Berkeley, CA: Creative Arts Book Company, 1977. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. Inscribed, dated, placed & signed by Allen Ginsberg to Richard Cupidi. "The astonishing, unexpurgated, revelatory heart-talk between two of the Founding Fathers of Post-Modern American Literature. Absolutely the most intimate documentation of the histories of Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs and others closely associated with the authors. Filled with original, unpublished poems, the range of Allen Ginsberg's correspondence is comparable..... More

New York, NY, USA: Grove Press, 1978. First Evergreen Edition. Large-Format Softcover. Signed by Allen Ginsberg to Richard Cupidi. "As these journals begin, Ginsberg has established himself in a small furnished room on 15th Street between Eighth and Ninth Avenues opposite the Port Authority building..." (excerpt, Reader's Guide, pg. xv). Allen Ginsberg Journals: Early Fifties Early Sixties (Morgan, a2.1, pg. 48) offers a profound insight into Beat Generation Founding Father..... More

Bolinas, CA: Grey Fox Press, 1972. First Trade Softcover Edition, Second Printing. Softcover. Signed, placed & dated by Allen Ginsberg for Richard Cupidi. “Dear Doctor: in spite of the grey secrecy of time and my own self-shuttering doubts in these youthful rainy days, I would like to make my presence in Paterson known to you, and I hope you will welcome this from me, an unknown young poet, to you..... More

Cherry Valley, NY: Cherry Valley Editions, 1978. First Trade Edition. Softcover. Signed by Allen Ginsberg to Richard Cupidi. "Time comes spirit weakens and goes blank apartments | shuffled through and forgotten" (first stanza, "The Names," pg. 11). Poems All Over the Place: Mostly 'Seventies by Beat Generation Founding Father Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) is a collection of poems that reflect Ginsberg's evolution and the cultural shifts of the 1970s. The selection..... More

Hereford, England: Five Seasons Press, 1978. Limited Edition. Sewn Binding. With hand-written letter from publisher Glenn Storhaug to Richard Cupidi. “White fog lifting & falling on mountain-brow | Trees moving in rivers of wind | The clouds arise | as on a wave, gigantic eddy lifting mist | above teeming ferns exquisitely swayed | along a green crag | glimpsed thru mullioned glass in valley raine.” (First stanza, Wales Visitation..... More

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1978. First Edition. Softcover. Inscribed, signed, dated & with drawings by Peter Orlovsky to Richard Cupidi. “Orlovsky was the kind of natural voice W.C.W. (William Carlos WIliams) believed America would one day sound. I remember him praising Peter’s first poem: “Nothing English about it–pure American.” That was twenty years ago. Now, twenty years hence, Peter has voiced a volume of poems, pure Americana, and..... More