I picked up Ringolevio by Emmett Grogan because it had a similar cover to Henri Charriere's Banco and Papillon so it seems that some publishing houses at least had some design themes for genres. I think both were classed under crime at the time, this being like a late 60s or early 70s release of both.
Think it may have just been chance what I was seeing at the time since both turned up in charity or cheap bookshops in Dublin in the early 90s. But I think both were same publishing house releases at roughly the same time.
Good find anyway since i don't think I'd heard of the book before. Not sure how much it turns up in histories of teh San Francisco music scene . A lot of his ideas got nicked for Abbie Hoffman's Steal This Book though which he talks about in the book.
― Stevolende, Friday, 1 October 2021 17:27 (two years ago) link