Howl for Carl Solomon [Limited Edition, Signed] by GINSBERG, Allen - 1971

(San Francisco): (Grabhorn-Hoyem), (1971). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Folio (11" x 14") in pictorial tan linen decorated with a wrap-around skyline with fireworks accomplished in 9 colors and designed by Robert La Vigne. One of 275 copies printed on handmade paper and SIGNED on the title page by Ginsberg. The first fine press edition of this landmark 1956 poem with a few revisions by the author. Also contains the first book publication of "The Names," a poetic fragment written in 1957.

San Francisco: Grabhorn-Hoyem, 1971. Published by Andrew Hoyem and Robert Grabhorn, this first signed limited edition of Ginsbergs Howl contains the original text as it was published in 1956 with minute revisions by the author with the addition of the related poetic fragment The Names, which Ginsberg wrote in 1957. The present volume is the first appearance of the two collected works. Ginsberg's Howl is regarded as the spearhead of the literary movement of the Beat Generation, as Ginsberg notes in his introductory note, "Howl's random catalogue of heroic archetype Seeker Persons generalized and abstracted their nature for poetic/surrealist imagery, sometimes with absurd humor I thought struck humane balance with the apocalyptic manners described.

San Francisco: Grabhorn-Hoyem,, 1971. The first fine press edition of Howl First edition thus, one of 275 copies signed by the author, printed by Robert & Grabhorn and Andrew Hoyem on handmade paper from Goudy Modern type, with an illustrated cloth binding after a drawing by Robert La Vigne. Ginsberg's masterpiece was first published by City Lights in 1956 in a much-reproduced wrappers format, but this is the first fine press edition. It includes a new note by Ginsberg about the presentation here of Howl for the first time in tandem with the poetic continuation "The Names" (written 1957, published in the Paris Review 1966), his "autobiographical chronicle of Howl's same radiant persons living & dead adored to specify Names & deeds in extended eulogy - an embodyment [sic] of Howl's abstractions". Morgan notes that although the colophon states that 275 copies were produced, "several copies were misbound and about 20 sets of sheets were not bound due to a lack of adequate covers". Quarto. Original… Read More