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Satori in Paris, complete in Evergreen Review Magazine; #39, #40 and #41. New York, 1966, softcover, First Editions, Very Good+ condition, with no markings, light rubs, lightly age-toned edges. Specifics: No. 39, Very Good+, small spot near head of spine. No. 40, Near Fine, No 41, Very Good+, top corner bumped. The complete text of Satori in Paris in three installments preceding the Grove Press hardcover publication as noted on the copyright page. Other major contributors of new material include; Samuel Beckett, Robert Creeley, George Grosz (details from Ecce Homo), Alan Ginsberg, Henry Miller, Eugene Ionesco, Eric Bentley and Lenore Kandel.
Original Carbon Typescript for Part I of "Howl by Ginsberg, Allen - 1955
by Ginsberg, Allen
Original Carbon Typescript for Part I of "Howl
by Ginsberg, Allen
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[San Francisco], 1955. Very good overall.. Previously unknown original carbon typescript of the most important postwar American poem: Allen Ginsberg's "Howl." Almost certainly the only surviving draft version of this iconic poem remaining in private hands, and the only one to ever be separately offered for sale. This copy was struck from what has become known as the fifth draft (so identified in HOWL: Original Draft Facsimiles and Variant Versions [etc.]. Barry Miles, Editor. New York: Harper & Row, 1986) and most likely dates from early 1956. It is this draft that Ginsberg read in what is the earliest known recording of the poem at Oregon's Reed College from February 1956 (indeed you can hear him turning the pages at precisely the right time on the recording), performed just three months after the legendary Six Gallery reading where the poem debuted.
This copy of "Howl" was discovered among the papers of bohemian and arts benefactor Annie Ruff, and is the exact carbon struck on Ginsberg's own typewriter from the top ribbon copy now housed at Stanford among Ginsberg's papers. Ginsberg was known to have created carbons of the poem, and the peculiarities both of Ginsberg's typewriter and of this particular typing (i.e. matching orientations of the text vis-à-vis the page edges on the top copy vs. the carbon, parallel impressions evidencing matching strike tim- ing and strength) - as well as revisions visible on both the top copy and this carbon - exactly match the original held at Stanford. It is not a fair copy, and we can also state definitively that it is not a later reproduction or duplication of any kind.
The typescript here offered differs significantly from both the later published versions (ditto and City Lights), and perhaps more importantly from even the known top-copy draft at Stanford. Words erased and retyped in the top copy are visible in the carbon, as are other changes evidenced in comparison to the published and the digitized versions (see accompanying comparison document for specific examples). As such, this typescript remains a rare window into Ginsberg's creative process, and an important document of this landmark poem. But perhaps most importantly, page seven is here in the carbon as it was originally typed, before Ginsberg retyped the entire page, changing it significantly. This original version is lacking from Ginsberg's papers and had previously only been known by the recently discovered Reed College reading, which follows the text of the carbon here offered. Indeed, you can hear him turning the pages at precisely the right time on the recording.
While the Six Gallery reading where "Howl" was debuted in an early form in October 1955, and the subsequent re-staging of this event in March of 1956 (the first time the poem was read in its entirety), made Ginsberg locally famous and even drew journalists like The New York Times' Richard Eberhart to document the nascent Beat Scene, no one was prepared for the effect the poem would have on both literature and the culture at large when it was published in the Fall of 1956 by Lawrence Ferlinghetti's City Lights Books. The book sold through its initial 1000-copy print run in just a few months, and a second printing of 1500 was ordered from the printer Villier's in London (who did handsome, inexpensive letterpress work). But when the books arrived in San Francisco from the UK, more than 500 copies were seized by US Customs authorities for obscenity, an event which (along with Ferlinghetti and City Lights employee Shig Murao's arrest later that year for selling HOWL), brought the poem - and its author - immediately to national attention, a position neither has relinquished. As the title of the 2006 book in honor of the poem's fiftieth anniversary described "Howl," it was without exaggeration "the poem that changed America." The City Lights edition has never been out of print, having sold upwards of a million copies, and the poem pioneered not only a more confessional mode of American poetry, but helped launch numerous youth movements from beatniks to hippies, Situationists to punks. The poem is a landmark in the history of gay rights, free speech, protest, censorship, and the counterculture. Only Eliot's "The Wasteland" rivals it in modern American poetry in terms of influence, legacy, and importance. Along with Kerouac's ON THE ROAD and Burroughs's NAKED LUNCH, it is a cornerstone of the Beat movement and remains Ginsberg's most enduring work.
A singular opportunity and monument of American literature. 11'' x 8.5''. Eleven carbon typescript leaves; 27.5 x 21.4 cm. Double-spaced, typed rectos only on plain paper. Folded in half, possibly for mailing. All pages evenly toned. Mild creasing and chipping to edges throughout. "By / Allen Ginsberg" penned to first page in an unknown hand (almost certainly not Ginsberg's). Page numbers penciled in unknown hand (but probably Ginsberg's) to upper right corner of each leaf. Several small, unobtrusive stains to first leaf. A faint ink scribble (possibly a letter "M") to lower edge of second page. One word crossed out in pencil ("iron," likely Ginsberg's) on page eight. Lacking last leaf - the twelfth - containing final nine lines of Part I. A first edition of HOWL: Original Draft Facsimiles and Variant Versions [etc.] edited by Barry Miles is provided (Harper & Row, 1986. Near fine in like jacket).
This copy of "Howl" was discovered among the papers of bohemian and arts benefactor Annie Ruff, and is the exact carbon struck on Ginsberg's own typewriter from the top ribbon copy now housed at Stanford among Ginsberg's papers. Ginsberg was known to have created carbons of the poem, and the peculiarities both of Ginsberg's typewriter and of this particular typing (i.e. matching orientations of the text vis-à-vis the page edges on the top copy vs. the carbon, parallel impressions evidencing matching strike tim- ing and strength) - as well as revisions visible on both the top copy and this carbon - exactly match the original held at Stanford. It is not a fair copy, and we can also state definitively that it is not a later reproduction or duplication of any kind.
The typescript here offered differs significantly from both the later published versions (ditto and City Lights), and perhaps more importantly from even the known top-copy draft at Stanford. Words erased and retyped in the top copy are visible in the carbon, as are other changes evidenced in comparison to the published and the digitized versions (see accompanying comparison document for specific examples). As such, this typescript remains a rare window into Ginsberg's creative process, and an important document of this landmark poem. But perhaps most importantly, page seven is here in the carbon as it was originally typed, before Ginsberg retyped the entire page, changing it significantly. This original version is lacking from Ginsberg's papers and had previously only been known by the recently discovered Reed College reading, which follows the text of the carbon here offered. Indeed, you can hear him turning the pages at precisely the right time on the recording.
While the Six Gallery reading where "Howl" was debuted in an early form in October 1955, and the subsequent re-staging of this event in March of 1956 (the first time the poem was read in its entirety), made Ginsberg locally famous and even drew journalists like The New York Times' Richard Eberhart to document the nascent Beat Scene, no one was prepared for the effect the poem would have on both literature and the culture at large when it was published in the Fall of 1956 by Lawrence Ferlinghetti's City Lights Books. The book sold through its initial 1000-copy print run in just a few months, and a second printing of 1500 was ordered from the printer Villier's in London (who did handsome, inexpensive letterpress work). But when the books arrived in San Francisco from the UK, more than 500 copies were seized by US Customs authorities for obscenity, an event which (along with Ferlinghetti and City Lights employee Shig Murao's arrest later that year for selling HOWL), brought the poem - and its author - immediately to national attention, a position neither has relinquished. As the title of the 2006 book in honor of the poem's fiftieth anniversary described "Howl," it was without exaggeration "the poem that changed America." The City Lights edition has never been out of print, having sold upwards of a million copies, and the poem pioneered not only a more confessional mode of American poetry, but helped launch numerous youth movements from beatniks to hippies, Situationists to punks. The poem is a landmark in the history of gay rights, free speech, protest, censorship, and the counterculture. Only Eliot's "The Wasteland" rivals it in modern American poetry in terms of influence, legacy, and importance. Along with Kerouac's ON THE ROAD and Burroughs's NAKED LUNCH, it is a cornerstone of the Beat movement and remains Ginsberg's most enduring work.
A singular opportunity and monument of American literature. 11'' x 8.5''. Eleven carbon typescript leaves; 27.5 x 21.4 cm. Double-spaced, typed rectos only on plain paper. Folded in half, possibly for mailing. All pages evenly toned. Mild creasing and chipping to edges throughout. "By / Allen Ginsberg" penned to first page in an unknown hand (almost certainly not Ginsberg's). Page numbers penciled in unknown hand (but probably Ginsberg's) to upper right corner of each leaf. Several small, unobtrusive stains to first leaf. A faint ink scribble (possibly a letter "M") to lower edge of second page. One word crossed out in pencil ("iron," likely Ginsberg's) on page eight. Lacking last leaf - the twelfth - containing final nine lines of Part I. A first edition of HOWL: Original Draft Facsimiles and Variant Versions [etc.] edited by Barry Miles is provided (Harper & Row, 1986. Near fine in like jacket).
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Satori in Paris, Complete in Evergreen Review Magazine; #39, #40 and #41
by Kerouac, Jack
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The Moderns
by Jones, LeRoi (Amiri Baraka) editor
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New York, Corinth Books/Citadel Press, 1963, hardcover, xvi-351 pp, First Edition, First Printing, Fine in Near Fine dustjacket, signed and dated 'Amiri Baraka 98' by the editor on the front endpaper. Straight, tight and clean with no markings, light bump to head of spine. Dustjacket unclipped bearing original price, slight edge bumps, spine lettering a bit rubbed, in original glassine sleeve. A compilation of the short writings of the major new talents of the time many of whom have become authors of modern American classics. Contributors include; Jack Kerouac, Robert Creeley, William Burroughs, Hubert Selby Jr., Diane Di Prima and LeRoi Jones himself, many of the pieces appear in print for the first time.
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River of Red Wine and other poems
by Micheline, Jack: with an introduction by Jack Kerouac
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Sudbury MA, Water Row Press, 1986, hardcover, 49 pp, Deluxe Limited Edition, #17 of 100 hardcover copies Signed by the Author on the title page, Fine condition in red cloth-covered boards with original illustrated wrappers bound in, spine lettered in gilt, no dustjacket as issued. Straight, tight and clean with no wear or markings. First published in 1958, Micheline's collection of poems is required reading as a major voice of the Beat Generation. Introduction by Jack Kerouac. From the Edwin Blair Collection of Beat Literature sold Mar. 9, 2006 at PBA Galleries, San Francisco to benefit Gypsy Lou Webb, publisher and widow of the late Jon Webb, whose New Orleans home was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. ISBN 9780934953054
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Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note
by Jones, Le Roi (Amiri Baraka)
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Dire 6 (No. 6; Automne 1963)
by Vodaine, Jean, et al. (eds.), Allen Ginsberg, Henry Miller, Lawrence Durrell, Ernest Hemingway, Oliver LaFarge, Albert Ayme, Robert Allan, Alister Kershaw, et al
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Montpellier, France: Dire, 1963. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 8vo, 64pp (plus double-fold-out plate), printed wrappers. Brilliantly designed and executed fine-press literary magazine from 1963, includes work by Ginsberg (A Supermarket in California from Howl and Other Poems), Hemingway, Henry Miller, et al. (with translations from English). Unmarked copy, a little reading wear and toning.
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Overland to the Islands
by LEVERTOV, Denise
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Highlands: Jonathan Williams, 1958. Softcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition, regular issue. Tall octavo. Fine in wrappers in near fine dustwrapper with light wear at the crown. One of 450 copies. An early collection of poetry by the author.
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AMERICAN EXPRESS
by Corso, Gregory
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Paris: The Olympia Press, 1961. First edition, first prnt. 1st state with "15 N.F." printed price on rear wrap. No. 85 in the publisher's "The Traveller's Companion" series. Signed by Corso on the front free endpage. Perfect-bound printed wraps in pictoral dustjacket. Illustrations by Corso. Minimal shelfwear; dustjacket with minor shelfwear, mostly at the spine topedge, slight toning on spine and rear flap fold and small stain on spine. Tight and bright copy in Near Nine condition in a Very Good dustjacket. Corso's first novel.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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Plutonian Ode and Other Poems 1977 - 1980.
by GINSBERG, Allen
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San Francisco: City Lights Books / The Pocket Poets Series Number 40. 1982. Bookplate Signed by Allen Ginsberg laid into the book. First edition / First printing. One of 1200 copies in hardcover. cloth. Fine in about fine dust jacket.
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Cow 1 (Cow Soup Issue, 1965)
by Martin, Link (Luther T. Cupp, ed.), Jack Spicer, Joanne Kyger, Stan Persky, Robin Blaser, Harold Dull, Ronnie Primack, Doug Palmer, Larry Fagin, et al
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San Francisco: Link Martin, 1965. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 4to, 22pp, stapled wrappers. First issue of this rare and enigmatic literary magazine from 1965 San Francisco, edited by Jack Spicer's last lover, Link Martin, shortly after Spicer's death. Includes work by Spicer, Martin, Joanne Kyger, and others. Unmarked copy, clean and well preserved, light wear.
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Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note
by Jones, Le Roi (Amiri Baraka)
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Allen Ginsberg in the Sixties
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Brighton, England / Seattle: Unicorn Bookshop, 1972. First Edition. Octavo (8 1/8 x 5 7/8 inches; 207 x149 mm), 26 pages, in photo-illustrated wrappers (soft cover). An often critical view of Allen Ginsberg's poems by Eric Mottram (1924-1995), who was a British poet and professor at King's College London. CONDITION: Some soiling and fading to wrappers and light edge wear but internally clean and unmarked. A Very Good copy.
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Student Movement of the '60s, The
by Quarter, Jack
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Toronto: The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers; Front Cover Lightly Chipped; Light Moisture Damage (Staining); Edges Lightly Soiled. CONTENTS: Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1 A Critique of Existing Research Methodology; Chapter 2 Student Movements and Popular Support; Chapter 3 Framing the Study Problem; Chapter 4 Individual Characteristics and Responsivity to Political Ideas: A Theoretical Model; Chapter 5 Characteristics of Students Supporting the Student Movement; Chapter 6 The University Environment and the Student Movement; Chapter 7 University of Toronto Study; Appendixes; References. PUBLISHER: The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education Toronto. The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education has three prime functions: to conduct programs of graduate study in education, to undertake research in education, and to assist in the implementation of the findings of educational studies. The Institute is a college chartered by an Act of the…
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The Triangle 7 (Volume 7, September 1968) - includes four poems and a text piece by editor William Wantling
by Wantling, William (ed.), Sam Zafirri, Robert Nelson Moore Jr., Thom Young, et al
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Normal, IL: Illinois State University, 1968. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). Near VG. 8vo, 64pp, stapled self-cover. Scarce literary magazine edited by William Wantling during his time at Illinois State University, includes four poems and an excerpt from a novel by Wantling. Unmarked copy, outer leaf pulling at staples, which have some rust.
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Intransit : The Philip Whalen Issue (INSCRIBED copy, contains The Education Continues Along and Voyages, a Transpacific Journal)
by Whalen, Philip
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Eugene, Oregon: Toad Press, 1967. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. 8vo, 68pp, printed wrappers. Warmly INSCRIBED to a friend by the author in a neat calligraphic hand on February 16, 1969. Uncommon periodical issue devoted to Whalen's work (largely reproduced from a handwritten original). Clean, unmarked copy.
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Contour Quarterly 2 (September 1947)
by Maclaine, Christopher and Norma Smith (eds.), Kenneth Rexroth, James Schevill, Harry Honig, Denise Levertov, Kenneth Patchen, J.C. Crews, Howard Griffin, Sanders Russell (on Henry Miller), Virgil Partch, et al
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Berkeley, CA: Contour, 1947. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. 8vo, 68pp, stapled wrappers. The uncommon second issue of this short-lived underground literary magazine edited by poet, future filmmaker, and eventual speed casualty Christopher Maclaine. Includes an essay on Henry Miller by Sanders Russell and a single-page cartoon by Virgil Partch. Fresh, unmarked copy with very light wear.
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Prospect 3 (Spring 1960)
by Feinstein, Elaine, and Tony Ward (eds.), Charles Olson, Charles Tomlinson, George Starbuck, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Donald Davie, et al
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Cambridge, England: Prospect, 1960. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 8vo, 32pp, stapled wrappers. Scarce third issue of this little magazine from 1960 Cambridge, with work by Charles Olson and others. Mimeographed subscription form laid in. Spotting to covers and page edges, no markings.
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The Retreat Diaries with The Dream Of Tibet By Allen Ginsberg.
by Burroughs, William S
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New York: The City Moon, 1976. 1st Edition . Small Paper. 40pg. work published only in an edition of 2000. Illustrated with 3 photos. Light spotting to the top edge of the back white cover, and very minute light wear to the front cover. Uncommon. Vg. Also included is a fine copy of Burroughs "Ghost Of Chance" This is the first hardcover trade edition published by Serpent's Tail/High Risk Books in 1995 and is illustrated with 17 b&w drawings by Burroughs. Laminated boards published without a dustjacket. Sold as a collection only.
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666: "The Hymn" to "Lucifer"
by REYNOLDS, Frank, aka "Freewheelin' Frank
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REYNOLDS, Frank, aka "Freewheelin' Frank".666: "The Hymn" to "Lucifer". San Francisco: Hells Angels M.C., 1968 Description
12 colour-printed (262 x 202 mm) single sheets, loose as issued in the original colour-printed glossy card .
Text in an approximation of the Hell's Angels Fat Frank #1 "font", psychedelic and astrological decorations, author portrait by Bay Area photographer Larry Keenan Jr. in reddish-orange on the rear panel of the chemise.
A few cover spots....see photo, but overall very good.
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First edition, uncommon. Fascinating document of the San Francisco underground scene. A sequence of amphetamine-fuelled metaphysical explorations combining the Satanic, astrological, and psychedelic in equal measure, with just a dash of biker lore. Reynolds was secretary of the notorious SF chapter of the Hell's Angels, and the previous year had seen the publication of his autobiography "as told to" poet Michael McLure, with whom he had been performing musical settings of McClure's poems - Frank on… Read More
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Loba Part II
by Di Prima, Diane
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Pt. Reyes CA & Kathmandu, Eidolon Editions, 1976, center-stapled trade paperback (10" x 7.25"), 16 pp. printed on one side only, First Edition, First Printing, limited to 550 copies, Very Good condition in illustrated wraps. Straight, tight and clean, light foxing to covers and text block edge, tiny nicks to top corner of front cover. Printed on handmade paper this small collection continues Di Prima's exploration of Loba, the she-wolf, as mythic mother of the world. Monochrome illustrations by Josie Grant.
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Earth House Hold: Technical Notes & Queries to Fellow Dharma Revolutionaries
by Snyder, Gary
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Here is the rare, first edition hardcover of "Earth House Hold," signed by Gary Snyder. Only 2500 copies published in 1969 by New Directions (Item A 22 in the Gary Snyder Bibliography by Katherine McNeil). No dust jacket.Signed on the title page by Snyder directly beneath and partially over his printed name, in his calligraphy script style.
Although one of Snyder's better-known books, signed copies are rare, especially in hardcover.
Condition is VG to VG- with some foxing and soiling, and light fraying to front corners of spine tips. Very mild bow to front board, shows only if you hold the book flat in your hand like a platter and hold it up to the light. (Most sellers wouldn't even mention it.)
All in all, a solid signed copy of this important title in the Snyder canon.
Item Price
£80.12