Play Power

London: Jonathan Cape. Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket. (1970). First Edition. Hardcover. 0224617885 . Lacking the "Headopoly" poster game from pocket at rear. A 40mm tear at top corner of front panel of dust-jacket. Dust-jacket spine faded. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; 361, [1 (blank) pages. Lacking the "Headopoly" poster game from pocket at rear. Yellow boards with black lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 196 x 133mm. "The term Underground can be applied to militant resistance movements, geological phenomena, or methods of transport. A modification of all these categories falls within the scope of 'Play Power,' an astonishing analysis of another Underground - of drugs, rock music ('the new geology'), communal living experiments, organized violence, street theatre and poetry. The author, Richard Neville, is uniquely qualified to conduct this subterranean tour of psychic Luna Parks and social Horror Chambers. He founded the controversial magazine, OZ, in Sydney and London and here presents an incisive inside view of the world-wide Underground Press Syndicate, involving over a hundred mass-circulation newspapers and magazine. Neville examines the media of the 'alternative society' - content, style, organization - from Austin, Texas, to Zagreb, Yugoslavia." - from dust-jacket blurb. Dust-jacket design by Martin Sharp. .