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Cat. No.: CC-296 Full record BibCit: (Month of) 3/1/1967. Book. Letter size. 72 leaves (cover + 140 pp.). San Francisco: Communication Company. Imprint: Manuscript Editions Number One | The ComCo. Collation: Issued as loose sheets in a clear plastic enclosure.. Abstract: Informed Sources is a novel by Willard Bain (not attributed in this first edition) that used a series of Associated Press–style dispatches to expose how language and news media function as instruments of social control, and to imagine their seizure and transformation by revolutionary forces. The book is framed as the internal information network of the Peripheral Underground Movement (PUM), a parody of and challenge to establishment wire services. Its “dispatches” follow multiple stories at once, including sensational, distorted crime items and countervailing bulletins, making visible how the media define reality by selecting, angling, and repeating information in ways that keep people “chained to capitalism and to consumer consciousness.”
Drawing on a "post-Burroughs" and "post-McLuhan" sensibility (as John Sinclair wrote in a review), Bain mimics the cadence, typography, and language of the mainstream press in order to show that whoever controls information flow also controls the limits of possible action. Within the novel’s world, the alternative service Informed Sources initially merely reproduces the “decadent form” of the establishment media, but it is ultimately infiltrated and overthrown by “Green Dreams,” a purer revolutionary current that represents the conscious transformation rather than the continuation of existing media forms.
Note: This is the first edition, with no indication of authorship on the cover nor the imprint page. A second edition with the author's name (Willard Bain) and date of 9/67 appeared, also by The Communication Company, with the notation, "Printed in and around San Francisco ..." In 1969, Doubleday published the third edition in a trade paperback. See John Sinclair's review in: Fifth Estate # 76, April 3-16, 1969.
Cat. No.: CC-009 Full record BibCit: n.d., ca. 3/2/1967. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Imprint: cc.u.p.s. Collection: SOLA-xSS|SS-oL. Abstract: Photo reprint of news clip, "FBI's List of 'Radical Subversives'" tells of plans to round up radicals during a national disaster. ComCo editorial elaborates the implications for "all of us who smoke a little pot & dig a little peace". I Ching reading. "Because dope is political, & don't you forget it. Anything that criticizes the Establishment & its asinine war & power games is political -- subversive! -- and taking dope is an act of criticism."
Note: Dating comes from an SF Examiner article from March 2, 1967, reporting on the meeting of the California Civil Defense and Disaster Directors Association.
Cat. No.: CC-079 Full record BibCit: 3/2-3/67 3/2/1967. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Imprint: communication company member of the .... Collection: SS-x(M) | SOLA-x(SS). Abstract: A "flash" about the upcoming First Annual Love Circus which the diggers are threatening to picket.
Cat. No.: CC-138 Full record BibCit: 3/3/1967. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Collection: SS-x(BL) | SOLA-x(SS). Abstract: With phone numbers to call to help out.
Cat. No.: CC-132a Full record BibCit: N.d., ca. 3/5/1967. Broadsheet. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Collation: Illus. with 3 hexagrams.. Collection: SS-x(BL) | SOLA-x(SS). Abstract: Announces a REAL rock dance directed by Chester Anderson at California Hall for 3/5/67, $2.50. R.s.: cont'd.
Note: From an Ebay auction description: This is a super rare original handbill for "Bedrock One" in a rare variant color (deep gold) - most of the handbills for this event are light green. This was supposed to have been a Digger’s event, however, The Diggers disavowed any connection and as a result many copies of the handbill have text overprinted on the back stating it is not a Digger’s event. This handbill is blank on the back.
Bedrock One which took place on March 5th, 1967 at California Hall in San Francisco, California featured music by Steve Miller Blues Blues Band, Dino Valenti; ceremonies from The Radha Krishna Temple; poetry by Richard Brautigan and The Caped Crusaders; experimental theater, lights, and happenings by the S.F. Mime Troupe. Hosted by Warren Hinkle III, editor of Ramparts Magazine. The artwork is by fabled Underground (Zap and other comix) Comic artist, Robert Crumb - he hardly ever did artwork for concerts so this is a rare R. Crumb piece. 8 1/2 x 11 inches and in Near Mint condition.
Cat. No.: CC-132b Full record BibCit: n.d., ca. 3/5/1967. Broadsheet. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Collection: SOLA-x(SS); SS-x(BL). Abstract: Reverse side of "Bedrock One!"
Cat. No.: CC-169 Full record BibCit: N.d., ca. 3/5/1967. Broadside. 7"x9-7/8". San Francisco: ?. Collection: SS-x(BL) | SOLA-x(SS). Abstract: Announces an event produced for the Communication Company to be held 5 Mar 1967 at California Hall. Tickets, $2.50. This is different from CC-132. Note: no Com/Co imprint.
