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San Francisco: City Lights Books “Pocket Poets Series, Number Four”, 1956. First Edition/First State (1 of 1000 copies) . Softcover. Very Good. 12mo (44 pages). This is a very good copy of the true First State of the First Edition (with the name “Lucien Carr” – later removed – on the dedication page). There is some faint staining to the white front cover panel and to the title page, which is SIGNED and dated in ink: “Allen Ginsberg, ‘74” beneath a drawing by Ginsberg of the sun and a large flower that utilizes the “O” in “Howl” as its corolla. Perhaps the most important volume of American poetry of the twentieth century, signed and uniquely decorated by the author.