Lenore Kandel - The Love Book - Early Printing

KANDEL, Lenore (1932-2009).

The Love Book.

San Fransisco, CA: Stolen Paper Review Editions, 1966.

FIRST STOLEN PAPER REVIEW EDITION, later issue. Octavo (22 x 19cm),pp.[12]. Publisher's card wraps printed in brown and blue, printed price of $1 to rear.

Neat annotation to final page, covers slightly rubbed to extremities, sunned to spine. Near fine.

Originally self-published then taken up by the Stolen Paper Review Editions press, a slim volume of poetry that lead to a well publicised obscenity trial in 1967. Kandel was a figure within the Beat Generation and the Hippie counterculture, a friend of Kerouac and linked with the Diggers and the Hells Angels.