Howl: Original Draft Facsimile, Transcript & Variant Versions... (Inscribed with Drawing and Accompanying Postcard).
New York: Harper and Row Publishers, 1986. First Edition thus. Tall quarto. Thirty years later—a scholarly return to Allen Ginsberg's Howl, with a facsimile of the original draft, variants, contemporaneous correspondence, legal accounts, precursor texts, bibliography, and more. This copy INSCRIBED by Ginsberg to Harper & Row publicist Dan Harvey, with accompanying drawing: "For Dan Harvey / from the author his co-worker / Allen Ginsberg / February 3, 1987 / New York City." Further accompanied by a postcard sent to Harvey from the previous August; twenty manuscript lines in which Ginsberg relates his experience at the Struga Golden Wreath poetry festival in Macedonia, making quick mention of his Howl proofs being ready in a few weeks. Brown cloth boards with previous bookseller's pencil notes to front endpaper; near fine. In illustrated jacket, also near fine.
Item #29810
Price: $850.00