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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.
GINSBERG, Allen.. Howl for Carl Solomon.. San Francisco: Grabhorn-Hoyem, 1971, 1971.
Price: US$3228.59 + 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.
Ginsberg, Allen. HOWL. S.F. Grabhorn-Hoyem 1971, 1971.
Price: US$5000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Large 4to, decorated boards by Robert LaVigne, the fine press edition limited to 275 SIGNED copies, on hand made paper, with a new intro. by Ginsberg and which adds a later fragment. A Fine copy, also SIGNED by Carl Solomon, to whom the poem was dedicated, tho not called for in the colophon. Given by Ginsberg to Ted Joans, prob. for Ted to raise some money, you'll have to take my word for it.(VVclstbx1)
Seller: NUDEL BOOKS, New York, NY, U.S.A.