GINSBERG, ALLEN. Howl and Other Poems. San Francisco: The City Lights Bookshop [1956]. Square 12mo, original printed black wrappers with printed white wrap-around label, the label very slightly dampstained, cloth slipcase. FIRST EDITION in book form, one of the 1000 copies, the poet's first regularly published book, introduction by William Carlos Williams, A DEDICATION COPY, inscribed by Ginsberg (probably at Christmas 1978) on the title-page to Lucien Carr (the other dedicatees of the book are Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, and Neal Cassady): "For Lucien to Whom this poem was written. After decades, Love Allen Ginsberg"; ALSO INSCRIBED BY THE DEDICATEE WILLIAM BURROUGHS at bottom of the dedication page: "William Seward Burroughs Is everybody mad? Christmas 1978"; AND SIGNED BY CARL SOLOMON, the dedicatee of the title poem, at the top of Williams' introduction ("Howl for Carl Solomon") on p. 7: "Carl Solomon [--] Noo?" The title poem first appeared in a mimeographed format in 1955 in an edition of 50 copies. A remarkable association copy of one of the most influential literary works of the "Beat Generation."

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GINSBERG, ALLEN. Howl and Other Poems. San Francisco: The City Lights Bookshop [1956]. Square 12mo, original printed black wrappers with printed white wrap-around label, the label very slightly dampstained, cloth slipcase. FIRST EDITION in book form, one of the 1000 copies, the poet's first regularly published book, introduction by William Carlos Williams, A DEDICATION COPY, inscribed by Ginsberg (probably at Christmas 1978) on the title-page to Lucien Carr (the other dedicatees of the book are Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, and Neal Cassady): "For Lucien to Whom this poem was written. After decades, Love Allen Ginsberg"; ALSO INSCRIBED BY THE DEDICATEE WILLIAM BURROUGHS at bottom of the dedication page: "William Seward Burroughs Is everybody mad? Christmas 1978"; AND SIGNED BY CARL SOLOMON, the dedicatee of the title poem, at the top of Williams' introduction ("Howl for Carl Solomon") on p. 7: "Carl Solomon [--] Noo?" The title poem first appeared in a mimeographed format in 1955 in an edition of 50 copies. A remarkable association copy of one of the most influential literary works of the "Beat Generation."