Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg, First Edition (36 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket as issued. 1st Edition. First printing in this format with the number '1' on the verso of the title page. Slight moister stain to the bottom corner of the rear cover otherwise a firm, clean copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. viii 117pp paperback, very good.

Wraps. Condition: Fine. First Thus. Popular Penguins. Mass market paperback. A LIKE NEW very nice clean tight solid softcover copy. 117pp. SB-95.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. WITH 44 PAGES , SOPFT COVER , COVER SLIGHTLY MARKED O/W VERY GOODN.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. Near VG. 8vo, 48pp, stapled wrappers. Stated 11th printing. This unmarked copy from the collection of poet and artist Opal Louis Nations has the funky authenticity of the original Beat era. Minor pencil markings show what drew the attention of the artist as a young man. A solid copy with some toning, outer soil, and minor staple rust. Not Signed.

Original Wraps. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, as Issued. First Edition. The special 50th Anniversary edition of this famous work by Allen Ginsberg, published as a paperback original in 2006. City Lights originally published the book in 1956. Number Four in the Pocket Poets Series. With a two-page Introduction entitled "Howl for Carl Solomon" by William Carlos Williams. ***Near fine in the iconic black & white glossy card covers. ***Please note that the covers are in fine condition as they have been laminated by a previous owner. No creases or tears. Internally also near fine with no inscriptions or annotations. Pages clean. No creases or tears. The endpapers are dark red. Spine tight. ***158mm x 124mm. 57 pages plus a two-page complete list of published works by Allen Ginsberg at the back of the book. ***"I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked---" [The mesmerising first line of "Howl"] ***'Irwin Allen Ginsberg (June 3, 1926 - April 5, 1997) was an American poet and writer. As a student at Columbia University in the 1940s, he began friendships with William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, forming the core of the Beat Generation. He vigorously opposed militarism, economic materialism, and sexual repression, and he embodied various aspects of this counterculture with his views on drugs, sex, multiculturalism, hostility to bureaucracy, and openness to Eastern religions. Ginsberg is best known for his poem "Howl", in which he denounced what he saw as the destructive forces of capitalism and conformity in the United States. San Francisco police and US Customs seized "Howl" in 1956, and it attracted widespread publicity in 1957 when it became the subject of an obscenity trial, as it described heterosexual and homosexual sex at a time when sodomy laws made (male) homosexual acts a crime in every state. The poem reflected Ginsberg's own sexuality and his relationships with a number of men, including Peter Orlovsky, his lifelong partner. Judge Clayton W. Horn ruled that "Howl" was not obscene, stating: "Would there be any freedom of press or speech if one must reduce his vocabulary to vapid innocuous euphemisms?" Ginsberg was a Buddhist who extensively studied Eastern religious disciplines. He lived modestly, buying his clothing in second-hand stores and residing in apartments in New York City's East Village. ***The lead poem "Kaddish" also known as "Kaddish for Naomi Ginsberg (1894-1956)", was written in two parts by Beat writer Allen Ginsberg, and was first published in Kaddish and Other Poems 1958-1960. The book was part of the Pocket Poet Series published by City Lights Books. In the table of contents, the poem is titled "Kaddish: Proem, narrative, hymmnn, lament, litany, & fugue". Along with Ginsberg's "Howl", Kaddish is said to be one of his greatest masterpieces. Ginsberg wrote the poem about his mother Naomi after her death in 1956, who struggled with mental problems throughout her life. Naomi suffered many psychotic episodes both before Allen was born and while he was growing up. She went in and out of mental hospitals and was treated with medication, insulin shock therapy, and electroshock therapy. She died in an asylum in 1956. ' [Wiki] ***A near fine copy (with laminated covers) of the 50th Anniversary edition of this iconic City Lights Pocket Poets 'Howl' by Allen Ginsberg, first published as a paperback original in 1956. One of the most important and influential poems of the 20th Century. A landmark book of poetry published by Lawrence Ferlinghetti of the iconic (and still running) City Lights Bookshop. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Audio Book (LP). Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. LP - NEW (Sealed in publisher's shrinkwrap) - On February 13 and 14, 1956, Gary Snyder and Allen Ginsberg read at Reed College, with the Valentine's Day performance recorded, forgotten, then found in a box in 2007. Reading "Howl" out loud in front of an audience is an exhausting and emotional experience, so Ginsberg warmed up by reading several shorter poems first. The Reed recording includes these shorter selections and most of Part I of "Howl." The restored recording is crystal clear; you can not only hear Ginsberg turning the pages, but taking breaths after each long line. The audience is pin-drop quiet except for a few places in the reading, for instance, one moment when someone in the audience says something that can't be heard that elicits laughter, to which Ginsberg responds, "I don't want to corrupt the youth." Other lines generate laughter, but the audience is attentive and respectful, allowing for a present-day fly-on-the-wall listening experience. In testimony to how emotionally draining it was to read the poem two nights in a row, as Ginsberg launches into Part II, he stops after four lines saying, "I don't really feel like reading any more, I haven't got any kind of steam. So I'd like to cut, do you mind?" Thus ends the first known recording of "Howl"? and now begins its 21st century access for all to hear.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Introduction by William Carlos Williams. An early printing in the original format and quality of this classic book, Ginsberg's most controversial, just after it was removed from the banned books list. Original format in The Pocket Poets Series (Number four). A clean, bright, unmarked copy.

