BEST MINDS: A Tribute to Allen Ginsberg.
Edition: First printing, a limited edition.
New York: Lospecchio Press, 1986. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A book issued in celebration of Ginsberg's 60th birthday, a collection of tributes as poems, drawings, letters and recollections from an incredible group of over 200 20th century literary figures, including John Ashbery, Bill Berkson, Ted Berrigan, William S. Burroughs, Neal Cassady, Cid Corman, Gregory Corso, Ram Dass , Bob Dylan, William Everson, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Robert Frank, Jean Genet, Joanne Kyger, Michael McClure, Norman Mailer, Peter Orlovsky, Kenneth Rexroth, Jerry Rubin, Gary Snyder, Carl Solomon, Terry Southern, Kurt Vonnegut, Philip Whalen, John Wieners, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, and many others. 198/250 numbered but not signed copies, out of a total of "500 Contributors' copes." (in addition to 476 copies with other limitations in a different binding.) Although not called for, this copy has been SIGNED by 7 authors at their contributions: Robert Creeley, Ferlinghetti, Anne Waldman, Alice Notley, Jack Micheline, John Montgomery and Michael Horowitz, and is scarce thus. 311pp.
Condition: Very near fine in burgundy cloth stamped in gilt with Ginsberg's interlocking fish motif on front cover, in a clear protective wrapper.