Between the Covers

Softcover. First edition. Cover by Miles. Small octavo. 80pp. Lightly rubbed wrappers with a touch of wear at two corners, about fine. An interesting and noteworthy English literary magazine published by John Hopkins and Miles, owners of the famous Indica Books in London. It features Allen Ginsberg's 26-page poem "Ankor-Wat," as well as contributions from Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Ron Padget, Michael Horovitz, Jeff Nuttall, Tuli Kupferberg, Ray Durgant, and others. The following year that Hopkins and Miles began publishing what many consider the most influential English counterculture newspaper, *The International Times*. *Long Hair* was the precursor to that publication and an early publishing work from Miles, a genuine Sixties luminary, who went on to write the biographies of Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, Charles Bukowski, Paul McCartney, John Lennon, and Frank Zappa.

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