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Allen Ginsberg. Kaddish and Other Poems 1958-1960. City Lights, 1961.
Price: US$6.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 6th printing. Tanning to covers. Pages clean, binding sturdy.
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Allen Ginsberg. Kaddish and Other Poems 1958-1960. City Lights Books, 1961.
Price: US$7.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Tanning to covers, general shelf/age wear. Pages clean, binding sturdy.
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
GINSBERG, Allen. Kaddish and Other Poems 1958-1960.. City Lights, 1961.
Price: US$9.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Good paperback, bumped/creased with shelfwear; may have previous owner's name inside. Standard-sized.
Seller: Midtown Scholar Bookstore, Harrisburg, PA, U.S.A.
Ginsberg, Allen. Kaddish and Other Poems, 1958-1960. City Lights Books, 1961.
Price: US$10.00 + shipping
Description: 1970 eleventh printing. City Lights. cover has some wear and pencil markings. Good solid paperback with moderate reading/age wear, may have some light markings, pages may have some mild tanning. We take great pride in accurately describing the condition of our books and media, ship within 48 hours, and offer a 100% money back guarantee. Customers purchasing more than one item from us may be entitled to a shipping discount.
Seller: Best and Fastest Books, Wantage, NJ, U.S.A.
Ginsberg, Allen. Kaddish & other Poems, 1958 - 1960. City Lights, San Francisco, 1961.
Price: US$11.22 + shipping
Description: pocket poet series no. 14
Seller: Ken Saunders, Stirling, ON, Canada
Ginsberg, Allen. Kaddish and Other Poems, 1958-1960 (Pocket Poets Series). City Lights Books, 1961.
Price: US$12.00 + shipping
Description: 1971 City Lights Books 12th printing, copy is tight with light pencil markings mild wear. Fast Shipping - Safe and Secure Bubble Mailer!
Seller: Best and Fastest Books, Wantage, NJ, U.S.A.
GINSBERG, Allen. Kaddish. City Lights, 1961.
Price: US$12.50 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 10TH PRINTING 1969
Seller: POQUETTE'S BOOKS, DEWITT, MI, U.S.A.
Ginsberg, Allen. Kaddish and Other Poems 1958-1969. city lights #14, San Francisco, 1961.
Price: US$14.96 + shipping
Description: 3 copies 1961, 1967 small tear bottom back cover, very good
Seller: Ken Saunders, Stirling, ON, Canada
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: VERY GOOD CONDITION PAPERBACK.clean, not folded, not marked up. Back cover has original pr ice S1.50 (BLACKED OVER, BUT VISIBLE).Inner back cover has publisher's book list with date code 4-68. ; Black spine & cover titles on large white center cover panel.black 1" border. Squareback binding shows a bit darkening from quite nice cover. Nice early printing. ; 100pg pages; Most Famous Poem for Dead Mother first edition,9p; Ninth Printing,February 1969.
Seller: WONDERFUL BOOKS BY MAIL, Durham-CA, CA, U.S.A.
GINSBERG, Allen.. Kaddish and Other Poems 1958-1960.. [SF]: City Lights, [1961]., 1961.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Description: 16mo. Softbound. Second printing. Poet Richard Tagett's copy with his ownership stamp dated 1961 (also small ink number stamped in three places). Number 14 in the Pocket Poets Series. Along with Howl, Kaddish is Ginsberg's most important book. Spine slightly sunned, else near fine.
Seller: Skyline Books, Forest Knolls, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$16.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: GOOD CONDITION PAPERBACK. bit darkened square spine & white cover bit smudged., not folded, not marked up. Back cover has original pr ice S1.50 .Inner back cover has publisher's book list with date code 10-67. ; Black spine & cover titles on large white center cover panel.black 1" border. Squareback binding shows a bit darkening from quite nice cover. Nice early printing. ; 100pg pages; Most Famous Poem for Dead Mother first edition,8p; Eigth Printing, october 1967.
