Bruce Brugmann (20 results)

Newspaper. 32p., folded tabloid newspaper, articles, opinion, reviews, ads, personals, comics, listings, events, very good on newsprint. Full-page story on the stabbing death of Vacaville inmate Tommy Horn who was transferred to San Quentin where he died "of natural causes" Also an eyewitness report from inmate Johnny Larry Spain.

Newspaper. 24p. folded tabloid newspaper, ads, articles, event listings, interviews, reviews, opinions, photos, mailing label unfortunately pasted across cover photo depicting men hanging about on Castro else good on newsprint. First issue with their new Computographic layout design. Interview with Eldridge Cleaver. Long section on Eureka Valley/Castro District.

Newspaper. 24p. folded tabloid newspaper, ads, articles, event listings, interviews, reviews, opinions, photos, cover photo depicting men hanging about on Castro very good on newsprint. First issue with their new Computographic layout design. Interview with Eldridge Cleaver. Long section on Eureka Valley/Castro District.

Newspaper. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Offered is the August 31, 1970 (Vol. 4 No. 5) issue of "The San Francisco Bay Guardian: An Independent Newspaper of Events, Analysis and Opinion" edited and published by Bruce B. Brugmann and published out of San Francisco, California. A folded newspaper, as issued, when unfolded measures 11-3/8" by 17-1/2" and contains 24 pages including front and rear covers (a complete issue). Containing articles, opinion, columns, photos and illustrations, reviews, ads, personals, listings and events, highlights include: Says the man from Langendorf Bakeries, 'OPEN DATING IS USELESS. FRESH BREAD ISN'T GOOD FOR YOU ANYWAY - IT'S NOT HEALTHY' by Helene Lippincott (on grocery codes, "Almost everything in grocery stores - breads, bologna, cigarettes, even babyfood - is coded as to freshness - either by pull date, the last day it should be sold as fresh, or by pack date, the day the food was wrapped"); Another Westlake in Half Moon Bay? - You Can be Sure if it's Westinghouse by Steve Weeks (with maps of Bayside and Coastside population growth over the years; "More than one-third of San Mateo County's central and southern coastline of 59,400 acres is now held by active or waiting developers"); Richmond [California]: portrait of an old-fashioned company town by Dale Rosen; KRON: Hearings as reported by SuperChron by Stephen R. Barnett; centerfold illustrated list "Don't buy stale bread, sour milk, rotting meat - BREAK YOUR SUPERMARKET CODES! A Special Guardian Offer - The Main Supermarket Codes and How to Read Them"; 'Nowadays, nobody believes you' by Kenneth Rexroth.

Newspaper. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Offered is the October 26, 1970 (Vol. 4 No. 6) issue of "The San Francisco Bay Guardian: An Independent Newspaper of Events, Analysis and Opinion" edited and published by Bruce B. Brugmann and published out of San Francisco, California. A folded newspaper, as issued, when unfolded measures 11-3/8" by 17-1/2" and contains 24 pages including front and rear covers (a complete issue). Containing articles, opinion, columns, photos and illustrations, reviews, ads, personals, listings and events, highlights include: AN URGENT PROPOSAL (in support of Proposition J, which reads "It is the policy of the City and County of San Francisco that there be an immediate cease-fire and immediate withdrawal of all U.S. troops from Vietnam so that the Vietnamese people can settle their own problems"); Said the lettuce grower to the Teamster, 'LET ME CALL YOU SWEETHEART' by Dick Meister (which begins "An astonishing thing happened in the Salinas Valley and environs the other day: About 200 growers announced they had signed agreements with the Teamsters Union"); 'The San Francisco Bay Area is a military society' by Martin Gellen; 'The Food Conspiracy,' an Underground Supermarket by Phil Tracy (with two photos); 'Why don't you run anti-draft public service announcements?' (a Guardian survey by Marilyn Morgan); PG&E [Pacific Gas and Electric], Staunch Defender of Private Enterprise, is the Biggest Welfare Recipient by Peter L. Petrakis (with centerfold "PG&E - SQUATTERS ON THE PUBLIC DOMAIN" with maps and lists "PG&E plants on public rivers" and "PG&E's captive public power agencies"); letters ("Reactions to the Guardian's ouster from the S.F. Press Club's Pulitzer of the West contest"); "Keep your nose clean, don't volunteer and stay alive through Armageddon" by Kenneth Rexroth.

