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Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
MANDALA FESTIVAL: BOSTON, APRIL 7, 1975 ALLEN GINSBERG (1926-1997)
Photograph dated and Signed, "AllenGinsberg / 10/6/94 / (AH)," group portrait by Peter Barry Chowka showing seated musicians performing with South Asian instruments, including Ginsberg seated beside a singing Peter Orlovsky. Signed on the mount at lower left, and additionally signed by Orlovsky on the mount at lower right and by photographer above Orlovsky's signature. 4½x7½ inches; 115x190 mm (image), 8x10 inches; 200x255 mm overall; faint staining to mount at lower right.
Np, 6 October 1994
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Peter Orlovsky's The Beau Fleuve Series: Number Five. Dear Allen: Ship Will Land Jan 23, 58. Buffalo, NY: Intrepid Press, [1971]. First edition, limited issue, octavo, one of only 1,000 copies printed, 100 of which are signed and numbered by the author; this copy is unnumbered, however the title page is signed and inscribed by Orlovsky in ink: "Green Apples / Blue Apples / White Apples / all spells / N.Y.C - kisses"; bound in stapled peach wrappers lettered in black, with the famous nude portrait photograph of Ginsberg and Orlovsky by Richard Avedon on the outside rear panel; 8 x 5 1/2 in.
