New York, NY: Gotham Book Mart, 1972. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This is a larger chapbook with the title poem by Allen Ginsberg, produced for NYC's legendary, now-gone Gotham Book Mart by Profile Press in August 1972. First printing as stated. With beautiful black & white photographs by William webb; & a color reproduction of a painting of Bixby Canyon by Emil White, tipped-in to the front cover. The Canyon..... More
[Item #1815]
Louisville, KY: White Fields Press/ The Literary Renaissance, 1994. First Printing. Single Sheet. "Stand up against governments, against God./ Stay irresponsible./ Say only what we know & imagine./ Absolutes are coercion./ Change is absolute." (first five lines) A large broadside (appx. 15" x 34&7/8") with the much-published title poem by Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997), Founding Father of the Beat Generation. Subtitled "To Struga Festival Golden Wreath Laureates & International Bards 1986,"..... More
[Item #3891]
Louisville, KY: White Fields Press, 1995. First Printing. Single Sheet. "I went upstairs, happy to see/ he had a place to lay his head for good, and woke in China." (from final stanza) A broadside (appx. 11" x 21&3/4") with the title poem by Allen Ginsberg, Founding Father of the Beat Generation. The poem records a dream he had while visiting China, in which Ginsberg reunites with famous friends &..... More
[Item #3876]
Harmondsworth, England: Viking Press, 1985. First British Edition. Hard Cover. This is the first book in the Allen Ginsberg book series published by Viking Press. Over 830 pages of some of the world's most important poetry by the Beat poet who touched so many lives over a career of almost fifty years. The dj features a photograph of the poet by Robert Frank. The book is a little dusty, with..... More
[Item #1163]
New York, NY: Harper & Row, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed & dated by Allen Ginsberg. "Gathered here for the first time is the verse of three decades of one of America's great poets. Collected Poems 1947-1980 includes all writings in the groundbreaking paperback volumes published by City Lights Books, the contents of many rare pamphlets issued by small presses, and, finally, some notable texts hitherto unpublished...The uninterrupted energy of..... More
[Item #4101]
Pleasant Valley, NY: Kriya Press, 1967. Limited First Edition. Single Sheet. Signed & with hand-written information by Bob Wilson. An illustrated broadside (13"x18") featuring a short poem by Allen Ginsberg, composed under the influence as indicated in the title, in June 1966. Ginsberg was in full hippie bloom a decade after his groundbreaking arrival on the scene as one of the most important members of the original Beat Generation. Issued..... More
[Item #2169]
New York, NY: Harper Collins, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. "In Cosmopolitan Greetings, (Allen) Ginsberg's ebullient spirit, his compassion, humor, playfulness, and candor are as refreshing as ever. These are poems from the autumn years of his life, a time of extensive activity and engagement for the public figure and a period of reflection and meditation for the Buddhist. The poet confronts evil in the world...and he does it fearlessly and..... More
[Item #4129]
Rotterdam, Netherlands: Cold Turkey Press, 1973. Limited First Edition. Softcover. A magazine-format compilation featuring translations from English into Dutch by Gerard Belart of three poems by Allen Ginsberg, primary poet of the Beat Generation. The three poems originally appeared in English in the City Lights Books Pocket Poets Series volume, Planet News (1968), titled "Television was a Baby Crawling Toward that Deathchamber"; "The Change: Kyoto-Tokyo Express" & "Wales Visitation." With..... More
[Item #2257]
New York, NY: HarperFlamingo/HarperCollins, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover; Card Stocks. "Allen Ginsberg was one of the bravest and most admired poets of (the 20th) century. Famous for energizing the Beat Generation literary movement upon his historic encounter with Gregory Corso, Jack Kerouac, and William Burroughs in mid-century New York City, Ginsberg influenced several generations of writers, musicians, and poets. When he died on April 5, 1997, we lost one of..... More
[Item #2863]
New York, NY: Harper Collins, 2000. First Edition. Hard Cover. The first major compilation of Allen Ginsberg's essays, spanning his career & a broad range of figures & topics. foreward by Edward Sanders. Edited by Bill Morgan. A pristine first edition of this most important Ginsberg resource. As New. More
[Item #1171]
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
[Item #2051]
Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. "Published in 1974, The Fall of America was Allen Ginsberg's magnum opus, a poetic account of his experiences in a nation in turmoil. What his National Book Award-winning volume documented he had also recorded, playing a reel-to-reel tape machine given to him by Bob Dylan as he traveled the nation's byways and visited its cities, finding himself again and again..... More
[Item #4280]
