The Diggers (13 results)

Paperback. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Fair condition paperback pictorial cover. 5 pages good with clear print and music.

i-x, 11-364, 1-10 pages. Hardcover: H 20cm x L 12.25cm. Original dark brown cloth; rear board detached with front board tenuous; wear along board edges particularly at corners; spine cocked with ends chipped and some loss to spine's gilt lettering near head. Likely mid-19th century Rock Island, Illinois bookseller ticket for H.A. Porter affixed at front pastedown's top left. Toning and foxing to interior leaves with a few scattered small dark stains; pencil notation regarding author's name on title page. Poor condition - sold as is and should be rebound. Text collates as complete with ten pages of publisher advertisements at rear. Early single volume reprint of a book first published as a two volume set in Montpelier, Vermont in 1839. …

Newspaper. 20p., underground tabloid, illustrations, photos, cartoons, evenly toned, some edgewear, minor foxing on covers, Good. S.F.'s main political underground paper. Cover story on LBJ. Cleaver talks to Leary. P.I.S.S. Prisoners Information & Support Services. Mime Troupe declares war on Rock Musicals. Panthers play Fillmore East. Center-spread photos of the Solstice celebration sponsored by The Diggers and photographed by Hank Meals.…

Newspaper. 20p., underground tabloid, illustrations, photos, cartoons, evenly toned, address label and rubberstamp on front wrap, else very good condition. S.F.'s main political underground paper. Cover story on LBJ. Cleaver talks to Leary. P.I.S.S. Prisoners Information & Support Services. Mime Troupe declares war on Rock Musicals. Panthers play Fillmore East. Center-spread photos of the Solstice celebration sponsored by The Diggers and photographed by Hank Meals.…

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Inside back cover includes Black Panther Party "Huey Must be Set Free" ad with mail-in coupon for the Huey P. Newton Defense Fund. 24 pp. Reduced from $245. As with all our items priced $90 or higher, this book will be shipped "signature required.".…

Newspaper. 20p., underground tabloid, illustrations, photos, cartoons, very lightly toned, else very good condition. S.F.'s main political underground paper. Cover story on LBJ. Cleaver talks to Leary. P.I.S.S. Prisoners Information & Support Services. Mime Troupe declares war on Rock Musicals. Panthers play Fillmore East. Center-spread photos of the Solstice celebration sponsored by The Diggers and photographed by Hank Meals. …

Paperback. Condition: Fair. First Edition. 3 pages of piano sheet music with ukulele chords and lyrics. Unmarked. Above-average wear and soiling. A sound working copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Vg-plus to Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition omnibus collection, 1993 - excellent clean firm interior, no marks or inscriptions, faint tan to page block, excellent clean firm boards; d/jacket of very good-plus to near fine condition showing only very light usage, no nicks or tears, not price-clipped. Please email if more photos or further information required.…

Newspaper. 20p., folded tabloid underground newspaper, news, events, ads, services and resources, heavily-toned on cover with light wear to folds else good on newsprint. Cover drawing Fidel Castro and centerspread poster montage of revolutionaries including Che over a Cuban flag. Also "Life Is Energy Is Free" reprinted from the Diggers' International Free City Visionary.…

1p., 8vo. In fair condition, lightly aged and worn. Brammall's address is given as Cheetwood, 123 Dartmouth Road, Brondesbury, NW. Note Wilson's parsimonious or thrifty use of his old Premier's letterhead despite his return to England. He regrets having to decline Brammall's invitation 'relative to the Dinner of the Diggers' Club to be held on the 8th June', due to his 'being absent in the North of England on that date'. A manuscript list of attendees (presumably by Bramall) is on the reverse, with the note: 'I should like a small table in the room for the artistes after dinner'.…

A remarkable survival from the legendary "happening" orchestrated by the Diggers and the Artist Liberation Front at the Glide Memorial Church in Haight Ashbury. The multi-day party began on Friday 24 February 1967. Conflicting accounts suggest there were anywhere between 5,000 and 20,000 attendees, who filled the church's rooms with art, music, dance, and drugs. The "happening" was the Diggers's reaction to the Trips Festival and the Human Be-In of the previous year. The festival's message was that "if there was something you always wanted to do, but never had a room to do it in, come to the Invisible Circus at eight o'clock and you could do it" (quoted in Abbot, p. 48). Anecdotal evidence suggests that there were performances by Janis Joplin, the Grateful Dead, and Big Brother and the Holding Company. Some sources say that the party was shut down after just eight or nine hours. Others recall revelling from Friday 24 until the morning of Sunday 26 February, just in time for services led by the revolutionary pastor Cecil Williams. The Invisible Circus encapsulated everything the Diggers aimed to be. "In a way it was a vision of what the Be-In ought to have been", the author Charles Perry noted. "Not a passive stroll around the speakers' platform but a participatory event. Not in the park but downtown in the gritty Tenderloin. Not healthful, peaceful and decorous but smutty, rebellious and possibly dangerous. Not four hours in the afternoon but seventy-two hours of nonstop happenings" (quoted in Abbot, p. 47). This handbill was printed to advertise the event. The Communication Company, led by Chester Anderson and Claude Hayward, took over a room of the church. They lugged their gestetner machines into the centre of the action and cranked out a series of handbills featuring "newsflashes": snippets of stoned conversation and readings from the I Ching overheard at the event. The communiques were "rushed out so quickly that often the ink hadn't dried and the halls were soon carpeted with the mushed remains" (quoted in Abbot, p. 49). Keith Abbot, Downstream from Trout Fishing in America: A Memoir of Richard Brautigan, 1989; Kristine McKenna & David Hollander, Notes from a Revolution, 2012, p. 152. Broadside (215 x 280 mm) printed in red, yellow, and blue. Horizontal crease, else fine. …

First Edition. First edition. Signed by Peter Coyote, perhaps the most famous figure associated with the Diggers, on sheet 4. A co-founder of the group, he went on to become an actor and narrator. 12 14 x 8" sheets, printed in various colors (some on rectos only), with original metal fastening clips, as issued. One of two sets of broadsides printed and distributed by Bay Area anarcho-hippie group The Free City Collective (formerly known as the Diggers). The sheets were eventually collected into two sets, each fastened together with a metal clip. This is the second such set. Of the group, Coyote once said, "We dedicated ourselves to imagining a world we might like to live in. where we could dedicate our skills as artists to making it real and acting it out in ways that invited others to participate." Richard Brautigan's poem "Spinning Like a Ghost on the Bottom of a Top ('Boo Forever')" is featured on one of the sheets-- the first appearance of this an acclaimed poem that later appeared in The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster. Signed.…

First edition, the scarcer "Free" issue, of the final collective publication by the Diggers, a radical community-action group of activists and street theatre actors operating in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district during the late 1960s. Contributors include Peter Berg, Neal Cassady (anonymously), Richard Brautigan (whose poem "All Watched Over By Machine of Loving Grace" appears here), Allen Ginsberg, Emmett Grogan, Paul Krassner, and Gary Snyder. The magazine was published between 1965-8. This issue of The Digger Papers was published in two versions: one distributed by the Diggers with "Free" on the cover, and the other distributed by The Realist as issue #81 (August 1968) with a different cover layout. Brautigan, along with poet Michael McClure, would sometimes stand on Haight Street and hand out the free publications to passers-by. Quarto, 24 pp. Illustrated in black and white. Original buff printed wrappers. A little edgewear, usual toning, one tip negligibly creased; near-fine.…