25 x 20cm, original vintage gelatine silver photograph of Ginsberg issued for a promotional use for the box-set compilation, "The Ballad of the Skeletons". The portrait of Ginsberg was taken by Robert Frank.

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NYC: Giorno Poetry Systems, 1996

30 x 21cm, 1pp, a press release for the LP launch.

30 x 21cm, black and white silver gelatine photograph - Allen Ginsberg jokingly "howling" for a portrait taken at the artist's club in 1958

This image was originally taken by Fred McDarrah and his estate retains copyright on the image so this is sold for personal use and not for reproduction. This is in very good condition and a crisp modern print (post 1990s we suspect) from original negative. If this was a vintage print we would charge much more.

30 x 21cm, black and white silver gelatine photograph - a famous image of Allen Ginsberg at a peace demonstration in 1966 wearing a stars and stripes hat.

This image was originally taken by Fred McDarrah and his estate retains copyright on the image so this is sold for personal use and not for reproduction. This is in very good condition and a crisp modern print (post 1990s we suspect) from original negative. If this was a vintage print we would charge much more.

21 x 14cm, 40pp plus card covers. A single issue of this Beat-era literary review which has contributions by LeRoi Jones, Gilbert Sorrentino, Bruce Boyd, Robert Creeley, Kenneth Koch, George Stanley, Frank O’Hara, Gregory Corso, B. Smith, Stuart Z. Perkoff, Gilbert Sorrentino, John Ashbery, Philip Whalen, Larry Eigner, Max Finstein, Joel Oppenheimer, Diane DiPrima, Charles Olson, Edward Marshall, Joel Oppenheimer, Allen Ginsberg, Norman Bluhm, and Frank O’Hara

"Edited by Beat poet LeRoi Jones (later Amiri Baraka) and Hettie Cohen, Yugen was devoted to “A New Consciousness in the Arts and Letters.” Bringing together the Beats, Black Mountain poets, and the New York School poets of the late 1950s, Yugen took its name from the Japanese aesthetic term meaning “a profound mysterious sense of the beauty of universe … and the sad beauty of human suffering.” Cohen, later Hettie Jones, had worked at the Partisan Review and brought with her a background in little-magazine design that gave Yugen an air of respectability and professionalism. The contents represented a new and untraditional approach to poetry. Jones and Cohen also founded Totem Press, which published important early books by Gary Snyder, Philip Whalen, Allen Ginsberg, Michael McClure, Diane di Prima, Jack Kerouac, and many others. Like Yugen, Totem Press books typically feature calligraphic covers that mix American abstract expressionism and Japanese Zen painting."

Slight browning/light sunning to card covers on right and some rust to staples else VG+.  Scarce.

Two-sided 7 inch flexidisk (45 rpm) with a recording of Ginsberg reading his own poem Plutonium Ode. Issued as part of the fist number of Apple Magazine this is usually missing - but this copy is in VG+ unplayed condition in like VG+ white sleeve.

75 uk pounds

21 x 16cm, 16pp (self-cover).Third printing of this political Beat poem. Slight marks to wrappers else VG.

10.5 x 15cm, 2pp. Postcard displaying the Beat poet alongside a mostly naked torso in white underpants. A handwritten note by "Rene" on the back else VG.

16 x 12cm, 2pp. Photographic postcard with b/w portrait (by Elsa Dorfman) of the poet in Harvard University. This example is signed (slightly shakely) on the front in black ink by Ginsberg. VG+.