New York, NY: Full Court Press, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Allen Ginsberg. "Music carries senseless vowels, which could be revised but in keeping with the spirit of this Art I've left most first drafts & improvisations fixed in their original wordings, useful to myself & others to see how raw mind actually sings."(from author's introduction) The first hardcover printing of Allen Ginsberg's compilation of his verse-lyrics to songs..... More
[Item #1816]
New York, NY: Full Court Press, 1975. First Softcover Edition, First Printing. Softcover. "Music carries senseless vowels, which could be revised but in keeping with the spirit of this Art I've left most first drafts & improvisations fixed in their original wordings, useful to myself & others to see how raw mind actually sings."(from author's introduction) The first softcover printing of Allen Ginsberg's compilation of his verse-lyrics to songs which..... More
[Item #2265]
Ann Arbor, MI: Jewel Heart; Agenda Publications, 1991; 1997; 1998. First Printings. Folded Newspaper; Single Sheets. Three scarce & significant pieces of Allen Ginsberg Ephemera: (1) Flyer announcing a live appearance/reading by Ginsberg at University of Michigan's Rackham Auditorium in Ann Arbor on Friday, March 8, 1991, presented by Jewel Heart, the local Buddhist organization which he supported & visited. With photo of Ginsberg, vertical list of his major works..... More
[Item #3328]
Bolinas, CA: Grey Fox Press, 1972. First edition. Softcover. A volume of early poetry by Allen Ginsberg, with nascent references to the Beat phenomenon that would explode with the reading & publication of Howl several years after they were first written. This is the earliest compilation of works that are now part of later, much larger complete Ginsberg anthologies. Includes Pull My Daisy, later sung in the seminal Beat short..... More
[Item #1579]
New York, NY: Harper Collins, 1995. First Softcover Edition, Second Printing. Softcover. "Since this work is not done posthumously, I've had the liberty to annotate each verse regarding appropriate cultural references which few critics have examined...I've lived with and enjoyed Howl for three decades, it has become a social and poetical landmark, notorious at worst illuminative at best...It seems helpful in this fourth decade of the poem's use to clarify..... More
[Item #4139]
Paris, France: Christian Bourgois, 1980. First French Softcover Edition Thus, First (?) Printing. Softcover. Two of Allen Ginsberg's most important poems, Howl & Kaddish, in one bilingual edition published in France. With English text on left pages & French translation on right pages. English text corrected by Ginsberg in 1976 for this edition; translations into French by Robert Cordier & Jean-Jaques Lebel, with the collaboration of Christine Tysh. There is..... More
[Item #2251]
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
[Item #1814]
Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. "A travel guide through one of the best minds of the Beat Generation- one distinctly not destroyed by madness- Allen Ginsberg's journals are more tour de force than simple diaries, charting his poetry, political antics, and high-profile encounters behind the Iron Curtain at the height of the Cold War...Ginberg writes of these experiences as only he could, summoning political and..... More
[Item #3495]
Paris, France: Le Livre A Venir & Solin, 1985. First French Edition. Softcover, signature-bound. This is the first French edition of the major Allen Ginsberg poem first published in 1966, with the first City Lights Books edition published in 1974. Text is in English on left pages with French translation by Catherine Bailly on right pages. Includes an added essay, "Happy Birthday, Allen Ginsberg" by Claude Pelieu, in French only..... More
[Item #1527]
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
[Item #3429]
New York, NY: Harper Collins, 1995. Limited First Edition. Hardcover in slipcase. Signed & numbered by Allen Ginsberg Allen Ginsberg's journals from the crucial years of 1954-1958, during which Howl was composed & published among other Beat milestones. This is a specially bound & slipcased edition limited to 176 copies, only 150 of which were for sale. This is copy #15/150, signed & numbered by the poet. Marbled endpapers, gilt..... More
[Item #1461]
New York, NY: Grove Press, 1992. Second Softcover Edition, First Printing. Softcover. Journal entries from 1952-1962 by Allen Ginsberg, encompassing the critical period in which he became the primary poet of the Beat Generation. Originally published in hardcover in 1977 & in softcover in 1978, this is the second Evergreen softcover edition published by Grove Press, first printing thus of September 1992. With photographs of & drawings by the poet..... More
[Item #2286]
Tel Aviv, Israel: Am Oved Publishers Ltd., 2000. First Edition Thus, Second Printing. Softcover. A rare Hebrew-language edition of Kaddish, Allen Ginsberg's Beat Generation masterpiece alongside Howl. With the iconic title poem, & then a selection of poems through 1984, none of which appear to include those originally included along with Kaddish in the original City Lights Pocket Poets Series edition first published in 1961. With English & Hebrew texts..... More
[Item #3021]