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Published by New York: Grove, Evergreen, [1967]., 1967
Seller: Joe Maynard, Newburgh, NY, U.S.A.
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First printing. Octavo, publisher's wrappers (rubbing, copious notes, mostly in pencil, corners bumped & creased, perhaps still very good). Laid-in a mimeograph program bearing evidence that this copy was used (and thus heavily notated) for a March 15, 1970 production at the E. Lee Trinkle Library performed by the Chamber Theatre.
Published by Grove Press (An Evergreen Black Cat Book) 1967 (c.1966), New York, 1967
Seller: ReadInk, ABAA/IOBA, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Softcover. Condition: Very Good+. 1st printing thus. [nice tight copy, minor edgewear to covers, tiny tear at top edge of rear cover, small stain on title page, one-time owner's tiny signature at top of title page]. Mass Market PB (B&W photographs, facsimiles) A classic piece of anti-Vietnam War agitprop and Establishment mockery, co-authored by the co-founder of The Fugs (Kupferberg). His obituary in The Guardian described him as "a key figure in the US countercultural campaign of the 1960s. As a publisher, poet, pacifist, singer and songwriter, he used his talents for writing and humour to attack the perceived repressions of his nation and its escalating military activities in south-east Asia." As promised by the title, it's basically just a long list of purported methods for avoiding military service -- some of which might actually have worked, but mostly ranging from facetious to goofy to inspired, with all gradations in between. This was the first Grove Press/Black Cat printing, following the true first edition issued in stapled wraps by Oliver Layton Press in 1966.