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Item Details
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| Heading: |
(Ginsberg, Allen) |
| Author: |
Benjamin, Jerry |
| Title: |
Kaddish: A Dramatic Mass by Allen Ginsberg – original playscript |
| Place: |
New York |
| Publisher: |
Jerry Benjamin |
| Date: |
c.1965 |
| Item # : |
168781 |
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| Sale Number |
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327 |
| Lot Number |
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169 |
| Sale Name |
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| The Edwin Blair Collection of Beat Literature, plus Modern Literature |
| Sale Date |
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03/09/2006 |
| Price realized |
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$ 920 |
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| Description: |
| [60] mimeographed leaves, on recto side only. 11x8½, black folder bound with two metal bolts, “Kaddish” and “Studio duplicating service” lettered in yellow on the front cover. First Play Edition. |
| Signed by Ginsberg on the title page, but with a disclaimer note: “This isn’t mine, it’s J.B.’s version, Allen Ginsberg, N.O., LA.” According to Edwin Blair, this is one of only 18 copies prepared for a projected project which never occurred. Includes a 10-page pictorial program booklet (9¾x6") for Kaddish “Based on a poem by Allen Ginsberg, directed by Robert Kalfin, performed at The Chelsea Theater Center of Brooklyn, circa 1971; mimeographed sheet (9x6") “Additional Notes” for the Chelsea production of Kaddish; and a 1983 invoice from Serendipity Books for this item, selling for $675 to Ed Blair, with penciled note “14-18 copies according to Dowden,” all laid in. |
| Condition: |
| Creases and mild edge wear, spine ends and corners a bit bumped; finger-print on title, rest of contents fine; exterior very good. |
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