Original 1st printing 5&1/2 x 11" blank-reverse thin paper concert handbill for "Brooklyn Rock", a series of shows held in the fall of 1970 at the "46th Street Rock Palace" (Loew's 46th Street Theater) in Brooklyn, NY. 

Shows listed include: the Byrds with Great Jones and Cactus (10/23), Iron Butterfly (10/30), Country Joe McDonald, Big Brother (& the Holding Company- post-Janis Joplin era) and the Youngbloods (11/6), Grateful Dead (11/11-14), Jefferson Airplane (11/16), Buddy Miles, Savoy Brown and Haystacks Balboa (11/20) and Lee Michaels (11/27)

 Design by Corey Graphics, image is featured in the Art of Rock book on page 407 (plate 4.235).

 Thin flat stock handbill is indecent/used (B/B- to B-) condition; there are a series of thin horizontal folds/creases with a moderate amount of creasing/wear, a small cluster of staple holes just to the left of "Brooklyn", a 1" tear in the upper left margin, a bit of mild toning along one of the upper creases, a bit of light ink smudging in the upper right margin and a couple of tiny corner-tip bends, otherwise OK... definitely a bit on the used side, but I think this is the third (?) example I have seen in over 30 years; I get asked about it CONSTANTLY, but I never have been able to offer one up, until now.

 This particular example came from someone who lived in Brooklyn at the time of the shows, it has been in his possession for over 53 years! INCREDIBLY SCARCE Grateful Dead/Jefferson Airplane/NYC concert artifact from the Fall of 1970, a particularly interesting time for the rock & roll business- it's a fairly convoluted and curious story as to how the promoters ("JIT Productions") were able to pull off all of these NYC-area shows in the shadow of Bill Graham (and his exclusivity clauses, particularly involving several of these bands) during this period.

 Check out the 11/11 GD set HERE:

https://archive.org/details/gd70-11-11.aud.cotsman.17081.sbeok.shnf