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GINSBERG, Allen. Airplane Dreams: Compositions from Journals. Anansi, Toronto, 1968.
Price: US$7.48 + shipping
Description: 38pp. One of 6000 copies issued. Light bumping, a closed tear with adjacent creasing to the lower right front cover.
Seller: Apollinaire's Bookshoppe, Toronto, ON, Canada
GINSBERG, Allen. Airplane Dreams: Compositions from Journals. Anansi, Toronto, 1968.
Price: US$11.22 + shipping
Description: 38pp. A handful of poems he let the Canadians publish. This copy is a little aged and worn, with some paper coming away at the heels of the spine. Internally clean.
Seller: Apollinaire's Bookshoppe, Toronto, ON, Canada
Allen Ginsberg. Airplane Dreams: Compositions from Journals. House of Anansi, toronto, 1968.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo in illustrated wraps, perfect bound, 38pp. Binding intact, very light rubbing to the corners and spine ends, minor soiling to white portions of the covers, p.o. name on the ffep.
Seller: Dunaway Books, St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.
Ginsberg, Allen. Airplane Dreams: Cospositions from Journals.. The House of Anansi, Toronto, 1968.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Simultaneous issue in wraps. [6000 cc.].
Seller: Eliot Books, Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.
GINSBERG, Allen. Airplane Dreams: Compositions from Journals. Anansi, Toronto, 1968.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, wrappered issue. Neat owner name and address on front blank, moderate toning and wear including a tiny tear at the spine base, very good.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
GINSBERG, Allen. Airplane Dreams: Compositions from Journals. Anansi, Toronto, 1968.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, wrappered issue. Modest soiling on the page edges, light toning on the spine and just a bit along the edges, near fine.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Ginsberg, Allen. Airplane Dreams : Compositions from Journals. Anansi, Toronto, 1968.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: True first edition, i.e. the Canadian, preceding the American (City Lights, 1969). Just a touch browned along edges else about fine -- illus. wraps. Missing the errata slip. Laid in is note from publisher taking issue with the Manufacturing Clause of U.S. copyright law. 6000 copies of this book were printed, of which 5000 were exported to the USA, and seized and destroyed by Customs.
Seller: Tony Power, Books, North Vancouver, BC, Canada
GINSBERG, Allen.. Airplane Dreams: Compositions from Journals.. Toronto: Anansi,, 1968.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Description: 38 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers; a trade paperback original. 6000 copies printed, of which most were destroyed by US customs. Laid in is a note from the editors to readers informing about a glitch in US copyright law, and that in protest 5000 copies of this book are being sent into the US. Morgan A13a1.2. First edition, second state of the cover.
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
GINSBERG, Allen. Airplane Dreams: Compositions from Journals. Anansi, Toronto, 1968.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, wrappered issue. A bit of age-toning on the spine, near fine.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Ginsberg, Allen. Airplane Dreams: Compositions from Journals. Anansi, Toronto, 1968.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: True first edition (preceeding the City Lights edition). Fine, with the scarce errata slip (folded cardstock). Wraps, printed/illustrated covers, 8 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches, 38 pp. One of 6000 copies (most of which were destroyed by the thought police). "All things hang like a drop of dew / Upon a blade of grass" Contents: History of the Jewish Socialist Party in America; Understand that this is a dream; New York to San Fran; Consulting I Ching Smoking Pot Listening to the Fugs Sing Blake. "These are compositions from Journals kept decades 1948-1968, a few solid fragments typed up published out of context, not exactly poems, nor not poems: journal notations put together conveniently, a mental turn-on printed across the border by long hair youthful exiles disunited from these States by the war of sighs and spears." (3214030)
Seller: Boojum and Snark Books, Kanab, UT, U.S.A.
Ginsberg, Allen. Airplane Dreams, compositions from Journals. Anansi, Toronto, 1968.
Price: US$41.14 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: edition limited to 6000 copies
Seller: Ken Saunders, Stirling, ON, Canada
GINSBERG, Allen.. Airplane Dreams: Compositions from Journals.. Toronto: Anansi, 1968., 1968.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Description: Hardbound in dust jacket. The correct first edition. Errata slip laid in. Fine in slightly used dust jacket with a 1-inch closed tear to front panel, and a small chip to top of back panel.
Seller: Skyline Books, Forest Knolls, CA, U.S.A.
GINSBERG, Allen. Airplane Dreams: Compositions from Journals. Anansi, Toronto, 1968.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition, wrappered issue. Fine. Cardstock errata slip folding over two pages of text as issued.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Ginsberg, Allen. Airplane Dreams: Compositions from Journals. House of Anansi, Toronto, 1968.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First printing of the first Canadian edition, precedes the U.S. edition by one year. Includes publisher's errata slip and noter to readers concerning United States' copyright clause (historically significant in and of itself). Faint toning to spine, a tiny nick to front side cover, a light diagonal crease to upper back cover, and a tiny smudge to bottom edge, else book in fine condition.
Seller: Idler Fine Books, Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
Ginsberg, Allen. AIRPLANE DREAMS. Anansi, Toronto, 1968.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 8vo, wrappers, about fine.(HAG)
Seller: NUDEL BOOKS, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Ginsberg, Allen. Airplane Dreams: Compositions From Journals. Anansi, Toronto, 1968.
Price: US$67.32 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 8vo. 38 pp. Although colophon statement claims that 6000 copies were printed there were fewer than 200 of the cloth edition actually produced. The bulk of the paper copies were destroyed by customs. Thus a scarcer book than one might think. Bound in blue cloth. Near fine except for some slight bowing of the covers and very light edgewear.
