Last Whole Earth Catalog (45 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Elephant folio. Condition: Good. First Edition Later Printing. Combines 445 pages. Fascinating relic of the 1970s "Back to Land" movement, this oversized catalog contains numerous recommendations for everything you would need in order to achieve a sustainable lifestyle: tools, gardening supplies, book recommendations, and more. The amount of research the compiling of these catalogs must have required is mind-boggling! Cover depicts the dark side of the moon with "Evening, Thanks Again" underneath and original $5 cover price. CONDITION: This is a vintage item in used condition. Signs of wear and use to exterior covers, edges and spine. Some discoloration and staining to front cover, with obvious creasing and rubbing present. Spine is noticeably shelf-worn and torn, interior contents are thumbed. Age-toned interior, overall a good copy that is firmly bound. DESCRIPTION: FUNCTION: THE WHOLE EARTH CATALOG functions as an evaluation and access device. With it, the user should know better what is worth getting and where and how to do the getting. An item is listed in the CATALOG if it is deemed: useful as a tool, relevant to independent education, High quality or low cost, Easily available by mail. Catalog listings are continually revised according to the experience and suggestions of CATALOG users and staff. PURPOSE: We are as gods and we might as well get used to it. So far remotely done power and glory - as via government, big business, formal education, church - has succeeded to the point where gross defects obscure actual gains. In response to this dilemma and to these gains a realm of intimate, personal power is developing - the power of individuals to conduct their own education, find their own inspiration, shape their own environment, and share the adventure with whoever is interested. Tools that aid this process are sought and promoted by The Next Earth Catalog.

Stapled Wraps. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Wraps (PB) in very good condition with light cover wear, tiny 25 cent written top of front cover. Articles include "Alternative Education in the Seventies," "Yoga Sutras of Patan Jali," and "Monologue with Future Shock." There are cartoons by Ed Badajos (Filipino Food), Joel Beck, Dick Guindon, Skip Williamson and Dan O'Neill. Ken Kesey writes about multiple topics in the multi-page "Tools from my Chest," including The Beatles, Eldridge Cleaver and S. Clay Wilson. This is the true first edition with invitations to the "Demise Party" opposite back cover.128 pages.

Softcover. Condition: Fair. Oversized. Some creasing and wear, torn back cover, wrinkling; pages tanned, some chipped corners; a reading/reference copy still. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Reference; Inventory No: 213917. This book is extra heavy, and may involve extra shipping charges to some countries.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Third printing, oversize trade paperback, rear hinge is weakening but solid, the book has bumps to the spine ends and corners, creasing to the cover corners and the upper fore corner of the text block, a longer diagonal crease near the lower corner of the back cover and last pages, rubbing with light smudging to the covers, slight wear to the edges, and some age toning to the pages. Overall, this is a solid, Very Good copy.

Softcover. Condition: Fair. Stapled wraps, a 3.5" square has been cut from the lower fore corner of p. 41-2, and the book also has bumps with creasing to the spine ends and the corners of the covers and pages, as well as rubbing to the covers with black pen over the price on the front, and age toning to the pages. Overall, this is a solid, bright, Fair copy.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. Later Edition. ISBN . B094YZNJMC Oversized trade paperback. Tight sound copy in Good to Very Good condition with some edgewear. This book is The Last Whole Earth Catalog: Access to tools, updated August 1972. No Signature.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. The Last Whole Earth Catalog: Access to Tools, Second Printing, Portola Institute / Random House 1971 A hippie, back to nature, self-sufficiency, sustainability Bible of sorts. Edited by Stewart Brand, with contributions from Gurney Norman, Kenneth Patchen, Wendell Berry, Ken Kelsey, and a host of other hippies Large 4to, soft cover, pp. 448; Good condition, three inch tear to tail of front joint and first leaf, rubbing and creasing to covers, a couple other half-inch closed tears to front cover, a few creased/dog-eared page corners.

