On the Bus: The Complete Guide to the Legendary Trip of Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters and the Birth of the Counterculture (PRESS KIT)

New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, 1990. Very Good. Eight folded unbound signatures. Featuring photos by Ron "Hassler" Bevirt, Allen Ginsberg, Gene Anthony, Ted Streshinsky, and others. 195pp. With 2 folded sheets of photographic representations depicting the Love Pageant Rally held the day after LSD was criminalized, Neal Cassady in Wikieup (Arizona), "Further" being prepared for the Acid Test Graduation, and Ken Kesey as "Captain Flag." Also included: Three pages of publisher's promotional material; Xeroxed article from "Trade News" titled "'On the Bus' with Kesey, Viking and Thunder's Mouth" edited by Gayle Feldman; Book Review, Los Angeles Times, Sunday, October 21, 1990. All housed in a folder with an illustrated paper label. "On the Bus" tells the story of the 1964 bus trip that inspired a generation and was immortalized by Tom Wolfe's "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test." Published on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of "Electric Kool-Aid Acid Tests." The text features oral histories from the Pranksters themselves, as well as Allen Ginsberg, Hunter S. Thompson, Robert Stone, Timothy Leary and others; and tells of encounters with Jack Kerouac, Larry McMurtry, the Grateful Dead, the Hell's Angels, and many more.