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Lot 85
Sale 759 - Selections from the Library of Gerald and Barbara Weiner
Oct 8, 2020
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GINSBERG, Allen (1926-1997). Plutonian Ode and Other Poems. San Francisco: City Lights Bookstore, 1982.
8vo. Photographic illustration, a few leaves of printed music. Original printed wrappers (minor stain to lower wrapper, spine slightly toned). Provenance: Karri Kokko (b.1955), Finnish Poet (signature, note from Ginsberg); Doris Grumbach (b. 1918), American novelist, essayist and editor (presentation inscription).
FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY GINSBERG: "For Doris Grumbach 2/23/83 Allen Ginsberg." ADDITIONALLY ANNOTATED BY GINSBERG with his minor corrections on 2 pages (pp. 30 and 101), and with a note in his hand on the title-page indicating that he previously met Karri Kokko in Finland. ONE PAGE OF NOTES IN GINSBERG'S HAND LAID IN for a program of readings on 9 February 1983 in Berlin. Grumbach, Ginsberg's friend, was an instructor at the Iowa Writer's Workshop. Ginsberg was interviewed by Kokko in 1983. A SUPERB ASSOCIATION COPY.