Newspaper. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Offered is the August 16, 1972 (Vol. 6 No. 12) issue of "The San Francisco Bay Guardian: The Bay Area's alternative newspaper" edited and published by Bruce B. Brugmann and published out of San Francisco, California. A folded newspaper, as issued, when unfolded measures 11-1/2" by 17-1/2" and contains 24 pages including front and rear covers (a complete issue). Containing articles, opinion, columns, photos and illustrations, comics, reviews, ads, personals, listings and events, highlights include: cover story Playing Hollywood Games in SF - Francis Ford Coppola Before 'The Godfather' (with the first segment by Jess Ritter entitled "THE FALL AND RISE OF FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA: Riding the Zoetrope Merry-go-round with Coppola and the Prima Donnas"); The Moon Among Us: Urban Technology Conference by Greggar Sletteland (with four photos); S.F. Bar Association by William Ristow ('The Legal Problems of The Poor Are Things Our Members Don't Know Anything About'); list of San Francisco Legal Services; half page political ad for Congressman Ron Dellums (with his photo: "We Can't Afford to Lose Him").

Newspaper. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Offered is the February 28, 1970 (Vol. 4 No. 2) issue of "The San Francisco Bay Guardian: An Independent Newspaper of Events, Analysis and Opinion" edited and published by Bruce B. Brugmann and published out of San Francisco, California. A folded newspaper, as issued, when unfolded measures 11-3/8" by 17-1/2" and contains 20 pages including front and rear covers (a complete issue). Containing articles, opinion, columns, photos and illustrations, cartoons, reviews, ads, personals, listings and events, highlights include: $F Waterfront Co., Inc. - J. [Joseph] Alioto and C. [Cyril] Magnin, proprietors since 1968 by Dale Rosen (with drawing "The Great Wall of Magnin - Proposed Northern Waterfront"); Why our air pollution agency doesn't reduce smog by Julia Cheever; Striking tenants fight the 'Brave New Berkeley' by Jack Nicholl; SF Power - in the great tradition of Abe Ruef and Candlestick by Peter L. Petrakis (with table "Where has San Francisco's power gone? - Everywhere, but to San Franciscans" and drawing "How San Francisco solves its power 'problem'"); Calling it quits by Douglas Giebel ("Serious artistic theatre in San Francisco is call it quits"); The adventures of Superchron - A sneak preview of the FCC hearings - With a cast of hundreds (with "Against KRON" and "For KRON").

Newspaper. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Offered is the June 8, 1972 (Vol. 6 No. 7) issue of "The San Francisco Bay Guardian: The Bay Area's alternative newspaper" edited and published by Bruce B. Brugmann and published out of San Francisco, California. A folded newspaper, as issued, when unfolded measures 11-1/2" by 17-1/2" and contains 24 pages including front and rear covers (a complete issue). Containing articles, opinion, columns, photos and illustrations, reviews, ads, personals, listings and events, highlights include: Dan 'Odd Bodkins' O'Neill Reports the War From the Front Lines in Ireland (with his photo, article "Dan O'Neill in Belfast"; and full-page cartoon "Belfast - and I Don't Mean Root Beer"); Summer Swimming - S.F. Pools: Good, Bad, Best (with chart "Where to Swim and Where Not to Swim"); Vincent Hallinan: How He Became a 'Lion in the Courtroom' and Why He's Running for Judge by Ken Kelley (article with interview quotes); half-page ad, with photo, "Re Elect Congressman Phillip Burton"; The Guardian Recommends (candidate and proposition endorsements); full-page political ad - The people vs. Them - Save Our Air - Save Our Land - Save Our Coast - On June 6, Vote YES on Proposition 9 - The Clean Environment Act. 5-1/2" by 3-1/4" closed tear to lower left corner of front cover.