Seller: WONDERFUL BOOKS BY MAIL, Durham-CA, CA, U.S.A.
Ginsberg, Allen. Kaddish and Other Poems, 1958-1960. City Lights Books, 1961.
Price: US$19.95 + shipping
Condition: New
Description: Well packaged and promptly shipped from California. US veteran operated.
Seller: thebookforest.com, San Rafael, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$19.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Slight wear and browning to wrappers; slight internal browning to edges. 100 pages. Contains 16 poems in all (the complete title poem in 5 parts, plus "Laughing Gas", "Mescaline", "Lysergic Acid", and others). Photo-offset issue of the first edition, lacking the UK imprint at foot of page 100 and with a 7-line (instead of 10-line) publisher's statement on lower wrapper. See Dowden, pages 8-9; also Cook, pages [42]-43 (especially page 43). Very good copy of an early issue. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall (small)
Seller: Vashon Island Books, Vashon, WA, U.S.A.
Ginsberg, Allen. Kaddish and Other Poems 1958-1960. City Lights Books, San Francisco, 1961.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Softcover. Published San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1961, twelfth printing, 1971. 12mo. wrappers, 100pp., some darkening to spine and covers. Very good. Size: 12mo
Seller: The Wild Muse, Granville, NY, U.S.A.
Ginsberg, Allen. KADDISH AND OTHER POEMS 1958 - 1960. City Lights Books, San Francisco, 1961.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 12mo. [6.25"X4.63"] Black and white wrappers. 100 pages. Spine and spine edge of rear cover are evenly toned. Name on title page. No marks to text. With "$1.50" and seven line publisher's note on rear cover and lacking "Villiers" on last page of text. A crisp, square copy, with sharp corners. Number 14 in the City Lights Pocket Poets Series.
Seller: Waugh Books, Lawrence, KS, U.S.A.
Allen Ginsberg. Kaddish and Other Poems 1958-1960. City Lights Books, 1961.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Very light wear on edges, one or two spots on covers. Clean and unmarked inside other than previous owner's name on title page.
Seller: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Ginsberg, Allen. Kaddish & Other Poems 1958-1960. City Lights, 1961.
Price: US$51.23 + shipping
Description: 1st edition Number 14 of The Pockey Poets Series. VG+ in the distictive City Lights black and white card covers. No marks
Seller: Poor Richards Books, Felixstowe, United Kingdom
Ginsberg, Allen. Kaddish and Other Poems, 1958-1960. City Lights Books, E-066, 1961.
Price: US$74.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Trade PB. 32mo. Published by City Lights Books, San Francisco, CA, 1961. 100 pgs. Number Fourteen in The Pocket Poets Series, First Edition/Second Issue. (second issue by seven line statement and price of $1.50 on rear wrapper as well as the lack of an imprint for Villiers on page 100). Wrappers lightly worn with some light shelf-wear to the extremities present. Book is free of ownership marks. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. In this 1961 collection of Ginsberg's poetry, Kaddish is published for the first time. His second most famous poem after Howl and regarded as one of his finest, Kaddish was Ginsberg's attempt to mourn his mother, Naomi, but also reflects his sense of loss at his estrangement from his born religion. EB; 5 X 0.25 X 6.5 inches; 104 pages
Seller: Last Exit Books, Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.
Ginsberg, Allen. Kaddish and Other Poems, 1958-1960. City Lights Books, San Francisco, 1961.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: 100pp. Duodecimo [16 cm] Black and white printed wrappers. Very good. Minor fading and discoloring to covers. Subtle rubbing to extremities. Preceded by the Villiers Press edition (London) Seven line publisher's statement on rear panel. Cook pgs. 42-43. Dowden pgs. 8-9. Pocket Poet Series number 14.
Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Ginsberg, Allen. Kaddish. City Lights, SF, 1961.
Price: US$80.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 100pp. 1st printing w/ black & white cover. The pocket poets series No.14. Very Good.
