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Allen GinsbergImprovised Poetics [presentation copy]Buffalo: Anonym Books, 1971. First edition. In wraps with photographic portrait of Ginsberg. [iv], 52 pp. 6 3/4 x 5 in. Inscribed on the title-page. Wraps just beginning to separate, otherwise a nice copy.First edition, presentation copy, inscribed to Judith Malina of the Living Theatre, "11/8/86 For Judith" and signed. Limited to 2000 copies, this book is a transcription of a discussion between Allen Ginsberg, Michael Aldrich, Edward Kissam, and Nancy Bleeker at Ginsberg’s farm in Cherry Valley, New York, on November 26, 1968.&nbsp;The text deals with the act of writing, the way poems appear on a page, and the ways that people read poems and speak them in their minds. From the introduction by Mark Robinson, “[the book’s] main prosodic concern centers around the notion that: the line is a measure of thought. It also shows how poetry is mapped and/or charted in Ginsberg’s and his contemporaries’ practice. Which carries the further implication: how to read.” Ginsberg later taught classes on Improvised Poetics at Naropa, and continued to write about and develop this idea so central to his compositional method.Condition as described in catalogue note. For further information on the condition of this lot please email <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="mailto:info@boo-hooray.com">info@boo-hooray.com</a>. All lots are sold on an "as is" basis at the time of sale. Images form a part of the condition description for each lot, though images online may represent hues and shades which differ from the actual item.

Allen Ginsberg — Improvised Poetics [presentation copy]

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Peter BesteNorwegian Black MetalTokyo: Seiunsha, 2005. Offset. Publisher's cloth, titled in silver on upper board. Japanese translation of the preface by Aaron Aites printed on transparent paper and tipped in. 36 pp. 12 x 8 ½ in.First Japanese edition of documentary photographer Peter Beste’s visual exploration of the chaos and violence of the black metal. Features dramatic portraits of members of the notorious and insular subculture.Printed in a limited edition of 3,000 on the occasion of a presentation of Beste’s work in Tokyo and Osaka. A handsome copy.Condition as described in catalogue note. For further information on the condition of this lot please email <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="mailto:info@boo-hooray.com">info@boo-hooray.com</a>. All lots are sold on an "as is" basis at the time of sale. Images form a part of the condition description for each lot, though images online may represent hues and shades which differ from the actual item.

Peter Beste — Norwegian Black Metal [first Japanese edition]

Michael Andre, ed.Unmuzzled Ox, #23-26 [signed by Gerard Malanga, Charles Henri Ford, and Ira Cohen]New York: Unmuzzled Ox, 1984 - 1989. Offset on newsprint. Folios in illustrated self-wraps. [24] pp, [37] pp, [35] pp, [49] pp. 17 1/4 x 11 in. Toning, issue 25 with minor foxing, creasing around fold lines.Unmuzzled Ox was a magazine of poetry, art, and politics founded in 1971 by poet Michael Andre and ran until 2001. The magazine frequently featured work by prominent writers and intellectuals including William S. Burroughs, Ezra Pound, Allen Ginsberg, Margaret Atwood, Gregory Corso, and Charles Henri Ford. The four issues collected for this set form the entirety of Vol. 12 (1984-1989), in which poets influenced by Ezra Pound's Cantos wrote their own supplementary cantos. These copies signed by Gerard Malanga, Ira Cohen, and Charles Henri Ford, all influential artists of the era involved in this long-running magazine.Condition as described in catalogue note. For further information on the condition of this lot please email <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="mailto:info@boo-hooray.com">info@boo-hooray.com</a>. All lots are sold on an "as is" basis at the time of sale. Images form a part of the condition description for each lot, though images online may represent hues and shades which differ from the actual item.