Softcover. First Edition; Twenty-Fourth Printing. Very Good+ in wraps. Owner name on title page.

Audio Book (LP). Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. LP & Book Set - Limited Edition Red Vinyl (Limited to 500 Copies) NEW (Sealed in publisher's shrinkwrap) - Decades after its arrival, Howl remains one of the most important poems of the mid-20th century. Its 1959 release on red translucent vinyl (reproduced here as part of the Deluxe Package), is arguably the best-known recording to feature any beat-era poet. Although the poem "Howl" itself is the centerpiece of the program, each additional reading, namely the entrancing "Footnote to Howl" and "Howl" (Part One)," are born into life full of passion and equally world-weary and world-embracing totality of Ginsberg's inherent greatness. - This deluxe vinyl box set includes the LP, a reproduction of the original City Lights reading invite, a photo of Ginsberg, a reproduction of the Pocket Poem book, as well as a booklet featuring new liner notes by Beat scholar Ann Charteris, and notes by Ann Waldman.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. No Jacket. First Thus. Like new hardcover 1996 reprint.

Milano, Mondadori (Arti Grafiche E. Milli), collana «Nuovi scrittori stranieri», volume 9, 1965 (dicembre), Prima edizione italiana. Ottimo esemplare, completo della sovracoperta con minimi segni del tempo. Fresco e pulito all'interno. Raro in queste condizioni. Edita da Mondadori nel 1965, «Jukebox all'idrogeno» è la raccolta di poesie - con testo inglese a fronte - di Allen Ginsberg che vide la prima pubblicazione italiana del celeberrimo poema «Howl», originariamente pubblicato nel 1956 dalla City Lights di Lawrence Ferlinghetti (arrestato per questo con l'accusa di "diffusione di oscenità"). Il presente volume, tradotto e curato da Fernanda Pivano che volle proprio Ginsberg per chiudere la propria già ultra ventennale carriera di traduttrice, comprende, oltre al già ricordato «Urlo e altre poesie», «Kaddish e altre poesie» e lo scritto «Gli agnelli d'America». Come precisato dalla curatrice al termine della ricchissima introduzione, fu lo stesso Ginsberg a suggerirle il titolo «Jukebox all'idrogeno» per la raccolta (oltre al significativo titolo dell'introduzione «Un poeta, non soltanto un minestrone beat»). in 16°, tela marrone con titoli ora al dorso, sovracoperta illustrata (fotografie di Joern Gerdt e Robert Frank) con titoli rosa, verdi e neri al piatto e neri al dorso, pp. [2] 478 [12]. Prima edizione italiana. Ottimo esemplare, completo della sovracoperta con minimi segni del tempo. Fresco e pulito all'interno. Raro in queste condizioni. tela marrone con titoli ora al dorso, sovracoperta illustrata (fotografie di Joern Gerdt e Robert Frank) con titoli rosa, verdi e neri al piatto e neri al dorso,

Stapled Wrappers. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: `. First Edition. The Fourth Printing, undated. Issued as Number 4 in the publisher's Pocket Poets Series. Cook 3. About Fine in black and white stapled wrappers. Small smooth crease lower front corner. 44pp. with Introduction by William Carlos Williams. Q19756.

