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San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1987.
San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1987. First edition. Softcover. The first issue of the eclectic anthology series of poetry, fiction, commentary, art, etc. published by Lawrence Ferlinghetti's legendary City Lights Books. As stated in the first page introduction, "Just as City Lights Bookstore is a literary meeting place, this Review aims to furnish a similar kind of locale in print, an "open space" for people who have a mind to speak." With contributions by Julian Beck, Kerouac biographer Tom Clark, Andrei Codrescu, Charles Henri Ford, Federico Garcia Lorca, Allen Ginsberg, Philip Lamantia & many others. In very fine condition... more information
Price: 30.00 USD
San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1988.
San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1988. First edition. Softcover. The second issue of the eclectic anthology series published by Lawrence Ferlinghetti's legendary City Lights Books. With contributions by Kathy Acker, Alexander Cockburn, Sue Coe, Diane Di Prima, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Federico Garcia Lorca, Abbie Hoffman, Janine Pommy Vega, Anne Waldman, Edmund White & many more. In as new condition. more information
Price: 30.00 USD
San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1989.
San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1989. First edition. Softcover. The third issue of the eclectic anthology published by Lawrence Ferlinghetti's legendary City Lights Books. Includes contributions by Edward Abbey, Andrei Codrescu, Eugene Ionesco, Paul Bowles & many more. In as new condition. more information
Price: 30.00 USD
San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1990.
San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1990. First edition. Softcover. The fourth issue of the eclectic anthology published by Lawrence Ferlinghetti's legendary City Lights Books. With contributions by Gary Snyder, Philip Lamantia, Harold Norse, Andrei Codrescu & many more. more information
Price: 30.00 USD
San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1994.
San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1994. First edition. Softcover. The fifth issue of the eclectic anthology published by Lawrence Ferlinghetti's legendary City Lights Books. With contributions by Amiri Baraka, William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, D. H. Lawrence, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Ezra Pound, Arthur Rimbaud, Ed Sanders, Anne Waldman & many more. In very fine condition with only small creases on upper edge of pgs. 107-110. more information
Price: 30.00 USD
San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1994.
San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1994. First City Lights Edition. Softcover. This is the secomd printing of the City Lights edition published in 1994 with the added introductions by Anne Waldman and Eric Mottram. "These classic Kerouac mediatations (originally published in 1960), Zen Koans and prose poems express the poet's beatific quest for peace and joy through oneness with the universe." New and never read condition. more information
Price: 10.00 USD
San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1961.
San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1961. 1st Edition. 12mo., 100pp. Printed wrappers. Inscribed Association Copy presented to William Meredith " For William Meredith / Jan 18, 78 / Allen Ginsberg" with Ginsberg's usual added decorative graphic flair. This is an early issue with a seven line statement on the back panel rather than the 10 lines found on the 1st issue & other than the 23 line statement found on later reprints. Great copy linking these two major 20th American century poets. Number 14 in the Pocket Poets Series. Next to HOWL, Ginsberg's most important book. Dowden p. 8. Cook,... more information
Price: 1450.00 USD
San Francisco, California: City Lights Books, 1961.
San Francisco, California: City Lights Books, 1961. First Edition. Softcover. Journal "We hope we have here an open place where normally apolitical men may speak uncensored upon any subject they feel most hotly & coolly about in a world which politics has made..." (Editors' Statement) This is a landmark production of City Lights Books, publisher of iconic Beat works, most famously Allen Ginsberg's Howl & Lawrence Ferlinghetti's "A Coney Island of the Mind". In this first number, William S. Burroughs is interviewed with Gregory Corso & Ginsberg, Corso is interviewed with Ginsberg, & there are other provocative, free-thinking contributions by... more information
Price: 250.00 USD
San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1978.
San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1978. First Edition. Broadside. A poem written 1975-1978 by Lawrence Ferlinghetti & published by his City Lights Books as a broadside. Folded as issued. Scarce. more information
Price: 90.00 USD
San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1978.
San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1978. First Edition. Stapled wrappers. Signed by Author An unusual item published by City Lights books, Lawrence Ferlinghetti's crucial Beat imprint - A wonderful collection of collages in which the heads and faces of famous poets are put on the bodies of baseball players. Included are Bill Flake Blake, Henry Simple-Simon Thoreau, Walt Whitey Whitman, Ezra Ty Pound, Jack Ti Jean Kerouac, Richard Beanstalk Brautigan, Al Iron Horse Ginsberg, & many more. This copy is signed on the dedication page by author/illustrator Mikhail Horowitz. more information
Price: 90.00 USD
San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1963.
