Abomunist Manifesto

by Bob Kaufman

$350 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books · No longer available

First edition

San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1959. First edition. Single sheet of white wove paper folded in sixths. Fine, trace soiling at upper right of front wrap. The African-American North Beach poet's first and most famous book, a folded broadside of nine poems full of beatnik slang, absurd humor, and braggadocio. Upon the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963 he took a vow of silence that lasted ten years.

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