HOWL AND OTHER POEMS by Ginsberg, Allen; Williams, William Carlos - 1967

Woolf Haus Publishing, 2020-02-20. paperback. Used:Good.

City Lights Books, 2000. New. New book.

Woolf Haus Publishing, 2020-02-20. paperback. Used: Good.

San Francisco, California: City Lights Books, 1966. The Pocket Poets Series, Number Four. Stapled Wraps. pp. 44, [2]. Square 12mo., measuring 5" x 6.25". Twice-stapled self-wrappers issued with its classic black borders over white background. Well-preserved with no detectable flaws; near fine. "Allen Ginsberg's 'Howl and Other Poems' was originally published by City Lights Books in the Fall of 1956. Subsequenty seized by U.S. Customs and the San Francisco police, it was the subject of a long court trial at which a series of poets and professors persuaded the court that the book was not obscene."

City Lights Books, 1959. Soft cover. Very good/No jacket. Cover is lightly tanned and scuffed, but text is legible. Pages are lightly tanned along edges, but text is clean and bright.

City Lights Books, 1958. Soft cover. Very good/No jacket. Sixth printing. Covers shelfworn.

San Francisco: City Lights Pocket Bookshop, 1958. Very Good +. San Francisco: City Lights Pocket Bookshop, [1958]. Fourth Printing, stated at rear along with 75 cents price. 12mo. 44 pp. Original stiff stapled wraps. Light rubbing and toning to wraps with a crease to bottom front corner. Binding is sound. Contemporary ownership inscription and original pencil price to title page; interior otherwise unmarked. Early printings of Howl have become relatively scarce, A Very Good copy.