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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)

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)

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)

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)

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.

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. 

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.

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. 

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. 

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. 

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.

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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