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Timothy Leary - Flashbacks: An Autobiography

Title: Flashbacks: An Autobiography
Description: J. P. Tarcher, Los Angeles, 1983. First Edition, Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. 9780874771770 Inscribed by Author. 24cm x 16.5cm. 395, [2] pages, black and white illustrations. Quarter cloth, pink lettering, pictorial jacket. Autobiography of "Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out" LSD evangelist, Timothy Leary (1920-1996). "The author's first full-length autobiography, embellished with photographs, mostly unpublished, from various periods of his life, depicting other family members and important associates and events. Each of the forty-one chapters is prefaced with a biographical notice of celebrated historical and contemporary figures, research and written by the author and Michael Horowitz. There is a Prologue and Epilogue followed by Notes in small print, followed by a double-page chart showing Leary's 1970 prison escape. The book generated controversy before it was published because of threatened legal suits, including one by the CIA; certain names and affiliations had to be deleted, resulting in a several-months delay in pbulication." (An Annotated Bibliography of Timothy Leary, A25a) This copy inscribed by Leary to Australian occult author Neville Drury, "on a sunny day in Sydney", and with a 1995 Sydney Morning Herald article on Leary preparing for death laid in. Minor handling wear. Minor foxing to edges, endpapers, and jacket verso. Shelf wear to jacket. Shipped Weight: .8 kilos. Inscribed by Author. ISBN: 0874771773. ISBN/EAN: 9780874771770.

Keywords: BZDB407 Biography & Autobiography; Ethnopharmacology & Psychedelia::LSD; Ethnopharmacology & Psychedelia::Art & Culture. Inscribed by Author Unbranded ISBN: 0874771773 EAN: 9780874771770 Timothy Leary Flashbacks: An Autobiography Ethnopharmacology & Psych

Price: AUD 605.00 = appr. US$ 418.58 Seller: Book Merchant Jenkins
- Book number: 0020191

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