Ginsberg, Allen

HOWL [Signed]

New York, NY: Harper and Row Publishers, 1986. First Edition, First Printing. Quarto, 194 pages. In Very Good minus condition with a Very Good condition dust jacket. Spine is blue with a brown design and white lettering. Dust jacket is wrapped in a mylar covering, price uncut "$22.50", has mild shelving wear, and has mild wear along the extremities. Boards are bound in the publisher's brown cloth, front board is warped, mild bending wear along the spine head and tail edges, and light bumping along the head fore corners. Textblock has a blue "CC" stamp on the tail edge, stains along the head edge, and mild wear along the edges. Signed thrice by Allen Ginsberg, twice on the author page, and once on the title page, dated "10/7/90". Signed flat by Lawrence Ferlinghetti and dated "3/00" on the dedication page. DL consignment. Shelved in Case 0.

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Shelved Dupont Bookstore

Price: $1,000

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Allen Ginsberg was born in 1926 in Newark, New Jersey. He was a poet, essayist, and activist, most well known for his role in the Beat Generation, a literary movement of the 1950s. Ginsberg’s work was bold and controversial, making him a major figure in postwar American literature. He passed away in 1997 in New York City. “Howl” was published in 1956 and was regarded as Ginsberg’s breakthrough poem. Howl was partially influenced by his relationship with his mother, Naomi Levy, who struggled with schizophrenia and spent much of her life in psychiatric hospitals. Howl also received widespread publicity when it was banned for obscenity. However, the ban was eventually lifted, cementing Howl’s place in the canon of American literature.