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Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This copy is hand SIGNED by the artist Francesco Clemente in colophon; limited edition of 1,111 copies (this copy isn't numbered); it has the colored woodcut frontispiece printed on a thick paper; first title pages states 1983, but book wasn't actually published until 1984; purple cloth over the boards with gold lettering; 8 pages of text by Allen Ginsberg; 12 colored reproduction of the water color drawings with the text and the colored wood-cut on first endpaper; book and plates size: 12 x 15-3/4in; hand-bound with hand-woven cloth in Madras, India. In a collaboration between painter and poet, Ginsberg handwrote this tale amidst Clementes ethereal watercolors. Published on the event of Clementes exhibtion at the Kunsthalle Basel; boards, interior pages and plates are in VERY GOOD COND.
Seller: DR Fine Arts, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Allen Ginsberg. White Shroud. Kalakshetra Publications Press, Madras, India, 1984.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A wonderful Association copy: WARMLY INSCRIBED BY ALLEN GINSBERG TO LEGENDARY GROVE PRESS EDITOR FRED JORDAN on the second blank endpaper ("For Fred Jordan from Allen Ginsberg February 12, 1986 New York City --Good luck with the art of publishing works of genius!"). A very solid copy to boot of the 1984 true 1st edition, #98 of 1,111 copies issued out of Madras, India by Kalakshetra Press. Clean and VG+ to Near Fine in its navy-blue (madras) cloth, with bright gilt-titling along the spine. Light bowing to the boards, otherwise very solid. And in a crisp, VG example of the thick mylar dustjacket, which shows a bit of very minor paper residue along the front panel's edges. Folio, "published on the occasion on the exhibition of Francesco Clemente at the Kunsthalle, Basel"
Seller: APPLEDORE BOOKS, ABAA, WACCABUC, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$1227.73 + shipping
Description: Limited edition, this copy inscribed by the author to his UK publisher, "For Tom Maschler, New York City, June 9, 1987", and scarce thus. This is number 1,099 of 1,111 copies only, each beautifully produced on handmade paper in a great variety of binding and endpaper colours, here retaining the original clear jacket. The edition was not issued signed. Two decades before inscribing this copy, Ginsberg composed "Wales Visitation" in Maschler's (1933-2020) cottage in Capel-y-ffin while inspired by the Welsh landscape and the hallucinatory effects of LSD. Maschler, whose Quentin Blake-designed bookplate is on the front pastedown, joined Jonathan Cape as editorial director, aged 26, in 1960, and became managing director in 1966. He was a highly influential figure in 20th-century literature: he had a particular genius for bringing world-class writers from abroad, such as Neruda, García Márquez, and Derek Walcott, to publish in the UK, and 15 of his authors were awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. He additionally has the honour of conceiving the Booker Prize and of having introduced his friend Quentin Blake to Roald Dahl. The book was produced to coincide with the Clemente art exhibition at the Kunsthalle, Basel, in the summer of 1984, using the text of Ginsberg's poem "first scribed in a notebook by bedside from 5:30-6:35 A.M. October 5, 1983" and "re-scribed in this Francesco Celemente's folio New York City December 20th, 1983 all afternoon". In 1986 Ginsberg published a collection named after this poem. Morgan A47. Folio. Original red cloth, front cover lettered in gilt, strong red endpapers. With publisher's clear acetate dust jacket. Screen print frontispiece and colour illustrations throughout by Francesco Clemente. Text reproducing the author's manuscript. Negligible lean and sunning to spine, very pale offsetting to blank following screen print, faint marks to leaf following title page, else fresh and bright. A near-fine copy in the original acetate jacket with couple of chips and tears.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom