Indian Journals: March 1962-May 1963. Notebooks, Diary, Blank pages, Writings
San Francisco: Dave Haselwood Books / City Lights Books, 1970. First edition. 8vo, 210pp. Signed by Ginsberg on the title page. Line drawings, photographs. Publisher's brown cloth boards in illustrated jacket. Front hinge cracked, lacking front endpaper, and with old tape reinforcement along length of title and again on verso. Top edge stained black, likely to obscure a stamp. Jacket nicely preserved with some toning, edge wear, and a sticker pull near base of spine. A very good copy, perhaps cleaned up copy. Laid in is a ticket stub to an Allen Ginsberg reading at Evergreen College in 1980, where the book was signed.
Signed copy of this important book from Ginsberg which illustrates the great influence of Indian Gnostic-Mysticism on his poetry. Item #7641
Price: $500.00