Books and Manuscripts

Ginsberg, Allen
Archive of Books and Other Ephemera
Location varies, ca. 1988-94. Group of three presentation copies, two autograph letters, five photographs, two printed broadsides, and nine pieces of ephemera (newspaper clippings, printed event program, etc.). Condition varies, generally near-fine. Comprising:

 1. Ginsberg, Allen
Your Reason & Blake's System
Madras & New York: Hanuman Books, 1988. First edition. 16mo. Presentation copy, inscribed by Ginsberg on title-page to his cousins Gene and Lorraine Levy: “for Gene & Lorraine / Levy / 11/10/89 / Pittsburgh”. Publisher's stiff green wrappers and photographic dust-jacket, extremities lightly worn. Morgan A53

2. Ginsberg, Allen
Snapshot Poetics 
San Francisco: Chronicle Books, (1993). First edition. Square 8vo. Presentation copy, inscribed by Ginsberg on title-page to the above recipients: "For Eugene & Lorraine / Levy / from cousin Allen / Ginsberg / Pittsburgh 4/7/94 / AH". Publisher’s stiff pictorial wrappers. 

3. Ginsberg, Louis
Collected Poems
Orono, Maine: Northern Lights, 1992. First edition. 8vo. Presentation copy, inscribed by Ginsberg on p. vi to the above recipients: “Allen Ginsberg / 4/7/94 / for Gene & Lorraine / Pittsburgh”. Publisher's blue cloth, stamped in silver; in original dust-jacket.

4. Ginsberg, Allen
Autograph Letter, signed
New York: March 24, 1989. Single sheet, 11 x 8 1/2 in. (279 x 216 mm). One-page autograph letter, signed by Ginsberg to the above recipients, thanking him for sending a gift, and discussing books, etc. Ginsberg's New York address ink stamp at top; creased from original folds. In original mailing envelope, addressed by Ginsberg.

5. Ginsberg, Allen 
Autograph Letter, signed
New York: January 30, 1992. Printed postcard. Autograph letter, signed by Ginsberg to the above recipient, Gene, informing him about a recent trip and that he has been “writing lotsa haikus--'Immortality comes later.'" 

6. (Ginsberg, Allen)
Printed Broadside
(Pittsburgh), 1994. Printed broadside for a poetry reading by Ginsberg at Carnegie Mellon University, April 8, 1994. Includes a duplicate of the same.

7. Group of 5 Photographs
Pittsburgh, March, 1994. Group of five photographs, three showing Ginsberg and Gene Levy at a dinner table, and two showing Ginsberg at a poetry reading, most likely for the above event. In envelope inscribed by Gene: “Allen Ginsberg's visit / 94 Easter Sunday”.

8. Group of 9 Pieces of Ephemera
Locations, dates, and sizes vary. Includes two Dick Gregory Presidential campaign facsimile dollar bills, November 5, 1968; newspaper clipping regarding Ginsberg; photo-copied “Mind Writing Slogans” by Ginsberg; printed Brooklyn College Humanities Institute event flyer, May 1989; printed New York University School of Education program for “The Beat Generation Legacy and Celebration”, May 1994; photo-copied magazine article on Ginsberg; cut magazine ad featuring Ginsberg; portion of April 15, 1997 copy of The Village Voice (Ginsberg on cover).