Poems of Madness
New York: Paper Book Shop, 1965. First Edition. First printing. Slim 16mo; staple-bound wrappers; 32pp. Touch of toning to wrapper edges, else a very clean, unworn copy, Near Fine. Introduction by Allen Ginsberg.
First book by the talented (if erratic) late Beat poet, much of whose life during the Sixties was spent on the lam with his devoted partner Brenda (aka Bonnie) Bremser – a period chronicled in her magnificent experimental memoir Troia: Mexican Memoirs (1969).
Price: $60.00