Lot 429

[BEAT LITERARY JOURNAL]. City Lights Journal. Number One [-] Number Four. San Francisco: City Lights Books, [1963-1978].

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[BEAT LITERARY JOURNAL]. City Lights Journal. Number One [-] Number Four. San Francisco: City Lights Books, [1963-1978]. 8vos. Illustrated. Four volumes. Publisher's perfect-bound pictorial wrappers. FIRST EDITIONS OF THE FIRST FOUR ISSUES OF THIS FAMOUS BEAT LITERARY JOURNAL, VOLUME 1 SIGNED BY CONTRIBUTOR ALLEN GINSBERG ON THE CONTENTS PAGE, AND WITH THE INITIALS OF CONTRIBUTOR ANSELM HOLLO ON THE SAME PAGE.

Condition

Wrappers generally rubbed, toned, some later pencil prices on a few title-pages, title-page of volume 2 with numeric ink stamp. Very good. 

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