ISBN10: 0872860191, ISBN13: 9780872860193, [publisher: City Lights Books, San Francisco, California, USA] Softcover First Edition Twenty-first printing of the true first edition of this famous work by Allen Ginsberg, published as a paperback original in January 1989. City Lights originally published the book in 1961. Number Fourteen in the Pocket Poets Series. ***Near fine in the iconic black & white glossy card covers, with an 'Airlift Book Company' import price sticker of £4.95 over the original printed price of $3.95 on the back cover. The book is near fine, with the edges hardly rubbed at all - no creases or tears. Spine clean and unfaded. No fading. Internally also near fine, with no inscriptions. The endpapers are dark blue. Pages clean. No creases or tears. Spine tight. Covers bright and clean. ***158mm x 124mm. 99 pages plus a two-page complete list of published works by Allen Ginsberg and a three-page catalogue of City Lights Publications at the back of the book. ***'Irwin Allen Ginsberg (June 3, 1926 - April 5, 1997) was an American poet and writer. As a student at Columbia University in the 1940s, he began friendships with William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, forming the core of the Beat Generation. He vigorously opposed militarism, economic materialism, and sexual repression, and he embodied various aspects of this counterculture with his views on drugs, sex, multiculturalism, hostility to bureaucracy, and openness to Eastern ...
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