Newspaper. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Offered is the September 20, 1972 (Vol. 6 No. 13) issue of "The San Francisco Bay Guardian: The Bay Area's alternative newspaper" edited and published by Bruce B. Brugmann and published out of San Francisco, California. A folded newspaper, as issued, when unfolded measures 11-1/2" by 17-1/2" and contains 24 pages including front and rear covers (a complete issue). Containing articles, opinion, columns, photos and illustrations, reviews, ads, personals, listings and events, highlights include: The Mime Troupe as Giant-Killers (the complete script of their newest skit, "High Rises" - "the Troupe's version of SF's Manhattanization, which premiered at the Embarcadero Plaza on June 29"; with photo at a St. Mary's Square performance); Part 2 of The Fall and Rise of Francis Ford Coppola: Playing Hollywood Games in SF by Jess Ritter; Tenants' Rights - Consumers Beware - What They are, How to Get Them, Who can Help; Cable T.V. - How Bay Area Cities Sold Out the Public's Airwaves (with half-page list "Conglomerates Behind Bay Area Cable TV").

Newspaper. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Offered is the March 28, 1972 (Vol. 6 No. 2) issue of "The San Francisco Bay Guardian" now subtitled "The Bay Area's alternative newspaper" edited and published by Bruce B. Brugmann and published out of San Francisco, California. A folded newspaper, as issued, when unfolded measures 11-1/2" by 17-1/2" and contains 24 pages including front and rear covers (a complete issue). Containing articles, opinion, columns, photos and illustrations, reviews, ads, personals, listings and events, highlights include: Urban Strategy - How 55 of 58 S.F. Supermarkets are Short-Weighting Meat - an Exclusive Guardian Listing by Marcy Kates (with two tables: Table A - List of San Francisco Markets and How Much They Short-Weighted Meat in 1970-1971; and Table B - How a Safeway Store Short-Weights Meat); cover story on San Francisco's Chinatown with articles and photos: "Meanwhile, back in Chinatown, Chiang [Kai-shek] still runs the show" by Victor Nee and Brett de Bary ("[he] isn't living [here], but he might as well be"); "Officially, San Francisco services Chinatown myths, not the Chinatown poor" by Carol Kroot; "The inscrutable Chinese Cultural Center - It's a Holiday Inn" by Mike Miller; "A chronology of the Yellow Peril" compiled by Carol Kroot. Also in this issue: Some last thoughts on Kenneth Patchen (with his illustration "Unpublished Picture Poem"); Can the Movement in America Become Relevant? by Kenneth Rexroth.

