CORSO, Gregory. Gasoline. San Francisco: City Lights Books. 1958.
Small 4to. Cream template on front cover with red box containing white title lettering; specification 'Number Eight' in The Pocket Poets Series, Red template on back cover with cream box containing blurb; pp. [6], 7-48; usual fading from discolouration; penned initials to top of front cover, small stain on back cover, but generally very good.
First edition, first printing, with introduction by Allen Ginsberg.
In the introduction to Gasoline , Allen Ginsberg describes Corso as, "probably the greatest American poet in America". After several stints in prison during which he immersed himself in literature, Corso ended up in New York where he and Ginsberg struck up a friendship that would prove crucial to his development as a writer.
From 1957-1958 Gregory Corso lived in Paris and the poems composed during that period are collected in Gasoline. His first major book after The Vestal Lady on Battle (1955), Gasoline also contains poems written during his travels with Ginsberg in Mexico.
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