The Stoned Apocalypse by Marco Vassi, First Edition (6 results)

Hardcover. Black cloth, dust jacket. 250pp. Near fine/good plus. Jacket a bit rubbed, with slight wear at head and tail of spine and single edge chip. Attractive first edition. YOUNG 3910.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. First printing, fine in a fine dust jacket. A very clean and tight copy of this memoir of a young man living through the turbulent times of the 1960's as a seeker of spiritual well-being. A "coast-to-coast surreal wrestling match" in which he "observed the spiritual death of the psychedelic sixties." $6.95 price on jacket flap; no names or other marking in or on the book.

First edition. 250 pp. Two damp-stains to front cover, else near fine in very good dust jacket with offsetting from the stains to the verso, and two internally reinforced tears. Young 3910*.

Soft cover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. First Edition.

First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Black cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 251pp. Tight, fine copy. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $6.95 on front flap), gently rubbed at head and heel but still crisp, clean, and free of toning or notable wear; very Near Fine. Vassi's fifth book, preceded by four works of Olympia Press erotica. A memoir of Vassi's sexual and psychedelic experiments of the Sixties. Vassi, who has been called the finest erotic writer of his generation, would go on to a long career as a literary spokesman for sexual and psychological liberation; he was a daring early writer on non-normative definitions of gender and redefinition of sex roles. Vassi died of complications from AIDS in 1989; this was his only volume of memoir.

One of the classic early '70s underground novels. The 1972 1st edition. WARMLY INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR MARCO VASSI on the title page. A solid copy to boot: Tight and Near Fine (several tiny spots at the panels) in a bright, VG dustjacket, with very mild soiling and darkening to the panels.