Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997), Three Signed Titles

To include: FIRST BLUES: RAGS, BALLADS & HARMONIUM SONGS 1971-74. [New York]: Full Court Press, [1975]. First edition. Signed by Ginsberg on the title page. Dedicated to Bob Dylan. Light gray cloth-covered boards, lettered in silver to spine, in plain printed pink dust jacket. [4], v, [5], 74, [6]pp. (8 1/2 x 5 3/4 in.) (Light spotting to boards, spine ends with minor thumbing, and foxing to board edges and top page edges; light age wear to endpapers, and soiling along upper margin of preliminaries, with the rest of the interior pristine; jacket with very light edge wear, creasing to folds, toning to spine and folds, a couple of small stains and marks, and toning and foxing to interior.) PLANET NEWS 1961-1967. San Francisco: City Lights Books, [1968]. Limited edition; no. 155 out of 500 copies, signed by the author on the limitation, as issued. Gilt-stamped black cloth-covered boards; in slipcase with mounted lettered paper label. 144pp. (6 7/8 x 5 1/8 x 3/4 in.) (Light stain to spine and slight bowing to boards; one page with a small mark otherwise interior pristine; slipcase with slight wear and separation at a couple of corners, splitting to one edge of back panel.) EMPTY MIRROR: EARLY POEMS BY ALLEN GINSBERG. New York: Totem Press/Corinth Books, [1961]. First edition. Signed by Ginsberg on the title page. Introduction by William Carlos Williams. Softcover in illustrated, stapled wrappers. 47, [1]pp. (8 x 5 1/4 in.) (Wraps with light soiling and wear with a couple of spots of foxing; interior with an occasional small spot or mark, and light creasing and a faint damp stain to top corner throughout.) PBA Galleries, Berkeley, October 18, 2018, Lot 428 (The Empty Mirror)

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