First Edition. Octavo. One of the high spots of Beat literature; "a revolting miasma of unrelieved perversion and disease," as per one of the dissenting justices in the Massachusetts Supreme Court obscenity ruling. This copy with the first state jacket, designed by Burroughs, with the input of Brion Gysin, with original price to rear flap (1500 Francs). The book itself with the green decorative border to title page, and "Francs 1,500" to rear cover. Bright green Traveller's Companion wrappers (no. 76), with minor rubbing and slight bump to head of spine, thus close to near fine. Mild toning to illustrated jacket, with bump to head of spine and faint stain; thus close to near fine. Overall, a pleasing copy of this landmark work.
First Edition. Octavo. A selection of poems from Sexton, from her first two collections; without American equivalent. This copy graciously INSCRIBED by Sexton to front endpaper, in the year of her Pulitzer Prize victory for Live or Die. Quite remarkably, Sexton has further inscribed a poetic addendum within the margins of the first page of The Double Image, a poem written to her four year old daughter Joyce, after whose birth Sexton's struggles with mental illness intensified. "A nervous breakdown-my own suicide-/ the loss of my daughter, Joy- / the portraits of my mother & myself- / the death of my mother, the return of Joy, / my daughter- / to carry in my heart." Near fine in black cloth boards, in near fine price-clipped jacket. A powerful, if anonymous, association copy, testifying to Sexton's most challenging themes.