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see
the poster page for Acid Test posters signed by Ken Kesey and the Merry
Pranksters!
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Kesey's Jail Journal
by Ken Kesey
Description by Ed McClanahan:
Kesey's Jail Journal, for which I contributed
an introduction, is a sumptuously oversized hardback volume of commingled
writings and artwork that Kesey produced during his six-month sojourn in
the San Mateo (CA) county slam in the late 1960s. It's a stunner, friends;
lots of vibrant, full-color plates of cosmically illuminated, psychedelically-inspired
manuscript, each page (as I wrote in the introduction) "so crammed with
words and colors and faces and forms that it seem[s] ready to explode in
your face like a letter bomb,"; Kesey demonstrating a dozen times on every
page that everything he touched turned into art.
(putting the final touches on this book was
his last work.)
Full Color hardback 144pp. Coffee table type book.
$35.00, Item #KKJJ
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Spit in the Ocean #7:
All About Kesey
Edited by Ed McClanahan,
(Prankster and Writing classmate of Ken's)
Gus Sant (Introduction),
Contributions by many notable Friends and Pranksters.
From
the Publisher
Between 1974 and 1981 Ken Kesey
self-published six issues of a literary magazine called Spit in the Ocean.
After the revolutionary novelist's death in the fall of 2001, one of his
closest friends, acclaimed writer Ed McClanahan, decided to carry out Kesey's
vision and put together a final issue of Spit as a tribute to Kesey's genius
and imperturbable spirit. Featuring contributions from cultural luminaries-including
Robert Stone, Paul Krassner, Wendell Berry, Bill Walton, and Grateful Dead
lyricists Robert Hunter and John Perry Barlow-as well as "regular folk,"
and several pieces by Kesey himself, Spit in the Ocean #7 is a loving and
fitting homage to the gigantic and unique spirit of the merriest of the
Merry Pranksters.
From Publishers Weekly
Dedicated to the memory of the
acclaimed author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, this last volume of
a literary magazine begun by Ken Kesey in 1973 "aspires to...constitute,
in sum, an intimate, affectionate portrait of its founder, one which both
honors him and bids him a fond farewell." In keeping with Kesey's original
objective that every issue should have a different theme and editor, this
one focuses on the project's creator and is edited by his friend of many
years. Kesey's intellect, compassion and creative spirit appear in
this work through some of his own original writings, as well as through
the literature of numerous cultural figures with whom he interacted and
whom he influenced. Included are letters, previously unpublished radio
interviews, poems, essays, stories and anecdotes, all of which resuscitate
the eclectic writer and bring him "to the page alive and hale and shooting
from the lip as only he could." Illus.
Book Description
Between 1974 and 1981 Ken Kesey
self-published six issues of a literary magazine called Spit in the Ocean.
After the revolutionary novelist's death in the fall of 2001, one of his
closest friends, acclaimed writer Ed McClanahan, decided to carry out Kesey's
vision and put together a final issue of Spit as a tribute to Kesey's genius
and imperturbable spirit. Featuring contributions from cultural luminaries-including
Robert Stone, Paul Krassner, Wendell Berry, Bill Walton, and Grateful Dead
lyricists Robert Hunter and John Perry Barlow-as well as "regular folk,"
and several pieces by Kesey himself, Spit in the Ocean #7 is a loving and
fitting homage to the gigantic and unique spirit of the merriest of the
Merry Pranksters.
Item #SITO7 $15.00
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Last Go Round
Item #KK01
By Ken Kesey with Ken Babbs.
1994,
hardback, Ken's latest novel. It was around a sagebrush campfire
in eastern Oregon that Ken first heard the tale from his father-about the
legendary "last go round" that took place at the Pendleton, Oregon, Round
Up in 1911. Hundreds of riders were competing for the first World All Around
Champion Cowboy Title, but it was one special trio of buckeroos that provided
the drama. When the dust cleared, everyone knew they'd witnessed something
extraordinary. Includes sixteen pages of rare Round Up photographs.
Unsigned $22.00 Sale
Today.......$15.00 (unsigned)
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Sailor Song
(most are 1st Edition)
Item #KK02
By Ken Kesey, signed
by Ken Kesey!
Over
the past 25 years Ken has written many shorter pieces, but only now brings
his considerable powers once again to bear on a full scale undertaking.
Sailor Song is a unique and powerful novel about America. Set in the near
future, the story takes us to the Alaskan village of Kuinak, a rundown
fishing community of DEAPS (Descendants of Early Aboriginal Peoples) and
lower-48 refugees perched on the Western edge of history. It's a scene
rich with characters. Into their peculiar midst sails a mighty ship of
last hopes loaded to the gunwales with a big bucks Hollywood film company.
This famous studio/yacht has come north to film a classic children's book,
The Sea Lion. Sailor Song is an epic novel that revolves around the question,
"Does love make any sense at the end of the world?" It's about things that
endure and come around again - back at you and back to you.
