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Price: US$63.60 + shipping
Description: First Edition Thus. Small oblong 8vo., original plain card wrappers sewn as issued with Japanese rice paper wrapper printed in red. Printed in blue and black. A fine copy. From the library of Ginsberg's UK publisher, Tom Maschler. In his autobiography,"Publisher", Maschler recounts the occasion of the writing of this poem. "The hills surrounding my cottage are dotted with sheep and Allen saw us as just two more sheep below the sky. He was immensely moved by the the landscape and in the afternoon, still heavily under the influence of the drug [the pair had taken LSD earlier that day] he began to write a poem called 'Wales Visitation'."
Seller: G. Heywood Hill Ltd ABA, London, United Kingdom
Ginsberg, Allen. Wales - A Visitation July 29th 1967.. Cape Goliard Press 1968., 1968.
Price: US$81.85 + shipping
Description: Unpaginated. Illustrated. Publisher's hardcover with printed dust jacket and transparent cover. Foot of spine slightly bumped. A couple of small tears on the printed jacket, the transparent cover with a few chips and hole. Ginsberg's poem with photographs by Tom Maschler. One of 200 copies issued hors commerce.
Seller: Rönnells Antikvariat AB, Stockholm, Sweden
Ginsberg, Allen. Wales--A Visitation July 29 1967. Goliard Press, London, 1968.
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Leaf at end "An Offering for a Peaceful Summer from Allen Ginsberg & Cape Goliard Press. Not for Sale"
Seller: John R. Sanderson, Bookseller , Stockbridge, MA, U.S.A.
Ginsberg, Allen. Wales - A Visitation July 29th 1967. Cape Goliard Press, London, England, 1968.
Price: US$86.45 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: [28pp]. Brown boards without lettering. bw photos, ports. by Tom Maschler. Photo illustrated DJ is clean, showing shallow bumping to top edges and 2cm vertical tear to top front edge, neatly closed but remains visible. Missing glassine cover to DJ. DJ now preserved in mylar cover. Octavo. 240 x 211mm. One of 200 copies issued hors commerce. Ginsberg's Welsh poem printed to recto with facsimile of the original manuscript printed to verso.
Seller: Post Horizon Booksellers, Moose Jaw, SK, Canada
Ginsberg, Allen.. Wales - A Visitation July 29 1967.. Cape Goliard, London, 1968.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Keepsake. "An Offering for a Peaceful Summer from Allen Ginsberg and Cape Goliard Press." A Fine copy in sewn wrappers, in fragile brown rice-paper dustwrapper printed in red. Unpaginated. 10 pages of text. Ginsberg's poem was separately published in a trade edition. This issue is difficult to find with a Fine jacket (which this one has). Q13138
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
GINSBERG, Allen. WALES- A VISITATION.; July 29, 1967. Cape Goliard, London, 1968.
Price: US$112.00 + shipping
Description: Oblong wraps. Designed printed & published by Cape Goliard Press London. An offering for a peaceful summer from Allen Ginsberg & Cape Goliard Press. Not for sale. Fine.
Seller: Second Life Books, Inc., Lanesborough, MA, U.S.A.
GINSBERG, Allen.. Wales - A Visitation July 29th 1967.. London: Cape Goliard (1968)., 1968.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: [28 pp]. Fine in near fine dust jacket this is lightly foxed, and very good plus semi-opaque tissue dust jacket with a few shallow chips. Ginsberg's poem with photographs by Tom Maschler. One of 200 copies issued hors commerce. Morgan A13a1.
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Ginsberg, Allen (inscribed). Wales - A Visitation July 29 1967. Cape Goliard Press, London, 1968.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Softcover in Near-Fine condition, 16 mo (6 5/8 x 4 7/8 in.), unpaginated (16 pp). Brownish thin-paper jacket printed in red, white wrapper, sewn binding. Very light edge wear, crease to corner of back lower jacket flap, nice clean copy. Inscribed by Ginsberg to Massachusetts author, artist, and book illustrator McCurdy (1942-2016),"for Michael McCurdy N.Y.C. 24 Feb 1976 / Allen Ginsberg". Bookseller accession no.: 10156.
Seller: Ulysses Books, Michael L. Muilenberg, Bookseller, Trumansburg, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Small oblong wrappers. A fine copy in hand-sewn wrappers with delicate printed paper dustwrapper. Per the rear colophon, this was an offering for a peaceful summer from the author and the publisher and was given away. This copy has been SIGNED by Ginsberg on the title page and dated '73. Tiny tear to the delicate rice paper wrapper.
Seller: Derringer Books, Member ABAA, Avon, CT, U.S.A.
Allen Ginsberg. Wales - A Visitation July 29th 1967. Cape Goliard Press, London, 1968, 1968.
Price: US$550.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Near Fine in a Near Fine jacket and Near Fine glassine over DJ. Number 39 of 100 copies signed by Ginsberg. Fine 45 record in rear pocket.
Seller: Jackson Street Booksellers, Omaha, NE, U.S.A.
Allen Ginsberg. Wales--A Visitation July 29th 1967. Cape Goliard Press, London, 1968.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A crisp, well-preserved copy of the 1968 signed/limited. #42 OF 100 COPIES SIGNED AND NUMBERED BY ALLEN GINSBERG at the half-title. Tight and Near Fine in a bright, Near Fine pictorial dustjacket, with just a touch of very light creasing along the edges. (Also includes a very presentable example of the publisher's glassine outer dustjacket, which shows just a bit of light chipping but is clean and all-but-complete). Octavo, also includes the untitled 45 rpm record (and its sleeve) tucked in along the rear pastedown.
Seller: APPLEDORE BOOKS, ABAA, WACCABUC, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: Limited Edition. Hand-numbered as 59 of 100 copies, SIGNED by Ginsberg to half-title page. Poem written by Ginsberg whilst on LSD, during his visit to the cottage of publisher Tom Maschler in the Black Mountains of Wales. As he later recounted, "my approach to [the poem], originally, was self-contradictory because-taking an acid trip, and then wanting to gain something, bring back a poem, maybe a poem about God or something-see God and bring back a poem!-pay your mind, see God, bring back a poem, cash it in to The New Yorker, get a hundred dollars, take the money and run back to the next universe." The long poem printed here alongside a facsimile of the original manuscript, and illustrated after 4 full-bleed black-and-white photos of Ginsberg by Maschler. Complete with 45 RPM record of a Ginsberg recital, housed in enclosure to rear pastedown. A fine copy in olive papered boards. With photo-illustrated jacket, in original glassine; also fine, save for very minor chip to glassine at lower front corner.
Seller: Harper's Books, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
GINSBERG, Allen. Wales: A Visitation July 29th 1967. Cape Goliard Press, London, 1968.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper, in fine original unprinted glassine over jacket. Unused 45 rpm record in a pocket at the rear. One of 100 numbered copies Signed by the author.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Ginsberg, Allen. Wales - A Visitation July 29th 1967. Cape Goliard Press, London, 1968.
Price: US$1750.00 + shipping
Description: One of 300 copies. Illustrated title and three full-page photographs by Tom Maschler, the poem arranged to face the facsimile manuscript. 1 vols. 4to. Tripping in Wales: The Poet and the Publisher. The publisher's copy inscribed to him at the conclusion of the poem, "For Tom Maschler from Brother Allen Ginsberg" with a drawing of an arrow through a heart. At the foot of the page opposite, Ginsberg has added a six-line account of the circumstances of the poem's origins, beginning "Done at Tom's Cottage in the Black Mountains, both of us high on Owsley's U.S. pure LSD ." In his autobiography, Publisher, Maschler recounts the occasion of the writing of this poem. "The hills surrounding my cottage are dotted with sheep and Allen saw us as just two more sheep below the sky. He was immensely moved by the the landscape and in the afternoon, still heavily under the influence of the drug [the two had taken LSD earlier in the day] he began to write a poem called 'Wales Visitation'". Brown paper-covered boards, patterned endpapers. Fine copy in very good photographic dust jacket (a couple of closed tears and nicks) Illustrated title and three full-page photographs by Tom Maschler, the poem arranged to face the facsimile manuscript. 1 vols. 4to
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Ginsberg, Allen.. Wales -- A Visitation July 29th 1967.. Cape Goliard Press, 1968.
Price: US$2000.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: Limited Edition. Copy Number One of 100 copies, SIGNED and NUMBERED by Ginsberg on the half title page. Very Fine in dark lavender-grey paper covered boards, in Fine dustwrapper (with poet's photo on front panel), in Fine unprinted glassine wrapper, rice-paper facing endpapers; includes vinyl recording disk in special envelope in rear pocket pastedown. Unpaginated. Text printed with facing holographic reproductions of Author's original hand-written sheets, with three black and white photographs. Presented in a custom dark brown leather folding chemise. The poem appeared originally in the May 11, 1968 issue of The New Yorker magazine. Q18127
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.