HOWL AND OTHER POEMS
$500 · Offered by Type Punch Matrix
San Francisco: The City Lights Pocket Bookshop, 1957 . Third printing stated — and first produced in the U.S. — of Ginsberg's landmark poem, number four in the Pocket Poets Series. Very good. Item #45934 While the first two printings of HOWL were produced in London by Villiers, when U.S. Customs seized more than 500 copies of the latter printing for alleged obscenity leading to one of the most important
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