Hardback signed $55.00
Unsigned $24.00 Sale
Today.......$15.00 (unsigned)
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Caverns
*RARE
By O.U. Levon (U of O novel spelled backwards).
Item #KK03
Forward
by Ken Kesey. 1990, ,
first edition softback. When 13 students got together in Ken's writing
class an adventure of some sort was bound to occur. Under Ken's inspired
guidance, 14 imaginations were set loose - to create a tale that reads
like a hybrid of the Grapes of Wrath, The Canterbury Tales, and the best
of the Indiana Jones adventures. With a story line as original and intriguing
as its own genesis, Caverns may just change the face of North American
literary archeology.
unsigned $10.00. Sale
Today.......$7.00 (unsigned)
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Spit In The Ocean: (six
book set)
*VERY RARE
Item #KK06
A Literary Publication Featuring a different
editor and a different theme in each issue. 1974-1981, . The set is comprised
of six books. The Spit in the Ocean books are rare. We have the remainder
of the stock. Since the books are out of print, when we sell out they will
be gone.
Unsigned $60.00
Sale Today $40 (unsigned, see
below)
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S.I.T.O.
available EXCLUSIVELY at key-z.com!
(look
for issue #7, the Kesey issue available now)
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Issue
#1:
Old in the Streets
Edited by Ken Kesey.
1974. 2nd. ed. In this issue: Nella Novak, Margo
St James, Ray Andrews, Wendell Berry, Walt Curtis, Lee Quarnstrom, Ken,
Margaret Burgin, Laurence Gonzales, Henry Crow Dog, John Weigel, Ken Babbs,
Mary Woods, Paul Sawyer, Gene Detro, Paul Krassner, Eve Merriam and Grandma
Whittier.
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Issue
#2:
Getting There From Here
Edited by My.
1976. 1st. edition. In this issue: Studs T. Erkel,
Ken Kesey, Gurney Norman, Nancy Jack Todd, My, Kate Millett, Peter Steel
Byers, Mary Moreau & Alan Pesin, Ken Babbs, Harry Pesin, Walt Curtis,
Laurence Gonzales, John Holt, Stewart Brand, Marioin Sanders and Grandma
Whittier.
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Issue
#3:
Communication With Higher Intelligence
Edited by Dr. Timothy Leary.
1977. First edition. In this issue: Timothy Leary,
Ken Kesey, Saul-Paul Sirag, Tim Hildebrand, Diane Ackerman, Jack Sarfatti,
Ken Babbs, Neil Freer, James Logue, Tapani Knuutila, Joanna Leary and Grandma
Whittier.
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Issue
#4:
Straight From The Guts
Edited by Lee Marrs.
1978. First edition. In this issue: Grace Harwood,
Marilyn Hill, Happy Hyder, Allie Light, Lee Marrs, Mugsy Peabody, Kathy
Reilley, Shelby Sampson, Phyllis Speros, Grandma Whittier & Ken.
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Issue
#5:
The Pyramid Issue
Edited by Richard and Elaine Loren.
1979. First edition. In this issue: The Search
For The Secret Pyramid by Ken Kesey. Felucca Follies by Paul Krassner.
Seven Prayers (Episode 5) by Grandma Whittier.
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Issue
#6:
The Cassady Issue
Edited by Ken Babbs.
1981. First edition. In this Issue: John Clellon
Holmes, Larry McMurtry, Jerry Garcia, Katrina Daniels, Jane Burton, Diane
Kesey, Anne Murphy, Malcom McGillicuddy, Stewart Brand, William Burroughs,
"Ramrod" Shurtliff, Carolyn Cassady, Ken Kesey, Ron Bevirt and Grandma
Whittier. Featuring previously unpublished manuscripts by Neal Cassady.
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Also
available at key-z.com
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Kesey
*VERY RARE
Item #KK07
By Northwest Review Books.
1977, first edition. This book is a study of
Ken the writer, and tries to document that rare process involved in telling
good stories. Only parts of the writing Ken has preened and finished (and
meant) for print are included. Consequently there appears a lot of playful
and imaginative structuring and restructuring, ironies, special effects
- a whole spectrum of privileged communication between Ken and himself.
Photos, Ken's drawings and original manuscripts. This book has become a
collector's item, rarely available in book stores.
Sold out
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One
Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Item #KK08
By Ken Kesey. 1962,
Boisterous, ribald, and ultimately shattering,
this is the unforgettable story of a mental ward and its inhabitants, especially
the tyrannical Big Nurse and Randle Patrick McMurphy, the brawling, life-loving
new inmate who resolves to oppose her. We see the struggle through the
eyes of Chief Bromden, the seemingly mute half-indian patient, who witnesses
and understands McMurphy's heroic attempt to do battle with the awesome
power of The Combine. Acclaimed upon its publication as "a glittering parable
of good and evil...a work of genuine literary merit".
Softback $13.00. unsigned Sale
Today.......$10
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