INDIAN JOURNALS, March 1962 - May 1963: Notebooks, Diary, Blank Pages, Writings by Ginsberg, Allen - 1970

San Francisco: Dave Haselwood Books and City Lights Books, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Signed and dated by Allen Ginsberg on the title page. During 1962-63, Ginsberg and his partner, poet Peter Orlovsky, traveled extensively India, living half a year at a time in Calcutta (now Kolkata) and Benares (Varanasi). His writings from this period are wonderfully eclectic, visionary, at times intensely private, and always in possession of a hallucinatory clarity that affirms Ginsberg's ebullient spirit. Indian Journals took half a decade to transcribe and edit; when it was originally published it catalyzed a large movement of young Western pilgrims to explore India and Eastern thought. Octavo: 210 p. with textual photographs and illustrations. Original brown cloth binding, with black titles. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.