market with nude/body-paint cover. / Cover shows light rubbing and moderated bumping to corners. Small chipping from hinge. 1/4" chip to head of spine. Reading creases to spine. Pages white. Binding square and solid. 
Price: 35.00 USD
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16 Ellson, Hal
Golden Spike, The (Ballantine 2)
Robert Maguire
Ballantine New York, NY 1952 Paperback Original Paperback Good 
Attractive, vintage mass market/pocket paperback with colorful Robert Maguire wraparound painted cover art. Drug use, junky, heroin themes. Cover copy reads: "This is a drug addict. He is 16. This angry novel tells his story with truth and compassion" / Cover shows a 3" diagonal crease. Rubbing to hinge. Small bumping and material loss to head of spine. Pages faintly edge tanned, but supple. Binding square and solid. 
Price: 25.00 USD
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17 Ethel Grodzins Romm (ed)
The Open Conspiracy: What America's Angry Generation is Saying (Avon W244)

Avon New York, NY 1971 Paperback Very Good 
Vintage paperback. Oblong format. Counter-culture, underground press themes. Gently read condition. Binding square and solid. Small splitting to spine ends. Toning to page edges. 
Price: 10.00 USD
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18 Farrère, Claude; Samuel Putnam (French); Pierre Louys (preface)
Black Opium (Berkley G-120)
Maguire, Robert
Berkley New York, NY 1958 First Thus Soft Cover Good 
Attractive, vintage mass market/pocket paperback with classic Robert Maguire Good Girl GGA painted cover art of nude appearing in the smoke of an opium pipe. Drug use themes. Cover copy reads: "A forbidden world where human bodies find themselves possessed and driven by desires which consume them in the flames of hot-blooded ecstasy." / Cover is bright Showing light bumping to corners and faint creases near bottom corner and spine. 1/4 inch chip/material loss from head of spine. A few small scratches/gouges to back cover. Slight water damage to botton 1/4 of text block visible on edge of text block, inside front cover and faintly on 1st 19-20 pages. A few small dog-earred corners. Otherwise pages very faintly edge tanned, but supple. Binding square and solid. 
Price: 125.00 USD
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19 Farrère, Claude; Samuel Putnam (French); Pierre Louys (preface)
Black Opium (Berkley G-120)
Maguire, Robert
Berkley New York, NY 1958 First Thus Soft Cover Good 
Attractive, vintage mass market/pocket paperback with classic Robert Maguire Good Girl GGA painted cover art of nude appearing in the smoke of an opium pipe. Drug use themes. Cover copy reads: "A forbidden world where human bodies find themselves possessed and driven by desires which consume them in the flames of hot-blooded ecstasy." / Cover is bright but about 1" of chipping and peeling from the bottom edge and a long but faint diagonal corner crease. Light rubbing to edges and bumping to corners. Pages edge tanned, but supple. Binding square and solid. 
Price: 85.00 USD
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20 Farrère, Claude; Samuel Putnam (French); Pierre Louys (preface)
Black Opium (Berkley Y572)
Maguire, Robert
Berkley New York, NY 1961 Soft Cover Good 
Second Berkley edition. Attractive, vintage mass market/pocket paperback with classic Robert Maguire Good Girl GGA painted cover art of nude appearing in the smoke of an opium pipe. Drug use themes. Cover copy reads: "A forbidden world where human bodies find themselves possessed and driven by desires which consume them in the flames of hot-blooded ecstasy." / Cover is bright but shows a diagonal crease the full height of the cover and smaller creases to front corners and long diagonal crease to back cover. Otherwise pages faintly edge tanned, but supple. Binding square and solid. 
Price: 65.00 USD
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