Howl: Original Draft Facsimile, Transcript, and Variant Versions, Fully Annotated by Author, with Contemporaneous Correspondence, Account of First Public Reading, Legal Skirmishes, Precursor Texts & Bibliography
Allen Ginsberg, Edited by Barry Miles
First edition thus, first printing, signed and dated by Ginsberg to the title page with a drawing of a flower to the page opposite. Issued as the thirtieth anniversary edition of Howl, this "annotated version of Ginsberg’s classic is the poet’s own re-creation of the revolutionary work’s composition process–as well as a treasure trove of anecdotes, an intimate look at the poet’s writing techniques, and a veritable social history of the 1950s." Edited by Barry Miles.
New York: Harper & Row, 1986. Publisher's original brown cloth, gilt lettering to spine; pp. xiv, 194. Illustrated throughout with photographs and facsimiles of the original draft. A fine copy in a fine, unclipped dust jacket.