Christopher Cerf Michael Frith (3 results)

Paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. THERE ARE A COUPLE OF SMALL BARELY NOTICIBLE SMUDGES ON THE FRONT COVER EDGE OTHERWISE THE BOOKLET WOULD BE CONSIDERED TO BE IN FINE CONDITION. A SATIRICAL PORTRAYAL OF THE CONSPIRACY 8 TRIAL CO-DEFENDENTS, THE PROSECUTORS, JUDGE AND POLITICAL PLAYERS ASSOCIATED WITH THE 1969 CONSPIRACY 8 TRIAL IN CHICAGO. THE TRIAL WAS AN OUTCOME OF THE 1968 RIOTS AND POLICE ACTIONS AT THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION IN CHICAGO. SATIRICAL BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIAL IS PRESENTED FOR DAVE DELLINGER, RENNIE DAVIS, BOBBY SEALE, JOHN FROINES. ABBIE HOFFMAN, TOM HAYDEN, LEE WEINER AND JERRY RUBIN. THERE IS ALSO A SATIRICAL BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH AND FAKE PHOTO OF JUDGE JULIUS JENNINGS HOFFMAN, WHO WAS AFFECTIONATELY CALLED "OLD MOSS" BY HIS GOLF CLUB MATES.THE POLITICAL PLAYERS INCLUDE DICK NIXON, SPIRO AGNEW, J. EDGAR HOOVER, DICK DALEY, JACK MITCHELL, STROM THURMOND AND DICK KLEINDIENST. THROWN INTO THE MIX IS MARTHA RAYE IN AN ARMY UNIFORM. THE SPOOF MATERIAL WAS PROVIDED BY CHRISTOPHER CERF AND MICHAEL FRITH WHO HAD EARLIER CO-SPONSORED A PARODY OF THE NATIONAL LAMPOON MAGAZINE AND FRITH LATER BECAME INVOLVED IN THE MUPPETS PRODUCTIONS WITH JIM HENSON.

First Edition. Quarto (28cm). Original stapled pictorial card wrappers; 24pp; illus. Mild edge-wear, faint crease at upper corner; Very Good. Satirical coverage of the 1969 trial of the Chicago Eight, done in mock baseball-program format. Includes halftone portraits of the co-conspirators (team name: "The Chicago Conspiracy") and the prosecutors (team name: "The Washington Kangaroos"). Also a score-card, and a section of photographs documenting the Chicago riots. Authorship of the various sections is unattributed, but we note that the list of Associate Editors includes Michael O'Donoghue, later of National Lampoon fame, to which publication the current item bears a marked stylistic resemblance.