GINSBERG, Allen (1926-1997). The Visions of the Great Rememberer...with Letters by Neal Cassady & Drawings by Basil King. Amherst, MA: Mulch Press, 1974.

8vo. Numerous photographic illustrations, several leaves of music and other illustrations. Original blue wrappers (slight rubbing to extremities). Provenance: Doris Grumbach (b. 1918), American novelist, essayist and editor (presentation inscription).

FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY GINSBERG: "Allen Ginsberg for Doris Grumbach March 8, 1977 AH." [Laid in:] AUTOGRAPH NOTE FROM GINSBERG AND PETER ORLOVSKY TO GRUMBACH. December 9, 1976. 1 page, on verso of a postcard with Ginsberg's "Returning to the Country for a Brief Visit" printed recto. Ginsberg writes: "Peter & I spent last several months at a Buddhist seminary doing lots of sitting practice & study of Vajrayana style." Orlovsky writes: "Sat 10 hrs a day for a month, very easy & Healthy. Don't forget to drop by Farm sometime in spring summer or fall." Addressed to Grumbach in Washington, D. C., where she lived with her partner Sybil Pike, and worked first as literary editor at The New Republic, and then as a professor of American Literature at American University. In 1985, Pike and Grumbach opened a rare and used bookstore, Wayward Books, near Eastern Market, on Capitol Hill. A FINE ASSOCIATION COPY.

GINSBERG, Allen (1926-1997). The Visions of the Great Rememberer...with Letters by Neal Cassady & Drawings by Basil King. Amherst, MA: Mulch Press, 1974.