KESEY, Ken (ed.).

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Spit in the Ocean. The full run of Spit in the Ocean as published by Kesey, Spit 6 signed by five of the Merry Pranksters across the front pastedown and title page, including Kesey, Ken Babbs, Paul Krassner, Wavy Gravy, and Stewart Brand.All issues are first printings aside from Spit 1, which is a second printing.Spit was first conceived by Kesey as a way to serialize an unpublished novel he was writing called "Seven Prayers for Grandma Whittier". Each issue was guest edited by a "wild card editor" (Kesey, quoted by Vila), including Timothy Leary, Ken Babbs, Lee Marrs, and Richard and Elaine Loren. The title of the periodical derives from a variant form of poker which incorporates wild cards.The final issue was a memorial issue, All About Kesey (2003), published two years after Kesey's death.

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