Howl

by Allen Ginsberg, William Carlos Williams, Introduction

$4,000 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books

First edition

San Francisco: City Lights Pocket Bookshop, 1956. First edition, first issue with Lucien Carr listed on the dedication page and a period after Harlem on the rear cover. Publisher's black wraps printed in blue with white wraparound printed in black. Very Good. toning and light soiling to wraps, bottom corner lightly bumped. An undisputed cornerstone of beat poetry, Ginsberg's initial inspiration came from a terrifying vision

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