Principia Discordia Classic Loompanics Edition.
$90
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Malacalypse the Younger. Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst. Robert Anton Wilson. Principia Discordia or How I Found Goddess and What I Did To Her When I Found Her. Loompanics Unlimited. Mason, Michigan. C. 1980s. Classic copy of the most iconic edition of the mindbending esoteric work.
Second Loompanics edition. [xiii] + 1-75 + [2] + 1-10 + 1pp ad. Yellow printed wrappers with title, authors, publishers copy, original price “$4.50”, and spiral design printed in black on front. Some shelf wear and soiling along edges and crease from past fold to lower fore corner. Corners bumped. Title and publisher printed in black on spine. Small tears to top and bottom front joint edges. Publishers copy printed on back wrapper, minor shelf wear and four small brown stains. Textblock darkened with occasional spotting. Pages clean and legible apart from minor occasional spotting. Illustrated throughout. Good condition.
The classic and iconic Loompanics edition of the foundational Discordian “religious” text, the Principia Discordia, first to feature the fabulous spiral cover design and the celebrated introductory essay by Robert Anton Wilson.
A surreal spiritual text that starts with a classic opening (two intoxicated men meeting the Goddess of Chaos, Eris, in a bowling alley) the journey of the Principia Discordia through editions is more than a little unusual. The “magnum opiate” first appeared in the form of 5 hand xeroxed and stapled copies produced out of Kerry Wendell Thornley’s home before expanding out to 500 copies by his third edition in 1976. Eventually Thornley outsourced the process to Loompanics Unlimited who released their white first edition (and the overall fourth edition) in 1978. In addition to its new cover and Wilson’s introduction, the updated 1980 edition greatly expands the text with several sections of new material including the so-called “Fifth Edition” section, an interview and original collage artwork from Greg Hill. A well-loved copy with light soiling and wear to wraps, small tear and peeling to bottom spine, and occasional interior spotting. Good condition.
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