GINSBERG, Allen (1926-1997). Howl and Other Poems. San Francisco: City Lights Pocket Bookshop, [1956]. Second edition. SIGNED BY GINSBERG.
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GINSBERG, Allen (1926-1997). Howl and Other Poems. San Francisco: City Lights Pocket Bookshop, [1956].
12mo. Original stapled wrappers stamped in light blue, printed wraparound label.
Second edition SIGNED BY GINSBERG on the title-page, and appearing as number four in the Pocket Poets Series. Copies of the scarce second edition of Ginsberg's revolutionary poem were seized by the U. S. Collector of Customs Chester MacPhee on its arrival in San Francisco, resulting in a 1967 trial in which California State Superior Court Judge Clayton Hall ruled in favor of the defendants, declaring that the poem was of “redeeming social importance.”
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