Cat. No.: CC-204 Full record BibCit: N.d, ca. 3/5/1967. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Collation: Illus with cartoon by R. Crumb of boy and lightbulb head.. Collection: SOLA-o(DW). Abstract: "Sunday March 5 | ... | $2.50".
Cat. No.: CC-075 Full record BibCit: 3/9/1967. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Imprint: communication company, ups. Collection: SS-x(m) | SOLA-x(ss). Abstract: Announcement of community meeting.
Cat. No.: CC-243 Full record BibCit: 3/9/1967. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Imprint: C.C.. Collation: Title is in art type (gothic and modern); "a C.C. Flash" is hdw.. Collection: SOLA-x(CSL) | o-BL/CA.
Note: The BL copy is a three-page leaflet (unbound). This copy is one sheet only.
Cat. No.: CC-237 Full record BibCit: N.d., ca. 3/13/1967. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Imprint: None. Collection: SOLA-x(CSL).
Cat. No.: CC-140a Full record BibCit: N.d., ca. 3/15/1967. Broadsheet. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Collation: Printed in landscape mode.. Collection: SS-x(BL) | SOLA-x(SS). Abstract: Announces the Committee Theater's production of "The Fool's Play" and "Macbird".
Cat. No.: CC-140b Full record BibCit: N.d., ca. 3/15/1967. Broadsheet. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Collation: Printed landscape.. Collection: SS-x(BL) | SOLA-x(SS). Abstract: Cont'd. from other side.
Cat. No.: CC-218 Full record BibCit: N.d., ca. 3/15/1967. Broadsheet. 6-3/4"x10". San Francisco: Communication Company. Collation: Brn. pa.. Collection: SOLA-o (DW). Abstract: Announces a "benefit for the communication company in honor of the c.i.a." To take place March 5, 1967, $2.50. R.s.: photo repro of the chest and stomach of a nude woman, with ComCo's imprint.
Cat. No.: CC-107 Full record BibCit: By Van Hoy, Scot. 3/18/1967. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Collation: Illus w/ two hexagrams.. Collection: SS-x(BL) | SOLA-x(SS). Abstract: Notice of the start of the digger early warning system (DEW) and warning of rumored busts-to-be at 848 Cole, a digger pad.
Cat. No.: CC-118 Full record BibCit: 3/19/1967. Broadside. 11"x5". San Francisco: Communication Company. Collection: SS-x(BL) | SOLA-x(SS):SOLA-o(DW). Abstract: A "CC/DPS Flash" suggesting what the title says.
Cat. No.: CC-134 Full record BibCit: 3/21/1967. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Collection: SS-x(BL) | SOLA-x(SS). Abstract: Explains the reasons why the "doors to the open commune at 1775 Haight Street have been closed."
Cat. No.: CC-156 Full record BibCit: By Apache. 3/21/1967. Broadside. 8-1/2"x13". San Francisco: Communication Company. Collection: SS-x(B) | SOLA-x(SS).
Cat. No.: CC-120a Full record BibCit: n.d., ca. 3/22/1967. Broadsheet. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Collation: Layout is in landscape mode.. Collection: SS-x(BL) | SOLA-x(SS):SOLA-o(DW). Abstract: Reprint of S.F. Examiner article about expected invasion of hippies. R.s.: cont'd.
Cat. No.: CC-120b Full record BibCit: n.d., ca. 3/22/1967. Broadsheet. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Collation: Layout is in landscape mode.. Collection: SS-x(BL) | SOLA-x(SS):SOLA-o(DW). Abstract: Cont'd from other side. Reprint of S.F. Examiner article on predicted invasion of hippies.
Cat. No.: CC-104a Full record BibCit: 3/23/1967. Broadsheet. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Collation: Printing is superimposed over CC-100.. Collection: SS-x(BL) | SOLA-x(SS).
Cat. No.: CC-104b Full record BibCit: 3/23/1967. Broadsheet. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Collation: Top of page has Mime Troupe logo. Illus w/ photo repros.. Collection: SS-x(BL) | SOLA-x(SS).
Cat. No.: CC-083 Full record BibCit: 3/24/1967. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Collection: SS-x(m) | SOLA-x(ss):SOLA-o(dw). Abstract: Announcing an event.
Cat. No.: CC-085a Full record BibCit: By Doc Stanley. 3/24/1967. Broadsheet. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Collection: SS-x(m) | SOLA-x(ss). Abstract: Reprint of article from Los Angeles Free Press, 2/18/66. Tells how to deal with cops. R.s: cont.
Cat. No.: CC-116a Full record BibCit: 3/24/1967. Broadsheet. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Collation: Illus. w/ photo of a man below first line.. Collection: SS-x(BL) | SOLA-o(DW). Abstract: See R.s.