Seller: Books Anonymous, Hudson, NY, U.S.A.
GINSBERG, Allen. KADDISH; And other poems 1958-1960. City Lights, San Francisco, 1961.
Price: US$84.00 + shipping
Description: 12mo, pp. 100. Paper wraps. (The pocket poets series number fourteen.) Cover slightly soiled, o/w a VG tight copy. Cook pp. 42-43; Cook 30; Morgan A1.1. First Edition, second issue with the 7-line blurb on the rear cover and without the Villiers slug on page 100.
Seller: Second Life Books, Inc., Lanesborough, MA, U.S.A.
Ginsberg, Allen.. Kaddish and Other Poems 1958-1960.. City Lights Books, 1961.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: Very Fine in white and black square format wrappers, as issued. As new. 100pp. Ginsberg's second book, the title poem lamenting the death of his mother Naomi in 1956. Q04862
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
GINSBERG, Allen. Kaddish and Other Poems, 1958-1960. City Lights Books, San Francisco, 1961.
Price: US$110.00 + shipping
Description: Second Printing, with seven lines of text on rear wrapper and no Villiers imprint at lower margin of p.100. Octavo (15.75cm); black and white card wrappers; [6],7-100pp. Light wear to extremities, gentle sunning to spine, with right margin of title leaf toned, and a few small, faint spots of finger-soil to covers; Very Good+. An early, key collection of verse by Ginsberg, the title poem written about his mother, Naomi, after her death on June 9, 1956. COOK 30; MORGAN A4.a1.1 [incorrectly].
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
GINSBERG, Allen. Kaddish. City Light Books, San Fransisco, 1961, 1961.
Price: US$120.59 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 12mo, paperback, 100 p.; nice copy. In this 1961 collection of Ginsberg's poetry, Kaddish is published for the first time. His second most famous poem after Howl and regarded as one of his finest, Kaddish was Ginsberg's attempt to mourn his mother, Naomi, but also reflects his sense of loss at his estrangement from his born religion. One of 2500 copies printed at Villiers Publications in London with 10-line statement on the rear cover.
Seller: Mille Septante Books, Anderlecht, BRUSS, Belgium
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1961. Apparent (per Dowden) intermediary between the Fifth and Sixth Printings, with black inside covers (instead of the usual white), seven-line publisher's statement on back, and no printer's statement. 16mo (6.25" x 4.75") 100pp. Printed black and white wraps with $1.50 price on back. Covers rubbed along edges, with dampstain at bottom half of spine extending at deepest a half-inch onto front and back covers, but not involving interior. Front cover opens to edge of spine, with some distress along glueline. Vertical crease to spine, with binding opening easily to pp. 56-57 and exposing stitching, though pages still holding soundly. Pages a bit toned along edges but unmarked. George Dowden writes of this printing in his Ginsberg bibliography ".there is one ed. which was printed in the United States, apparently between the Villers and Edwards Brothers eds., the printer of which has not been determined (publisher's records incomplete), an ed. which contains no information as to the edition, or printing, any where in it, which has black inside front and back covers unlike the white of any other eds., and which does not have the A.G. statement on the outside back cover, but, rather, a publisher's statement which is shorter and different than the publisher's statements on the first, British-printed, ed." Not mentioned in Morgan. Rather uncommon (or at least commonly unnoticed). [Dowden p. 8; not in Morgan].
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: 1st Edition Clamshell Collector's Case. No Binding. Custom Clamshell Case. Ginsberg, Allen. KADDISH. Custom Clamshell Case [Not A Book] White title & rules stamped on a black cloth spine over black custom handmade black marbled paper sides, black velour interior. A superb case for this Ginsberg High Light in very fine condition.
Seller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library, Montreal, QC, Canada
GINSBERG, Allen. KADDISH; And other poems 1958-1960. City Lights, San Francisco, 1961.
