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Author: Communication Company / The Diggers
Title: Collection of Communication Company / The Diggers paper items, booklets, etc.
Place: San Francisco
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Date: Various dates
Item # : 190542
Sale Number   377
Lot Number   229
Sale Name    
Fine Literature; Beats, Bukowski & the Counter Culture; Sci-Fi & Detective Fiction
Sale Date   04/03/2008
Price realized   $ 1440
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Description:
With: The Digger Papers [newsletter booklet]. Ink note on cover “John – see p.10 – Bob Cromey,” referring to article: The Birth of Digger Batman, which mentions John Doss several times. [c. late 1960’s]. * 6-page carbon typescript for The Birth of Digger Batman with penciled name Kirby Doyle (author?). * Portfolio of 12 color printed ad fliers relating to Hell’s Angels. * Allen Cohen. The Reagan Poems. 24 pp. Inscribed & signed to the Doss’s. Wraps. Aquarius, [1981]. * The Life and Loves of Cleopatra. Erotic illustrations. Oblong 4to. Saddle stitched wrappers. [1967]. * Informed Sources: Day East Received. “Manuscript Editions Number One.” Loose copied sheets housed in original envelope, as issued. 1967. * Peter Berg. Grounds & Surrounds. Booklet. c.1970’s. * Rolled black and white pictorial poster of Diggers’ icon “1% Free” illustration of 2 Chinese men standing. * “1% Free” postcard used signed to the Doss’s. * Inscribed greeting card with envelope from Eric Nobel (Director of Info. Technology at Hastings College of Law) to the Doss’s dated 2001, with 1998 “1% Free, trip without a ticket” souvenir memento/re-issue small booklet, laid in. * Plus 6 miscellaneous related copied/mimeographed sheets. Together, approximately 17 items.
Provenance: Margot and John Doss.
Condition:
Mild wear overall; mostly very good, some better. Sold as is.
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