New York, NY, USA: MGM Records, 1970. First Edition. LP Record in Gatefold Sleeve. Inscribed, signed, dated & placed by Allen Ginsberg to Albert Glover. "To Young Old Listeners: The songs were first composed on tape recorder, improvised on pump organ in farmhouse upstate N.Y. in two nights after returning from Democratic Convention 1968 Tear Gas Chicago. These are half the Songs of Innocence & Experience now finished to music;..... More

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1965. First Edition, Second Printing. Softcover. "THE YAGE LETTERS: an early epistolary novel by William S. Burroughs, celebrated author of 'the Soft Machine' & 'The Ticket That Exploded'. Burroughs' 1951 account of himself as Junkie, published under the pseudonym William Lee, ended 'Yage may be the final fix'. In letters to Allen Ginsberg, an unknown young poet in New York, his journey to the..... More

New York, NY, USA: Portents (Ann and Samuel Charters) / Gotham Book Mart, 1970. Limited Trade Edition. With autograph postcard from Ann Charters to Albert Glover. "SCENES ALONG THE ROAD is a collection of snapshots of a group of men before they became, as Jack Kerouac put it, "famous writers more or less." In the 1940s and early 1950s, when most of the snapshots were taken, they were known only..... More

Buffalo, NY: Audit/Poetry, 1968. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. From the library of Albert Glover, with his ownership signature, date & stamp. “I have a curious feeling about the material here collected. The interviews took place in a variety of circumstances. In some cases the interviewers were particular friends who had come to our house, making the whole occasion happily relaxed and informal...The talking I did at the Vancouver Poetry Conference..... More

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed, inscribed, placed & dated by Allen Ginsberg to Richard Cupidi. "This bibliography of the works of Allen Ginsberg up to July 1, 1967, including addenda up to 1969, is a comprehensive record of the publication of Ginsberg's writing throughout the world. Listing monographs, booklets, pamphlets, contributions to books, posters, anthologies and magazines, records and tapes, films, paintings, drawings, etc...... More

Philadelphia, PA: Running Press, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. “Most of the profound cultural and social changes characterizing the latter half of the 20th century, often identified as having been triggered in the liberated atmosphere of the 60s, had their roots firmly in the post-war years of the late 40s and early 50s. This manifested itself in innumerable ways in an otherwise largely conservative society, particularly in the US; from the..... More

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1969. First American Edition. Softcover. (Cook 74, pp. 80-81; Morgan A12, a3.1, p. 21). This is the first American edition of a compilation of journal excerpts written by Allen Ginsberg & described by him in a note preceding them as "...compositions from Journals kept decades 1948-1968, a few solid fragments typed up published out of context, not exactly poems, nor not poems: journal notations..... More

n/p: n/p, 1970. First Edition. Single Sheet. Hand-placed, dated & signed by Allen Ginsberg. "Night meat lights/ hypnotizing hungry autos on iron bridges/ crossing down Main/ "Get a goddamned haircut!"[/ front window cry, whose face dark drunk/ or beautiful chiseled mouth kist by whiskey?" (first stanza) A broadside with the title poem by Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997), a Founding Father of the Beat Generation-&-Beyond. Dated March 15, 1970 below facsimile signature..... More

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1972. First Edition, Fourth Printing. Softcover. Signed by Allen Ginsberg. (Morgan a1.4, p. 37). "Beginning with "long poem of these States," The Fall of America continues Planet News chronicle tape-recorded scribed by hand or sung condensed, the flux of car bus airplane dream consciousness Person during Automated Electronic War years, newspaper headline radio brain auto poesy & silent desk musings, head-lights flashing on road..... More

London, England: Translatlantic Records Limited, 1969. First U.K. Edition. Vinyl LP Record in Sleeve. (Morgan F25) A 33 1/3 RPM recording of Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) reading at the 1967 “Festival of Two Worlds” in Spoleto, Italy. Spoleto (and the “Two Worlds” festival, generally) is best known to Beat readers as the site of a legendary ‘changing of the guard’ — (the avant-garde, that is) — moment that took place in..... More

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1961. Sixteenth Printing. Softcover. Signed by Allen Ginsberg. A volume of poems by Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) featuring the titular masterwork, “Kaddish” in concert with several other powerhouse poems from the early, visionary period. From the collection of Richard Cupidi (b. 1945), our esteemed mate in the UK who managed the fabled Unicorn Bookshop in Brighton, England with Bill Butler (1934-1977, the famed American-expatriate bookseller..... More

London, England, UK: Peace News/ Housmans, 1966. First Separate Edition. Stapled Wrappers. "Oh at last again the radio opens/ blue invitations!/ Angelic Dylan singing across the nation/ "When all your children start to resent you/ Won't you come see me, Queen Jane?"/ His youthful voice making glad/ the brown endless meadows/ His tenderness penetrating aether,/ soft prayer on the airwaves,/ Language language, and sweet music too/ even unto thee,/ hairy..... More

New York, NY, USA: Corinth Books, 1970. Second Edition, Second Printing. Softcover. Signed, placed & dated by Allen Ginsberg for Richard Cupidi. "A new sort of line, omitting memories of trees and water-courses and clouds and pleasant glades- as empty of them as Dante Alighieri's Inferno is empty of them- exists today. It is measured by the passage of time without accent, monotonous, useless- unless you are drawn as Dante..... More