Abomunist Manifesto
San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1959.
First edition. Single sheet of white wove paper folded in sixths. Fine, trace soiling at upper right of front wrap. The African-American North Beach poet's first and most famous book, a folded broadside of nine poems full of beatnik slang, absurd humor, and braggadocio. Upon the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963 he took a vow of silence that lasted ten years. Item #140948269
Price: $350
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