Drop City

New York: The Olympia Press, 1971. First edition. Softcover, offset printed, 163pp., 4.25 x 7 inches. Near Fine. Crease to cover and faint chip to rear cover bottom. Pages are tight and clean. Scarce book written by a founding member of Drop City, the infamous commune found in southern Colorado in 1965. Influenced by the "happenings" of Allan Kaprow and the counterculture pedagogy of Black Mountain College, Drop City was notable for hosting a Joy Festival in 1967 which attracted hundreds of hippies to the local area during the peak of the movement. A prime example of the ideas of Buckminster Fuller in action, Drop City consisted of numerous geodesic domes and zonohedra made from automobile roofs and other inexpensive materials. Peter Rabbit's book remains an essential chronicle of a short lived but influential example of utopian/underground community living.