That's No. 89, Feb. 28–Mar. 6, 1969 — Bukowski Notes, Jethro Tull, Warhol's Flesh, GI Resistance, Jail Rapes Investigation

An issue of the Los Angeles underground weekly in the full broadsheet format, featuring Charles Bukowski's "Notes of a Dirty Old Man." Mason calls drunk in the rain; a mob of damned extroverts descends on Bukowski's apartment; the column escalates through a parade of increasingly monstrous literary agents, publishers and hangers-on, culminating in Hockley, a cigar-smoking publisher who claims Bukowski owes him stories and novels, and whose receptionist Francine leads Bukowski on a wild chase through an office building. Mason reappears with a pot of beans. The whole thing ends in a restaurant with a cook full of rocking-cocksucking wonder.

The front cover leads with an extensive investigative report on sexual assault in Philadelphia prisons, printed in striking red and black spot color. Interior features include a report on GI resistance at Fort Hood and the American Servicemen's Union, a review of Andy Warhol's film Flesh, a women's liberation response to rape culture, and an open letter to Jethro Tull. The back cover carries an Elephants Memory advertisement for their Whisky engagement. Full broadsheet format, 22.5" x 15.5", red and black spot color on cover, black and white throughout interior.

Provenance: Mailing label on front cover addressed to John E. Bryan, 22420 Edgecliff Drive, Cleveland, Ohio — the editor's father at his home address.

This copy is in great shape with an even fold. The pages are white and the color is still bold. A few end pages stick out when folded.