Drug Ephemera (2 results)

No Binding. Condition: Fine. Robert Crumb, Dana Reemes (illustrator). 1st Edition. Scarce ORIGINAL 1974 TIMOTHY LEARY EPHEMERAL TICKET "TERRA II" Ticket To Ride "The Universe Is Perfect!" ONE TRIP Use Before 1999 "Welcome Aboard Terra II My Friends! My Name Is Doctor Timothy Leary!" Published in [Folsom Prison, Folsom, California, 1974], printed on blue paper, 8.5" x 2.5". Illustrated by Disney artist Dana Reemes who incorporated Robert Crumb's drawing of Timothy Leary (originally published in a 1973 issue of El Perfecto Comics), crediting "R. Crumb" beside the drawing. The ticket also has a facsimile Timothy Leary signature. The Promotional TICKET was inserted into some lucky copies of Leary's 1974 book TERRA II. The Ticket is for ONE TRIP off the planet earth on a spaceship commanded by Doctor Timothy Leary. FINE Condition: bright and clean. An original Terra II Ticket is almost impossible to find, most seem to have vanished into space. TERRA II was written by Timothy Leary in Folsom Prison while serving time for possession of marijuana in 1974. His TERRA ll was a prison escape fantasy which involved leaving Earth on an intergalactic spaceship to travel the universe in an endless voyage of discovery and harmony. This period, beginning with his imprisonment in 1973, is known as his "Starseed" period. Proceeds from the sale of TERRA II were intended to help pay expenses of costly legal appeals by Leary to win his freedom from prison. The appeals didn't work, Leary wasn't released until California Governor Jerry Brown pardoned him in 1976. Timothy Leary (1920-1996) was extremely controversial. A polarizing figure who challenged the status quo with his famous mantra "Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out." A Cultural Icon who advocated psychedelic drugs, Beat Poet Allen Ginsberg called him "a Hero of American Consciousness." From the collection of Richard Synchef, a noted collector of Beat, Counterculture, and Psychedelic books and oddities.

Condition: Very good +. 33 photographs and 12 pieces of ephemera. 24 photos measure 5¾" x 3½", the rest are 6¼" x 10¼". Items generally very good plus or better with evidence of scrapbook removal on many versos. This is a small collection of photographs and ephemera documenting a promotion for a Texas-based drugstore, Skillern's Departmental Drug Stores. The item promoted was Schick razor blades and contestants competed for trips to exotic locales like Rio De Janeiro or Havana by submitting entries which finished this sentence in 25 words or less, "I buy Eversharp Schick Products from Skillern's because . . ." The photos are spectacular and, with one exception, are entirely devoted to internal shots of store displays for the contest. Each image is filled with razors and promotional signs. One of those signs is included here as part of the ephemera. Because the promotional displays were placed all over the stores we see other store sections within, including canned goods, produce, dinnerware, liquor, the butcher and a Valentines display. Ephemera includes a multipage typescript itinerary for the winners of the contest as well as a five page mimeo of the contest rules. There are six leaves of photo-ready newspaper advertisements for the promotions as well as an original in-store sign-that sign can be seen in some of the photos as well. Rounding out the collection are four colorful travel brochures featuring Havana, Peru, Rio and the Caribbean. A compelling group of images and ephemera showing in-store promotional displays in Texas.