ILLUMINATED POEMS

First edition, first printing. Signed by the author. Publisher's original black cloth with gilt illustration to the upper board and titles to the spine, in the Eric Drooker illustrated dustwrapper. Strikingly illustrated in colour and black and white throughout by Eric Drooker. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, bright and fresh. The contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the fine original dustwrapper that is without fading, loss or tears. Not price-clipped ($35.00 to the upper front flap).

Inscribed by the author and founding father of the Beat Generation in black ink on the half title "Allen Ginsberg / 9.21.96 / AH". Fifty poems that span the poet's creative evolution from 1948 to the present, including the complete text of "Howl," as well as four never before anthologised works, enhanced with artwork by the award winning poster artist, painter (and frequent cover artist for The New Yorker), Eric Drooker.