[SF]: City Lights Books, [1971]. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. Foreword by Allen Ginsberg. Fine in slightly used dust jacket with a couple of small creased tears and a minute chip. More
n.p.:n.p., [1968]. A slick-format counterculture magazine from London edited by Ian Duncan. Prints excerpts from the 1967 Dialectics Conference, "Fisheye Nudes" photographs, drawings, psychedelia, articles on exorcism, mandalas, and more. Couple of minuscule chips to fore-edge of cover and first couple of pages, else fine. More
NY: Gaslight Cafe, ca. 1960. A single wide quarto sheet folded accordion-style. Prints a long text about the history of Greenwich Village bohemianism and the role that the Gaslight played stating that: "Poetry readings in New York originated at the Gaslight. Jack Kerouac, Alan [sic] Ginsberg...found our cellar the ideal..... More
NY: Fischbach Gallery, 1965. Exhibition flyer for a 1965 showing of Chamberlain's paintings at the Fischbach Gallery in New York City. Single sheet folded twice, printing "Chamberlain's Nakeds" by Allen Ginsberg and reproducing a painting of Chamberlain's. Tender at the folds, couple of splits to one fold (as usual), else..... More
n.p.:n.p., [1965]. Prints an interview with Ginsberg, and a conversation between Ginsberg and Gregory Corso. Very good. More
n.p.:n.p., [1961]. Premier issue of this short-lived poetry mag from Allentown, Pennsylvania edited by Charles Hanna. Prints Ginsberg's "Laughing Gas Fragments" and "Real Distinguished Thing" (also about Laughing Gas). Includes Lamantia, Patchen, Neruda, et al. About fine. More
Edited by Barry Miles. NY: Harper & Row, [1986]. 4to. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. Superb presentation copy inscribed by Ginsberg with a drawing to his old friend, Ed White: "Allen Ginsberg for Ed White in Janne's presence 7/15/95 Naropa Institute Boulder Colorado." Opposite the inscription Ginsberg has done..... More
n.p.: Privately published, 2001. 2 LP records in fold-out jacket. In 1990 Ginsberg, Orlovsky, and Corso were invited by friend and artist/sound producer, Jeff Gordon to do a reading in downtown Manhattan. This recording of that event was issued in a pressing limited to 1000 numbered copies that were over-subscribed..... More
n.p.:n.p., [1956]. A literary mag from San Francisco. Prints Ginsberg's "Two Trees in Paterson---1952," an early appearance preceding the publication of Howl. Also features two poems by Philip Whalen, an early appearance for him as well. Owner's name, some sunning to edges, smudge to back cover, very good... More
Toronto: Anansi, 1968. Hardbound in dust jacket. The correct first edition. Errata slip laid in. Fine in slightly used dust jacket with a 1-inch closed tear to front panel, and a small chip to top of back panel. More
n.p.:n.p., [1947]. Edited by John Hollander with Allen Ginsberg listed as "assistant editor." Prints "A Lover's Garden" and "The Proposal" by Ginsberg. A very early appearance by Ginsberg in the Columbia University literary magazine---this precedes his first book by almost a decade. Modest ring stain to front cover, else very..... More
Bolinas: Gray Fox Press, 1972. Hardbound in cloth-covered boards, issued without a dust jacket. First edition. Limited to 100 numbered copies signed by Ginsberg. Fine. More
Bolinas: Gray Fox Press, 1972. Softbound. Third printing. Signed by Ginsberg. About fine. More
SF: City Lights, 1956. 18mo. Pamphlet. First edition. Introduction by William Carlos Williams. Number 4 in the Pocket Poets Series. One of the most important books of modern poetry, and the first major work to define the Beat ethos. Some sunning to spine that overlaps a bit onto the edge..... More
SF: City Lights Books, 1974. Oblong 18mo. Softbound. First edition thus. Fine. More
Gottingen: Expanded Media Editions, 1973. Square 16mo. Softbound. First German edition. One of 100 numbered copies signed by the author. Photographs by Fred McDarrah, Richard Avedon, and Claude Pelieu. Fine. (German text.). More
[SF]: City Lights, [1961]. 16mo. Softbound. Second printing. Poet Richard Tagett's copy with his ownership stamp dated 1961 (also small ink number stamped in three places). Number 14 in the Pocket Poets Series. Along with Howl, Kaddish is Ginsberg's most important book. Spine slightly sunned, else near fine... More
Berkeley: Oyez, 1965. Folio. Broadside poem. First edition. Published in an edition of 350 copies. Features a Robert LaVigne illustration of a nude Ginsberg in both black and white silhouette within a penis-shaped outline. Very faint, occasional light creasing, near fine overall. More
SF: City Lights, [1977]. 16mo. Softbound. First edition. Number 35 in the Pocket Poets Series. Inscribed by Ginsberg to Warren Tallman: "Allen Ginsberg / Thanks for your decades / of hospitality, Warren Tallman / August 22, 1979." Unread, solid very good plus. A very nice association sinceTallman had a strong..... More
SF: Arion Press, 1992. Single 8vo sheet printed on both sides. Arion published an edition of Howl limited to only 20 copies utilizing unbound sheets from the Grabhorn-Hoyem edition of Howl. Issued to coincide with Arion's production of Kaddish. Very near fine. More
[SF]: City Lights, [1963]. 16mo. Softbound. First edition. Number 18 in the Pocket Poets Series. Crisp, fine copy. More
London: Cape Golliard, 1968. Oblong 16mo. Pamphlet issued in fragile tissue dust jacket. First edition of this long poem (written on LSD) describing Ginsberg's LSD trip in the countryside. Limited to 200 copies none of which were offered for sale. Fine (two tiny nicks to dj)... More
NY: Harper & Row, [1986]. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. Very fine. More
NY: William Morrow, 1970. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. Introduction by Allen Ginsberg (Louis' son). Inscribed by Louis Ginsberg. Fine in very slightly spine-sunned dust jacket. More
NY: Abbeville Press, 1995. 4to. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. Prologue by Allen Ginsberg. Excellent book documenting the Beat influence on the art, music, fashion, and popular culture of the '50s and '60s. Issued to coincide with the 1995 landmark exhibition at the Whitney Museum. It traces the Beat..... More