Stapled wrappers. Condition: As New. Reprint. Originally published by City Lights Books as Number Four in the Pocket Poets Series in 1956, this is the Eighth printing of 1959, noted by Cook as the first printing to incorporate previously suppressed content. A Very Fine copy, bound with two staples in the familiar square black and white format. A noteworthy issue. Q17170.

Fine LP in a Fine sleeve. Condition: Fine. First Edition. First Issue of this LP. A Fine copy (unplayed) in a Fine envelope and a Fine cardboard sleeve. Includes a complete reading of Howl (the poem), as well as A Supermarket in California; Transcription of Organ Music; America; In the Back of the Real; Strange New Cottage in Berkeley; Europe, Europe; and Kaddish. Q16858.

San Francisco :City Lights Books, 1969. Twenty-first printing. Series: The Pocket Poets Series number four. Duodecimo (155 x 120 mm), original black-and-white printed wraps with black lettering (sunned, some light edge wear, original owner's name in biro to front); inscribed by Ginsberg on the title-page in black pen, for University of Maine academic, author and poet Sanford Phippen (1942- ): 'Allen Ginsberg, for Sanford Phippen, 3/23/88', with a hand-drawn illustration by Ginsberg of a flower, serpent, stars and moon, and the initials 'AH' inside the "O" of "HOWL" and at upper left (Phippen's original ownership inscription dated 1969 is at upper right); internally excellent, a good presentation copy of the poet's most famous work. The intials 'AH' in Ginsberg's drawing refer to Albert Hofmann, the Swiss scientist known as the father of the drug LSD. Ginsberg was famously an enthusiastic advocate of the drug, announcing in 1966 to a room full of Unitarian ministers in Boston that 'everybody who hears my voice' should 'try the chemical LSD at least once'. Ginsberg was convinced that psychedelics were a vital tool for investigating the powers of the mind and the creative process.

Condition: Very good. Third printing (stated) - and first produced in the U.S. - of Ginsberg's landmark poem, number four in the Pocket Poets Series. While the first two printings of HOWL were produced in London by Villiers, when U.S. Customs seized more than 500 copies of the latter printing for alleged obscenity (leading to one of the most important censorship trials of the 20th century), publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti printed this third domestically, bringing the book out from under the jurisdiction of Customs - a fact conspicuously noted on the copyright page, which clearly states "Manufactured in the United States of America." A significant copy from early in the history of this landmark poem that along with Kerouac's ON THE ROAD and Burroughs's NAKED LUNCH form the cornerstones of the Beat movement. It remains Ginsberg's most enduring work. 6.25'' x 5''. Original stiff black stapled wrappers (75 cents). 44 pages. Introduction by William Carlos Williams. Covers rubbed and toned with a bit of spotting. Else sound and clean.

