How to Survive in the Ghetto: The Defensive Position
San Francisco: Wehlau, 1967. Offset. Side-stapled on top edge with red-tape
reinforcement, as issued. 9 x 7 in. [24 pp]. Illustrated throughout to rectos. Title page missing,
otherwise tight and clean. Item #10421
A satirical but commonsensical artists’ book guide for hippies living in the ghetto, illustrated throughout with beautiful surrealistic and figurative works.
Wehlau claims she wrote this book because of some hippies she knew “got burned in a dope buying deal in the alley across the street and ran to the cops (for sympathy I guess).” It made her “want to do something funny too." The result was an expressionist guide book, with illustrations in color and black & white on every page, painting a surrealist and hilarious portrait of the city.
A scarce, wonderfully illustrated, anti-hippie tract. OCLC locates four examples as of November 2026.
Price: $350.00