Milan, Italy: Photology, 2005. First edition. Hardcover. Published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name at the Galleria Photology in Milan, Italy in 2005. A beautiful production in large oblong format, with reproductions of many photos, both iconic & less well-known, by Allen Ginsberg, as well as of vintage covers, broadsides, posters, etc. Text, in English & Italian on opposite pages, is by Fernanda Pivano, an important Italian..... More

Norman, OK: The University of Oklahoma, 1996, 2006. First (Only) Printings. Folded card, developed photographs. A most wonderful package of artifacts with several very important Beat & literary associations: Consisting of an envelope postmarked October 19, 2006 mailed by Indra Tamang, photographer & long-time associate of Charles Henri Ford, to Charles Plymell & his wife Pamela Beach Plymell, friends of CHF & publishers of one of his works, Om Krishna..... More

Paris, France: Christian Bourgois Editeur, 1972. First French Edition. Softcover. Originally published in 1963 as Number Eighteen in the iconic Pocket Poets Series of City Lights Books, this is the first French edition, first printing of March 1972. With English text on left pages, & French text on right pages. The translators are Mary Beach & Claude Pelieu, the important wife-husband team in art, writing & publishing. They knew &..... More

New York, NY: Totem Press/Corinth Books, 1961. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Signed (very uniquely) by Allen Ginsberg. A first printing of Empty Mirror, a compilation of early poems by Allen Ginsberg published in 1961, with an introduction by William Carlos Williams. On the title page is a most bizarrely unique, collectible autograph with citation by the poet: At the upper right corner, in thick black marker, someone has written "To..... More

New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1961. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This number of the literary journal published at Columbia University features five early poems written by Allen Ginsberg in 1948, with an introduction by the poet written when he submitted them in 1961. Ginsberg famously attended Columbia, & some of his earliest published appearances are in earlier numbers of this journal. As he notes in his introduction, these poems..... More

Pleasant Valley, New York: Kriya Press, 1967. Limited Edition. Broadside. 14” x 19” including frame. Broadside This is lettered copy “J,” either out of 100 copies total or 26 lettered copies in addition to 100 numbered copies. An illustrated broadside featuring a short poem by Allen Ginsberg, composed under the influences as indicated in the title, in June 1966. Ginsberg was in full hippie bloom a decade after his groundbreaking..... More

Toronto, Canada: House of Anansi Press, 1968. First Softcover Edition. Signed by Allen Ginsberg. This is the first & notorious (see below) Canadian edition of a compilation of journal excerpts written by Allen Ginsberg, Founding Father of the Beat Generation, & 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..... More

San Francisco, CA; New York, NY: Bob McNeely; Random House, Inc., 1969; 1972. Original Photograph; First Edition. Photograph over Mount; Hardcover. With description in Allen Ginsberg's hand on verso of photograph. A one-of-a-kind bundle of rarities relating to Allen Ginsberg, Founding Father of the Beat Generation: (1) an original photograph (appx. 9&7/8" x 7&3/4") depicting Ginsberg (1926-1997) in the company of John Wieners (1934-2002) at the Republican National Convention in..... More

New York, NY: Vintage Books, 1970; circa 1997. First Softcover Edition; original ephemera. Softcover. "...the image of the man is so delightfully clear and impressive....That Ginsberg takes the book away from itself is proof of Kramer's skill and Ginsberg's magnificent personality..."(from back cover blurb by John Greenya) Two rarities relating to the early, acclaimed biography of Allen Ginsberg by Jane Kramer: (1) First softcover edition of February 1970 as stated..... More

San Francisco, CA: Anonym Press, 1972. First Printing. Softcover. As stated in the introduction by editor Mark Robison, this is "...a discussion of modern poetry between Allen Ginsberg, Michael Aldrich, Edward Kissam, and Nancy Blecker at Ginsberg's farm in Cherry Valley, New York on November 26, 1968...Ginsberg depicts with minute detail how he implements what could be called a marked vocalization of mind thought and how the actual physical circumstance..... More

Toronto, Ontario, Canada; San Francisco, CA: The Coach House Press; City Lights Books, 1973; 1974. First Canadian Edition; First USA Edition. Softcovers. We are pleased to offer the first North American editions of Iron Horse, the long & exemplary poem by Allen Ginsberg dated July 22-23, 1966: (1) First-ever edition, from the first printing of 1000 copies, published in Canada by The Coach House Press during January 1973, with date..... More

Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas, 1974. First Printing. Softcover. Two contiguous issues of the literary journal published by the University of Kansas. The issues respectively feature two parts of an interview with Allen Ginsberg, primary poet of the Beat Generation, conducted "...during the winter of 1965-66 at a crowded party near the University of Kansas. It was originally printed as two parts of the 1966 issues of the Cottonwood Review..... More

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1977; 1986; 1989. 37th Printing; 19th Printing; First Printing. Softcovers. Howl & Kaddish signed & dated by Allen Ginsberg. A gathering of three iconic numbers in the City Lights Pocket Poets Series by Allen Ginsberg, Founding Father of the Beat Generation: (1) Howl and Other Poems, first published in 1956 as Number Four in the Pocket Poets Series- along with Jack Kerouac's On the..... More