The Haight Ashbury Free Medical Clinics: Still Free After All These Years 1967-1987
San Francisco: Haight-Ashbury Publications / Partisan Press, 1986 [1987?].
First edition. Signed by Richard Seymour and David Smith on the title page. Numbered 2C/85 on the title page in pencil. 240 pp. Bound in publisher's wraps. Very Good, bumped bottom back corner and a few pockmarks to rear wrap. An uncommon history of the San Francisco free health care service provider founded by Dr. David E. Smith on June 7, 1967, catering to the droves of young people flocking to the city, looking to participate in the thriving counterculture. The clinic became the model for the modern form of the free clinic, closing its doors in 2019. Belatedly it would be embroiled in controversy after the bestselling book Chaos by Tom O'Neill, released in 2020, re-examined the clinic's admitted relationship with CIA-affiliated psychiatrist Louis "Jolly" Jolyon West and its most famous patient, cult leader Charles Manson.
Price: $450