Michael Andre, ed. — Unmuzzled Ox #23-26 [signed]

Gregory Corso; Michael Andre, ed.Unmuzzled Ox, Volume Two, #1 &amp; 2 [inscribed by Corso]New York: Unmuzzled Ox / the Print Center, 1973. Offset. Perfect bound. 8 1/4 x 5 3/8 in. [126pp.] Number 35 of 60. Clean example; with light bumping to fore-edge.Trade edition of Unmuzzled Ox, volume two, number one and two [one issue], signed and inscribed with a poem by Gregory Corso. The publication features poems by d.a. levy, Paul Eluard, Rober Kelly, David Ignatow, Marge Piercy, Hugh Seidman, and others.Condition as described in catalogue note. For further information on the condition of this lot please email <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="mailto:info@boo-hooray.com">info@boo-hooray.com</a>. All lots are sold on an "as is" basis at the time of sale. Images form a part of the condition description for each lot, though images online may represent hues and shades which differ from the actual item.

Gregory Corso; Michael Andre, ed. — Unmuzzled Ox, Volume Two, #1 & 2 [inscribed]

Allen GinsbergCosmopolitan Greetings: Poems 1986-1992 [signed]New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 1994. First edition. Quarter black cloth over black boards, in dustjacket, fore-edge uncut. 9 1/2 x 6 1/4 in. 118 pp. Dustjacket spine sunned as usual, very minor wear at head and tail.Signed first edition of Allen Ginsberg's collected late poems Cosmopolitan Greetings.Condition as described in catalogue note. For further information on the condition of this lot please email <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="mailto:info@boo-hooray.com">info@boo-hooray.com</a>. All lots are sold on an "as is" basis at the time of sale. Images form a part of the condition description for each lot, though images online may represent hues and shades which differ from the actual item.

Allen Ginsberg — Cosmopolitan Greetings: Poems 1986-1992 [signed]

Allen Ginsberg; Barry Miles, Ted Berrigan, edsLong Hair, vol. 1. no. 1London and New York:&nbsp;Lovebooks Ltd,&nbsp;1965. First edition. Illustrated wraps with portrait of Ginsberg. 80 pp. 7 7/8 x 6 3/8 in. Wraps lightly toned.&nbsp;A short-lived literary journal published by underground press mainstay Barry Miles, founder of International Times and owner of Indica Books, with Ted Berrigan serving as the New York editor. This first issue includes Allen Ginsberg’s “Ankor Wat,” as well as contributions from Tuli Kupferberg, Michael Horovitz, Gerard Malanga, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Ron Padgett, free jazz musician Archie Shepp, and others. A nice example of transatlantic counterculture.Condition as described in catalogue note. For further information on the condition of this lot please email <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="mailto:info@boo-hooray.com">info@boo-hooray.com</a>. All lots are sold on an "as is" basis at the time of sale. Images form a part of the condition description for each lot, though images online may represent hues and shades which differ from the actual item.

Allen Ginsberg; Ted Berrigan, Barry Miles, eds. — Long Hair, vol. 1. no. 1

Ezra PoundThe Cantos of Ezra Pound: CX — CXVI [cover by Joe Brainard]New York: Fuck You Press, 1967. Offset and mimeograph. Side-stapled in pink wraps. 11 x 8 1/2 in. [13] pp. Closed tear to rear wrap, bumping to corners and left edge, and small closed tears to two leaves.Ed Sanders' pirated Fuck You Press edition of The Cantos of Ezra Pound: CX — CXVI, with the cover by Joe Brainard. The publication of this edition forced the official authorized version into publication.According to Joshua Kotin, who in 2014 began to undertake a census of the publication, "The book connected Ezra Pound, the most influential poet of the century, to the world of the mimeograph revolution, a publishing phenomenon that changed the landscape of poetics after the Second World War. But the book, in turn, brought Fuck You Press and [Sanders] both celebrity and revenue. But more important: it allowed a new generation of poets to read Pound in the face of his fascism and anti-Semitism. As Chelsea Jennings writes, 'Sanders’s edition of the Cantos […] is at once an homage to Pound — an affirmation of his continued relevance not just to history but to the present — and a defiant appropriation of his poetry and legacy.'"Copies in pink wraps are very rare, and not accounted for by Gallup (cf A87). Lacks the colophon, as usual for copies in pink wraps.Reference: Kotin, "<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://realitystudio.org/bibliographic-bunker/fuck-you-press-archive/the-fuck-you-press-cantos-a-census/">The Fuck You Press Cantos: A Census</a>," RealityStudio, 2018Condition as described in catalogue note. For further information on the condition of this lot please email <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="mailto:info@boo-hooray.com">info@boo-hooray.com</a>. All lots are sold on an "as is" basis at the time of sale. Images form a part of the condition description for each lot, though images online may represent hues and shades which differ from the actual item.