Price: US$224.00 + shipping
Description: 12mo, pp. 100. Paper wraps. (The pocket poets series number fourteen.) Cover slightly soiled and chipped, owner's name ilnside cover, o/w a VG tight copy. Cook pp. 42-43; Cook 30; Morgan A1.1. First Edition, first issue with the 10-line blurb on the rear cover and the Villiers slug on page 100.
Seller: Second Life Books, Inc., Lanesborough, MA, U.S.A.
Ginsberg, Allen. Kaddish and Other Poems: 1958-1960 (Signed). City Lights, 1961.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Softcover, 12mo. 21st printing. Signed & dated on title page. 64 pp. Black & white wraps. Scarce signed copy.
Seller: David Morrison Books, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Allen Ginsberg. Kaddish and Other Poems 1958-1960. City Lights ,San Francisco, 1961.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A True First edition First 3 pages loose but intact Square and solid Unmarked Although HOWL is more well known, KADDISH is Ginsbergs greatest work
Seller: Bob Lemkowitz , rhinebeck, NY, U.S.A.
Allen Ginsberg. Kaddish and Other Poems 1958-1960. City Lights Books, 1961.
Price: US$420.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Signed. First Edition. SIGNED by Ginsberg on title page, dated 3/12/85, L.A. Cook's first issue with Villiers listed as the printer on page 100, and ten lines of text on the rear cover. Tanning to spine, minor edge wear, very minor dust wear along spine on front cover. Otherwise VG, NO major stains, NO rips. Pages/covers clean, binding sturdy.
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$425.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very good plus copy. A poem about the death of Allen Ginsberg's mother, Naomi. Number fourteen in the series. Signed by Allen. Dated 2/6/92. First edition. Second issue with 7 lines of text on rear panel, no Villers imprint on page 100. Near fine with a touch of rubbing at the edges. No marks or writing. Very Good plus. Some age toning. last third of book appears to be unread. See photos.
Seller: Rob Warren Books, Richmond, VA, U.S.A.
GINSBERG, Allen.. Kaddish And Other Poems. 1958-1960.. San Francisco, City Lights Books, 1961, 1961.
Price: US$427.54 + shipping
Description: San Francisco, City Lights Books, 1961 Kl.-8°. 99 Seiten, 2 Bl. OKarton. "WE ARE WELLKNOWN FOR BOOKS ONLY IN BEST CONDITION!" WIR SIND BEKANNT FÜR SOLIDESTE VERPACKUNG! First Edition. Not signed (rare). Very fine copy. Sprache: Englisch. *** Bitte kontaktieren Sie mich immer BEVOR Sie bestellen! Für ausführliche Beschreibungen und Bilder sowie günstigere Versandoptionen kontaktieren Sie mich bitte per Email! Please contact me always BEFORE you order! For detailled descriptions and photos as well as cheaper shipping options please send an email! ***
Seller: Antiquariat CoBrA, Oberrohrbach, Austria
Ginsberg, Allen. Kaddish and Other Poems, 1958-1960. City Lights, Pocket Poets Series, 14, 1961.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: 100 pp. a little rubbing to the extremities else a very good copy. Inscribed and signed with a drawing by Ginsberg on the dedication page
Seller: stephens bookstore, scranton, PA, U.S.A.
GINSBERG, Allen. KADDISH AND OTHER POEMS 1958-1960. City Lights, San Francisco, 1961.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: While "Howl" is undeniably the more important poem, "Kaddish" is arguably the better one. Written in the wake of his mother Naomi's suicide, it remains raw, immediate, and moving - one of Ginsberg's finest. Part of City Lights' famed Pocket Poets Series, this is the increasingly uncommon (and frequently misidentified) true first edition, about which there is admitedly some geniune and legitimate confusion. Morgan is in disagreement with both Dowden and Cook as regards the true first printing; however, while Morgan is usually the more reliable source, bibliographic concensus seems to have settled on the priority laid out by Cook/Dowden - and this cataloguer (for reasons that surpass mere self-interest but are too lengthy for this catalogue description) strongly agrees. One of 2500 copies. [Morgan A4.a2 - incorrectly]. [Cook p. 42-3]. [Dowden p. 9-8]. Wraps. 16mo. Original wraps. Near fine. Sharp and clean, with only the barest hints of shelfwear and toning. Decidedly scarce in this condition.
