Play Power Tapa dura - 1970

London: Jonathan Cape. Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket. (1970). First Edition. Hardcover. 0224617885 . Lacking the "Headopoly" poster game from pocket at rear. A 40mm tear at top corner of front panel of dust-jacket. Dust-jacket spine faded. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; 361, [1 (blank) pages. Lacking the "Headopoly" poster game from pocket at rear. Yellow boards with black lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 196 x 133mm. "The term Underground can be applied to militant resistance movements, geological phenomena, or methods of transport. A modification of all these categories falls within the scope of 'Play Power,' an astonishing analysis of another Underground - of drugs, rock music ('the new geology'), communal living experiments, organized violence, street theatre and poetry. The author, Richard Neville, is uniquely qualified to conduct this subterranean tour of psychic Luna Parks and social Horror Chambers. He founded the… Leer más

London: Jonathan Cape. 1st ed. 361pp. VG+/VG+ copy, slight discolouration to jacket spine, hint of wear to spine ends, lacking pull-out poster at rear, now preserved in mylar jacket protecotor . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1970.

London: Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1970. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Bright, un-clipped dust-jacket, a little chipped at spine ends but very tidy having been kept in clear protective cover. Book bound in yellow cloth, title in black on the spine. Contents unmarked, no foxing or spotting, pages smooth and clean, though closed page edge browned. Pocket at rear of book contains fold out Headopoly poster game, which appears to have never been unfolded or used. An extremely good copy of a fairly scarce book.

London: Cape, 1970. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. One corner moderately bumped, considerable foxing to the foredge, in some cases impinging a little on the text margins of a few pages, a near very good copy in very good, price-clipped dustwrapper with modest wear. Advance Review Copy with slip laid in indicating that this copy was sent to *Financial Review*. Sixties jacket illustration by Martin Sharp. Although a foldout poster game "Headopoly" is supposed to be in a pocket attached to the rear pastedown, this copy has a notice pasted over the pocket noting that the poster game has been removed because of a Prohibition Notice by the Australia Department of Customs and Excise. A book about the politics of play as a youth movement weapon, by the publisher of the Australian, and later English, counterculture magazine *OZ*.

London: Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1970. Hardcover in good condition. Jacket not price-clipped. Original price £1.90, 38s net. Includes fold-out poster game 'Headpoly' in pocket on rear pastedown. Jacket spine is slightly sunned. Jacket leading corners, edges and spine ends are lightly bumped and worn. Boards, page block and a few pages are lightly marked. Spine ends are slightly tanned. Text remains clear throughout. Binding is sound. HCW. hardcover. Good/Good. Used.