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ALLEN GINSBERG (1926-1997)
Four pocket poetry collections, each inscribed and with an original ink drawing. Reality Sandwich. 1953-60. The Pocket Poet Series, Number Eighteen. City Lights Books, [1985]. Fifteenth printing, small quarto; bound in publisher's black and white printed wrappers (light rubbing and soiling to wrappers); 6 1/4 x 4 3/4 in.
Planet News. 1961-1967. The Pocket Poet Series, Number Twenty Three. San Francisco: City Lights Books, [1982]. Fifth printing, small quarto; bound in publisher's black and white printed wrappers (faint stain to foredge; wrappers rubbed with some minor creasing); 6 1/4 x 4 3/4 in.
The Fall of America. Poems of these States. 1965-1971. The Pocket Poet Series, Number Thirty. San Francisco: City Lights Books, [1973]. First printing of Ginsberg's work which won the National Book Award for Poetry in 1973, small quarto; bound in publisher's black and white printed wrappers (corners bumped, light rubbing to wrappers); 6 1/2 x 4 7/8 in.
Mind Breaths. Poems 1972-1977. The Pocket Poet Series, Number Thirty Five. San Francisco: City Lights Books, [1985]. Third printing, small quarto; bound in publisher's black and white printed wrappers (wrappers rubbed, some soiling); 6 1/4 x 4 3/4 in.
All four copies include an original ink drawing by Ginsberg on the title, preliminary blank, or front inside wrapper; three are signed, dated and inscribed to Russian writer and artist Dmitri Prigov (1940-2007). Prigov was a leading figure in the Russian Conceptualist movement who created sculptures from his poems, often writing them on discarded tin cans or inside old books which he would staple shut.
