Introduction Robert Hunter (13 results)

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Discovered at last, the legendary lost manuscript of Grateful Dead co-founder and primary lyricist Robert Hunter, written in the early 1960s-a wry, richly observed, and enlightening remembrance of "the scene" in Palo Alto that gave rise to an incredible partnership of Hunter and Jerry Garcia, and then to the Grateful Dead itself-with a Foreword by John Mayer, an Introduction by Dennis McNally, and an Afterword by Brigid Meier. "Strange to think back on those days when it was perfectly natural that we all slept on the floor in one small room. These were the days before practical considerations, matters of 'importance,' began to eat our minds. We were all poets and philosophers then, until we began to wonder why we had so few concrete worries and went out to look for some."So wrote Robert Hunter in The Silver Snarling Trumpet, both a novelistic singular work of art and the missing piece of the Grateful Dead origin story. In these pages, readers are privy to the early days of Hunter, Garcia, and their cohorts, who sit at coffee shops passing around a single cup of bottomless coffee because they lacked the funds for more than one. Follow these truth-seeking souls into the stacks at Kepler's Books, renting instruments at Swain's House of Music, and through the countryside on mind-expanding road trips. Witness impromptu jams, inspired intellectual pranks, and a dialogue that is, by turns, amusing and brilliant and outrageous. Hunter shares his impressions of his first gig with Garcia for a college audience, along with descriptions of his most intense dreams and psychedelic explorations. All of it, enlivened by Hunter's visionary spirit and profound ideas about creativity and collaboration.The lost manuscript is augmented with a Foreword by John Mayer, an Introduction by Dennis McNally, and an Afterword by Brigid Meier, who was part of their scene in the San Francisco Bay Area that served as a bridge from the beatniks to the hippies. Also included is Hunter's own 1982 assessment of his work-about how he shared it with close confidants but then decided to leave it unpublished. Five years after Hunter's death, the text has been found, so readers and fans of Hunter's indelible poetry and song can explore the origin of his genius and his craft.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. Mel Hunter (front cover) (illustrator). ----------vintage paperback, Canadian printing. Many Canadian printed Pyramids of the '50s used a series of numbers that differed from the US. A 191-page science fiction anthology, reprinting 9 stories from the 1950 hardcover edition. Spine and cover creases, some pages extrude from the page block but are still attached, edgewear, a good copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. us1st.edition.1st.printing thus.first with robert hunter introduction|.vg copy with straight spine.some pencil marking inside.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. modern lib edition. 109 pages. 7.75x5.00x0.25 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 304 pages. 9.00x6.00x9.30 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. As new condition red boards/black cloth spine/gold spine lettering contained in an as new condition non price-clipped color photographic dust jacket. Includes Editor's Note; Introduction by Hunter S. Thompson; and Picture Credits. Profusely illustrated with black-and-white photographs, color photographs, color illustrations, cartoons, etc. "[The book] looks at the power sports wields as the ultimate American secular religion.and its effect on the people who play - and watch - our games. The book features six essays on the athletes, coaches and commissioners who make up the sacred - and sometimes profane - hierarchy: Avery Brundage; Muhammad Ali; Billie Jean King; Ty Cobb; Pete Rose; Bobby knight; Billy Martin; Rubin "Hurricane" Carter; O.J. Simpson; Hollywood Henderson; Nile Kinnick; Mark Fidrych; Ruffian; Babe Ruth; Jackie RObinson; Larry Bird; Magic Johnson; Pete Rozelle; Tiger Woods; Jack Dempsey; Vince Lombardi; Bill Russell; Jackie Stewart; Jim Brown; Ted Williams; Secretariat; and Walter Johhson. - from the rear jacket cover. ".the core of the book - five essays by world-class stylists like George Plimpton and longtime New York Times columnist Robert Lipsyte. Complementing each essay are striking, revealing, and rarely seen photographs, illustrations, cartoon strips and editorial cartoons, plus lists of the best and worst of everything, worst sports execs. best boxing movies, biggest hotheads - testaments and fascinating tales of brilliant accomplishments, love, blood feuds and marketing brilliance that will delight even the casual fan, while illuminating the nature of sports worship in America in the 20th and 21st centuries." - from the front and rear inside jacket flaps.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good-. First (number line). Inscribed and signed by McClure on the title page. Penguin Poets series. xviii, 233 p. First appearance of "Dolphin Skull." Tight binding with square, uncreased spine. Except for McClure's inscription and some light pencil marks on first (half title) page, no marks. Medium cover wear and a little corner wear. Covers and pages toned throughout. Small faint smudge on fore-edge. Small dot label on spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 304 pages. 9.00x6.00x9.30 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 304 pages. 9.00x6.00x9.30 inches. In Stock.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Mel Hunter (illustrator). 1st Edition. First paperback edition/printing (Berkley N1923). This a Very Fine, unread condition copy with some tanning of covers - really sharp and collectible.

Condition: Very Good. 188 pages. Hardcover. Previous owner's name and information on front flyleaf. Some light notations throughout (pencil). Dark blue cover boards, gilt title on red on spine. Binding good. Spine straight. Pages bright. In very good condition. "Robert Boyle was the doyen of the new, experimental science in late seventeenth-century England, author of over forty books on science, religion and their mutual relationship." Record # 99074.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Bright, pictorial wraps, tight binding, clean, unmarked pages throughout.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition. Original publisher's brown cloth binding with gilt lettering on front cover and spine. 5 1/2" x 7 1/2." 337 pages, complete. Black-and-white illustrations, complete. Many of the illustrations are photographic and show scenes of childhood poverty and child labor. List of Illustrations and List of Statistical Tables and Diagrams in front. Introduction by Robert Hunter. Appendices ("How Foreign Municipalities Feed their School Children," "Report on the Vercelli System of School Meals," and "Miscellaneous"), Notes and Authorities, and Index in back. Pages are virtually pristine and intact except for light age toning and small occasional marks or stains. Covers are virtually pristine and intact except for slightly bumped corners, slight wear to head and tail of spine, and darkening along spine. A Near Fine copy. This book takes an unflinching approach at examining the numerous negative effects that childhood poverty and hunger and child labor have upon the well-being of children in the United States and Britain. Author John Spargo (1876-1966), a British-American political activist and writer, provides in-depth analyses and discussions about the subject. In his Preface, Spargo explains that he has tried to be as objective as possible and consulted other sources in writing this work. He also states, "Years of careful study and investigation have convinced me that the evils inflicted upon children by poverty are responsible for many of the worst features of that hideous phantasmagoria of hunger, disease, vice, crime, and despair which we call the Social Problem. I have tried to visualize some of the principal phases of the problem--the measure in which poverty is responsible for the excessive infantile disease and mortality; the tragedy and folly of attempting to educate the hungry, ill-fed school child; the terrible burdens borne by the working child in our modern industrial system. In the main the book is frankly based upon personal experience and observation. It is essentially a record of what I have myself felt and seen." One of the main subjects Spargo addresses in this book is the social vice of child labor. He argues that child labor has morphed from something wholesome and familial (such as parents teaching their children the skills of their trade) into an abusive and exploitative societal ill. He writes on Pages 129, "But with the coming of the machine age all this was changed. The craftsman was supplanted by the tireless, soulless machine. The child still worked, but in a great factory throbbing with the vibration of swift, intricate machines. In place of parental interest and affection there was the harsh, pitiless authority of an employer or his agent, looking, not to the child's well-being and skill as an artificer, but to the supplying of a great, ever widening market for cash gain." Titles of Contents in this book: "The Blighting of the Babies," "The School Child," "The Working Child," "Remedial Measures," and "Blossoms and Babies.".