Holee Sheet by John Mann (2 results)

Brought to you by the founder of the mysterious dowsing troupe--the John Hazeltwig Society--John Mann, whose devotion to publishing this centennial periodical has lived up to its claim with this being the only issue from Chthon Press. He also published the letters editor Mary Jane Superweed's The Marijuana Consumer's and Dealer's Guide a year prior in 1968. Contents include the 7-fold path to the Holee Sheet Philosophy. And an imagined, and subsequently real, television transcript between Colonel Bleakly Funk, Commander J. Thorny Cromwell and Agent J. Arthur Killman and the Archbishop of Camembert---aka The Big Cheese, filling in for Pope Passive III, who was rushed to a Mexico City hospital for an abortion 30 minutes prior to filming---all discussing the absolute truth of the assassination of JFK. Plus comix, a Vietnam diary, and focus on Shunga, the classical erotic Japanese art form discovered by the editor. Contributors to the Holee Sheet are presumed to be members of the loosely collectivized revolutionary group from Isla Vista, the Strategic Hamlet, as their names had contribution appearances in several issues from the late 1960s. Scarce document of late 1960s bay area anarchistic psychedelia. Very good condition, some very light edge wear and minimal soiling to upper and lower cover wraps. Saddle-stapled quarto (8-3/8 x 10-7/8 inches) in pictorial cardstock wraps, 20 pp.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. "In a universe where everything is holy nothing is sacred." The first and as far as we can determine only issue of this "factual satirical centenial [sic] periodical," which more to the point might have billed itself with such epithets as blasphemous, salacious, and scurrilous. Contents feature provocatively humorous takes on everything from the assassination of John F. Kennedy, to the Vietnam War, to national and ethnic stereotypes (in rather poor taste). With a more straight-faced piece on the classical erotic art of Japan (with a graphic center spread in pink) and a section of pot-related queries answered by "Mary Jane Superweed," author of The Marijuana Consumer's and Dealer's Guide (1968). We suspect that editor and main contributor John Mann may be the same who in 1971 founded The Church of the Tree of Life, which was apparently little more than a front for a mail-order business supplying non-scheduled psychoactive substances (per MAPS, Volume XII, Number 1, 2002). If correct, that would also make him editor of the 1972 drug pamphlet, The First Book of Sacraments of the Church of The Tree of Life, as well as author, under the name John A. Mann, of the 1980 book, Secrets of Life Extension. First edition. Saddle-stapled cardstock wraps printed in blue, yellow, and green, 11.25 x 8.5 in. 20pp. Contents printed variously in brown, pink, purple, and green. Scattered soiling to covers, the interiors of which show minor dampstaining. Oxidation to staples. A touch of crimping to bottom corner of leaves. Else a sharp copy, very good or better. A scarce publication, both in the trade and institutionally, with OCLC reporting a scant four holdings.