it #38 Aug 23 - Sep 5 1968. VERY GOOD; previously folded, minor toning.

Cover is a reproduction of a seditious handbill offering a "reward for information leading to the apprehension of Jesus Christ - Wanted for Sedition - Criminal Anarchy - Vagrancy and conspiring to overthrow the established government." Full page Perfumed Garden column from John Peel; extract from a speech given by Fidel Castro in the "Year of the Heroic Guerilla"; The Fragmented Philosophy by Miles; Police Theatre; pivotal letter ‘from an over 30’ by Geoffrey Ashe; Apple ad; John Peel; Jeff Nuttall letter*; Translation of a broadsheet manifesto addressed to a French theatre fesival (Avignon). Poem by Brian Patten, “The Many Faced Creature”; *back page ad from Effective Communications Arts Limited – an IT mail order poster etc. initiative.

International Times [IT] was an underground countercultural newspaper that ran from October 1966 until 1978. Published every two weeks and edited by Barry Miles, David Mairowitz, and John “Hoppy” Hopkins, the Times became the leading British underground paper, with a circulation of 40,000 in 1968. The paper’s launch party was the first event at the Roundhouse–a pillar of the ‘60s British cultural revolution–and featured one of the earliest performances by Soft Machine and Pink Floyd, respectively. From 1967 onwards, the police surveilled and raided the offices of International Times. In 1972, the Times temporarily closed down after being convicted of conspiracy to corrupt public morals for printing gay personals. Contributors to the paper included feminist critic Germaine Greer, DJ John Peel, and leading countercultural writers Alexander Trocchi, William Burroughs, Abbie Hoffman, and Allen Ginsberg.