BIG TABLE 2: Summer 1959
Second issue of BIG TABLE, founded by Carroll and Irving Rosenthal after the suppression of the Chicago Review in late 1958 for printing excerpts from NAKED LUNCH.
Second issue of BIG TABLE, founded by Carroll and Irving Rosenthal after the suppression of the Chicago Review in late 1958 for printing excerpts from NAKED LUNCH.
Signed second printing of the essential Kerouac biography.
Two issues of this little magazine featuring contributions from E.E. Cummings, James Merrill (two poems), Wallace Stevens, Richmond Lattimore, and a review of Celine's DEATH ON THE INSTALLMENT PLAN by a 21-year-old Allen Ginsberg.
First issue of this little magazine published from Herbert Lehman College in the Bronx. Features a 12-page interview with Ginsberg, 24 poems by Mary Oppen, poems by Robert Hellman and Michael O'Brien, and two narratives by Alison Colbert.
With front and back covers by Bill Griffith (author of Zippy). A poetry and literature magazine with an interesting roster of contributors, including a sexually explicit Nancy comic from Bill Berkson and Joe Brainard, as well as poetry from Lewis McAdams, Audre Lorde (!), an anonymous interview about the Attica prison riots, a contribution from the Cockettes, and other works of poetry and visual art.
First edition of this late book from the Beat poet.
Collection of Ginsberg lyrics and verse, often with musical accompaniment.
Third printing (stated) — and first produced in the U.S. — of Ginsberg's landmark poem, number four in the Pocket Poets Series.
Signed second printing ("Second Edition" stated on rear of wraps) — confiscated by authorities for obscenity — of Ginsberg's landmark poem.
Rare signed first edition of HOWL, inscribed in the year of publication, likely at one of Ginsberg's most infamous readings.
The eleventh printing of Ginsberg's landmark poem, number four in the Pocket Poets Series.
Second edition stated.
An important document, covering key years of the Beat movement.
While "Howl" is undeniably the more important poem, "Kaddish" is arguably the better one.
Album of Ginsberg's recitations of his own poetry, with musical backing from Mark Bingham, Michael Blair, Ralph Carney, Bill Frisell, Beaver Harris, Arto Lindsay, Lenny Pickett, Prairie Prince, Marc Ribot, G.E
Previously unknown original carbon typescript of the most important postwar American poem: Allen Ginsberg's "Howl." Almost certainly the only surviving draft version of this iconic poem remaining in private hands, and the only one to ever be separately offered for sale.
First hardcover edition of this late-career collection from the Beat legend, published by the same house that printed his first: City Lights.
Includes three works by Ginsberg, Green Notebooks, To the Dead, and For Sale.
First edition of this later collection from the Beat poet.
A later collection of the beat poet's work with a nice association.
Photo portrait of Ginsberg's friend and fellow-poet Robert Creeley, showing him seated in the living room of his home and gazing at the camera.
Vintage press photo of Ginsberg speaking at Goucher College in 1969.
An important record of the early years of the seminal American poet, with a nice association.
First City Lights issue of the San Francisco literary mag, the brainchild of Allen Ginsberg, Bob Kaufman, and John Kelly.
Short-lived mag founded by Barry Miles (with Berrigan listed as the New York editor), later published as the LONG HAIR TIMES.