Original 1st printing 8&1/2 x 10&5/8" concert flyer for the Calliope Company's "Dance of Death Costume Ball", which featured the Grateful Dead appearing with Quicksilver Messenger Service and Mimi Farina at California Hall in San Francisco, CA on Halloween night, 10/31/1966.

 Art by Paul Hawken, image is featured in the Art of Rock book on page 174 (plate 2.143). 

 Thin flat stock flyer is in good (B) condition; there are numerous pin/staple holes in all four corners with tiny bits of missing paper in the upper left/right corners, along with a moderate degree of fading to the orange paper on the front side, a bit of creasing/handling wear (mostly around the outer margin area), a few light pinch creases/stress bends hiding within the image area and a bit of tape residue with a tiny pencil-scratch doodle on the reverese side, otherwise OK.

 Semi-uncommon early Grateful Dead piece from a legendary '66 Halloween show in San Francisco. The event was detailed on page 99 of Charles Perry's "Haight-Ashbury- A History": 

"At California Hall there was the Calliope dance with the Dead, Quicksilver, Mimi Farina and "six authentic witches". It was agreeably spooky. The balconies of the hall were hung with nets holding plastic baby dolls. A Headless Horseman with a flashlight shining out of his decapitated neck stalked the hall. At midnight a Giant Pumpkin wheeled Death, wearing a red brocade Louis XIV jacket, around the hall in a wheelchair while Quicksilver played "Bo Diddley".