Condition: Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Soft cover. Condition: Good Plus. 1st Edition. Clean softcover in good plus condition; light shelf wear and rubbing; lightly creased.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Folio sized first edition card covered catalog of 446 pages . Clean interior with no writing, marks or tears and all pages tight in binding. Covers clean, lightly rubbed to spine edges and corner crease to rear as shown in photos.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Cover by Robert Crumb. Quarto. Stapled wrappers. Very good with creasing, rubbing and wear at the edges. Contributors included Ken Kesey and Paul Krasner.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. This is an original Last Whole Earth Catalog . The paper has yellowed and the binding has been repaired, but it is complete. Original owners signature and a few folded corners.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. The Last Whole Earth Catalog: Access to Tools, First Edition, Portola Institute / Random House 1971 A hippie, back to nature, self-sufficiency, sustainability Bible of sorts. Edited by Stewart Brand, with contributions from Gurney Norman, Kenneth Patchen, Wendell Berry, Ken Kelsey, and a host of other hippies Large 4to, soft cover, pp. 448; Good+ condition, cover is starting to come detached from text block, a few short tears to joints, minor rubbing and creasing, small stain to front cover.

Large Paperback. Condition: Fair. Illustrated (illustrator). Fair. 5" crease to head of fore edge of front cover with heavy edgewear and rubbing to the fore edge of front cover. Normal browning to pages. 447 pages.

Very good condition, wraps lightly edge worn and creased at corners, text block toned. Saddle-stapled quarto (7 x 10-1/4 inches) in pictorial wraps, 128 pp.

Soft cover. Condition: VG. First Edition Later Printing. The bible of the counterculture/environmental movement in the early '70s when the first Earth Day got people thinking about being green & sustainable. Increasingly scarce as the first hippies (Boomers) pass on. This is the FIRST EDITION, Eighth Printing (Aug.1972) of the Last Catalog, which combined the earlier Catalog & the Supplement, which were published alternatively since 1968. About 1/3 of the material in this Last Catalog is new. They really did think this one would be the last ("This is really the LAST Catalog."), but it would continue to be printed for a few years! In 448 pages, with a 1967 picture of the dark side of Earth's moon taken by Apollo 4 on front cover, with the word, "Evening, Thanks Again," underneath photo & $5.00 cover price. An extremely large (elephant folio) softcover with black & white decorative wrappers, this copy is in VG condition (we are also offering a Good- (minus) copy for less). This copy is exceptionally clean & well-preserved, with a tight, square ginding & some light creasing to front cover. Missing lower-outer corner of back cover. There is insect damage (white scraped spots) all over the outside, heaviest to spine & back cover: front cover just has a few spots! Pages tanned, heavier around edges, commensurate with paper quality & age. Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same day shipping on all orders received by 2pm weekdays (Pacific time); later orders, weekends, & holidays ship very next business day. SORRY: NO expedited domestic or international shipping without substantial (at least double) postage increase.

Paperback. Condition: Good. First Edition; Fourth Printing. Cover is worn at the extremities with multiple short tears and chips but clean. Publisher's price of $5 in lower right corner. Spine is straight. Binding is tight. Pages are toned with a chip to the upper corner of the first 2 pages and bumped at page corners but clean and in good condition. ; 14.4 X 11.0 X 1.1 inches; 448 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. This is a book that only works well in hardcover. This is a 14th printing in hardcover. With the hand stamp of Patient Library, VA Hospital. Apparently the patients had better things to do as this is a really nice copy. Photos on request. MEDIA SHIPPING ONLY, extra for airmail or international shipping.

128pp., numerous black and white photos and drawings. Issue No. 89 of the Realist magazine. This is the subsciber's version . Contributors include Ken Kesey, Jon Kaplan, Jerome Agel, Ed McClanahan and many others. Cover art by R. Crumb. Articles include "Alternative Education in the Seventies," "Yoga Sutras of Patan Jali," and "Monologue with Future Shock." There are cartoons by Ed Badajos (Filipino Food), Joel Beck, Dick Guindon, Skip Williamson and Dan O'Neill. Ken Kesey writes about multiple topics in the multi-page "Tools from my Chest," including The Beatles, Eldridge Cleaver and S. Clay Wilson. Saddle-stapled wraps. Shelf and handling wear, light creasing to the covers. Very good.