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
GINSBERG, Allen. Airplane Dreams: Compositions from Journals. House of Anansi Press, Toronto, 1968.
Price: US$71.06 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 38pp. Faint shelfwear to the lower edges of the boards. Dustjacket has two short closed tears to the upper edge of the front panel, and some paper loss to the heel of the spine panel. Otherwise an attractive copy. Uncommon in hardcover issue.
Seller: Apollinaire's Bookshoppe, Toronto, ON, Canada
Ginsberg, Allen. Airplane Dreams: Compositions from Journals. Anansi, Toronto, 1968.
Price: US$82.22 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Poetry. Poesia
Seller: Libreria Giorgio Maffei, Torino, Italy
Ginsberg, Allen. Airplane Dreams. Published by House of Anansi, Toronto, 1968.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. 38pp. 8vo. SIGNED. Signed by author on title-page. Blue pictorial wrappers. Almost fine
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: Hardcover as issued without dj
Seller: Carrington Bookshop, South Nyack, NY, U.S.A.
Ginsberg, Allen.. AIRPLANE DREAMS: Compositions from Journals.. Anansi: Toronto., 1968.
Price: US$172.50 + shipping
Description: 9 x 6, boards, 38 pp, vg in slightly torn and creased dw. FIRST HARDCOVER ED., LIMITED TO 6000 COPIES, SIGNED AND DATED (1985) BY GINSBERG. Errata present.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Ginsberg, Allen. Airplane dreams: compositions from journals. The House of Anansi, Toronto, 1968.
Price: US$187.50 + shipping
Description: First edition, wrapper issue; 8vo, pp. [8], 38; blue and white pictorial wrappers, stained, dampstain through top corner of last few pages, not affecting text. This copy inscribed by Ginsberg to Israel "Izzy" Young, former owner of the Folklore Center in Greenwich Village, New York, and first promoter of Bob Dylan in New York City: "For Izzy Young, Stockholm, January 29, 1983. Corrections enclosed." The corrections mentioned in the inscription are not present. "The Manufacturing Clause of the American copyright laws is an interesting piece of legislation. Among other things, it provides that the copyright of an American author's work published outside the U.S. can be pirated if more than three thousand copies of that work are imported into the States. In protest of this infringing piece of legislation, and with Allen Ginsberg's permission, we are sending five thousand copies of Airplane Dreams.to the United States." A note in the subsequent 1969 City Lights Edition (with accompanies this offering), notes that "the shipment was subsequently seized & confiscated by U. S. Customs and has never been recovered."
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$220.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: ONE OF A LIMITED EDITION OF 6,000 COPIES. First edition, first printing in Fine condition with Mylar wrapped dust jacket in Fine condition. (see photos). 38pp.
Seller: Allen's Rare Books, El Monte, CA, U.S.A.
GINSBERG, Allen. Airplane Dreams: Compositions from Journals. Anansi, Toronto, 1968.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition, hardcover issue. Small crease on front fly, else fine in fine dustwrapper. Signed by Ginsberg. The hardcover edition is scarce, especially signed.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Description: Pictorial wraps; (viii), 38 pages. Fine Association Copy INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the front endpaper by Ginsberg to poet Robert Duncan: "For Robert Duncan at home--/San Francisco 1968/August 11,/Allen Ginsberg." Additionally Ginsberg has written an eight-line piece titled "Oh!" that he labels as a "Bengali Mantra to/Devi Saraswati (Music, Poetry)." Also on the front endpaper, Duncan has presented the book to an unknown party: "inscribed on this happy/transition in which the volume/passes into your library/Robert/Oct. 1973." Ginsberg has annotated three pages. On page 7 he writes: "Errata: This whole block belongs on page 9 where indicated"; and on page 9: "Insert 1-1/2 pps 6-7 as noted/AG." Bookplate of Robert Duncan and Jess on the inside front cover with the handwritten notation "8-11-1968" and numbered "4363." Small stains to front cover, larger stains on rear. Very Good
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.
Ginsberg, Allen. Airplane Dreams: Compositions from Journals. Anansi, Toronto, 1968.
Price: US$9647.07 + shipping
Description: First edition. Inscribed by Ginsberg to Gregory Corso and Eila Kokkinen. In publisher's wrappers. [10], 38 p. First edition, association copy, inscribed to Gregory Corso and Eila Kokkinen. Airplane Dreams was published after the occasion of Ginsberg's visit to Toronto to read at Hart House the University of Toronto's student club. George (then Doug) Fetherling acted as Ginsberg's handler during this trip and convinced Ginsberg to leave behind journal material that was eventually published in this booklet. The present copy was inscribed by Ginsberg to Gregory Corso, the fellow Beat poet, and lifelong friend, probably at Ginsberg's farm ("To Gregory Corso out in the country together Summer 1968 with old love Allen"), however apparently Corso forget about the book, thus Ginsberg reinscribed it to another friend, Eila Kokkinen ("Gregory left it here, so it's yours Eila - Allen Aug 26, '69"), who at the time worked as an art curator at MoMA. The second text "Understand That This is a Dream"is annotated by Ginsberg, a large part of the text on pp. 6-7 is "transferred" to p. 9, and in the colophon, Doug Fetherling's name circled also in Ginsberg's hand. . With notes in ink by Ginsberg. Cover dusted, creased with a small tear, otherwise in fine condition. First edition. Inscribed by Ginsberg to Gregory Corso and Eila Kokkinen.
Seller: Földvári Books, Budapest, Hungary