Underground Press Guide: Showing Where It's Happening in Print

Los Angeles: The Other Press Publishing Company, 1967. First edition. 8-1/4 x 5-1/4 inches. 88pp. Stapled white wrappers printed in red and black. Toning to wrapper edges and uniformly to leaves; hint of wear to spine ends and corners. Good+.

Early guide to approximately 80 underground press publications, mostly those issued in the U.S., as well as some in Canada and the UK. Includes a cover illustration, editorial statement, publication information, advertising and subscription rates, and mailing address for each publication. Many, but not all, publications are affiliated with the Underground Press Syndicate.

"[T]he underground newspaper represents a successful attempt to communicate to the community -- on a candid, literate and groovy level -- what is happening in its environmental scene. It reveals what is very often ignored, overlooked and distorted by individual writers of the establishment press who fail in their attempts to cover the campus, town, city, metropolitan, national and international scene happenings as should a news media with authentic reportage. When the established news media does not fulfill its responsibility to report, document and debate substantial areas of concern and importance, the underground press responds to community needs and bridges the information gap by fully informing the community of what is happening."

Not wildly uncommon in OCLC, but scarce in the trade.