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AbeBooks Seller since July 25, 1997
First edition. Cover by Miles. Small octavo. 80pp. Lightly rubbed wrappers with a touch of wear at two corners, about fine. An interesting and noteworthy English literary magazine published by John Hopkins and Miles, owners of the famous Indica Books in London. It features Allen Ginsberg's 26-page poem "Ankor-Wat," as well as contributions from Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Ron Padget, Michael Horovitz, Jeff Nuttall, Tuli Kupferberg, Ray Durgant, and others. The following year that Hopkins and Miles began publishing what many consider the most influential English counterculture newspaper, *The International Times*. *Long Hair* was the precursor to that publication and an early publishing work from Miles, a genuine Sixties luminary, who went on to write the biographies of Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, Charles Bukowski, Paul McCartney, John Lennon, and Frank Zappa. Seller Inventory # 328958
Title: Long Hair Volume 1, Number 1
Publisher: Lovebooks Ltd, New York
Publication Date: 1965
Binding: Softcover
Condition: Fine
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller: PsychoBabel & Skoob Books, Didcot, United Kingdom
Paperback. Condition: Acceptable. Paperback in acceptable condition. No publication date stated; it was not published in 1900. Tanned, marked and edgeworn cover; small tear on the spine foot. Minor marks on the page block. Pages 1-6 are detached from the binding. The binding is visible on the hinges. All text is clear. CM. Used. Seller Inventory # 493479
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Seller: Passages Bookshop, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First printing. 80 pp., 6.5 x 8 inches. Perfect-bound in printed card covers. Edited by Barry Miles, with Ted Berrigan as New York editor. Minor toning and creasing to covers; title written neatly on unprinted spine, otherwise a very good, sound copy. An incredible transatlantic assemblage (a "North Atlantic turn-on," per the cover), beginning with 26 pages of compositions from Ginsberg's journals ("Ankor-Wat"), and including, along with the more familiar names listed above, such interesting and under-attended writers as Paul Ableman, Christopher Perret, and musician Archie Shepp. Per the editor's prefatory notes, Ginsberg "declined payment for ëAnkor Wat' and his money has been divided between the other contributors." There appears to have been no second issue of Long Hair proper, which was succeeded by Long Hair Times (also one issue? which included issues of The Gate, published by the London Free School, and Ed Sanders Newsletter), and eventually the International Times.Worth the price of admission for the ads, contributors' notes, and breathless insurrectionary editorial alone! Seller Inventory # 4636
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