first edition
1975 · Berkeley
by Robertson, Mark, astrology director of Astro-phone; Gerald Ford, subject
Berkeley: Psychic Times, 1975. 1p., first page of the 12-page tabloid, about 600 words with another 200 words recounting an astral visit to Ford and family in the Oval Office. Presswork on alkaline paperstock, the once bright-white paper still substantial but now edged with sun-toning and soil, slightly misfolded and has a small area of mouse-gnaw at top intersection of fold-lines. Legible and handleable, a good copy. Pro-Ford, not to say lickspittal: "a man of simple honesty and generosity.. in a cosmic sense, he is an honest apprentice.. a living incarnation of the Average American.." The inset box retails the astral visit of three psychics with Ford and Ford's daughter Susan; the president is advised to "make his body more real," also not to worry that psychic no.3 is screwing daughter Susan (they remind him that it's all astral and to lighten up, Sir). (Inventory #: 242862)