4to. Original pictorial tan linen, decorated with a wrap-around skyline surmounted by fireworks accomplished in 9 colors and designed by Robert La Vigne, fore-and-bottom edges uncut; folding case.

LIMITED EDITION, one of 275 unnumbered copies on hand-made paper, SIGNED BY GINSBERG. This first fine press edition of Howl collects, also for the first time, the original 1956 poem with a few revisions by the author and The Names, a poetic fragment written in 1957 and published in the Spring 1966 Paris Review. Grabhorn-Hoyem 45.