Collected Poems 1947-1980.

First edition of Ginsberg's collected verse of three decades. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles, illustrated. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "Allen Ginsberg 2/26/96 for David and Naomi Savage." Facing the title page is a full-page original drawing by Ginsberg in black ink, depicting a haloed Buddha figure seated in meditation upon a lotus amid stars, a crescent moon, and Stars of David, with a flower-wreathed skull below, initialed by the poet with his Buddhist seed syllable "AH." The recipient, Naomi Siegler Savage, was a highly innovative American photographer who lived and worked in Princeton, New Jersey, best known as the niece and protégée of the legendary Dada and Surrealist artist Man Ray, under whose mentorship in Hollywood she developed her signature experimental approach to the photographic medium. Influenced by Man Ray's techniques, Savage pioneered the use of the photographic metal plate, producing three-dimensional forms with metallic surfaces, and her best-known work is a magnesium mural for the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum in Austin, Texas. Her work is held in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Fogg Museum at Harvard, and the International Center of Photography. In 1950 she married David Savage, a painter, sculptor, and architect, with whom she settled in Princeton for the remainder of her career. Good in a good dust jacket with damp staining to the lower parts of the spine, boards, dust jacket, and last third of the text block.