BEATITUDE #17 Oct-Nov 1960

by Allen Ginsberg, Jack Spicer, Bob Kaufman, Philip Whalen

$550 · Offered by Type Punch Matrix

First edition

San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1960. First edition. First City Lights issue of the San Francisco literary mag, the brainchild of Allen Ginsberg, Bob Kaufman, and John Kelly. Very good +. Item #43794 Originally conceived as a weekly newsletter for the North Beach literary scene, the first issue of BEATITUDE was issued in April 1959. Though it quickly abandoned that schedule, the little

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