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Second edition. Hardcover. Fine gray cloth with debossed title on front cover and spine, with dust jacket and printed paper obi (Japanese wrap-around band). Photographs and text by Allen Ginsberg. Includes captions from photographs and biographies of Ginsberg's subjects. Designed by Jack Woody. Unpaginated, with 91 sheet-fed gravure plates, beautifully printed on heavy art paper by Toppan Printing Company, Japan. 14 1/4 x 11 1/4 inches. This second edition was limited to 6000 hardbound copies. CONDITION: New in publisher's shrink-wrap. From text printed on obi: "An insider's history of the "Beat" movement and its personalities through the personal photographs of one of its principle figures. Pointing his camera randomly at the counterculture around him, the poet created a unique visual record of his friends and companions covering a period of almost forty years. His subjects include Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, Neal Cassady, Robert Frank, Paul Bowles, Timothy Leary, dozens of other writers, painters, and friends, and several revealing self-portraits. Beneath each photograph are Ginsberg's handwritten reminiscences of the circumstances, people, and places relating to the photograph. fotografie.