Condition: Fine- / Fine-. First Edition. First Pressing of this 33 1/3 rpm (12-inch) LP phonograph record (numbered 7006 on sleeve and vinyl), on which the poet recites (screams, begs, urges) "Howl" and other poems. Transparent red vinyl (not the later, more common black vinyl) with burgundy labels, plain paper slip, and original card sleeve printed in green, orange, andblack. Stamped in red: "Promotional Copy / Not for Sale" on rear of sleeve, with ownership of poet John Ciardi faintly stamped on upper right corner of front and neat blue ball-point notes to rear, probably in Ciardi's hand, commenting on the readings (Ginsberg recites "Howl," "The Sunflower Sutra," "Footnote to Howl," "A Supermarket in California," "Transcription of Organ Music," "America," "In the Back of the Real," "Strange New Cottage in Berkeley," "Europe! Europe!," and "Kaddish."). Long printed introduction by Ginsberg on rear sleeve. Offered with Third Printing (so stated on rear cover and priced 75 cents) of the First City Lights Edition of Howl and Other Poems, dedicated to Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, and Neal Cassady and introduced by William Carlos Williams. Foolscap 8vo (157 x 121mm): 44pp. Black and white stapled card covers, inside covers blank, without separate white paper wraparound label of first two printings (now incorporated into cover design). LP's paper slip wrinkled but intact without tears, card sleeve lightly toned else about Fine. Book about Fine, pages slightly toned but clean throughout. Cook 4. Morgan F2a and A3. In October, 1956, with publication of Howl and Other Poems in an edition of 1000 copies by Lawrence Ferlinghetti's City Lights Bookshop, came fame and notoriety. Ferlinghetti was charged with disseminating obscene literature and arrested, but Judge Clayton W. Horn ruled that "Howl" was not obscene, and the collection ultimately was translated into twenty-eight languages. "Howl" became as famous "as any American poem since Eliot's"The Waste Land"and is still an icon of the Beat generation as powerful as Kerouac'sOn The Road . . . It is meant to be recited, and in his recitations Ginsberg was filled with gusto; he gesticulated and screamed, begged, urged and took off his clothes. . . . He was a lyric genius who, along with William Carlos Williams, was one of the greatest influences on the American poetical voice since Walt Whitman." (Literary Encyclopedia) N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Wraps. - SIGNED / INSCRIBED - City Lights Books, San Francisco (1956) 1969. 16mo 44 pp. Signed First Edition, 21st printing from 1969. 186,000 copies were printed in-between the 1st printing in October 1956 and this copy, the 21st printing in June 1969. This copy is signed and inscribed by Allen Ginsberg. This date coincides with Allen Ginsberg's book signing and reading at the Boulder Public Library. An original flyer of this event will be included in the sale. the flyer shows the same date/location as the date and location in the book. The original flyer will come folded. The book shows general handling and wear around the edges and lightest soiling. Allen Ginsberg has SIGNED and INSRIBED the title page: For __ __ , Allen Ginsberg. Allen Ginsberg also dated this and included the location, Boulder Colorado. In addition to this, Allen Ginsberg also drew a sketch turning the O in HOWL into a daisy or sunflower. Very faint small stain at top edge along multiple page tops. $1.00 price intact on back cover. A matching price is lightly written in pen on the upper right corner of the 1st page. As for the event, on Wednesday November 10, 1982 the Boulder Colorado Public Library hosted a lecture presented by the Naropa Institute. Naropa's Free Lecture Series: Hidden Knowledge/Public Insight featured Allen Ginsberg sharing a social literary history of 3 decades spanning the 1940s - 1960s. Some of the topics that were touched upon were Sex Liberation, Psychedelics, Cosa Nostra Porn, BeBop, Bohemian Grass, Meditative Practices, Beat - Hip-Me Generation etc. etc. A most special night rivaled by a most special tight copy of the 20th century's most famous poem, signed, inscribed and doodled by Allen Ginsberg that same evening. Signed by Author(s).

Softcover. First Edition; Twenty-Fifth Printing. Very Good in wraps. Shelfwear on front and rear panel. Occasional underlining and margin notes in red ink throughout. ; Title page inscribed by Allen Ginsberg; Signed by Author.

