Jail Notes
Leary, Timothy
From Evening Star Books, ABAA/ILAB, Madison, WI, U.S.A.
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From Evening Star Books, ABAA/ILAB, Madison, WI, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
AbeBooks Seller since 09 May 2012
About this Item
8vo. [4], 5-154, [6] pp. Silver paper boards with blue lettering on the spine. Orange endpapers and pastedowns. With a red, white, and blue ribbon bookmark bound in. Price of $6.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with a few in-text black and white photographs. With an introduction by Allen Ginsberg. ANB, Bruce L. Janoff, "Leary, Timothy (22 October 1920-31 May 1996)". One of the most famous figures in American counterculture, Timothy Leary was a strong advocate for the use of LSD and psilocybin to expand the mind and consciousness. He believed enlightenment could be achieved by expanding the mind through psychodelic drug usage. Leary was a Harvard psychologist, who pursued research on psychoactive drugs with controlled experiments involving graduate students, fellow counterculture figures such as William S. Burroughs, and even some undergraduate students. After being expelled from the Harvard faculty, he was arrested and sent to jail for the possession of marijuana. This book is his record of seven months spent in jail: Leary notes the treatment of prisoners, the abuse certain prisoners faced, his cellmates, and the culture he encountered in prison. He escaped his first prison, but was later extradited to the United States from Afghanistan. Leary spent a few years total in jail, but never backed down from his embrace of psychodelic drugs and his iconoclastic lifestyle. Boards are slightly bowed outward; jacket's reverse is toned with a small abrasion. Seller Inventory # 000012384
Bibliographic Details
Title: Jail Notes
Publisher: A Douglas Book / Distributed by the World Publishing Company [1970], New York
Publication Date: 1970
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+
Edition: First edition.
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