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Photographs.
by GINSBERG, Allen
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Altadena: Twelvetree Press,, 1990. First edition, first printing, inscribed copy. From an edition of 5,100 copies, this copy is inscribed by Ginsberg on the title page, "2/17/94, Allen Ginsberg, for Audrey Gaston", and with a large ink drawing across the title page spread featuring his favoured Blakean "Ah, Sunflower" growing under an "Ah" sun and other celestial shapes. Ginsberg's collection of photographs of his close friends includes portraits of Kerouac, Cassady, Burroughs, Orlovsky, Snyder, Corso, and Leary, with some of such luminaries as Robert Frank, Basil Bunting, Lou Reed, and Ken Kesey, all with revealing descriptive annotations in facsimile. Folio. Original grey cloth, titles to front cover and spine in blind. With dust jacket and the wraparound band. An excellent copy, only some very light rubbing to extremities.
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- Bookseller
- Peter Harrington
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 140264
- Title
- Photographs.
- Author
- GINSBERG, Allen
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- Altadena: Twelvetree Press,
- Date Published
- 1990
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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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