STRAIGHT HEARTS' DELIGHT: LOVE POEMS AND SELECTED LETTERS, 1947-1980 - DELUXE ISSUE, SIGNED BY GINSBERG & ORLOVSKY
San Francisco: Gay Sunshine Press, 1980. First Edition. An extensive collection of gay love poems and letters exchanged between Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky over a thirty-year period, many of them previously unpublished in book format, illustrated throughout with personal photographs, as well as drawings by Robert LaVigne. Uncommon in the deluxe issue. Morgan A44.a3.1. Item #7176
Deluxe Issue, one of 26 lettered copies specially bound and signed by both authors on the colophon, this being copy 'E'. Octavo (23cm); original taupe paper-covered boards and blue patterned cloth backstrip, with title label mounted to spine, and titles stamped in red on front cover; publisher's original acetate dustjacket; [5],6-239,[1]pp; illus. Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket, lightly rubbed and just slightly wavy.
Price: $850.00