The Anarchist Cookbook, William Powell
Rare hardcover first edition, first printing of Powell's infamous tactical manual, containing instructions for the manufacture of explosives, various weapons, rudimentary telecommunications phreaking devices, as well as guides for the home manufacture of illicit drugs, including LSD. With a prefatory note on Anarchism Today by P.M. Bergman. Written by Powell at the apex of the counterculture era to protest against the United States' involvement in the Vietnam War, Powell later converted to Anglicanism and attempted to have the book removed from circulation.
New York: Lyle Stuart, Inc., 1971. Publisher's original black cloth boards, spine lettered in pink; pp. 160. Binding remains sturdy, wear and rubbing to boards with fraying to extremities. Owner's name to flyleaf, original small bookshop sticker to half-title, faint erasure marks to title page, else quite clean internally. Jacket is worn with loss around the spine crown and flap folds, splits along the spine and flap folds, reinforced with archival tissue to verso, a few tears, light soiling to back panel. Protected in archival mylar.