Ringolevio: A Life Played for Keeps
by Grogan, Emmett
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
Heinemann, (U.K.), 1972. First edition. Fine fuschia boards with gilt lettering in near fine bright dustjacket. Black line to copyright as usual with this import edition. Trifle adhesive mark to opening flyleaf which bothers none of the text. Larry Rivers cover dustjacket. Last flap full photograph of the author on the move. With black and white photographs. Ringolevio is a New York street violent game. Founder and chief inspiration of the legendary Diggers of San Francisco, Emmett Grogan was dedicated to creating a genuine alternative lifestyle and spent years as one of America's most famous invisible men. A Digger, filmmaker, professional burglar, and author of two classics, this being one. New all around and gift quality
Synopsis
Emmett Grogan (c.1943—1978) was born Eugene Grogan in Brooklyn, New York. Called a “Superman of the Underground” by The Times (London), he was the founder of the Diggers, a legendary anarchistic group in the San Francisco Bay Area during the 1960s that supplied free food, housing, and medical aid to runaways. On April 6, 1978, the thirty-five-year-old Grogan was found dead on a subway car in New York City, possibly of a drug overdose. Besides his autobiography, Grogan was the author of Final Score , a fictional crime novel. Peter Coyote is an actor, activist, novelist, songwriter, and Emmy-winning voice-over artist. After a short apprenticeship at the San Francisco Actor’s Workshop, he joined the San Francisco Mime Troupe, where he became a prominent member of the San Francisco counterculture community and a founding member of the Diggers. His memoir is entitled Sleeping Where I Fall.
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- Longhouse, Publishers and Booksellers
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 32665
- Title
- Ringolevio
- Author
- Grogan, Emmett
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Heinemann, (U.K.), 1972
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