Planet News 1961–1967
San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1968. Small paperback. 144 pp. First American edition, November 1968. Pocket Poets Series No. 23. Perfect-bound in black and white printed wrappers, with original $2.00 price to rear wrapper. Wrappers toned with rubbing and small abrasions along edges and spine extremities; faint erased pencil markings to upper portion of front panel. Corners lightly worn. Spine intact and binding sound. Page edges and interior age-toned.
Allen Ginsberg's major collection of poems written between 1961 and 1967, spanning a period of extensive travel. The volume includes "Kral Majales," "Who Be Kind To," "Wichita Vortex Sutra," and "Wales Visitation," with poems engaging Buddhism, psychedelia, sexuality, American politics, and the Vietnam War. Issued as Number Twenty-Three in Lawrence Ferlinghetti's influential City Lights Pocket Poets Series and an important collection from Ginsberg's post-Howl period. M1. Very Good. Item #1061
Price: $50.00