Intro. by William Carlos Williams. 6¼x4¾, black wrapper overprinted in light blue, with white handpasted wraparound paper label printed in black. Second Edition.

The scarce second edition, or printing, of Ginsberg's revolutionary poem, highly significant for being the edition which was seized by the U.S. Collector of Customs Chester MacPhee, setting off one of the most important episodes in the battle for freedom of the press, and against censorship.