Description
Signed first edition of Flashbacks by Timothy Leary.
Octavo, 395pp, [2]. Black cloth spine, black hardcover, title in purple on spine. Stated “First Edition” on copyright page with full number line. Solid text block, faint toning to top of spine, a fine example. In publisher’s dust jacket, $15.95 retail price on front flap, some shelf wear, a near fine example. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Steve / Here’s to Sales! and Sails… / Timothy Leary 6/83.”
Timothy Leary (1920-1996) was a “hero of American consciousness” to popular 1960s figures like Allen Ginsberg, but he was also considered “the most dangerous man in America” by President Richard Nixon. Leary was a psychologist who worked on the Harvard Psilocybin Project in the early 1960s and strongly advocated for the use of psychedelics in psychiatry. He coined such phrases as “turn on, tune in, drop out” and “think for yourself and question authority.”
