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The Attics of Our Lives: Posters and Art of the Grateful Dead Archive

This 225-page book documents the special one-night-only preview exhibit of the Grateful Dead Archive held Nov. 5, 2011, at McHenry Library, UC Santa Cruz. Written by Grateful Dead Archivist Nicholas Meriwether, the book documents the rich history of Grateful Dead poster art and how that illustrates the band’s archive at UCSC. With feature interviews with Stanley Mouse and hundreds of color illustrations, the book is a fine introduction to how the band’s legacy is being preserved and presented in Santa Cruz.

The book was given to those who attended the benefit event. Nick Meriwether was kind enough to offer us a copy to auction off for KPFA. It’s a hard-cover book, beautifully printed on high-quality paper.

Let’s begin the bidding at $100. Auction ends February 1. Proceeds go to KPFA.

UPDATE form Steven Marcus 1/30/12: “I will also be including one of my Grateful Dead Productions Business cards, and unused ticket to one of the Europe 1990 shows, an original printing of Robert Hunters Elegy for Jerry that he recited at Jerry’s funeral (there were two printings the first one high quality paper and the second on basic heavy paper.) I might put some other things in the book if the bids go higher…”

UPDATE from Steven Marcus 1/28: “Here are three scanned images of the signed copy of Dead Letters for the KPFA Grateful Dead Marathon and auction…Now that you can actually see it, bid higher!!! – smarcus”

UPDATE: Steven Marcus posted on Facebook: “I just came back from the Seva Benefit in Sebastopol, and the copy of Dead Letters for the KPFA Auction now has signatures from Wavy Gravy, Stanley Mouse and photographer Jay Blakesberg in addition to Eileen Law, Paul Grushkin, Steve Brown, and former Grateful Dead Ticket Sales employee’s Frankie Accardi, Bruce Ede, Pat Accardi, Gail Nickerson, Mary Knudsen, Tom Reed and yours truly! I am still hoping to get a few more…but at this point, this is pretty cool.

Dead Letters: The Very Best Grateful Dead Fan Mail by Paul Grushkin

Donated by Steven Marcus
Autographed by the author, Eileen Law, Steve Brown, and GDTS workers Steven Marcus, Frankie Accardi-Peri, Tom Reed, Wavy Gravy, and others.

Auction begins now and ends at noon PST on Wednesday, February 1. Bidding begins at $50. Bid by posting in the comments section below, and please keep coming back to top competing bids!

Proceeds go to KPFA