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| T.V. BABY POEMS |
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| Title: |
T.V. BABY POEMS |
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| Author/ Artist |
Ginsberg, Allen [Paul McCartney]: |
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London: Cape Goliard Press Ltd. 1967 |
| Price: |
£9,500.00 |
| Description: |
First edition, first printing. INSCRIBED PRESENTATION COPY. Original paper covered boards in dustwrapper. Issued in a limited edition of 100 hardback copies. (this being one of the author’s personal copies for private distribution and therefore hand numbered 102). Author’s inscription to half-title. A lovely NEAR FINE copy in the original worn tissue paper dustwrapper. A presentation copy to Beatle Paul McCartney, inscribed: “For Paul McCartney, That, all fantasies, harmonise sweetly & also Hari Krishna!, inscribed by [signed] Allen Ginsberg [dated, pre-publication] Aug, 16, 1967, Albion” then also re-inscribed:“Re-inscribed in Switzerland November 29. To R von Kauffungen, who bought this copy in N.Y. at a book fair 1978”. (It is understood that the volume was donated to an Apple charity auction by Paul McCartney). A superb presentation copy linking the Beats and The Beatles, particularly relevant because Paul McCartney is immortalised in the poem "Middle of a Long Poem on These States: Kansas City to St. Louis" contained in this edition. Perhaps more significantly McCartney later used a line from the same poem "...electric arguments" as the title for the third album of his musical collaboration with Beck (Firman). Ginsberg first met the Beatles in 1965 when John Lennon and George Harrison attended his 39th birthday party and went on to form lasting relationships with The Beatles, particularly Paul McCartney, collaborating with him on several projects both political and musical. in 1968 Paul McCartney asked Ginsberg to record something for The Beatles new record label Apple and later accompanied Ginsberg on the anti-war song Ballad of the Skeletons. Indeed, when McCartney was aspiring to be a poet it was Ginsberg he sought out to critique his first efforts. The beat generation influence on the Beatles is noted and likewise The Beatles influenced the Beat Generation; Ginsberg wrote in Rolling Stone Magazine: I remember the precise moment, the precise night I went to this place in New York City called the Dom and they turned on I Want to Hold Your Hand, and I heard that high, yodeling alto sound of the OOOH that went right through my skull, and I realized it was going to go through the skull of Western civilization. I began dancing in public the first time in my life complete delight and abandon, no self-conscious wall-flower anxieties. Ginsberg goes on to state “The Beatles changed American consciousness, they introduced a new note of complete masculinity allied with complete tenderness and vulnerability. And when that note was accepted in America, it did more than anything or anyone to prepare us for some kind of open-minded, open-hearted relationship with each other and the rest of the world.” An outstanding association copy linking the leading exponents from two of the greatest cultural movements in history.
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| catalogue id: |
7198 |
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