Jonestown: A Model of Cooperation (Partial printer's proof for a pamphlet extolling the virtues of the famous cult compound in Guyana)

[Jones, Jim]; [Peoples Temple]

Published by [Peoples Temple], Jonestown, Guyana, 1978

About this Item

Folded sheet, making eight individual pages for a booklet, with printer's color registry on one side. 17.5" x 11.25" when unfolded, constituting half of the book. Illustrated from color photographs. Fine. The pages detail the agricultural project, crops, temple members, and more, with eleven color photographs taken at The Peoples Temple Agricultural Project in the Guyanaese jungle, better known as Jonestown after charismatic leader the Reverend Jim Jones. On November 18, 1978 the cult made headlines with the death of over 900 members, reputedly by voluntarily drinking Kool-Aid punch laden with cyanide (the origin of the phrase "drinking the Kool-Aid"), although Guyanese authorities maintained many had actually been shot. A rare piece of Peoples Temple ephemera.

Seller Inventory # 140947077

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Jonestown: A Model of Cooperation (Partial printer's proof for a pamphlet extolling the virtues of the famous cult compound in Guyana)
• Publisher: [Peoples Temple], Jonestown, Guyana
• Publication Date: 1978
• Seller catalogs:
  • Advance Copies
  • Religion
  • Ephemera
  • Social Movements
  • Occult