The Pleasures of Peace and Other Poems

Grove, 1969. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Some dust-soiling on top leaf edge, along what appears to be a partial mark from a rubber stamp, assumed to be The Eighth Street Bookshop’s logo/mark. Includes the original (.50) receipt from same with motto “Greenwich Village’s Famous Bookshop.”

Operated by the brothers Elias and Ted Wilentz from 1947-1979, the Eighth Street Bookshop gained fame as a literary gathering place with close ties to the nonconformist writers of the day, whose works and lifestyle gave rise to the term ‘Beat Generation,’ states the Village Alliance. Frequented by Ed Sanders, Susan Sontag, and Philip Roth, and where the young poet Andrei Codrescu worked in 1967.

NB:

• Rubber stamp at top

• Back cover has one diagonal crease.

• .50 price tag on front cover

• Includes original receipt from The Eighth Street Bookshop