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San Francisco: Beach Books Texts & Documents. Very Good. Facsimile. Softcover. Slight crease to lower spine margin. Small library ink stamp on reverse of title page. Strip of paper residue on inside of rear cover where something was removed. ; Facsimile of original typewritten, corrected draft. Distributed by City Lights Books. .
T.V. Baby Poem by Ginsberg, Allen - 1968
by Ginsberg, Allen
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T.V. Baby Poem
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n/p (distributed by City Lights Books, San Francisco, CA: Beach Books, Texts & Documents, 1968. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Fine. Published the year after T.V. Baby Poems (item #1809), this is a facsimile of Allen Ginsberg's original 1961 hand-typed manuscript, with subsequent hand-written corrections & notations, of the first & longest poem in that previous volume, where it is titled "Television Was a Baby Crawling Toward That Death Chamber." It is Number Two in a series of large-format stapled chapbooks in the Beach Books Texts & Documents series, published by Mary Beach & Claude Pelieu; & printed by Charles Plymell & Pamela Beach Plymell, Beach & Pelieu's son-in-law & daughter/stepdaughter, respectively. All four of these well-known writers, artists & publishers were close friends & associates of Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs & many other luminaries. Preceding the manuscript is a nice full-page photograph in margins of the poet in full bushy beard taken in 1966. Following the manuscript is a facsimile of a hand-written letter from Ginsberg to Beach & Pelieu, explaining the history of the manuscript, its editing, publication in T.V. Baby Poems, etc. A scarce item, offering insight into the creation of an important Ginsberg poem. In fine condition considering the fragility of this series of publications, with only moderate creasing to edges of wrappers that goes through interior, especially at top edge; browning at edges of wrappers & interior pages, altogether intact & crisp.
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- Publisher Beach Books, Texts & Documents
- Place of Publication n/p (distributed by City Lights Books, San Francisco, CA
- Date Published 1968
- Keywords Allen Ginsberg, Claude Pelieu, Mary Beach, Charles Plymell, Pamela Beach Plymell, 1968
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T. V. Baby Poem
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Beach Books. Very Good. 1968. Paperback. Slightly worn and bumped.; 16 pages .
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[San Francisco]: Beach Books, Texts & Documents, 1968. First Edition. Saddle stapled printed wrappers. Very Good. 4to. (8-1/2 x 11). Pp. [16]. Black & white photo portrait. Kraft paper wraps and leaves saddle stapled, titles printed in black. Mellowed creases and light crimps, faint damp stain to the spine tail. Facsimile of the typewritten first draft with handwritten revisions of what had been published as "Television Was a Baby Crawling Toward That Death Chamber" the previous year. Followed by a facsimile of Ginsberg's cover letter to Mary Beach & Claude Pelieu describing the revisions and versions of the poem. Now preserved in a clear archival sleeve with acid-free backing.
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by GINSBERG, Allen
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[San Francisco]: Beach Books, Texts & Documents, 1968. First Edition. Saddle stapled printed wraps. Good+. 4to. (8-1/2 x 11). Pp. [16]. Black & white photo portrait. Kraft paper wraps and leaves saddle stapled, titles printed in black. Title page signed and inscribed in black felt pen "First manuscript & working draft (see Planet News for final form) for Walter Hall 1982." Mellowed creases and light crimps, a very short closed tear into the fore-edge. First printing. Facsimile of the typewritten first draft with handwritten revisions of what had been published as "Television Was a Baby Crawling Toward That Death Chamber" the previous year. Followed by a facsimile of Ginsberg's cover letter to Mary Beach & Claude Pelieu describing the revisions and versions of the poem.Now preserved in a clear archival sleeve with acid-free backing.
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T.V. Baby Poem
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Beach Books, Texts & Documents, 1968. Original wraps. Very Good +. SIGNED BY ALLEN GINSBERG on the title page. A very presentable copy to boot of the 1968 1st edition of this facsimile of Ginsberg's 1961 manuscript. Solid and VG+ in its stapled, light-brown wrappers, with just a touch of light staining along the front panel's lower-tip. Quarto, published by Beach Books, distributed by City Lights.
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