SIGNED BY GINSBERG
GINSBERG, Allen. First Blues: Rags, Ballads & Harmonium Songs 1971-74. New York: Full Court Press. 1975.
8vo. Tall 8vo. Original publisher's green cloth with silver lettering, Red dust jacket with blue lettering; pp. [6], v, [6], 74, [6]; dust jacket a little faded with loss to head of spine and general rubbing, four tiny ink dots to text block; otherwise very good.
First edition, signed by Ginsberg to title page.
First Blues is an excavation of the relationship between poetry and music in this unique 1970s recording, inspired by a session with Bob Dylan in 1971. The book goes so far as to be dedicated to Dylan, who is referred to as "Minstrel Guruji".
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