Howl and Other Poems - Allen Ginsberg, William Carlos Williams (introduction) 1956 - City Lights Pocket Bookshop, San Francisco - First Edition, First Printing Nice example of Ginsberg's revolutionary poem, which had been seized by the U.S. Collector of Customs Chester MacPhee soon after publication, setting off one of the most important episodes in the battle for freedom of the press, and against censorship.

This is the first printing, with the dedication to Lucien Carr still present, a period after "Harlem" on the rear cover, and "75 cents" lettered in light blue on rear cover.

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked,
dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix,
angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night,
who poverty and tatters and hollow-eyed and high sat up smoking in the supernatural darkness of cold-water flats floating across the tops of cities contemplating jazz,
  Pocket Poets Series No.4.

Duodecimo (size 15.8x12.6cm), pp. 44. In publisher’s black card wrappers oveprinted in light blue, with white hand-pasted wraparound paper label printed in black. Priced ‘75 cents’ price to rear cover.
  Condition: Fine in near fine wrappers, some toning to spine, wear to heal of spine.   Ref: 111745   Price: HK$ 32,000