Avatar. July 19-August 1. Vol. II No. 4 (Boston Avatar, Avatar Volume II)
Boston: Avatar Incorporated, Publisher, 1968. Tabloid. Good. Item #022503
Side folding tabloid format. 24 pp. The original Avatar, which this is not, was a Boston based underground newspaper, founded in 1967 by Mel Lyman and his followers at the Fort Hill Community, or Lyman Family, a counterculture commune (or cult, depending on perspective) in the Roxbury area of Boston. Besides publishing the usual counterculture perspective on local and national news, the newspaper also served as a mouthpiece for Lyman's and the Fort Hill Community's philosophy: a quasi-religious and mystical thought drawing on Lyman's unique view of astrological, spiritual and occult history. Mel Lyman originally gained fame as a folk musician. This Avatar was a short lived version formed after a split within the Fort Hill Commune, with this version having nothing to do with Mel Lyman. Local news relating to hippies and Boston present, as well as other counterculture topics. Included is the poem "Revolutionary Letters No. 9" by Diane Di Prima. GOOD condition. Minor soiling, toning and wrinkling. Some wrinkling and creasing. Minor tearing along the edges. NO in pencil on the front cover. Several small punctures to the paper along the center fore edge.
Price: $65.00