Seller: Brian Cassidy Books at Type Punch Matrix, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Pocket paperbound book. 100 pp. First printing, second issue of this poetry collection highlighted by the inclusion of Kaddish. One of Ginsberg's best known poems. In very good condition. This copy has been SIGNED by Ginsberg, dated 1964 and he has added a small ink drawing next to his signature. Quite uncommon thus.
Seller: Derringer Books, Member ABAA, Avon, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$512.35 + shipping
Description: First editions, first printings, of all except two of Ginsberg's contributions to the City Lights Pocket Poet Series, these the copies of fellow poet Kenneth Irby, each signed, dated, and located by him on the front pastedown or title page, often in mimicry of a bookplate, and with his pencilled annotations giving the sources of the epigraphs in Kaddish and Reality Sandwiches. Irby (1936-2015) was a poet frequently associated with the Black Mountain School. His work is concerned with the psychic interactions of humans and landscapes, particularly the landscapes of the western USA. The locations of his inscriptions chart his travels across the USA, through Albuquerque, New York, Berkeley, and Lawrence. In 1958 he attended Harvard as a PhD student and heard Ginsberg and Charles Olson read at a local bookstore: this was his introduction to their poetry. He later became friends with Ed Dorn, Robert Duncan, and Robert Creeley. First printings of The Fall of America exist in both black and white wrappers, with no priority. "According to the publisher's memory", notes Morgan, "the white cover with black print is the true first printing. Bob Wilson, an authority on modern first editions through his Phoenix Book Shop in New York City, remembers that half the first printing was with the white covers and half with the black. He received both these issues simultaneously. The compiler has found Wilson's memory to be much more accurate than City Lights' records and it seems likely that they had the first 10,000 printed with 5,000 of each cover". Mind Breaths is the paperback issue, published simultaneously with the scarce hardback issue. The first and final of Ginsberg's Pocket Poet titles are not present here: the rare and infamous Howl (1956) and Plutonian Ode (1982). A4 a1.1; A6 a1.1; A15 a1.1; A26 a1.1b; A37 a1. 5 works, small octavo. Original black and white wrappers. Wrappers generally rubbed, first three works lightly toned with a few marks, Reality Sandwiches a little worn at spine ends, Kaddish with slight loss at spine ends, 3 cm split at head of rear joint, rear wrapper slightly creased. A very good set indeed.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$700.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: "Kaddish and other Poems 1958-1960" by Allen Ginsberg. City Lights Books, SF. 1961 first American edition first printing. Inscribed by Ginsberg on title page, accompanied with a drawing on title page of a fish. Book with its original wrappers bound in full leather fine binding in very good condition, with minor rubbing to edges. Rare inscribed work.
Seller: Neverland Books, waalre, Netherlands
Ginsberg, Allen. Kaddish and Other Poems. City Lights Books, San Francisco, 1961.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Signed by Allen Ginsberg and inscribed "To Tom" on the title page. First edition, Bill Morgan's second printing; Cook's first issue with Villiers listed as the printer on page 100, and ten lines of text on the rear cover. Good. Wraps show light edge wear, several small stains, light browning and foxing. Lean to spine. Front inner hinge over opened. Poem written in unknown hand to inside of rear cover. Uncommon signed.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Ginsberg, Allen. Kaddish and Other Poems 1958-1960. City Lights Books, San Francisco, 1961.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Signed first edition, likely second issue. Ginsberg's signature on title page along with circled "AH" and the date 5/27/94. Black and white wrappers. Some toning, especially to spine; mild soiling; wear along edges and hinges. One signature is detached (title page to page 22) but all content is present. Interior is clean. Overall good condition. Identified as second issue by seven line statement and price of $1.50 on rear wrapper as well as the lack of an imprint for Villiers on page 100.This poetry collection by counterculture icon and Beat Generation poet Allen Ginsberg was number 14 in City Lights' famed Pocket Poets Series. The lead poem "Kaddish," considered one of Ginsberg's finest, is a stunningly emotional and confessional celebration of his mother's life and lamentation of her death. ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 100 pp; Signed by Author
Seller: Back of Beyond Books, Moab, UT, U.S.A.
