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114. GINSBERG, Allen. Indian Journals. (San Francisco): Haselwood/City Lights (1970). A volume of Ginsberg's journals from 1962 and 1963, published by Dave Haselwood, a fixture in the Bay Area Beat scene since the late 1950s, who had published early work by Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Brion Gysin and others. This is the scarce hardcover issue, one of 1000 copies; there was a simultaneous issue in wrappers. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
115. GINSBERG, Allen. Documents on Police Bureaucracy's Conspiracy Against Human Rights of Opiate Addicts & Constitutional Rights of Medical Profession Causing Mass Breakdown of Urban Law & Order. (n.p.): (n.p.), [1970]. Photocopied typescript of a document compiled by Ginsberg, with an autograph note signed by Ginsberg on the title page. Eighteen pages of text, plus the cover page and table of contents, with Ginsberg's holograph emendations on a number of pages, some of them extensive, compiling source materials on Addiction Politics; "Crime in Streets" Caused by Addiction Politics; Narcotics Agents Pedaling Drugs; and CIA Involvement with Opium Traffic at Source. Ginsberg created 300 copies of this compendium (Morgan E58), which was later re-xeroxed at least once. This copy is from the first printing and was mailed by Ginsberg to New Jersey Senator Clifford Case. Rubber-stamped on the front page "Mar 30 1971," presumably the date of receipt at the Senator's office; fold at top edge, else fine, stapled through with Ginsberg's return address on top. The text of this document was later published in The Last Supplement to the Whole Earth Catalog, a special issue of The Realist magazine, in March-April 1971. An interesting and scarce document and, with the addition of Ginsberg's holograph notes, this copy is unique.
116. GINSBERG, Allen. To Eberhart from Ginsberg. (Lincoln): Penmaen Press, 1976. A limited edition printing a letter about Howl from Ginsberg to Eberhart, written in 1956 as the latter was preparing an article for The New York Times about the young West Coast beat writers. Includes the text of Eberhart's article, an introduction to the volume by him, and a short contemporary note by Ginsberg about both the letter and about Howl itself. Eberhart's article appeared in The New York Times Book Review and it was the first by a major poet, and a major news medium, to recognize the importance of Ginsberg's writing, and "Howl" in particular. Ginsberg, knowing that Eberhart was working on the piece, sent him a long letter -- reproduced here -- which both explained what "Howl" was about and also, by its length and the seriousness of its tone and content, convinced Eberhart of Ginsberg's importance as a poet. One of 300 numbered copies signed by Ginsberg and Eberhart. Fine in the original clear plastic dust jacket, which has an open tear on the rear panel.
117. GINSBERG, Allen. Journals. Early Fifties-Early Sixties. NY: Grove (1977). The first publication of Ginsberg's journals from the early part of his career, including time spent with Kerouac and Burroughs, his first impressions of Naked Lunch, etc. Elaborately inscribed by the author in 1996 with a drawing taking up the whole title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket internally tape-strengthened at the crown.
118. GINSBERG, Allen. Mind Breaths. San Francisco: City Lights (1977)[1978]. The hardcover issue of this collection of poems, published in an edition of only 300 copies (there were 10,000 paperbacks). Signed by the author in the year of publication, the book having been published in January of 1978 (despite the 1977 copyright date). Corners rubbed, still fine in a near fine, price-clipped dust jacket. Scarce in the hardcover issue, and especially so signed.
119. GINSBERG, Allen. Collected Poems 1947-1980. NY: Harper & Row (1984). The definitive collection of his poetry from the first 33 years of his writing career, including some previously unpublished pieces as well as a number that had only been printed in small limited editions. Inscribed by the author on the title page and with a full-page drawing on a facing page, done in 1996. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
120. GINSBERG, Allen. White Shroud. NY: Harper & Row (1986). A review copy of this collection of poems from 1980-1985. Inscribed by the author with a full-page drawing in 1996. Fine in a fine dust jacket, with publisher's review slip laid in.
121. GINSBERG, Allen. Cosmopolitan Greetings: Poems 1986-1992. (NY): HarperCollins (1994). A collection of new poems, "published on the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Beat Generation" -- the legendary meeting in 1944 of Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs. Inscribed by the author with a full-page drawing in 1996. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
122. GINSBERG, Allen. Journals Mid-Fifties, 1954-1958. (NY): HarperCollins (1995). A volume of Ginsberg's journals from a key period in the Beat movement, which saw the first reading and publication of Howl, as well as the publication of Jack Kerouac's novels On the Road, The Dharma Bums, and others. Inscribed by the author with drawing in the month of publication. Fine in dust jacket.
123. GINSBERG, Allen. Selected Poems, 1947-1995. (NY): HarperCollins (1996). Second printing of this collection. Inscribed by the author with an elaborate full-page drawing in the month after publication. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
124. GORDIMER, Nadine. The Soft Voice of the Serpent. NY: Simon & Schuster (1952). The first American edition of the South African Nobel Prize winner's first book to be published outside of her native country. A collection of stories. Signed by the author. Small, neat owner name on flyleaf, faint edge-sunning; near fine in a near fine, spine-tanned dust jacket with some internal tape strengthening. An attractive copy of an important first book, and uncommon signed.
125. GORDIMER, Nadine. Six Feet of the Country. NY: Simon & Schuster, 1956. The first American edition of her second collection of stories to be published here. Fine in a very good dust jacket with tiny corner chips and some rubbing to the folds. An attractive copy.
126. GORDIMER, Nadine. A World of Strangers. NY: Simon & Schuster, 1958. The first American edition of her fourth book, second novel. Fine in a spine- and edge-tanned dust jacket with one edge tear; about near fine. A clean, crisp copy of this early title.
127. GORDIMER, Nadine. Not for Publication. NY: Viking (1965). The first American edition. Fine in a near fine, mildly spine-tanned dust jacket. A very nice copy.
128. GORDIMER, Nadine. A Guest of Honor. NY: Viking (1970). The first American edition of this novel, which won England's James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Inscribed by the author. Very near fine in a near fine dust jacket internally tape-strengthened at the crown.
129. GORDIMER, Nadine and GOLDBLATT, David. Lifetimes: Under Apartheid. NY: Knopf, 1986. The second collaboration between Gordimer and the photographer Goldblatt. Gordimer provides the text, which consists primarily of excerpts from her works of fiction. Quarto. Fine in a fine dust jacket, and signed by Gordimer.