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Ginsberg, Allen. Allen Ginsberg Photographs. Twelvetrees Pr, 1990.
Price: US$399.99 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Oversized cloth. First edition limited to 5000 copies inscribed/signed to the title page by Ginsberg, dated 1991. Fine condition in like DJ in mylar. ; 14.5 X 11.3 X 0.9 inches; Signed by Author
Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Northridge, CA, U.S.A.
Ginsberg, Allen.. Photographs.. Twelvetrees Press, Altadena, 1990.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Printing. Limited to 5000 copies of the regular trade edition. A Near Fine copy in medium grey cloth, slight fading of extremities of boards, in a Fine black dustwrapper (one minute closed tear). Unpaginated. This copy, though not called for, SIGNED by Ginsberg on the title page , dated 1991, Berkeley. Q17867
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
Ginsberg, Allen. Allen Ginsberg Photographs. Twelvetrees Press, Altadena, CA, 1990.
Price: US$445.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First printing of first editiong. One of 5,000 unnumbered casebound copies. Signed (without inscription) and dated 7/2/93, Santa Fe, by Ginsberg on the title page. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. Gray cloth boards lightly nudged at bottom front corner and with a couple of dark spots on bottom edge. Unmarked but for author's signature. Jacket with modest edge-wear, no chips or tears.
Seller: Brazos Bend Books, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$499.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Limited Edition of the poet's first and only book of pictures, featuring Ginsberg and others of the beat generation "in their flaming youth." (Roth) One of 5,000 unnumbered copies. Royal 8vo (354 x 275mm): unpaginated, with 91 captioned full-page plates from halftones. Publisher's finely woven steel-grey cloth lettered in blind, black end papers, with publisher's reply card laid in; black dust jacket lettered in white (unpriced, as issued). Signed (without inscription) on title page and dated 6/12/94 by Ginsberg with his signature doodle of a seven-petal flower. An exceptional copy, virtually pristine, tightly bound and clean throughout. Roth (101 Books), pp. 266-67. The bold graphic design and sheet-fed gravure printing of Jack Woody's Twelvetrees Press "gives Ginsberg's 'snapshots' a richness and warmth the originals aren't likely to possess . . . The best photos provide a double punch of intimacy and history: legends at leisure." (Roth) N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.).
Seller: Fine Editions Ltd, Lancaster, PA, U.S.A.
GINSBERG, Allen. Photographs (Signed First Edition). Twelvetrees Press, Altadena, CA, 1990.
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Description: First edition and first printing. Hardcover. The first monograph on Ginsberg's photographs. A terrific selection of photographs of the beat generation from one of it's own. Includes 92 sheet-fed gravure images of William Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, Robert Frank, Paul Bowles and others. A fine copy in gray cloth boards in a near fine dust jacket with some very minor wear. Signed by Ginsberg on the title page in 1994 with an extensive two page drawing that features a flower, sun, moon, and skull and other elements. A very nice copy with a better than usual drawing. (Roth 266-267).
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.
GINSBERG, Allen.. Photographs.. Altadena: Twelvetrees Press, 1990, 1990.
Price: US$871.72 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing, signed by the author with an original ink drawing of his favoured Blakean "Ah, Sunflower", dated 4/19/91. This is one of 5,000 casebound copies, from a total edition of 5,100. Ginsberg's photographs largely comprise portraits of his close friends, including Kerouac, Cassady, Burroughs, Orlovsky, Snyder, Corso, and Leary; and of luminaries such as Robert Frank, Basil Bunting, Lou Reed, and Ken Kesey. The margins are annotated with descriptions in facsimile of Ginsberg's hand. Roth 101. Folio. Original grey cloth, spine and front cover lettered in blind, black endpapers. With dust jacket. With photographic illustrations throughout. Outer bottom corners bumped, a couple of faint marks on rear board and jacket, unclipped: a fine copy in fine jacket.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition / First printing. Signed and dated 6/12/94 with large drawing of a flower, a sun, the moon and a star across the title page and the facing page. Black cloth. Fine in near fine dust jacket.
Seller: Orpheus Books, Edmonds, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1150.00 + shipping
Description: Photographs, 14.25 x 11.25, cloth, 91 full page photos + Captions + Index of Characters + Biographies, very minor extremity wear and sunning, hinges loose else a nice, fresh copy in a lightly shelf worn dust jacket. FIRST ED (LIMITED TO 5000 cc), BOLDLY (TWO PAGES!) INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY ALLEN GINSBERG, WHO ADDS A DAISY "AH," A SUN "AH" AND A MOON & STAR. Inscription dated "SF . . . 8/29/91."
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition; one of 5000 case-bound copies. 11 ¼ in. x 14 ¼ in., unpaginated; reproduces 91 full-page, black & white photographs by Allen Ginsberg. With notes on the photos, biographical notes, index. Texts by Gregory Corso and Allen Ginsberg. Dark gray cloth with titling blind-stamped on the spine and the cover margins, black endpapers. Black dustjacket with white lettering. This copy has been inscribed and signed, and with a large drawing across the title page. The ink drawing features three, daisy-like flowers, each with the letters AH in the center, six 5-pointed stars & one 6-pointed star with a crescent moon, and a sun design with the AH letters. Personally inscribed, & signed: Allen Ginsberg 10/10/91. This copy includes a 6 in. x 4 1/8 in., glossy, color photograph of Ginsberg doing the drawing in this copy of the book; printed material on the photographic exhibition "American Dharma"; three color polaroid photos of Ginsberg signing books at a gallery; two, printed information sheets for Naropa Institute's "Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics" (for July 1992); invitational material for an October 11, 1991 poetry reading by Ginsberg; an informational brochure about the "American Dharma" exhibition; a clipped newspaper article from an October 20, 1991 Cleveland, Ohio newspaper covering some of these events ("Hard to beat", by Fran Henry). These items are sold together with this copy. Weight: 3 1/2 lbs.
Seller: Peter Keisogloff Rare Books, Inc., Brecksville, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Folio. This copy boasting an original ink drawing from Ginsberg across title page spread, SIGNED and entitled "Tyger;" inscribed to Harper Collins editor Terry Karten in 1993. Contents: 91 full-page reproductions of Ginsberg's black-and-white photographs, accompanied by his own captions in facsimile manuscript; including all of the famous images of the Beats (cf. Roth 266-267). One of 5000 copies.
Seller: Harper's Books, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Ginsberg, Allen & Robert Frank PhD. Photographs Allen Ginsberg. Twelvetrees Press, 1990.
Price: US$1899.99 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First/Limited edition, limited to 100 signed, slipcased, numbered copies. Grey cloth hardcover signed by Ginsberg to the colophon page, #80/100 with a circled "AH" after the signature. Fine in near fine (slightly sunned) slipcase. ; 14.50 X 11.30 X 0.90 inches; Signed by Author
Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Northridge, CA, U.S.A.