Newspaper. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Offered is the February 26, 1971 (Vol. 5 No. 2) issue of "The San Francisco Bay Guardian: An Independent Newspaper of Events, Analysis and Opinion" edited and published by Bruce B. Brugmann and published out of San Francisco, California. A folded newspaper, as issued, when unfolded measures 11-1/2" by 17-1/2" and contains 32 pages including front and rear covers (a complete issue). Containing articles, opinion, columns, photos and illustrations, comics, reviews, ads, personals, listings and events, highlights include: The high cost of ugliness by Michael Stephen Metcalf ("Proponents of U.S. Steel's proposed waterfront project like to claim it will 'widen the tax base' through increased property tax payments to the city. But experience with other building projects suggests this may not be so at all"); two-page If you like New York and Chicago, you're gonna love San Francisco! compiled by Marilyn Morgan (with aerial photo of downtown San Francisco in 1959 and 1965, with projected building developments shown in black for 1970 and 1975 accompanied by large chart of "Selected Tall Buildings, New York and Chicago" and "Selected Tall Buildings, San Francisco"); several interviews, with photos (Marge and Don Hayakawa; Jessica Mitford and Bob Treuhaft; Evelyn and Cecil Williams; Angela and Joe Alioto; Merla Zellerbach and Fred Goerner; Mellisa and Herb Gold; Marion and Hunt Conrad; Marsha Hudson and Ron Drucker; Louise and Charles Garry; and Joanne and Bruce Beasley); "How can you be a grand juror? the cop asked Ed Uno. You are Oriental, you don't have a big Cadillac, you have long hair and you don't wear a necktie" (Edison Uno interviewed); For thousands of men like these, There's no room in the skyscrapers (Interviews by Marsha Berzon, with photos: "Redevelopment takes over the old hotels south of Market and harasses the old men who rent rooms there for $30 - $40 - $55 a month, to get out. Where are they going to go, these old men?"); full-page ad from The San Francisco Opposition ("YOU CAN HELP DECIDE IF OUR CITY WILL BECOME A SKYLINE OF TOMBSTONES - Both the above pictures are of downtown San Francisco. The top one was twelve years ago. The bottom one, last year"); Nixon's slogan - bait for 'common crooks by a boss gangster' by Kenneth Rexroth; Waterbeds are great, but some can be deadly.

Softbound. Condition: Very Good. Quarto, paper covers creased horizontally, 24 pp., b/w photos Articles include "Minnie's Can Do: After the meda-meth death of the Haight - Minnie battles the Police and City Hall to keep her Fillmore bar alive and to start urban renewal of the soul," Jess Ritter, "Are the Judges Guilty?" Harv Morgan, "A Suburb 'Stops' Growing," Martin Kupferman, "'Let 'em ride The Mui!' - Say City Officials rom their Chauffeur-drivn Limousines," Carol D'Amico, and a review of the Godfather.

Newspaper. 40p. folded tabloid weekly newspaper, photos, ads, articles, features, local listings, reviews, politics, very good on newsprint. Cover story on the Dan White trial.

Newspaper. 44p. folded tabloid newspaper, ads, articles, event listings, interviews, reviews, opinions, photos, very good on newsprint. Now Weekly! Also: SF Hookers, Clip-out Election endorsements (Milk & Moscone of course). 70 Gay Alternatives to the Bar Scene. Special Gay Section.

Newspaper. 44p. folded tabloid weekly newspaper, photos, ads, articles, features, local listings, reviews, politics, very good on newsprint. Cover story interview with Crisp in SF. How the Media Covered the Peoples Temple Story.

Newspaper. 16p., worn and misfolded tabloid newspaper on lightly toned newsprint. Major article on the BART system and its detractors. Also a report on The Chicago Fiasco aka the police over-reaction at the DNC in Chicago.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st edition. Near Fine. Tabloid, 32pp, self-cover. Nice copy of a rare early issue of this important Bay Area alternative news publication, with a cover story on "Women & The Press" detailing sexism in the industry. Well-preserved copy of a fugitive publication with light toning to paper stock. Not Signed.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. June 22 1978 issue of the San Francisco Bay Guardian contains the 1978 Gay Freedom Day program. Remember where there were gay newspapers? The paper itself is 32 pages with ads of all sorts and articles on the Briggs Amendment, travel, summer entertainment guide. The 30 page pride guide has a lavender cover, black and white interior, both papers are toned with some wear. There are letters from Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk, who would both be assassinated just five months from this celebration. The guide includes lots of listings and ads in addition to the calendar of events. A true history capsule from the pre-AIDS era. All orders packed with care, most dust jackets protected by Brodart sleeve, independent bookseller since 2011.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Softcover in very good condition with fading on spine and some creasing. Text clean and unmarked. Binding sound.

paperback. Condition: Very Good. The copy shows minor external wear, but is in otherwise good condition.