Author: COHEN, ALLEN (EDITOR)
Title: The San Francisco Oracle, Collectors Edition the Psychedelic Newspaper of the Haight-Ashbury, 1966-1968 (Facsimile Edition)
Description: Oakland, CA: Regent Press, 1991. 1st Trade Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0916147126. SIGNED EDITION. Limited Trade edition. (NOT the deluxe edition numbered and signed by several of the artists. ) Folio sized book. This copy has been signed, with a short inscription, by the editor Allen Cohen. The book is in Near Fine condition and is still in it's original cardboard shipping holder. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. Included are several promotional fliers and mailers. "The initial impetus for the paper came from Allen Cohen and head shop owners Ron and Jay Thelin, who offered to put up the seed money to found an underground paper. In the summer of 1966 a number of meetings were held in the Haight-Ashbury district to discuss the idea of starting a paper, attracting an eclectic group of interested people. The result of these meetings was a paper called P. O. Frisco which lasted for a single 12-page tabloid issue dated September 2, 1966, under the editorship of Dan Elliot and Richard Sassoon (a 31-year-old Yale-educated poet who had once been Sylvia Plath's boyfriend) , operating out of a storefront on Frederick Street in cooperation with members of the radical Progressive Labor Party. "P. O." stood for "Psychedelphic Oracle," a title suggested by Bruce Conner. P. O. Frisco was a compromise between the various factions involved in founding the paper which wound up satisfying no one, and the Thelin brothers threatened to terminate their financial support unless the paper was completely reinvented. " (from Wikipedia) ; Signed by Editor. Near Fine .

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