A Subterranean Journal 
 
William J. Craddock. 
 
Doubleday Projections: 1970. First edition. Hardcover in a jacket. Octavo. Tears along the tops and bottoms of the jacket as well as on the corners. Stains on the panels of the jackets. Spine leaning moderately. Bumping along the corners of the boards as well as the crown and heel of the spine. Slight water staining on the top edge of the text block. 336 pages. Book is very good, jacket is good. 
 
Craddock's legendary memoir of dropping out, tuning in, and tearing down - the record of his realization that the cosmos promised by the Acid Revolution was nothing. He joins a motorcycle gang and pursues freedom from the Dream by means of every drug under the sun. Unique ephemera here - a former owner tried to track down Craddock as he convalesced in the Santa Cruz Mountains, and the unsystematic detective notes are taped to the front flap of the jacket. It seems the search led her to a bookshop.
 
"Up to this moment, I thought I had figured it all out. Which is to say ... I no longer thought about it except in moments of weakness. Nobody else seemed terribly concerned about understanding the reason behind mind and existence and the point to all this  endless movement - only a few old strange philosophers who were quoted from time to time, but for the most part dismissed as quaintly gifted eccentrics. I figured the thing was kicks ... sensation."