Spit Ocean by Kesey Ken (24 results)

Trade Paperback. Condition: Used - Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good.

Softcover. Copy mailed 4th class, addressed & stamp cancelled rear cover. Edgewear, surface creases, light toning, near fine.

Soft cover. Condition: Very good +. #1 "Old In The Streets" Ed. By Ken Kesey and features; Margo St. James, Henry Crow Dog, Ken Babbs, Paul Krassner and More! Between 1974 and 1981 Ken Kesey self-published six issues of a literary magazine called Spit in the Ocean. Kesey assembled his Merry Pranksters and other kindred spirits for one more, and final, prank-a semi-regular book series that contained pieces of his unfinished novel about his beloved grandmother, and contributions from a who's who of the counterculture. Softcover book is flat, bright and clean with minimal signs of wear or handling. See photos for condition details.

Soft cover. Condition: Very good +. #4 "Straight From The Gut" Ed. Lee Marrs and features; Grace Harwood, Mugsy Peabody, Allie Light, Happy Hyder and More! Between 1974 and 1981 Ken Kesey self-published six issues of a literary magazine called Spit in the Ocean. Kesey assembled his Merry Pranksters and other kindred spirits for one more, and final, prank-a semi-regular book series that contained pieces of his unfinished novel about his beloved grandmother, and contributions from a who's who of the counterculture. Softcover book is flat, bright and clean with minimal signs of wear or handling. See photos for condition details.

Paperbound. Fine. First Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 143 pages.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Trade Sized Paperback. First Printing. 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches. 128 pages. With black/white photos of the contributors. FINE. All corners pointed but for crease 3/4 inch from point of lower right front corner. Binding tight and square. Without tears, other creases, bumps or chips. Cover edges a bit tanned from age. Not written in and very clean and bright. All items carefully wrapped and sent boxed.

Good softcover. 127p. Previous owner's name on front endpaper. Covers aged, binding tight.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition First Printing.

Soft Cover. Condition: As New. Babbs, Foster, Simon (illustrator). First Edition. Collectible as new condition.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Paperback. 8 1/4 x 5 3/8 inches. First Edition. 141 pages with black/white photo and drawings throughout. FINE. Not read. All corners pointed. Binding square, without stress creasing and firm. Without tears, creases, bumps or chips. With slight wear from handling. Not marked and very clean and bright. All books carefully wrapped and sent boxed.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. This is a fine condition copy of the first of seven Intrepid Trips. 18 essays on growing old by Ken and 17 of his friends.127 page paperback in white printed wraps. Second printing, March 1977,

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition/First Printing. Softcover. Near fine book in illustrated wrappers. Slight edgewear. The Neal Cassady issue. Includes writing from Ken Kesey, John Clellon Holmes, Larry McMurtry, Jerry Garcia, William Burroughs, Carolyn Cassady and others. Photographs throughout. Includes The Day after Superman Died by Kesey.

Condition: Buone. inglese Condizioni dell'esterno: Discrete con difetti, dorso allentato Condizioni dell'interno: Discrete con Difetti, bruniture.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 8vo. 127 pages. SIGNED twice by Kesey. Once on the cover in silver and red felt pen, and once in ink on title page. Signed by Author(s).

paperback. Condition: Very Good.

8vo. pp. 1 p.l., 127, [2]. wrs.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Octavos, black and white illustrations, publisher s pictorial wrappers (generally worn, good to very good). A lot of all 6 issues published during Kesey s lifetime sold together. Issue 1 printed 1977 (ie 2nd printing, 1st printing was 1974, each an edition of 5000) 127pp; issue 2, 1976, 158pp; issue 3, 1977, 140pp; issue 4, 1978, 141pp; issue 5 1979, 175pp; Issue 6, 1981, 224pp and featuring an unpublished manuscript of Neal Cassady, with imput from numerous luminaries including Larry McMurtry, Jerry Garcia, William Burroughs, etc.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Second Printing. Near fine (5 tiny dots to back panel only flaw), signed twice by Ken Kesey (the editor), first on the title page in black ballpoint and fancifully on the back panel in large letters decorated with blue, orange, and green paint. Rare copy of the premier issue.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. All Near Fine to Fine copies in paperback bindings. Volume 1 is a 2nd printing, the other six are 1st printings. The Spit in the Ocean series was first conceived by Kesey as a way to serialize an unpublished novel recounting the adventures or "prayers" of one Grandma Whittier. According to one Kesey insider, Grandma symbolizes a lot of things, but she s mostly Ken s Grandma Smith, who he was close to". Kesey created six installments of the novel, each one closing out each of the first six editions of Spit before Grandma Smith passed on in the early 1980s. Volume 7 is "all about Kesey.".

Wrappers. Condition: very good. Spit in the Ocean. No.1-6. Ed. K. Kesey a.o. Pleasant Hill, the editor, 1974-1981, 6 issues, ills., orig. not unif. pict. wr. - Plus the later 7th issue. = Contributions by i.a. Ken Kesey, Ken Babbs, Timothy Leary, Robert Anton Wilson, Paul Krassner, Studs Terkel en Neal Cassady. Issue no.6 is "The Special Neal Cassady Issue" with previously unpublished work. Clay and Phillips. p.296.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 7 Volumes from the journal associated with Ken Kesey. All kinds of fun material, including elsewhere unpublished pieces by Kesey and many others from the counterculture.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good (see specifics). First Editions. Eight books: The full set of seven first-edition issues of the Ken Kesey-led and inspired publication "Spit in the Ocean" - Issues 1 though 7, all first editions - plus the 1977 Second Edition of Volume I. Octavo, 8.4 in. x 5.5 in. Volume 1 (1974): Signed by poet Wendell Berry on page 15 (with his printed photo and fiction story). Light tanning to covers. Spine crease. Back cover used as a mailer, with stamps and address label (to Carolyn Ferguson/CBS Morning News). Light thumbing to front corners. Good Plus. Volume 2 (1975): Sunning to spine. 1 in. x 1.5 in. dark liquid stain to upper front right corner of front cover that drips over the fore-edge. Good Plus. Volumes 3, 4, 5 (1977/78/79): Very light shelfwear to edges of covers. Very Good Plus. Volume 6, "The Cassady Issue" (1981): Shelfwear to edges. Light thumbing to front corners. Address and phone number of Ken Kesey's farm handwritten in ink to verso of front cover. Good Plus. Volume 7 (Edited by Ed McClanahan, Penguin Books: 2003; 8.4 in. x 5.25 in.): Very light shelfwear. Very Good Plus. Volume 1 (Second printing: 1977): A few spots to far upper left corner of front cover and top of spine. Very Good. Ken Kesey, Wendell Berry, Timothy Leary, Jack Cassady, Ken Babbs, Paul Krassner, Studs Terkel, Larry McMurtry, Hunter S. Thompson, Tom Wolfe, Robert Hunter and many others contribute their poetic voices in this transitional era.

single_issue_magazine. Condition: Good. The textblock is clean and unmarked. The cover has soiling, discoloration, bumping, wear, and creasing.

Unbound. Condition: Fine. Folded in half, else fine. This flyer for *Spit in the Ocean* advertises a special subscription deal for the first seven issues of the Kesey-edited literary magazine, with Corn Twang's "Food Stamp Raga" printed on the reverse. Kesey has Signed the flyer beneath a statement of receipt for $5 from noted collector Irwin Holtzman.