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Published by Penguin Books Pub, NY, 1992
ISBN 10: 0140151028ISBN 13: 9780140151022
Seller: WONDERFUL BOOKS BY MAIL, Durham-CA, CA, U.S.A.
Book
paperback. Condition: Very Good. Illustrated by Cover B & W Photo Jack k & W. BURROUGHS (illustrator). PAPERBACK. VERY GOOD CONDITION, CLEAN, SOLID, COVER shows 2 beat poets in dark room.flowered wallpaper ; White titles on black paper covers. THICK BOOK.; 645pg pages; Beat Generation Travel.excellent & compassionate picture of that generation. ." ."I first met Dean after my wife and I split up.".
Published by City Lights Publishers, 2015
ISBN 10: 0872866785ISBN 13: 9780872866782
Seller: INDOO, Avenel, NJ, U.S.A.
Book
Condition: As New. Unread copy in mint condition.
Published by City Lights Publishers, 2015
ISBN 10: 0872866785ISBN 13: 9780872866782
Seller: INDOO, Avenel, NJ, U.S.A.
Book
Condition: New. Brand New.
Published by City Lights Books, San Francisco, 1982
ISBN 10: 0872860175ISBN 13: 9780872860179
Seller: About Books, Henderson, NV, U.S.A.
Book
Paperback. Condition: Very Good condition. Later printing of the 1956 original. San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1982. 4.75" wide by 6.25" tall. Clean, tight, square, unmarked copy. Flat spine. Not price clipped (2.50). No remainder mark. No store stamp, owner's name or bookplate. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. "The Pocket Poets Series, Number Four." The book's dedication is to Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, and Neal Cassady. Later printing of the 1956 original. Softcover. Very Good condition. 47pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.
Published by City Lights Books, San Francisco, 1966
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
First Edition
Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Illustrated from black and white photographs. Pictorial wrappers. Moderate rubbing and soiling, very good. Contains the first appearance of Allen Ginsberg's "New York to San Fran" [Morgan C240]; other contributions by Alexandro Jodorowsky, Gregory Corso, Charles Olson, Michael McClure, C. Pelieu, and more.
Published by City Lights Books, San Francisco, 1966
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
First Edition
Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. 235pp. Pictorial wrappers. Spine has moderate wear, else a very good copy. Contains the first appearance of Allen Ginsberg's "New York to San Fran"; other contributions by G. Corso, C. Olson, M. McClure, C. Pelieu, and more.
Published by City Lights Books, San Francisco, California, USA, 1986
ISBN 10: 0872860191ISBN 13: 9780872860193
Seller: Orlando Booksellers, Lincoln, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Original Wraps. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, as Issued. First Edition. Nineteenth printing of the true first edition of this famous work by Allen Ginsberg, published as a paperback original. City Lights originally published the book in 1961. Number Fourteen in the Pocket Poets Series. ***Near fine in the iconic black & white glossy card covers, priced at $3.95 on the back cover. The book is near fine, with the edges hardly rubbed at all - just slightly creased. No tears. Spine clean and unfaded. Internally near fine, with a neat gift inscription to the front free endpaper. The endpapers are dark blue. Pages clean. No creases or tears. Spine tight. Covers bright and clean. ***158mm x 124mm. 104 pages including a three-page catalogue of City Lights Publications at the back of the book. ***'Irwin Allen Ginsberg (June 3, 1926 - April 5, 1997) was an American poet and writer. As a student at Columbia University in the 1940s, he began friendships with William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, forming the core of the Beat Generation. He vigorously opposed militarism, economic materialism, and sexual repression, and he embodied various aspects of this counterculture with his views on drugs, sex, multiculturalism, hostility to bureaucracy, and openness to Eastern religions. Ginsberg is best known for his poem "Howl", in which he denounced what he saw as the destructive forces of capitalism and conformity in the United States. San Francisco police and US Customs seized "Howl" in 1956, and it attracted widespread publicity in 1957 when it became the subject of an obscenity trial, as it described heterosexual and homosexual sex at a time when sodomy laws made (male) homosexual acts a crime in every state. The poem reflected Ginsberg's own sexuality and his relationships with a number of men, including Peter Orlovsky, his lifelong partner. Judge Clayton W. Horn ruled that "Howl" was not obscene, stating: "Would there be any freedom of press or speech if one must reduce his vocabulary to vapid innocuous euphemisms?" Ginsberg was a Buddhist who extensively studied Eastern religious disciplines. He lived modestly, buying his clothing in second-hand stores and residing in apartments in New York City's East Village. ***The lead poem "Kaddish" also known as "Kaddish for Naomi Ginsberg (1894-1956)", was written in two parts by Beat writer Allen Ginsberg, and was first published in Kaddish and Other Poems 1958-1960. The book was part of the Pocket Poet Series published by City Lights Books. In the table of contents, the poem is titled "Kaddish: Proem, narrative, hymmnn, lament, litany, & fugue". Along with Ginsberg's "Howl", Kaddish is said to be one of his greatest masterpieces. Ginsberg wrote the poem about his mother Naomi after her death in 1956, who struggled with mental problems throughout her life. Naomi suffered many psychotic episodes both before Allen was born and while he was growing up. She went in and out of mental hospitals and was treated with medication, insulin shock therapy, and electroshock therapy. She died in an asylum in 1956. ' [Wiki] ***A later (nineteenth) impression of the famous City Lights Pocket Poets series edition of 'Kaddish' by Allen Ginsberg, first published as a paperback original, in very nice collectable condition. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.