Paperback. Condition: Good. First Edition. Photos on request. First edition, first printing. Front cover has a two inch neatly closed tear to upper right corner and has brown tape stain over it, a couple of brown stains to right edge of front, smudges around spine to front and back, a few more brown stains to back, some overall modest toning, previous owner name on publisher's page, a few small spots of foxing to a couple of pages, a few pages with eraseable pencil marks. otherwise a somewhat presentable copy with a good binding. Detailed photos on request. This book does have a strange oddity on pages 20-21; on those two pages only half of the page printed correctly with someone typing in very carefully so the lines match up to the other half. Not sure if this is just a misprint that someone corrected (seems unlikely because it is very well done), or if this was some early review copy that failed to print correctly and was "fixed" by someone at City Lights.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Japanese edition. Translated by Yasujiro Furusawa. 70pp. Octavo. Silver-gray cloth boards with gilt lettering on black leather that wraps around both boards and the spine. Housed in publisher's gray cardboard slipcase with white paper label and wrapped in original unprinted glassine. Near fine with some rubbing, remainder marks at the bottom of the text block and faint glue residue to the pastedown, along with remnant of the glassine dustwrapper; slipcase with some toning on the spine. Limited to 500 numbered copies; this is copy 234. Only the third foreign translation of this Ginsberg's work and notable for its accompanying commentary from fellow Beat Gary Snyder, whom by the time of this book's release, had lived in Japan for more than six years, pursuing the study of Zen Buddhism. An uncommon edition with *OCLC* locating three copies, one in Japan.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing of the groundbreaking poem, for both the Beat movement, as well as freedom of speech and expression in the United States. Meets all points including "Lucien Carr" dedication and period after "Harlem" on rear cover as sentence continues. Book is about good or slightly better, showing a variety of different points of wear and toning. Book is complete aside from the front fore corner of wraps having lost 5mmx5mm triangular piece. Previous owner name neatly written in ink to front title. Small quarto in wraps, 44 pages. Satisfaction guaranteed. Additional photos always available on request. Shipped in a fitted, padded box.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First printing. Meets all points including "Lucien Carr" dedication and period after "Harlem" on rear cover as sentence continues. Book is in very good condition light soiling light waive at back cover Small quarto in wraps, 44 pages. No writings no marks. Beautiful collectable copy.

Stapled wrappers. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Second Printing with "Second Edition" printed on rear cover. This is the issue seized by U.S. Customs at San Francisco on its way from the Printer in London; hence, due to the destruction of many of the copies, decidedly scarcer even than the first printing. A beautiful, unequivocally Fine copy in black stapled wrappers with white printed wraparound pastedown (which conceals the staples). No wear. No soil. No tears or creases or dog-ears. No toning. 44pp., without Lucien Carr's name on the dedication. Laid in is a photocopy of the Poetry (Chicago) Magazine open letter from Henry Rago (Editor) to Lawrence Ferlinghetti informing him that the book has been approved for review in a subsequent issue. Cook Number Four ff. Scarce condition copy. Q13282.

First published edition, first printing, with the spelling "Lucien Carr" in the dedication, and the eighth line of the second paragraph on the rear cover beginning "Harlem." (with a period rather than comma). A landmark collection, Howl is one of the principal works of literature that launched the Beat Generation. It was Ginsberg's first regularly published book, and was printed in a run of an estimated 1,500 copies. Duodecimo. Original stiff black wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, white hand-pasted wrap-around paper label printed in black. Wraparound label foxed, a couple of corners lightly creased, a very good copy.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. This is a very good copy of the true First State of the First Edition (with the name "Lucien Carr" ?later removed ?on the dedication page). There is some faint staining to the white front cover panel and to the title page, which is SIGNED and dated in ink: "Allen Ginsberg, ?74" beneath a drawing by Ginsberg of the sun and a large flower that utilizes the "O" in "Howl" as its corolla. Perhaps the most important volume of American poetry of the twentieth century, signed and uniquely decorated by the author. Signed.

First published edition, first printing, inscribed by the author on the title page, "To Stephen Dunn, from Allen", with a drawing of a haloed skull and crossbones pointing to the printed quote above. Ginsberg has roughly erased his first attempt at writing "Stephen", likely having misspelled his fellow poet's name. Dunn wrote "plain-spoken poems about the small things in life and the bigger things within them" (New York Times obituary). His prolific output was concerned with the minutiae of middle-class America and his accolades included a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, an Academy Award in literature, and Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundation fellowships. A landmark collection, Howl is one of the principal works of the Beat Generation. It was Ginsberg's first commercially available book, preceded only by the mimeographed printing of the title poem, comprised of 25 copies, and Siesta in Xbalba, comprised of 52 copies, both self-published and distributed for free by Ginsberg to his friends. Howl and Other Poems was printed in an estimated run of 1,500 copies. This copy has the requisite points of first printing, with "Lucien Carr" in the dedication and the eighth line of the second paragraph on the rear cover beginning "Harlem." (with a period rather than comma) Morgan A3.a1.1. Duodecimo. Original wire-stitched black wrappers, white hand-pasted wraparound paper label printed in black. Housed in a custom black quarter-leather solander box, spine lettered in white, grey cloth sides. Professional repair to spine ends, label sometime re-adhered, trivial creasing to edges of wrappers, pastedowns lightly soiled, annotations a little roughly erased from title page: a very good copy.

Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition, first issue with Lucien Carr listed on the dedication page and a period after Harlem on the rear cover. Signed by Allen Ginsberg and inscribed to a former owner on the title page, Ginsberg has also adorned the page fully with illustrations and written "Viva banjo". Bound in publisher's original stapled black wraps printed in grey with with white paste-on printed in black. Very Good with light toning, light rubbing to wraps and slight creases throughout. A lovely copy of the poem that defined a generation and an undisputed cornerstone of beat poetry.

Condition: Very good plus. First edition. Rare signed first edition of HOWL, inscribed in the year of publication, likely at one of Ginsberg's most infamous readings. The most likely opportunities for Ginsberg to sign copies of HOWL in 1956 were few and far between. First, the book was published late in the year. While Ferlinghetti sent Ginsberg "a few advance copies" in August of that year (Morgan, I GREET YOU, 5), and a small number of copies inscribed in September are known (the Sept. 17th issue of PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY lists the official publication date as Sept. 1st), HOWL seems to have only really begun to be distributed in October. Again, according to PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, "[t]he first edition passed through U.S. Customs in October, 1956" (April 29th 1957). In addition, both Gary Snyder and Louis Ginsberg report receiving copies they had ordered at the start of that month, likely from the earliest copies received at City Lights. Morgan's bibliography, however, sets the date of publication as Nov. 5th, which coincides with the book's first notice, again in PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY ("[b]itterly impassioned"), but which further suggests HOWL's distribution wasn't really happening until well into October. And it was during October that the poet gave his only two public readings before the end of the year. The first was Oct. 21st, when both he and Gregory Corso read at the Poetry Center at San Francisco State (Corso's first public reading). But curiously Ginsberg did not read from HOWL that evening despite a large and expectant crowd - more than 500 people - and "[i]mmediately following the reading," both poets "were anxious to get on the road" (Morgan, CELEBRATE, 224). The pair were hitchhiking south on their way to Mexico (where they would spend the month of November), but had an important stop in Los Angeles, where they had a reading scheduled for October 30th. Sponsored by the literary magazine, COASTLINES, this small reading (held in a boarding house) would become one of Ginsberg's most famous, second only to the Six Gallery in terms of notoriety. The best account of the event is from Lawrence Lipton's 1959 memoir THE HOLY BARBARIANS. According to Lipton, Ginsberg was "reading from the book [HOWL], which had just come out," but was repeatedly interrupted by a drunk in the audience who jeered and heckled Ginsberg throughout. Ginsberg finished his portion of the event, but the matter came to a head when Corso got up to read. The drunk renewed his jeers and interruptions, eventually challenging Corso to a fight. At this point, Ginsberg stood up and countered that if the heckler wanted to do something truly brave, he would take off all his clothes. "The poet always stands naked before the world," Ginsberg explained and proceeded to disrobe until he was standing stark naked before the drunk, now stunned into silence. From there the drunk backed down and even reportedly asked Ginsberg after the reading where he could get a copy of HOWL for himself. No matter where it was signed, however, copies signed in the year of publication are quite rare. We trace only a handful inscribed in 1956, with most of those being associations of one form or another. A significant copy from early in the life of this landmark poem that along with Kerouac's ON THE ROAD and Burroughs's NAKED LUNCH form the cornerstone of the Beat movement. It remains Ginsberg's most enduring work. Original stiff black stapled wrappers with pasted white printed wraparound label, as issued. One of a thousand copies. Signed and dated by Ginsberg on the title page: "Allen Ginsberg / Oct 1956." Spine toned, as common. Mild soil, rubbing, edgewear. In a custom, full black goat-skin, clamshell box.