4to. 60 leaves mimeographed on rectos only. Bound with metal screw posts in black folder, upper cover yellow-lettered; cloth folding case. Provenance: Edwin Blair (invoice from Serendipity Books laid in; his sale, 2006). 

 

FIRST EDITION, LIMITED EDITION, one of 18 unnumbered copies INSCRIBED BY GINSBERG: “This isn't mine, it's J.B.'s version, Allen Ginsberg, N.O., LA.” A pencil note on the Serendipity invoice notes “14-18 copies according to Dowden” prepared for a project which never occurred.  [Laid in:] “The Chelsea Theater Center of Brooklyn…Kaddish Based on a poem by Allen Ginsberg.” Ca 1971. 12pp. program for a production directed by Robert Kalfin and Michael David. With mimeographed sheet, “Additional Notes,” for the production laid in.  RARE: according to online records, the present copy is one of only two copies to sell at auction in the last 50 years.