Los Angeles Free Press Vol. 4 no. 12, Special Banana Edition, Love Poetry Seized by Chaste L.A. Cops Cover

Art Kunkin

Published by Los Angeles Free Press, Los Angeles, 1967

About this Item

Printed in black and white on paper, not bound. A number of the Los Angeles Free Press #140, of March 24th, 1967, published and edited by Art Kunkin. The cover story reports on the raid of the Free Press Bookstore, during which the clerk was arrested for selling obscene literature, and three copies of 'The Love Book' were confiscated by the police. Also included the great banana-smoking hoax: printing a recipe for banadine (it was intended as a joke to raise questions about the ethics of maing psychoactive drugs illegal, but many actually took to smoking banana peel in an attempt to get high); news of the Elysian Park 'Love-In' + half-page ad.; "An L.A. Weekend with Andy Warhol" by Oliver Johnson, w. photo + review and qtr.-page ad. for 'Chelsea Girls' + photo of Warhol, Paul Morrissey and acolytes; LA Provo demo (1pp., photo); full-page psych. ad. in purple for the Kaleidoscope at Sunset and Vine. Condition: Very Good. An old horizontal fold, and slight fraying to the spine. Seller Inventory # 003916

Bibliographic Details

Title: Los Angeles Free Press Vol. 4 no. 12, ...

Publisher: Los Angeles Free Press, Los Angeles

Publication Date: 1967

Condition: Very Good