Straight Arrow Press

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Straight Arrow Press (Straight Arrow Publishing Co., Inc.) was a publishing company that published the periodical Rolling Stone.^[4]

Straight Arrow Press

Status	Defunct
Founded	1967; 58 years ago (1967)[1]
Founders	Jann Wenner and Charles A. Reich
Defunct	c. 2016; 9 years ago (2016)
Country of origin	United States
Headquarters location	(1967–1977) San Francisco, California (1977–c. 2016) New York City
Distribution	World Distributors[2]
Key people	Alan Rinzler[3]
Publication types	Magazines (1967–c. 2016) Books (1971–1975)

The company operated a book publishing division in the 1970s in San Francisco, which published authors such as Oscar Zeta Acosta, Ann Charters, David Dalton, Bob Dylan, Jerry Garcia, Bill Kaysing, Hunter S. Thompson, Roger L. Simon, and the Firesign Theatre.

The book publishing division — which operated from 1971 to c. 1975^[4][5] — was headed by Alan Rinzler, formerly an editor at Macmillan Inc. The company's first list was partly financed by "selling paperback rights to Bantam before the books were completed."^[2]

In 1971, Straight Arrow Books agreed to publish Ah Puch Is Here, a collaboration between author William S. Burroughs and artist Malcolm Mc Neill, as a "Word/Image novel" which was to comprise 120 pages, some of integrated text and image, some of text alone, and some which featured only pictures. In 1973, Mc Neill moved to San Francisco from London to finish the project. However, the small advance offered by the publisher made any more than a few months of working full-time on the project impossible, and when Straight Arrow ceased publishing books in 1975, the book was without a publisher. (It was subsequently published in 1979 by John Calder and Viking Penguin in text form only under the original title, Ah Pook Is Here.)

Book titles (selected)

• Kenneth Anger (1975). Hollywood Babylon. — second U.S. edition;^[6] distributed by Simon & Schuster
• Oscar Zeta Acosta (1972). Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo.
• Oscar Zeta Acosta (1973). The Revolt of the Cockroach People.
• Ann Charters (1973). Kerouac.
• David Dalton (1974). James Dean: The Mutant King.
• Vine Deloria Jr. (1971). Of Utmost Good Faith.
• Anthony DeCurtis; James Henke; Holly George-Warren, eds. (1992). The Rolling Stone Album Guide (3rd ed.). New York City. ISBN 978-0679737292.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Mark James Estren (1974). A History of Underground Comics. ISBN 978-0879320751. — distributed by Quick Fox; later re-published by Ronin Publishing
• The Firesign Theatre (1972). The Firesign Theatre's Big Book of Plays. ISBN 978-0-87932-028-7.
• The Firesign Theatre (1974). The Firesign Theatre's Big Mystery Joke Book.
• Jerry Garcia; Jann Wenner (1972). Garcia: A Signpost to New Space.— re-issued by Da Capo Press in 2003
• Bill Kaysing (1971). The Ex-urbanite's Complete & Illustrated Easy-does-it First-time Farmer's Guide: A Useful Book. OCLC 162589.
• Bill Kaysing (1973). The Ex-urbanite's Complete & Illustrated Easy-does-it First-time Farmer's Guide: A Useful Book (Revised ed.). ISBN 0-87932-047-8.
• Annie Leibovitz, ed. (1973). Shooting Stars: the Rolling Stones Book of Portraits.
• Bill Owens (1973). Suburbia.
• Bruce Rodgers (1972). The Queens' Vernacular – A Gay Lexicon. ISBN 0879320265. OCLC 508274.
• Sätty (1973). Time Zone. ISBN 9780879320676. — published in association with Robert Briggs
• Ze'ev Schiff (1974). A History of the Israeli Army (1870–1974). ISBN 0-87932-077-X.
• Roger L. Simon (1973). The Big Fix. ISBN 978-0879320485.
• Ralph Steadman (1974). America. — introduction by Hunter S. Thompson
• Hunter S. Thompson (1973). Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72. ISBN 978-0-87932-053-9. OCLC 636410.
• Jann Wenner (1971). Lennon Remembers: The Rolling Stone Interviews. ISBN 978-1859843765.