SCENES ALONG THE ROAD, 1971, SIGNED BY ALLEN GINSBERG
(GINSBERG, Allen) CHARTERS, Ann, compiler. Scenes Along the Road. Photographs of the Desolation Angels 1944-1960. (New York): Gotham Book Mart & Gallery, (1971). Large octavo, original photographic paper wrappers.
First edition, third printing, of a fascinating photobook about the Beat poets, this association copy signed and dated "10/11/91" on the title page by Allen Ginsberg, along with his encircled "AH," featuring three poems by Ginsberg, one of an unnumbered limited edition, a fine copy.
"Scenes Along the Road, dedicated to the memory of Jack Kerouac, is a book of photographs of the men who were at the center of the Beat movement, close to Kerouac before he or they became 'famous writers, more or less' and before the generation drifted apart… Scenes Along the Road is another, late chapter of the record of that life for the 'Desolation Angels,' a chapter of snapshots and drugstore prints to go along with the volumes of words… Ann Charters assembled the photographs (most of which are from the collection of Allen Ginsberg), the quotations, and the captions in Scenes; the book is published in a limited edition of 2000" (Bill Beckett). With three poems by Ginsberg: "Neal's Ashes," "Memory Gardens," "In a Car." Compiled by Ann Charters, with over 45 black-and-white photographic illustrations, many from Ginsberg's collection.
A fine signed copy.