PAPERBACK. Condition: Good. Paperback edition. 447pp. Folio paperbound, tight binding. Paper wrap and spine worn. torn, faded. Interior clean throughout.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. March 1971, pages 63-66 detached, small closed tear at edge of mailing list.

Trade Paperback. Condition: VG. used trade paperback edition. lightly shelfworn, corners perhaps slightly bumped. pages and binding are clean, straight and tight. there are no marks to the text or other serious flaws. pages a bit discolored with age. some creasing to spine.

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. Spine damage and creases throughout cover.

Softcover, 448 pages, very good condition; except pages very yellowed and last page is loose and chipped along right edge; rear cover has small crease to lower corner; no internal marks. Foreign shipping may be extra.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Internally Very Fine, this copy is in Very Good+ condition overall due to a light rub on the back cover. At the height of the "hippie movement," the anti-war and psychedelic art movements, the March 1971 Last Supplement to the Whole Earth Catalog provided an escape from the quickly approaching future. It provided aspects of a kinder, gentler, non-automated world. It also imparted insight into the social and political conditions of the time along with information on environmental concerns that continue to this day. Introduced by an iconic Robert Crumb cover comprising all his classic characters assembled in a take-off on the Last Supper, this issue contains a group of Ken Kesey pieces on The Bible, I Ching, Mantras, and Martin Buber. Still more, there's a full-page ad for Abbie Hoffman's Steal This Book, Ellen Sanders' We Are Endangered Species, poetry by Wendell Berry and Allen Ginsberg, and many other authors and artists. The final page is an invitation to "an exclusive party to celebrate the demise of the Whole Earth Catalog" in San Francisco on June 11, 1971.

Condition: Fine unmarked. 1st edition. Another delightfully scurrilous issue from the master of mind-fug. Solid clean tight copy. of scarce collectible issue. 8-1/4 x 11, 128 pp, b/w photos & illus. Newsprint magazine.in color illus (R Crumb) wraps, saddle-stapled.

First edition, first printing Cover by R. Crumb. Becoming scarce. Near fine with light rub. The Crumb cover is quite nicely preserved. The usual age toning to the cheap paper quality but very Sixties-stylish.

Large folio (14.5 x 11 ins); pp 448; illustrations throughout. Original pictorial card covers, rubbed along edges of the spine, corners creased with point of one lower corner knocked off. A VG+ copy. The WEC was an American counterculture magazine and product catalogue published several times a year between 1968 and 1972 by Stewart Brand. This is the British edition given over to accessing products and services in the UK. The magazine featured essays and articles, but was primarily focused on product reviews. The editorial focus was on self-sufficiency, ecology, alternative education, "do it yourself" (DIY), and holism, and featured the slogan "access to tools". Although WEC reviewed a wide range of products (clothing, books, machines, seeds, etc.), it did not sell any of the products directly. Instead, the vendor's contact information was listed alongside the item and its review. This is why, while not a regularly published periodical, numerous editions and updates were required to keep price and availability information up to date. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Very rare to find a first printing of this 1971 "Last Whole Earth Catalog". Only 200,000 copies were printed of THIS particular version and most were not kept as collectibles. High collectible today. EXCELLENT condition also. There is one tiny missing corner on the front but the rest of this 447 page issue is pristine. Scarce. (BR) Shelf 2.

Large folio (14.5 x 11 ins); pp 448; illustrations throughout. Original pictorial card covers, slightly rubbed at extremities. A FINE copy. The WEC was an American counterculture magazine and product catalogue published several times a year between 1968 and 1972 by Stewart Brand. This is the British edition given over to accessing products and services in the UK. The magazine featured essays and articles, but was primarily focused on product reviews. The editorial focus was on self-sufficiency, ecology, alternative education, "do it yourself" (DIY), and holism, and featured the slogan "access to tools". Although WEC reviewed a wide range of products (clothing, books, machines, seeds, etc.), it did not sell any of the products directly. Instead, the vendor's contact information was listed alongside the item and its review. This is why, while not a regularly published periodical, numerous editions and updates were required to keep price and availability information up to date. Book.