Ezra Pound — The Cantos of Ezra Pound CX — CXVI [cover by Joe Brainard]

Allen Van NewkirkGuerrilla Volume 1, Number 2Detroit:&nbsp;Guerrilla,&nbsp;1967. Offset on newsprint. 28 pp. 15 ½ x 11 ¼ in. Old horizontal fold with wear along fold to some sheets, extremities chipped, open tear to right outer margin (&lt; ½ in.) and lower outer margin (~ ½ in.), toning.The second and final issue of the extremely rare radical underground newspaper Guerrilla, “a national newspaper of contemporary kulchur,” edited by Allen Van Newkirk and an editorial team at the Detroit Artists’ Workshop Press.A flagship in revolutionary thought, poetry, and news, the newspaper was published during the riots in Detroit during the summer of 1967 and the height of the Detroit Free Press literary movement. Situated squarely in the window of political possibility inaugurated by 1960s riots, the newspaper featured a star-studded roster, with Ellen Phelan serving as Art Editor, and a list of contributing editors that included Sun Ra, Diane di Prima, Michael McClure, Stan Brakhage, John Sinclair, Robert Kelly, Marion Brown, David Meltzer, and Joel Oppenheimer.This issue features poetry by Di Prima and Robert Kelly, an essay by Gilbert Sorrentino on avant-rock, another from John Sinclair on jazz and bebop, alongside a letter on film by Stan Brakhage, and an epistolary poem to George Büchner by Michael McClure. It also features striking cartoons, illustrations, and photography.While Guerrilla billed itself in the first issue as a “monthly” newspaper, this second issue appeared four months late — in the interim, the police had assaulted the editorial offices, then shared with the Artists’ Workshop Press, and arrested the entire editorial staff. By the time the second issue appeared, some of the staff were still pending trial, and co-editor John Sinclair had resigned over an internal dispute about Guerrilla's attitude towards hippies. His editorial displays ambivalent and critical feelings about the middle-class youth movement.Editor Allen Van Newkirk later made news again. In 2005, Newkirk was arrested and shot following a December 12 armed robbery of a Toys R’ Us near Vancouver, British Columbia. He had attempted to flee the toy shop, but crashed into a police car after a short chase. After crashing he opened fire on the cops; shortly after, he was shot and killed. Sources say his commitments to surrealism determined the location of the robbery.Condition as described in catalogue note. For further information on the condition of this lot please email <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="mailto:info@boo-hooray.com">info@boo-hooray.com</a>. All lots are sold on an "as is" basis at the time of sale. Images form a part of the condition description for each lot, though images online may represent hues and shades which differ from the actual item.

Allen Van Newkirk — Guerrilla Volume 1, Number 2

[Charles Bukowski, Jackson Mac Low]Abyss Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 1Somerville, MA: Abyss Publications, 1971. Offset. Saddle-stapled. 11 x 8 1/2 in. [44] pp. Wrappers with minor discoloration.Abyss Magazine was a literary &amp; surrealistic arts anthology edited by Gerard Dombrowski, published in Massachusetts by Abyss Publications.This issue features three poems by Charles Bukowski ("The Misfit", "Poet in Residence," and "Nobody Wants to Hear Your Troubles"; Debritto B533, pg. 210). These are a surprising inclusion in the magazine, as the majority of the other poems in this issue are experimental concrete poems, and the magazine itself focused mostly on Tibetan codes and mystical elements. Nonetheless, it also features contributions from Jackson Mac Low, Douglas Blazek, and Carl H. Weissner.Condition as described in catalogue note. For further information on the condition of this lot please email <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="mailto:info@boo-hooray.com">info@boo-hooray.com</a>. All lots are sold on an "as is" basis at the time of sale. Images form a part of the condition description for each lot, though images online may represent hues and shades which differ from the actual item.

Allen Ginsberg — Improvised Poetics [presentation copy]

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