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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 # : |
182391 |
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| Sale Number |
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364 |
| Lot Number |
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331 |
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| Fine Literature of the 19th & 20th Centuries, with the David Oakey Collection of Gary Snyder |
| Sale Date |
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09/27/2007 |
| Price realized |
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$ 4025 |
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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. First Edition, First printing, first issue. [1 of 1500 copies]. |
| 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. First printing with "75 cents" lettered in light blue on rear cover and only the 1956 date on the copyright page. First issue with dedication page listing Kerouac, Burroughs, Neal Cassady and Lucien Carr. Pocket Poet Series No. 4. Cook, The City Lights Pocket Poets Series, pp. 21-22; Dowden, pp. 4-7. |
| Condition: |
| Spine a bit darkened, a few faint stains; near fine or better. Rarely seen in such clean and crisp condition; the finest copy PBA has ever offered! |
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