Published by City Lights Books, San Francisco, California, USA, 1989
ISBN 10: 0872860191ISBN 13: 9780872860193
Seller: Orlando Booksellers, Lincoln, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Original Wraps. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, as Issued. First Edition. Twenty-first printing of the true first edition of this famous work by Allen Ginsberg, published as a paperback original in January 1989. City Lights originally published the book in 1961. Number Fourteen in the Pocket Poets Series. ***Near fine in the iconic black & white glossy card covers, with an 'Airlift Book Company' import price sticker of £4.95 over the original printed price of $3.95 on the back cover. The book is near fine, with the edges hardly rubbed at all - no creases or tears. Spine clean and unfaded. No fading. Internally also near fine, with no inscriptions. The endpapers are dark blue. Pages clean. No creases or tears. Spine tight. Covers bright and clean. ***158mm x 124mm. 99 pages plus a two-page complete list of published works by Allen Ginsberg and a three-page catalogue of City Lights Publications at the back of the book. ***'Irwin Allen Ginsberg (June 3, 1926 - April 5, 1997) was an American poet and writer. As a student at Columbia University in the 1940s, he began friendships with William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, forming the core of the Beat Generation. He vigorously opposed militarism, economic materialism, and sexual repression, and he embodied various aspects of this counterculture with his views on drugs, sex, multiculturalism, hostility to bureaucracy, and openness to Eastern religions. Ginsberg is best known for his poem "Howl", in which he denounced what he saw as the destructive forces of capitalism and conformity in the United States. San Francisco police and US Customs seized "Howl" in 1956, and it attracted widespread publicity in 1957 when it became the subject of an obscenity trial, as it described heterosexual and homosexual sex at a time when sodomy laws made (male) homosexual acts a crime in every state. The poem reflected Ginsberg's own sexuality and his relationships with a number of men, including Peter Orlovsky, his lifelong partner. Judge Clayton W. Horn ruled that "Howl" was not obscene, stating: "Would there be any freedom of press or speech if one must reduce his vocabulary to vapid innocuous euphemisms?" Ginsberg was a Buddhist who extensively studied Eastern religious disciplines. He lived modestly, buying his clothing in second-hand stores and residing in apartments in New York City's East Village. ***The lead poem "Kaddish" also known as "Kaddish for Naomi Ginsberg (1894-1956)", was written in two parts by Beat writer Allen Ginsberg, and was first published in Kaddish and Other Poems 1958-1960. The book was part of the Pocket Poet Series published by City Lights Books. In the table of contents, the poem is titled "Kaddish: Proem, narrative, hymmnn, lament, litany, & fugue". Along with Ginsberg's "Howl", Kaddish is said to be one of his greatest masterpieces. Ginsberg wrote the poem about his mother Naomi after her death in 1956, who struggled with mental problems throughout her life. Naomi suffered many psychotic episodes both before Allen was born and while he was growing up. She went in and out of mental hospitals and was treated with medication, insulin shock therapy, and electroshock therapy. She died in an asylum in 1956. ' [Wiki] ***A later (twenty-first) impression of the famous City Lights Pocket Poets series edition of 'Kaddish' by Allen Ginsberg, first published as a paperback original, in very nice collectable condition. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.
