Howl. Original Draft Facsimile, Transcript & Variant Versions, Fully Annotated by Author, with Contemporaneous Correspondence, Account of First Public Reading, Legal Skirmishes, Precursor Texts & Bibliography

Ginsberg, Allen; Barry Miles, ed

Published by Harper & Row, Publishers, New York, 1986

First edition. Illustrated. 194 pp. 1 vols. 4to. The 30th anniversary edition of Howl, published in a expanded edition with a number of documents about the trial that ensued. This copy is inscribed across the title page opening to painter Robert La Vigne, an old friend from the "Paris of the West" and the circle of poets and artists in 1950s San Francisco, abundantly decorated with a drawing of a seated Buddha, an "AH" in a cloud, scattered skulls and flowers and stars of David: "for Robert La Vigne Fruition of 3 decades experience see yr visage page 149 in group Old lovers yet may have / All that time denied / Grave is heaped upon grave / That they be satisfied Yeats" On the title page beneath beneath a "hairy dragon w/4 feet in air" and a lightning bolt, "Allen Ginsberg / June 6, 1988 / New York" Robert La Vigne (1928 2014), Idaho-born artist and stage designer, was the portrait painter to the Beats and a lover of Peter Orlvosky, who became the long time companion of Allen Ginsberg. He appears in a group photograph taken in San Francisco by Ginsberg, along with Neal Cassady, Orlovsky, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti that appears at page 149. Tan cloth binding. Fine copy in fine dust jacket. Inscribed by the author Illustrated. 194 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Seller Inventory # 370703

Bibliographic Details

Title: Howl. Original Draft Facsimile, Transcript &...
Publisher: Harper & Row, Publishers, New York
Publication Date: 1986
Binding: Hardcover
Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
Signed: Signed by Author(s)
Edition: First edition.