Ginsberg Journals Mid-Fifties: 1954-1958
by Allen Ginsberg [Ball Gordon, editor]
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0670856843
- ISBN 13
- 9780670856848
- Seller
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About This Item
Hardcover Cloth 489 pages. Condition Very Good Dust Jacket Very Good. Stated first edition First printing 1995 with corresponding number line. Handsome black boards and white embossing shows off this Clean, tight, square copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Book Well kept and carefully stored in unread condition. Slight shelf wear. An unclipped dust jacket smooth, clean and brilliant with slight shelf wear - a few scrapes & wrinkles. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.
Draws on material entered by Allen Ginsberg in twelve notebooks and related separated pages from June 1954 through mid-July 1958. Dreambook, travelogue, generational chronicle, laboratory for the concocting of poems like "Howl" and "Kaddish," and searingly honest psycho-sexual excavation. Many pages detailing the emotional and sexual agonies he experienced in his relationships with Neal Cassady and Peter Orlovsky.
It's a chaotic treasure trove of this, that and the kitchen sink. Warts and all, this is a key part of the story of a deeply lived life.
American poet Irwin Allen Ginsberg, was a leading figure of the Beat Generation known for his long incantatory works, include Howl (1956) and Kaddish (1961).
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- Seller
- River House Books (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 656746
- Title
- Ginsberg Journals Mid-Fifties: 1954-1958
- Author
- Allen Ginsberg [Ball Gordon, editor]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0670856843
- ISBN 13
- 9780670856848
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1995
- Pages
- 489
- Bookseller catalogs
- First Editions;
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