Published by City Lights Books, San Francisco, California, USA, 2006
ISBN 10: 0872860175ISBN 13: 9780872860179
Seller: Orlando Booksellers, Lincoln, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Original Wraps. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, as Issued. First Edition. The special 50th Anniversary edition of this famous work by Allen Ginsberg, published as a paperback original in 2006. City Lights originally published the book in 1956. Number Four in the Pocket Poets Series. With a two-page Introduction entitled "Howl for Carl Solomon" by William Carlos Williams. ***Near fine in the iconic black & white glossy card covers. ***Please note that the covers are in fine condition as they have been laminated by a previous owner. No creases or tears. Internally also near fine with no inscriptions or annotations. Pages clean. No creases or tears. The endpapers are dark red. Spine tight. ***158mm x 124mm. 57 pages plus a two-page complete list of published works by Allen Ginsberg at the back of the book. ***"I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked---" [The mesmerising first line of "Howl"] ***'Irwin Allen Ginsberg (June 3, 1926 - April 5, 1997) was an American poet and writer. As a student at Columbia University in the 1940s, he began friendships with William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, forming the core of the Beat Generation. He vigorously opposed militarism, economic materialism, and sexual repression, and he embodied various aspects of this counterculture with his views on drugs, sex, multiculturalism, hostility to bureaucracy, and openness to Eastern religions. Ginsberg is best known for his poem "Howl", in which he denounced what he saw as the destructive forces of capitalism and conformity in the United States. San Francisco police and US Customs seized "Howl" in 1956, and it attracted widespread publicity in 1957 when it became the subject of an obscenity trial, as it described heterosexual and homosexual sex at a time when sodomy laws made (male) homosexual acts a crime in every state. The poem reflected Ginsberg's own sexuality and his relationships with a number of men, including Peter Orlovsky, his lifelong partner. Judge Clayton W. Horn ruled that "Howl" was not obscene, stating: "Would there be any freedom of press or speech if one must reduce his vocabulary to vapid innocuous euphemisms?" Ginsberg was a Buddhist who extensively studied Eastern religious disciplines. He lived modestly, buying his clothing in second-hand stores and residing in apartments in New York City's East Village. ***The lead poem "Kaddish" also known as "Kaddish for Naomi Ginsberg (1894-1956)", was written in two parts by Beat writer Allen Ginsberg, and was first published in Kaddish and Other Poems 1958-1960. The book was part of the Pocket Poet Series published by City Lights Books. In the table of contents, the poem is titled "Kaddish: Proem, narrative, hymmnn, lament, litany, & fugue". Along with Ginsberg's "Howl", Kaddish is said to be one of his greatest masterpieces. Ginsberg wrote the poem about his mother Naomi after her death in 1956, who struggled with mental problems throughout her life. Naomi suffered many psychotic episodes both before Allen was born and while he was growing up. She went in and out of mental hospitals and was treated with medication, insulin shock therapy, and electroshock therapy. She died in an asylum in 1956. ' [Wiki] ***A near fine copy (with laminated covers) of the 50th Anniversary edition of this iconic City Lights Pocket Poets 'Howl' by Allen Ginsberg, first published as a paperback original in 1956. One of the most important and influential poems of the 20th Century. A landmark book of poetry published by Lawrence Ferlinghetti of the iconic (and still running) City Lights Bookshop. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.
Published by Grove Press, New York, 1957
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
First Edition
Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. 160pp. Illustrated. Pictorial wrappers. Light foxing on page edges, spotting on spine, spine ends lightly rubbed, very good. A seminal 'Evergreen Review' special issue, devoted to the Beats and the 'San Francisco Scene'. Special "San Francisco Scene" issue, with "October in the Railroad Earth" by Jack Kerouac, "San Francisco Letter" by Kenneth Rexroth, "Howl" by Allen Ginsberg, three poems by Robert Duncan, and contributions by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Henry Miller, Michael McClure, Jack Spicer, Gary Snyder, and more.
Published by Lovebooks Ltd, New York, 1965
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
First Edition
Softcover. Condition: Fine. First edition. Cover by Miles. Small octavo. 80pp. Lightly rubbed wrappers with a touch of wear at two corners, about fine. An interesting and noteworthy English literary magazine published by John Hopkins and Miles, owners of the famous Indica Books in London. It features Allen Ginsberg's 26-page poem "Ankor-Wat," as well as contributions from Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Ron Padget, Michael Horovitz, Jeff Nuttall, Tuli Kupferberg, Ray Durgant, and others. The following year that Hopkins and Miles began publishing what many consider the most influential English counterculture newspaper, *The International Times*. *Long Hair* was the precursor to that publication and an early publishing work from Miles, a genuine Sixties luminary, who went on to write the biographies of Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, Charles Bukowski, Paul McCartney, John Lennon, and Frank Zappa.
Published by Big Table, Inc, Chicago, 1960
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
First Edition
Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition, complete in 5 volumes. Perfectbound wrappers. The issues are moderately soiled with a modestly toned spine on Volume 1, light foxing on the cover of Volume 2, and a small tear on the spine of Volume 4, overall very good. Included is the notorious first issue which reprints the complete contents of the suppressed *Winter 1959 Chicago Review*, which consisted of "Ten Episodes from *Naked Lunch*" by William S. Burroughs, "Old Angel Midnight" by Jack Kerouac, two pieces by Edward Dahlberg and three poems from Gregory Corso. *Maynard and Miles* C6. The remaining issues feature contributions from Allen Ginsberg, Antonin Artaud, Paul Bowles, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Robert Duncan, John Ashbery, Norman Mailer, Robert Creeley, Jack Spicer, Jack Kerouac, LoRoi Jones, Charles Olson, John Updike, and others.