Fuck the System
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Fuck the System
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Hoffman, Abbie. FUCK THE SYSTEM. [New York]: [Publisher not identified], [1967 or 1968]. FIRST EDITION. 16mo - 6" x 3-1/2". Staple bound black and white photo-pictorial paper wrappers with touches of rubbing along spine for what is a spectacular copy of the book. 30, [2] pp. including photo-pictorial paper wrappers. This is a rare piece of Yippie ephemera, very much in the same vein of Abbie Hoffman's "Steal This Book." Though Hoffman is not identified within the booklet as the author, as the OCLC listing notes "[i]mplied authorship and publication information in Hoffman's Revolution for the hell of it (New York: Dial, 1968) which includes a facsimile of this pamphlet." The book is a fascinating compendium of sources where one could obtain for free, basically everything a person would need for existence beginning with "Free Vegetables - Hunt's Point market . . . Just tell them you want to feed some people free and it's yours." There is also information on Free Booze, Free Clothes, Free Lawyers, Free Furniture, Free Bus Rides, Free Yoga Lessons, Free Theater, Free Pets, etc., etc. The book also contains advice for anarchist, hippies, and your garden variety radicals living in New York City at the time, e.g., Draft Resistance Advice, Clap And The Tasmanian Fever (TPF: "It's the cops"), Runaways, Demonstrations, Dope, Bad Trips and Communes. Internally pristine with the exception of some occasional filling in, with an orchid ink pen, some letters that lend themselves to being filled in, e.g., a, d, e, o and p, and a Free Poem which the book also discusses, neatly written in French with the same orchid ink pen, in the gutter between pp. 16-17, lamenting the overabundance of police in the poets world; definitely a poignant addition. The condition of the book is NEAR FINE. Only seven copies located on OCLC/WorldCat. RARE; especially in such pristine condition. #000945