It sounds like a Commie rag, and maybe the regular Quarterly was. But this is a “hymnal” with what amount to church songs for hippies.

I found this amidst my dad’s boxed-garage-crap years ago. He was neither a Commie nor a hippie, but he played the guitar and was raised catholic.

Ironically, it was printed in Chicago. Perhaps it actually belongs on Chicago Type, another of my sites. It’s damn near a 1967 type specimen book. The layouts are energetic and inspired—bringing an intesity to the social message often out of sync with the peacenik Kumbaya nature of the songs.

The type styles vary wildly from page to page, and often within each spread. This must have been pretty hard to do in 1967. Presumably it was all phototype, all spec’ed separately and maybe assembled by hand. No small feat considering how stoned they likely were judging from the Beat-like stream of consciousness of the headlines. Regardless, someone put a lotta work into this little one-color, saddle-stitched pamphlet.

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