San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1963. First Edition. Stapled wrappers. 5-1/4" x 8-1/2" The author's first book, published by Lawrence Ferlinghetti's City Lights Books, is a poem written while he was incarcerated in the Montville State Jail in Uncasville, Conn. during August of 1961. A scarce item written before he became a countercultural icon with The Fugs, etc. In very fine condition with only the slightest sunning & wear to edges of covers. more information
Price: 234.00 USD
San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1969.
San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1969. Facsimile Edition. Softcover. Originally published in 1955 by Richard Brukenfeld in Cambridge, Massachusetts, this is the facsimile edition issued by City Lights Books in 1969. Fine condition. Some minor soiling on back cover and sunning around cover edges. more information
Price: 45.00 USD
San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1983.
San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1983. Lawrence Ferlinghetti. First Edition. Softcover. Signed by Lawrence Ferlinghetti A beautiful volume of black-&-white reproductions of drawings of human figures by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, published by his legendary City Lights Books. A key figure of the Beat Generation most well-known as a writer & publisher, Ferlinghetti is also a life-long artist. As Mendes Monsanto writes in his introduction, "The tragic sense and a sense of joy in life meet in these studies of the human figure by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. The touch is light and sensitive yet curiously profound, for one feels here sometimes that... more information
Price: 50.00 USD
San Francisco, Calif: City Lights Books, 1998.
Octavo in color illus DJ; xi, 355 p. : ill., map ; 21 cm. bibliographical references more information
Price: 14.00 USD
San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1968.
12mo. 40 pp. Yellow and red decorated paper wraps. Part of the Pocket Poets Series published by City Lights, Number Twenty-Five. City Lights Books was edited by Lawrence Ferlenghetti. Hunk of Skin (Trozo de Piel) was the first Picasso poem written in Spanish to be published. In this book, the left hand side of the page, in most cases, is the Spanish text, and the right hand side, the English. Overall, very good/near fine condition. more information
Price: 25.00 USD
San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1960.
74 pages; Number Nineteen of the Pocket Poets Series of the publisher; $ 1.25 price on back cover, with Second Printing; previous owner inscription on inner front cover, noting its purchase at City Lights; covers printed in blue and orange, white lettering; little nick-chip at top front edge; little soiling to front, more so on back cover; still fairly bright and tight and in very good condition. more information
Price: 150.00 USD
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San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1992.
San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1992. Lawrence Ferlinghetti. First edition. Softcover. "The original manuscript of this book, written between 1954 and 1965, has been in the safekeeping of City Lights all the years since Kerouac's death in 1969."(back cover) Published almost a quarter century after his death, this is a compilation of poems of various lengths & subjects by Jack Kerouac. With an introduction by Allen Ginsberg & a cover painting by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. #48 in the legendary Pocket Poets Series, whose earlier numbers include Ginsberg's Howl. This first edition copy is among those in the very first print run... more information
Price: 45.00 USD
San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 2001.
San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 2001. Uncorrected Advance Proof. Softcover. "Book of Dreams is Jack Kerouac's record of his dreamlife, a parallel autobiography of the soul, the sleeper's On the Road....In 1961 City Lights published excerpts from Jack Kerouac's "private dream diary." This new, expanded edition marks the first publication of the complete manuscript as Kerouac intended it."(back cover) This is the Uncorrected Advance Proof of the new, expanded edition, with an introduction by poet Robert Creeley. This copy also contains a single sheet folded publicity letter from the publisher with the same information as the back cover in... more information
Price: 75.00 USD
San Francisco, California: City Lights Books, 1974.
San Francisco, California: City Lights Books, 1974. First American Edition. Softcover. Signed by Allen Ginsberg with hand corrections of text. This is the first U.S. edition of Iron Horse by Allen Ginsberg, preceded by Canadian & German editions. Originally composed in July of 1966, the title poem is a tour-de-force that takes up the entire slim, oblong book. This stated "First City Lights Edition" is boldly signed & dated by the poet on the title page: "Allen Ginsberg/11/17/89/AH (encircled)." The encircled "AH" was almost always part of Ginsberg's later signatures, a Buddhist reference. Also, there are hand-corrections, the crossing-out of... more information
Price: 200.00 USD
San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1988.
San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1988. First Edition Thus. Softcover. First City Lights edition. Introduction by Jerome Charyn. Back cover comments by Paul Bowles and Tennessee Williams. Near mint unread condition. more information
Price: 19.00 USD
