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Howl for Carl Solomon.
by GINSBERG, Allen
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
San Francisco: Grabhorn-Hoyem,, 1971. The first fine press edition of Howl First edition thus, one of 275 copies signed by the author, printed by Robert & Grabhorn and Andrew Hoyem on handmade paper from Goudy Modern type, with an illustrated cloth binding after a drawing by Robert La Vigne. Ginsberg's masterpiece was first published by City Lights in 1956 in a much-reproduced wrappers format, but this is the first fine press edition. It includes a new note by Ginsberg about the presentation here of Howl for the first time in tandem with the poetic continuation "The Names" (written 1957, published in the Paris Review 1966), his "autobiographical chronicle of Howl's same radiant persons living & dead adored to specify Names & deeds in extended eulogy - an embodyment [sic] of Howl's abstractions". Morgan notes that although the colophon states that 275 copies were produced, "several copies were misbound and about 20 sets of sheets were not bound due to a lack of adequate covers". Quarto. Original greyish-brown cloth illustrated in colour after a drawing by Robert La Vigne, grey endpapers, edges untrimmed. A fine copy. Morgan A21.a1.
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- Bookseller
- Peter Harrington
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 161424
- Title
- Howl for Carl Solomon.
- Author
- GINSBERG, Allen
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- San Francisco: Grabhorn-Hoyem,
- Date Published
- 1971
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About the Seller
Peter Harrington
Biblio member since 2006
London
About Peter Harrington
Since its establishment, Peter Harrington has specialised in sourcing, selling and buying the finest quality original first editions, signed, rare and antiquarian books, fine bindings and library sets. Peter Harrington first began selling rare books from the Chelsea Antiques Market on London's King's Road. For the past twenty years the business has been run by Pom Harrington, Peter's son.
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- Fine
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