(San Francisco), (n.p.), (c. 1959). Four page mimeograph of Ginsberg's landmark poem, with textual differences between this and the published versions (in the UK literary magazine Strand in 1960 and in the book Kaddish in 1961). Written the month following his first two LSD trips as a volunteer at Stanford where the CIA was running a research program (in which Ken Kesey also participated). This copy came from the Timothy Leary archives, and it is a variant unknown to Ginsberg's bibliographer: Morgan's bibliography does not identify any instance of a separate printing of this poem, and the text apparently precedes other versions. In addition, there are marginal notations in mimeographed type that do not appear in any other version of the poem -- seemingly Ginsberg's commentary or that of someone who assembled this printing from Ginsberg's typescript, perhaps for the edification of others experimenting with LSD. An unusual, significant, possibly unique printing of what is widely considered the greatest poem about the psychedelic experience, and one of the high points of Ginsberg's body of work: the author took what, on the evidence of the descriptions in the poem, one would call a bad LSD trip and fashioned a powerful and allusive collection of images that comes as close to doing justice to the essentially indescribable nature of the psychedelic experience as anything that has ever been fashioned out of words on a page. Stapled in upper corner. Fine. [#027367] SOLD