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GINSBERG, Allen (1926-1997). Siesta in Xbalba and Return to the States. Published by the author near Icy Cape, Alaska, July 1956.
22 mimeographed pages, 205 x 165mm, stapled (vertical crease).
One of only fifty copies, the first edition of Ginsberg’s scarce second book, mimeographed personally while aboard a Navy ship off the coast of Alaska; signed by the author. “Siesta in Xbalba” was a long poem written in Mexico in 1954. Upon printing it, Ginsberg sent 13 copies to his publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti, instructing him on 4 August 1956 to “[k]eep one yourself and put the other dozen on sale at 50 cents each if you think you can sell them. Give the proceeds to Mike McClure for us for Moby Magazine. You can advertise them as a charity type shot for Moby. I made up another forty and am keeping them or sending them out as whim strikes me” (The Selected Correspondence of Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Allen Ginsberg 1955-1997). ABPC and RBH record only three copies of Siesta in Xbalba ever appearing at auction.
22 mimeographed pages, 205 x 165mm, stapled (vertical crease).
One of only fifty copies, the first edition of Ginsberg’s scarce second book, mimeographed personally while aboard a Navy ship off the coast of Alaska; signed by the author. “Siesta in Xbalba” was a long poem written in Mexico in 1954. Upon printing it, Ginsberg sent 13 copies to his publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti, instructing him on 4 August 1956 to “[k]eep one yourself and put the other dozen on sale at 50 cents each if you think you can sell them. Give the proceeds to Mike McClure for us for Moby Magazine. You can advertise them as a charity type shot for Moby. I made up another forty and am keeping them or sending them out as whim strikes me” (The Selected Correspondence of Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Allen Ginsberg 1955-1997). ABPC and RBH record only three copies of Siesta in Xbalba ever appearing at auction.