GINSBERG, ALLEN. Kaddish and Other Poems 1958 - 1960. San Francisco City Lights 1961, 1961.
Price: US$950.00 + shipping
Description: Early printing. Paperbound. Signed by the author, Allen Ginsberg, on the title page with an original ink drawing by him of a skull and crossbones crowned with a glowing halo. Fine fresh copy in printed wrappers.
Seller: James Pepper Rare Books, Inc., ABAA, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$950.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Soft cover. Signed by Author. "downtown Manhattan, clear winter noon, and I've been up all night, talking, talking, reading the Kaddish aloud, listening to Ray Charles blues shout blind on the phonograph". Ginsberg, Allen. KADDISH AND OTHER POEMS 1958-1960. Signed. San Francisco: City Lights, (1961). First Edition, second printing with the correct points present, according to Morgan A1.2. Signed and dated 5/22/88 by Allen Ginsberg with a drawing. Just about fine or better in black and white wrappers. 12mo. 100 pp. Next to Howl, Ginsberg's most important book. The Pocket Poet Series, Number Fourteen. Cook, pp. 32-33. Bill Morgan. The Works of Allen Ginsberg, 1941-1994: A Descriptive Bibliography.
Seller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library, Montreal, QC, Canada
Ginsberg, Allen. Kaddish and Other Poems 1958-1960. City Lights Books, [San Francisco], 1961.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, Second Printing, with $1.50 price on the rear wrapper. 100pp. 1 vols. 12mo. True First, Presentation Copy to Matthew Monahan. Inscribed to Mathew Monahan of the Gotham Bookmart on the title-page, with some ephemera laid-in, including: 1) Checklists of Separate Publications of Poets at the First Berkeley Poetry Conference 1965 (Cody's Books) 2) Post-card written from Peter Orlovsky to Kathy Keskey, ordering books from Gotham, to be billed to Allen Ginsberg 3) An order form for three Ginsberg titles by Lospecchio Press, with annotations on the verso about buying (for Gotham) 4) Two postcards for Ginsberg events or artwork. Wrappers, soiled but in nice condition First edition, Second Printing, with $1.50 price on the rear wrapper.
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Allen Ginsberg. Kaddish. City Lights Books, 1961.
Price: US$1261.65 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Alongside Howl , this is perhaps Ginsberg s most important book, containing the masterpiece Kaddish (for Naomi Ginsberg) , which is often cited as the poet s finest work. The poem was begun in Paris in 1957 and finished in New York by 1959, and is about the death of his mother, as well as his spiritual estrangement from the Judaism that was his heritage. A powerful and beautiful work. Signed first printing of the first edition, published by City Lights Books, San Francisco in 1961, in Fine condition.
Seller: CASSIUS&Co., London, United Kingdom
GINSBERG, Allen.. Kaddish and Other Poems. 1958-1960.. San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1961, 1961.
Price: US$1601.08 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing, inscribed by the author on the title page, "Allen Ginsberg, for Vance Morgan, inscribed '81". The recipient was likely the American book collector Vance Morgan. Kaddish is widely considered one of Ginsberg's masterpieces alongside Howl. He wrote the poem after the death of his mother Naomi, during a consequentially dark period of his life. Morgan A4 a1.1. Small octavo. Original black and white wrappers lettered in black and white. Short closed tear at foot of spine, wrappers faintly foxed and toned, extremities a touch rubbed. A very good copy indeed.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom