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Photographs.
by GINSBERG, Allen
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Altadena: Twelvetrees Press,, 1990. First edition, first printing, signed by the author with an original ink drawing of his favoured Blakean "Ah, Sunflower", dated 4/19/91. This is one of 5,000 casebound copies, from a total edition of 5,100. Ginsberg's photographs largely comprise portraits of his close friends, including Kerouac, Cassady, Burroughs, Orlovsky, Snyder, Corso, and Leary; and of luminaries such as Robert Frank, Basil Bunting, Lou Reed, and Ken Kesey. The margins are annotated with descriptions in facsimile of Ginsberg's hand. Folio. Original grey cloth, spine and front cover lettered in blind, black endpapers. With dust jacket. With photographic illustrations throughout. Outer bottom corners bumped, a couple of faint marks on rear board and jacket, unclipped: a fine copy in fine jacket. Roth 101.
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- Bookseller
- Peter Harrington
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 149988
- Title
- Photographs.
- Author
- GINSBERG, Allen
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- Altadena: Twelvetrees Press,
- Date Published
- 1990
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About the Seller
Peter Harrington
Biblio member since 2006
London
About Peter Harrington
Since its establishment, Peter Harrington has specialised in sourcing, selling and buying the finest quality original first editions, signed, rare and antiquarian books, fine bindings and library sets. Peter Harrington first began selling rare books from the Chelsea Antiques Market on London's King's Road. For the past twenty years the business has been run by Pom Harrington, Peter's son.
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