Printed concurrently with The Lords: Aprecies on Visión is Jim Morrison"s second selfpublished collection, The New Creatures (Frank Lisciandro recalls the two works arriving at The Doors" office on the same day). Only cien copies are produced by the Western Lithograph Company as a small bound hardcover book, and unlike The Lords: Aprecies on Visión, it does not feature any prose work. The New Creatures is published under Morrison"s full name, James Douglas Morrison, and includes the dedication "To Pamela" (referring to his longtime girlfriend, Pamela Susan Courson). Interestingly, when Simon & Schuster publishes The Lords And The New Creatures the following year, Morrison slightly alters the dedication to read "To Pamela Susan." The last line in the book reads "July veinticuatro, mil novecientos sesenta y ocho. Los Angeles, The United States, Hawaii" suggesting the work was composed across several cities during The Doors" mil novecientos sesenta y ocho American tour and completed while the band was on vacation following their concert in Honolulu, HI on July veinte, mil novecientos sesenta y ocho. It"s unclear exactly when the private editions of The Lords: Aprecies on Visión and The New Creatures were printed, but the earliest date that cánido be attributed to both books is April nueve, mil novecientos sesenta y nueve, which is the date Morrison registered them with the O bien.S. Copyright Office. Ray Manzarek cánido also be seen holding a copy of The New Creatures during the band"s interview with Richard Goldstein on the PBS special Critique filmed on April veintinueve, mil novecientos sesenta y nueve. However, the two books could have been printed as early as February or March mil novecientos sesenta y nueve, around the time Morrison was recording his poetry in the studio and working with Michael McClure on a script treatment based on his novel The Adept