A Political Pamphlet
San Francisco: Anarchist Resistance Press, 1976. First edition. Paperback. Stapled wrappers. 12 unnumbered pages. Poems and letters from the San Francisco radical and beat poet. Some general light wear. A very good example. More
Beat Generation / Counterculture
Interim Pad #1
San Francisco: City Lights Bookstore, 1967. First edition. Paperback. Presumed one shot beat poetry magazine edited by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Near Fine condition in tall thick side-stapled wrappers. Printed on rectos only. Terrific lineup of contributors includes Claude Pelieu, Ginsberg, Ferlinghetti, Carl Solomon and others. More
Jack Kerouac; Novelist of the Beat Generation
Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1986. First edition. Cloth. 8vo. 147 pp. Book length study of the life of the Beat legend discussing his literary career and taking some challenging stances of the status quo views of Kerouac's larger-than-life reputation. A fine clothbound copy in very good dustwrapper. More
Allen Ginsberg Reads His Poetry: Includes his best-known poem "Howl" with which the tape ends. Recorded October 25, 1956 (Reel-To-Reel Tape in Original Labeled Box)
Berkeley: Pacific Tape Library, 1956. First edition. Record LP. A rare reel-to-reel tape in original labeled box containing Ginsberg reading his poetry including his best known poem, HOWL. Per our research, the first historic reading of Howl took place at the historic 1955 reading at San Francisco's SIX GALLERY for..... More
Chicago Trial Testimony
San Francisco: City Lights, 1975. First Edition. Paperback. Complete verbatim transcript of Allen Ginsberg's peace conspiracy testimony as witness for Yippie-Activist-Pacifict defendants in 1969 Chicago Seven Trial. A good copy in tall magazine format with cover illustration by Pat Ryan (made to look like an underground comic book). Small paper..... More
The Fall of America; Poems of These States 1965 - 1971
San Francisco: City Lights, 1972. First edition. Paperback. Small square pocket paperbound book. Published as City Lights Pocket Poets Series No. 30. 188 pp. A very good copy in bound printed wrappers with white lettering. More
First Blues; Rags, Ballads, & Harmonium Songs 1971 - 74
New York: Full Court Press, 1975. First edition. Paperback. 8vo. 77 pp. A very good copy in bound wrappers. First trade paperbound edition. More
Improvisation Und Poetik / Riverside Interview / Die Poesie Des Dharma; Uberlegungen zur Poesie 1 /2 / 3 (Three Volumes with Author Initials and Stamp)
Hannover: Apartment Edition, 1988. First German Edition. Paperback. 4to's. Three volume set of books. Text in German. Each volume hand-stamped by Ginsberg using different color stamps and with the author's initials. All three volumes in near fine condition in decorated thick stapled wrappers with narrow French flaps. First German editions..... More
Iron Horse
Toronto: Coach House Press, 1973. First Canadian Edition. Paperback. Oblong bound illustrated wrappers. 52 pp. First Canadian edition. One of 1,000 copies. A handsome very good plus copy. More
Iron Horse (Inscribed)
San Francisco: City Lights, 1974. First edition thus. Paperback. Oblong bound illustrated wrappers. 52 pp. Stated First City Lights Edition (previously published two years earlier). A clean very good copy. This copy is a PRESENTATION COPY TO FELLOW POET GERARD RIZZA and is dated in 1990 on Staten Island. Rizza..... More
Prose Contribution To Cuban Revolution
Detroit: Artists' Workshop Press / Guerrilla, 1966. First edition thus. Paperback. First separate edition of this 14 pp essay by Ginsberg on the Cuban Revolution. Originally published in an issue of Pa'Lante magazine in 1961. A sharp, clean copy in stapled illustrated wrappers. More
Rocky Mountain Dharma Center (Poetry Bookmark)
Grindstone City: The Alternative Press, 1983. First edition. Loose Sheets. Small single piece of tan paper in the shape of a bookmark. Measures 6 3/4" long x 1 3/4" tall. Contains a single short poem by Ginsberg and has a printed date of July 1983. Fine condition... More
White Shroud - Poems 1980 - 1985 (Inscribed and with Original Drawing)
New York: Harper and Row, 1986. First edition. Paperback. Trade paperbound volume of poems by Ginsberg. This is the simultaneous first paperbound edition. 89 pp. A handsome very good copy. This copy has been nicely INSCRIBED by Ginsberg to a friend and fellow poet Gerard Rizza. The inscription refers to..... More
