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London: Hausmans Pub./Goodwin Press, 1969. Reprinted from "Peace News Press" Pale pink wrappers, staplebound. 12pp. Half page of typed notes by critic William Pritchard. Photos on request. . 4th Printing, Feb. 1969. Paperback. Fine-. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

N.P.: J. Koller, 1967. Third printing. Paperback. Extremely gentle rubbing to spine head and foot, hardly chafed corners, light soiling to covers, faint spotting to covers to one copy, bright pages in tight binding, else Very good(+) in very good(+) plastic sleeves.. White octavos in plastic sleeve, 2-stapled binding, 15 pages; 21 cm. Poems -- California -- 20th century. || Series: Peace news poetry. || Scarce.

San Francisco: Coyote, 1966. Good copy with some foxing and browning to cover. Spine is torn at top and bottom until staples. . First Edition. Staple Bound. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Goodwin Press, 1967. 8vo, pp. 12. Original tan stiff paper wrappers, lettered in black to front and rear panels. Wrappers a little marked and faded, but a well preserved copy. First UK separate edition. First published as part of a larger work in Village Voice in the US, and in Peace News in the UK, both in 1966.

San Francisco: Coyote, 1966. First printing. Paperback. Very good. Stapled wraps, clean unmarked text, very good copy, some soiling and discoloration to the covers, light wear to the covers. Uncommon.

San Francisco, CA: Coyote, 1966. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 15 pages, 8vo. Limited Edition of 500 copies. Distributed by City Lights Books. Stapled spine, white soft wraps with black and red lettering on front cover. Shelfwear: light scuffing along edges and covers, tanning on covers and some light smudges, small missing piece along bottom of front ocver. Tight binding, no marks. Volume is in Very Good-minus condition..

San Francisco: Coyote Press, 1966. First U. S. Edition. Paperback. Fine. First US edition of this slender poetry pamphlet. 15 pp. An earlier British pamphlet precedes. A handsome very good plus copy.

New York/, Thursday, April 28, 1966.. Folio tabloid (42 x 28.5 cm). Printed on uniformly tanned newsprint. Illustrated with photographs, etc. Horizontal fold, as distributed in street vending machines, otherwise unusually nice. The first appearance in print of one of Ginsberg's key poems of the Vietnam-war era. This appearance on pp. 17-19 preceded the Coyote Press edition as well as the London periodical printing. DOWDEN, pp.14 & 100.

Coyote (distributed by City Lights Books), San Francisco, USA, 1966. First Edition. Softcover (Saddle-stapled). Good Condition. First Edition; (500 copies); First Printing; covers printed in red & blue with 'coyote' paw-print to rear. The poem originated as a voice recording that Ginsberg made with a tape recorder while traveling across the Midwest. He composed it spontaneously, dictating the words into the recorder as they came to him. In transcribing the poem, Ginsberg arranged the lines by the natural pauses and dictation in his recordings, according to the "organic space-timing" that they provided. Throughout the poem, Ginsberg contrasts images of the Midwest (and, in particular, the Kansan landscape) with snippets of news reports about the war, and links the violence there with the political conservatism of the Heartland, decrying Carrie Nation's work in Wichita, Kansas as beginning "a vortex of hatred that defoliated the Mekong Delta. The poem also uses images… Read More

London: Housmans, Publishers, June 1967. [Counterculture / Poetry] SECOND UK EDITION. Octavo pamphlet (20 x 17cm), pp.12. Publisher's grey paper covers, stapled twice, with title to front cover and advertisements to inside of rear cover. Black ink ownership to title page. Alan Jackson's poem, 'Knox (I)' is copied in blue ink to the inside of the front cover. Generally well-thumbed and rubbed, with a little oxidation to staples, and thumb marks to margins. Good. A long poem condemning the Vietnam War.

London: Peace News Poetry, 1966. Paperback. Good. 8x6x0. Reprinted from peace News and printed for Housmans Publishers by Goodwin Press 1966. Covers a little creased. Slight tanning to pages.

San Francisco, CA: Ramparts Magazine, 1966.. 8vo. Single Page, Very Good with creasing, paper slightly toned. This is the First Printing of Part I of Allen Ginsberg's two part proem. From Ramparts Magazine, Vol. 5, No. 5, November 1966. First Edition.

N.p.: N.p., 1966. Vintage borderless photograph of poet Allen Ginsberg reading his antiwar poem "Wichita Vortex Sutra" at the Loeb Student Center at New York University, on June 18, 1966. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso, along with the stamps of United Press International Photo and a date stamp. Ginsberg first composed "Wichita Vortex Sutra" through dictation into a tape recorder while traveling across the midwest, and the poem was first published in Ginsberg's 1968 collection "Planet News." 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus overall, with white paper tape reinforcement on the top right edge of the verso.