Photographs.
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
Altadena: Twelvetree Press,, 1990. A family album of the Beat generation First edition, limited issue, number 88 of 100 clothbound copies signed by the author and issued in a slipcase, from a total edition of 5,000. Ginsberg's photographs largely comprise portraits of his close friends, including Kerouac, Cassady, Burroughs, Orlovsky, Snyder, Corso, and Leary; and of luminaries such as Robert Frank, Basil Bunting, Lou Reed, and Ken Kesey. The margins are annotated with descriptions in facsimile of Ginsberg's hand. Folio. Original grey cloth lettered in blind, black endpapers. With original grey slipcase lettered in blind, as issued. Twelvetree Press order form loosely inserted. With photographic illustrations throughout. Spine faintly sunned, upper corners bumped, a few marks on slipcase, extremities slightly sunned. A near-fine copy. Roth 101.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Peter Harrington (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 162740
- 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
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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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