Ringolevio. A Life Played for Keeps

First UK edition. Pink cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. In Larry Rivers designed dust jacket, neatly price-clipped to front flap. Light foxing to head of text block. Jacket a little chipped to edges and with one short tear to head of front panel. Two strips of white archival tape to reverse. With facsimile signature to acknowledgments page and several black and white photographs. *** Autobiography by Emmett Grogan, founder of the Diggers, who in 1978 at the age of 35 would die of a heroin overdose. It’s the story of a junkie and activist, a petty criminal and inspirational figure, written in the tradition of new journalism. Bob Dylan dedicated his album Street Legal to Grogan.