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Price: US$24.00 + shipping
Description: 4to. self paper wrappers. (4) pages. Prospectus for Allen Ginsberg, Howl. Includes comments by the author.
Seller: Oak Knoll Books, ABAA, ILAB, NEW CASTLE, DE, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: PROSPECTUS. 8vo. Printed Folded Page, Very Good. Grabhorn-Hoyem Press Order Card present. Prospectus for this Grabhorn-Hoyem Press publication letterpress printed on fine T. Edmonds paper.
Seller: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 4to. Pp. 19-22 Letterpress On Folded Rag Paper With Deckled Edges, Very Good with some creasing. Watermark visible. Unbound.
Seller: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
GINSBERG, Allen. HOWL For Carl Solomon. (Grabhorn-Hoyem) (1971), (San Francisco), 1971.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Folio (11" x 14") in pictorial tan linen decorated with a wrap-around skyline with fireworks accomplished in 9 colors and designed by Robert La Vigne. One of 275 copies printed on handmade paper and SIGNED on the title page by Ginsberg. The first fine press edition of this landmark 1956 poem with a few revisions by the author. Also contains the first book publication of "The Names," a poetic fragment written in 1957.
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.
Allen Ginsberg. Howl. San Francisco: Published by Grabhorn-Hoyem, 1971.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Quarto, tan linen with multicolor wrap-around artwork by Robert La Vigne, untrimmed. Limited edition, one of 275 copies on handmade paper, signed by Ginsberg on the title page. Kraus 10. This copy additionally bears an original ink drawing of the sun and a flower by Ginsberg and signed "for Howl Allen Ginsberg," affixed to the colophon. A stunning copy of Ginsberg's masterpiece.
Seller: North Star Rare Books & Manuscripts, Sheffield, MA, U.S.A.
Ginsberg, Allen. Howl for Carl Solomon.. Grabhorn-Hoyem, San Francisco, 1971.
Price: US$3000.00 + shipping
Description: First signed limited edition of Ginsberg's Howl with new additions and corrections. Quarto, original illustrated linen designed by Robert La Vigne. One of 275Âcopies printed by Robert Grabhorn and Andrew Hoyem on hand-made paper with edges untrimmed and signed and dated by Allen Ginsberg on the title page, "Allen Ginsberg August 30, 1971 San Francisco." Laid in are the original introductory announcements by Hoyem & Grabhorn and notes by Ginsberg. Also laid in is the original transmittal postcard signed by Ginsberg and entirely in his hand. Addressed to Glen Todd, the postcard reads, "Dec 31, 71 Dear Glen, Happy New Year Received Howl inside lovely cover a bit faint & delicate for the funky subject - Did recording here with Peter so didn't get out to SF - Feb will pass then - Allen." In fine condition. Published by Andrew Hoyem and Robert Grabhorn, this first signed limited edition of Ginsbergs Howl contains the original text as it was published in 1956 with minute revisions by the author with the addition of the related poetic fragment The Names, which Ginsberg wrote in 1957. The present volume is the first appearance of the two collected works. Ginsberg's Howl is regarded as the spearhead of the literary movement of the Beat Generation, as Ginsberg notes in his introductory note, "Howl's random catalogue of heroic archetype Seeker Persons generalized and abstracted their nature for poetic/surrealist imagery, sometimes with absurd humor I thought struck humane balance with the apocalyptic manners described."
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
GINSBERG, Allen.. Howl for Carl Solomon.. San Francisco: Grabhorn-Hoyem, 1971, 1971.
Price: US$3208.16 + shipping
Description: First edition thus, one of 275 copies signed by the author, printed by Robert & Grabhorn and Andrew Hoyem on handmade paper from Goudy Modern type, with an illustrated cloth binding after a drawing by Robert La Vigne. Ginsberg's masterpiece was first published by City Lights in 1956 in a much-reproduced wrappers format, but this is the first fine press edition. It includes a new note by Ginsberg about the presentation here of Howl for the first time in tandem with the poetic continuation "The Names" (written 1957, published in the Paris Review 1966), his "autobiographical chronicle of Howl's same radiant persons living & dead adored to specify Names & deeds in extended eulogy - an embodyment [sic] of Howl's abstractions". Morgan notes that although the colophon states that 275 copies were produced, "several copies were misbound and about 20 sets of sheets were not bound due to a lack of adequate covers". Morgan A21.a1. Quarto. Original greyish-brown cloth illustrated in colour after a drawing by Robert La Vigne, grey endpapers, edges untrimmed. A fine copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$3800.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Limited edition. First thus, revised with a new introduction. One of 275 copies signed by Allen Ginsberg on the title page. [iv], 43, [3] pp. Bound in publisher's decorative tan linen, with wrap-around artwork in nine colors, edges untrimmed. Fine with prospectus laid-in at front. A beautiful production of the poem that defined a generation, printed by Robert Grabhorn and Hoyem on hand-made paper, and bound in cloth with a drawing by Robert La Vigne. Comprises the original text as it was published in 1956 with minute revisions by the author and the addition of a related poetic fragment, "The Names," written in 1957, and first published in the Paris Review, Spring 1966; here collected with "Howl" for the first time.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.