A complete run in 29 issues, each issue approximately 18-24 pp., of the underground British newspaper, profusely illustrated throughout with comics, photographs, and psychedelic graphics. Tabloid (approximately 16 1/2 x 11 3/4 inches). Original illustrated self-wrappers. Some light toning throughout, minor edgewear and chipping with small marginal tears, light dust-staining, overall very good. No. 22 misprinted as No. 21. London: Ink Publishers Limited, 1971-1972.

A set of twenty-nine issues, representing a complete and unbroken run of the brightly colored and irregularly published underground newspaper, published by Richard Neville (founder and editor of the famous counterculture magazine Oz) and Paul Bream, and cofounded by Oz cofounders Felix Dennis and Ed Victor. The newspaper attacked the hypocrisy of the British government and popular press, and celebrated the swinging drug, music, fashion, and film scenes in London.

Regular contributors to the newspaper included Alexander Trocchi, Alex Mitchell, Felix Dennis, Andrew Fischer, Edward Victor, and others, with features on topics such as the Oz trials, Eldridge Cleaver, James Baldwin, nuclear weapons, Angela Davis, unemployment, the Troubles in Ireland, and the effort to end the Vietnam war. The issues are heavily illustrated throughout with comics, photographs, and psychedelic graphics.

Ink struck a vibrant note in the underground press of the early 1970s. It was subtitled "The Other Newspaper" in reference to its goal to go beyond the established counterculture audience to reach a broader readership. However, due to its close association with the Oz obscenity trials, the paper lost focus and readership after the magazine's publishers won their appeal in 1972.

Complete runs of Ink are scarce institutionally; an important publication from Britain's counterculture.

Book ID: 53513

Price: $4,500.00