Allen Ginsberg Autographs
Irwin Allen Ginsberg (/ˈɡɪnzbɜːrɡ/; June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) was an American poet and writer. As a student at Columbia University in the 1940s, he began friendships with Lucien Carr, William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, forming the core of the Beat Generation. He vigorously opposed militarism, economic materialism and sexual repression and he embodied various aspects of this counterculture with his views on drugs, sex, multiculturalism, hostility to bureaucracy and openness to Eastern religions.
Best known for his poem "Howl", Ginsberg denounced what he saw as the destructive forces of capitalism and conformity in the United States. San Francisco police and US Customs seized copies of "Howl" in 1956 and a subsequent obscenity trial in 1957 attracted widespread publicity due to the poem's language and descriptions of heterosexual and homosexual sex at a time when sodomy laws made male homosexual acts a crime in every state. The poem reflected Ginsberg's own sexuality and his relationships with a number of men, including Peter Orlovsky, his lifelong partner. Judge Clayton W. Horn ruled that "Howl" was not obscene, asking: "Would there be any freedom of press or speech if one must reduce his vocabulary to vapid innocuous euphemisms?"
Ginsberg was a Buddhist who extensively studied Eastern religious disciplines. He lived modestly, buying his clothing in second-hand stores and residing in apartments in New York City's East Village. One of his most influential teachers was Tibetan Buddhist Chögyam Trungpa, the founder of the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado. At Trungpa's urging, Ginsberg and poet Anne Waldman started The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics there in 1974.
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Traded items with a signature of Allen Ginsberg
The most expensive item with a signature of Allen Ginsberg (Ken Kesey / Sailor Song inscribed to Allen Ginsberg Signed 1st Edition 1992) was sold in September 2025 for $25,000.00 while the cheapest item (ANNE WALDMAN SIGNED PERSONAL LETTER 1972 - Poetry - Beat Poet - Allen Ginsberg) found a new owner for $4.13 in January 2015. The month with the most items sold (4) was August 2011 with an average selling price of $189.75 for an autographed item of Allen Ginsberg. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in October 2015 with $1,195.00 and the month that saw the lowest prices with $15.00 was May 2024. In average, an autographed item from Allen Ginsberg is worth $124.51.
Most recently, these items with a signature of Allen Ginsberg were sold on eBay - click here for more items.
| Picture | Item Title | Price | Store |
 | Allen Ginsberg - Letter Signed - To Jack Kerouac's Family re/ His Publication | $875.00 |  |
| Allen Ginsberg - Letter Signed - To Jack Kerouac's Family re/ His Publication | $875.00 | |
| Allen Ginsberg - Letter Signed - To Jack Kerouac's Family re/ His Publication | $875.00 | |
| Allen Ginsberg JSA Coa Signed 1973 Letter Autograph | $163.95 | |
| Allen Ginsberg JSA Coa Signed 1973 Letter Autograph | $163.95 | |
| Allen Ginsberg JSA Coa Signed 1973 Letter Autograph | $163.95 | |
| Allen Ginsberg SIGNED poetry reading flyer • Detroit Institute of Arts • 1980 | $110.00 | |
| Allen Ginsberg SIGNED poetry reading flyer • Detroit Institute of Arts • 1980 | $110.00 | |
| Allen Ginsberg SIGNED poetry reading flyer • Detroit Institute of Arts • 1980 | $110.00 | |
| RARE #2/50 Allen Ginsberg Signed Print "My Desk" Framed | $1,250.00 | |
| RARE #2/50 Allen Ginsberg Signed Print "My Desk" Framed | $1,250.00 | |
| RARE #2/50 Allen Ginsberg Signed Print "My Desk" Framed | $1,250.00 | |
| RARE Envelope Hand-Addressed & Signed by Allen Ginsberg to Jack Kerouac's Estate | $375.00 | |
| RARE Envelope Hand-Addressed & Signed by Allen Ginsberg to Jack Kerouac's Estate | $375.00 | |
| RARE Envelope Hand-Addressed & Signed by Allen Ginsberg to Jack Kerouac's Estate | $375.00 | |
