Large folio with two-color poster by Thomas W. Benton on front. 3 pages of text and ads by Hunter S. Thompson et al. Illustrated internally from photographs including the reprint of the controversial "Jilly" nude from Evergreen Review. 57x40 cm (22½x15¾"). The poster draws its inspiration from the following quote from Clarence Darrow in 1920, "Gentlemen, nature works in a mysterious way. When a new truth comes upon the Earth, or a great idea necessary for mankind is born, where does it come from? Not from the police force or the prosecuting attorneys or the judges or the lawyers or the doctors; not there. It comes from the despised and the outcast; it comes perhaps from jails and prisons; it comes from men who have dared to be rebels and think their thoughts; and their fate has been the fate of rebels. This generation gives them graves while another builds them monuments; and there is no exception to it. It has been true since the world began, and it will be true no doubt forever." Provenance: from Louisville high school friend of HST Paul Semonin.
Large folio with two-color poster by Thomas W. Benton on front. 3 pages of text and ads by Hunter S. Thompson et al. Illustrated internally from photographs including the reprint of the controversial "Jilly" nude from Evergreen Review. 57x40 cm (22½x15¾"). The poster draws its inspiration from the following quote from Clarence Darrow in 1920, "Gentlemen, nature works in a mysterious way. When a new truth comes upon the Earth, or a great idea necessary for mankind is born, where does it come from? Not from the police force or the prosecuting attorneys or the judges or the lawyers or the doctors; not there. It comes from the despised and the outcast; it comes perhaps from jails and prisons; it comes from men who have dared to be rebels and think their thoughts; and their fate has been the fate of rebels. This generation gives them graves while another builds them monuments; and there is no exception to it. It has been true since the world began, and it will be true no doubt forever." Provenance: from Louisville high school friend of HST Paul Semonin.
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