BERKE, Joseph (ed); Paul Lawson (design); Stokely Carmichael, Tuli Kupferberg, Julian Beck, Allen Ginsberg (et al, contributors)

Counter Culture

London: Peter Owen, 1969. First Edition. First impression. Large octavo. Green cloth hardcover, dustjacket; 405,[11]pp; illus. Tight, clean, and unmarked, easily Near Fine. In the original pictorial dustwrapper, lightly edgeworn, foxed at flap-folds, corner clipped at lower front flap, with later price sticker (£20) applied over printed price of £9; Very Good.

First book by Berke (1929-2021), an American-born British philosopher / psychotherapist who later achieved prominence in Britain in the field of person-centered psychiatry. The book makes the rather bold claim of being "the first ... to explore in depth the expression of social/cultural revolution and experiment now taking place in the economically developed countries of the West," but it is a rather loosely-edited, McLuhan-esque mash-up of revolutionary political texts, poetry, fluxus-inspired cut-ups, photography, comix, etc., probably more of interest as a pop avatar for its times than as a philosophical text or call to action. Somewhat uncommon; there does not appear to have been a U.S. edition.

Price: $125.00

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