signed first edition
1986 · New York
by Ginsberg, Allen; Miles, Barry
New York: Harper & Row, 1986. First printing. Very good plus in near fine jacket.. Lavishly inscribed first edition of this 30th-anniversary critical compilation of HOWL drafts, annotations, critical responses, and selected poetic precursors. A generation-defining poem, "Howl" is the most important of the postwar period, and one that pioneered not only a more confessional mode of American verse, but influenced innumerable youth movements: from beatniks to hippies, Situationists to punks. Edited by Miles and assembled with Ginsberg's own annotations and prefatory Reader's Guide, which describes this facsimile edition as a "'How to' book, a handbook (truncated)