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Item Details
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| Author: |
Ginsberg, Allen |
| Title: |
Howl and Other Poems |
| Place: |
San Francisco |
| Publisher: |
City Lights Pocket Bookshop |
| Date: |
[1956] |
| Item # : |
181104 |
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| Sale Number |
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354 |
| Lot Number |
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308 |
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| Beat Literature Library of Stephen Ronan & Charles Bukowski Collection of Thomas Groff |
| Sale Date |
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04/26/2007 |
| Price realized |
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$ 920 |
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| Description: |
| Introduction by William Carlos Williams. 6¼x5, original black wrappers overprinted in light blue, with white hand-pasted wrap-around paper label printed in black. Second printing. |
| Signed by Ginsberg on the title page. Ginsberg's revolutionary poem, which had been seized by the U.S. Collector of Customs Chester MacPhee, soon after publication, setting off one of the most important episodes in the battle for freedom of the press, and against censorship. The second printing is scarce as this was the edition seized as it arrived in San Francisco and is actually scarce than the first printing / edition. Retains the "75 cents" lettered in light blue on rear cover. Pocket Poets Series No.4. |
| Condition: |
| Light soiling, a few tiny tan spots to front cover, overall still an attractively clean and bright copy; contents intact, else near fine. Seldom seen in better condition and signed! |
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