Howl
New York: Harper & Row, 1986. First Thus. Cloth. Quarto. 194 pp. First edition thus of Howl, the original draft facsimile, transcript and variant versions, fully annotated by the author with correspondence, account of first reading, legal skirmishes etc. Edited by Barry Miles. What more can be said about the..... More
Empty Mirror
New York: Totem / Corinth, 1961. First edition. Paperback. 8vo. Stapled wrappers with cover illustration by Gilbert Sorrentino. A volume of early poems by Ginsberg with an introduction by William Carlos Williams. 47 pp. Pages tanned with age. Stray handwriting on front cover. Toning to edges of covers. A good..... More
Howl And Other Poems (Fourth Printing)
San Francisco: City Lights, 1956. Fourth Printing. Paperback. Small stiff wrappers. 44 pp. Pocket Poets Series Number Four. Ginsberg's classic first book of poems. Introduction by William Carlos Williams. This, a stated fourth printing (from the same year as the first). With a few small spots to the covers. A...... More
The Totem Protectorates
San Francisco: Hermes Free Press, 1972. First edition. Paperback. Folio. Sewn wrappers. 6 pp. Printed on Bergstrom papers with the text set on Centaur & Cloister types. Rare anonymous collaboration between Allen Ginsberg and Gary Snyder. Subtitled "Being the Assignment of Same to the Honorable Senators, Lawmakers of the United..... More
Straight Hearts' Delight (Signed Lettered Edition); Love Poems and Selected Letters 1947 - 1980
San Francisco: Gay Sunshine Press, 1980. First edition. Hardcover. Cloth-backed boards. Special limited edition with unique binding from the trade edition. Letter V of twenty six lettered copies SIGNED BY GINSBERG AND ORLOVSKY. 239 pp. Edited by Winston Leyland. A fine example presumably lacking the clear acetate wrappers... More
The Process (with Compliments of the Author Card laid in)
Garden City: Doubleday, 1969. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. First edition stated of Gysin's first novel, an hallucinatory journey across the Sahara. 353 pp. A handsome very good copy in about very good price-intact dustwrapper. Wrapper has several small chips and creases at the edges of the wrapper. About typical for..... More
The Evening Sun Turned Crimson
New York: Cherry Valley Books, 1980. Second edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in dustwrapper. 224 pp. Introduction by Allen Ginsberg. Stated second edition. Photo-illustrated dustwrapper of the author. A collection of short autobiographical riffs. Quite rare in this hardbound format. More
How I Became Hettie Jones (Inscribed)
New York: Grove Press, 1997. Reprint. Paperback. Trade paperbound book. 239 pp. First Grove Press edition. Originally published in 1990. A thoughtful and intimate memoir of bohemian life in lower Manhattan in the late 1950's and early 1960's. A very good example. INSCRIBED by Jones on the title page... More
The Holy Earth Megascene
Santa Cruz: Peeramid Press, 1982. First edition. Paperback. Folio sized magazine edited by Jerry Kamstra. Thick unpaginated magazine printed on inexpensive paper which has lightly toned with age. Filled with original and reprinted articles, poems and drawings from a large host of beat and countercultural figures including Kathy Acker, Charles..... More
The Love Book
San Francisco: Stolen Paper Editions, 1966. First edition. Paperback. Wide stapled illustrated wrappers. Scarce first edition of Kandel's controversial volume of sexually explicit poems that was banned and seized by the police when first published. A near fine copy with some wear to covers. Six pages, printed on rectos only..... More
Abomunist Manifesto
San Francisco: City Lights, 1959. First edition. Loose Sheets. Small 8vo. Single sheet, folded several times to form an elongated booklet when opened. A close to fine copy in printed wrappers. Early City Lights beat publication which has become quite dear, especially in condition. The author's first publication... More
Big Sur (Review Copy)
New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1962. First edition. Hardcover. First printing stated of this novel featuring Jack Duluoz. 241 pp. One of the author's signature stream of conciousness novels and a classic of beat literature. Black cloth spine over patterned navy boards. A superb near fine copy with original..... More