Photographs [Signed, with doodle]

Altadena, Calif: Twelvetrees Press, 1990. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Limited Edition of the poet's first and only book of pictures, featuring Ginsberg and others of the beat generation "in their flaming youth." (Roth) One of 5,000 unnumbered copies. Royal 8vo (354 x 275mm): unpaginated, with 91 captioned full-page plates from halftones. Publisher's finely woven steel-grey cloth lettered in blind, black end papers, with publisher's reply card laid in; black dust jacket lettered in white (unpriced, as issued). Signed (without inscription) on title page and dated 6/12/94 by Ginsberg with his signature doodle of a seven-petal flower. An exceptional copy, virtually pristine, tightly bound and clean throughout. Roth (101 Books), pp. 266-67. The bold graphic design and sheet-fed gravure printing of Jack Woody's Twelvetrees Press "gives Ginsberg's 'snapshots' a richness and warmth the originals aren't likely to possess . . . The best photos provide a double punch of intimacy and history: legends at leisure." (Roth) N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.).