Mel lyman (9 resultados)

Spiral Bound. Condición: Very Good. Photocopy Reprint. This is an eighty one page booklet of xerox articles in velo binding. Warning some of the images are very poor.

Wraps. Condición: Good. Illustrated wraps. 32 pp. Black and white illustrations and photos throughout. Early issue of this little magazine/mimeo style work exploring counterculture and social movement/justice subjects, very similar to the many underground newspapers published at the time, but perhaps in magazine form similar to something mainstream like Time. Many of the articles are anti-war in nature, although a few muse on the more spiritual side of the counterculture movement of the 1960s, like Mel Lyman's (leader of the Fort Hill commune/cult) essay on the New Age. GOOD condition. Minor general toning, a bit heavier to the reverse. Some soiling and minor staining to the covers. Staples rusted.…

Soft cover. Condición: Fair. Lots of ramblings about drugs and the rambling life. Pen marks in text here and there. Not too bad. Not a library book. One copy only of this title. Ships in a cardboard enclosure. THE BOOK YOU SEE DESCRIBED IS THE COPY YOU WILL RECEIVE. Tim's Used Books, open shop in Provincetown, Mass., providing good books at reasonable prices on the same spot since 1991. shelf M.…

Tabloid. Condición: Good. Side folding tabloid newspaper format. Approximately 17 ½ by 11 ¾ inches. 28 pp. Illustrations throughout, including photos of Mel Lyman and other presumed members of his group (including a centerfold photo). Boston based underground newspaper. Avatar was founded in 1967 by Mel Lyman and his followers at the Fort Hill Community, or Lyman Family, a counterculture commune (or cult, depending on perspective) in the Roxbury area of Boston. Besides publishing the usual counterculture perspective on local and national news, the newspaper also served as a mouthpiece for Lyman's and the Fort Hill Community's philosophy: a quasi-religious and mystical thought drawing on Lyman's unique view of astrological, spiritual and occult history. Mel Lyman originally gained fame as a folk musician. Many columns espousing the views of Mel Lyman, letters, astrology etc. GOOD condition. Horizontal fold crease present. General toning and minor soiling. Moderate toning along the fold. Minor wrinkling and creasing, including a larger crease/fold at the lower right corner. Several small tears along the extremities.…

Condición: Good. Wraps are firm, text block clean, without highlights/underlining or markings. Some rubbing/curling to wraps. Very clean, very nice example. Supporting Bay Area Friends of the Library since 2010. Well packaged and promptly shipped.

Softcover. Condición: Near Fine. First Edition. 28 x 21.5cm. Litho printed one side. Scarce handbill from the short lived Boston Cinematheque - Baillie was an avant-garde filmmaker who co-founded Canyon Cinema and the San Francisco Cinematheque, and showed here during April 66.

Softcover. Condición: Near Fine. First Edition. 28 x 21.5cm. Litho printed on pink stock. Scarce handbill for Warhol's My Hustler - his controversial and first commercially successful film. My Hustler stars Ed Hood, and Paul America as the titular blonde hustler, with appearances by Joseph Campbell, Genevieve Charbin, and Dorothy Dean. Directed by Andy Warhol and Chuck Wein, with Paul Morrissey as camera and audio operator, the film was shot over Labor Day Weekend 1965 on Fire Island. The first Warhol film that Morrissey worked on, the film utilized camera movement and sound synchronization, techniques Warhol had never used in his films. My Hustler premiered in January 1966 at the Film-makersâ Cinematheque in New York and showed in Boston in February 1967 with Beauty no.2 - with Edie Sedgwick and Gino Piserchio. …

Softcover, 17 issues of The Avatar, each unbound newsprint, about 16 to 24 pages each; good condition; all issues folded in half horizontally at center; with toned pages and light chips and tears to page edges; no internal marks. The collection includes issues 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and an unnumbered, undated issue which states it is the last issue that Mel Lyman will write for. In 1966 Mel Lyman founded the Fort Hill Community / commune / cult in Boston, which began to published The Avatar in June 1967; an underground paper that includes a lot of astology, anti- Vietnam war opinion and increasingly Lyman's ideas for personal enlightenment. The paper continued for 24 issues but Lyman was not allowed to contribute by the Spring of 1968. Lyman was exposed to a larger public in 1971 when Rolling Stone published a cover story on him and the community began to be compared to Charles Manson. Foreign shipping may be extra. …

Condición: Very Good. Trust Incorporated Boston, MA 1967 newspaper format. 23 pages. light age toning, creasing and small tears to pages. VG- $NRP.