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Counterculture and the 1960s

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Ginsberg, Allen. Collection of 22 First, Early and Signed C...

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Ginsberg, Allen. Collection of 22 First, Early and Signed Copies. [V.p., ca. 1960s-80s]. Publisher?s bindings, in dust jackets where called-for. Some occasional wear, soiling, sunning. Generally very good or better. Some titles include: a SIGNED second printing of Cosmopolitan Greetings. Poems 1986-1982 (Morgan A63), a SIGNED copy of Composed on the Tongue (Morgan A43 a1.1), first American printing of Wichita Vortex Sutra, Planet News 1961 - 1967 (SIGNED LIMITED), Kaddish and Other Poems 1958-1960 (SIGNED, later printing), Howl: Original Draft Facsimile (first edition), Howl of the Censor (first edition), Reality Sandwiches - 1953 - 60 (first edition), Mostly Sitting Haiku (first edition), Indian Journals: March 1962 - May 1963 (SIGNED third printing), Airplane Dreams: Compositions from Journals (SIGNED first American edition), Collected Poems 1947-1980 (SIGNED first edition), Howl and Other Poems (SIGNED 50th printing), The Yage Letters (SIGNED 6th printing), The Fall of America: Poems of These States, 1965-1971 (SIGNED, second issue), White Shroud. Poems 1980 - 1985 (SIGNED first edition), Allen Ginsberg Journals, Early Fifties Early Sixties (SIGNED first edition), As Ever. The Collected Correspondence of Allen Ginsberg & Neal Cassady (probable first edition).