New York, NY, USA: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. From the collection of Lawrence Ferlinghetti, with his ownership signature & date. "Noted historian of American letters, Van Wyck Brooks tells for the first time the story of American writers and artists who have lived and worked in Italy, and have seen in that classic land the earthly fulfillment of their "dream of Arcadia." Some of them..... More

San Francisco, CA: Sore Dove Press, 2021; 2024. Limited Edition. Sheets in Folio. “In August of 2021 Jack Hirschman died in his sleep. As a way of mourning and healing from this enormous loss, I began drawing his portraits with charcoal on paper. I did a dozen or so from the photos of him that I had taken and a few from other people’s photos I found online. Then I...... More

San Francisco, CA: Sore Dove Press, 2007. Limited First Edition. Folded Sheet in Wrappers. Signed by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. "It's Autogeddon/ An Armageddon of autos/ In the City of Angels/ In downtown Denver/ Chicago and Manhattan/ Mexico City and Milan/ Calcutta and Tokyo/ Drowned in the bad breath of machines/ The sun's wearing shades/ The ozone layer coughing smog/ The eco-system as finely balanced as a mobile/ A computer about to..... More

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1971. First Edition. Softcover. Signed by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. (Cook 94, pp. 100-101; Morgan A31, pp. 64-65). The Illustrated Wilfred Funk is a curious, Beat-adjacent Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919-2021) collectible that we at TMB are proud to offer — as it scarcely comes to market, & is rarely if ever enriched as this when it does. The work centers around a voicedly satirical take on Wilfred..... More

San Francisco, CA: Grey Fox Press, 1981. First Edition. Softcover. A volume of poetry by Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919-2021), the great American versifier & mastermind behind City Lights Booksellers & Publishers. At the heart of this volume, published by Grey Fox Press in 1981, are Ferlinghetti’s Populist Manifestos. The first of these — whose title, in full, is: “Populist Manifesto (For Poets, With Love),” — was authored largely in response to..... More

New York, NY: New Directions, 1964. Second Printing. Sewn Binding. "In this collection of thirteen very short plays, (Lawrence) Ferlinghetti extends the experiments he began in Unfair Arguments with Existence (1963) into an area barely explored by any dramatist to date- a no man's land between old-style drama and the spontaneous improvisation of the "happening." In between these two extremes, he has created blueprints for dramatic action- outlines from which..... More

San Francisco, CA: Golden Mountain Press, 1958. First Edition, Fourth Printing. Stapled Wrappers. "And after it became obvious that the President had gone to/ Gettysburg fourscore and seven years ago and had given/ himself to the unfinished task// Then it was that the natives/ of the Republic began assembling in the driving rain from which/ there was no escape- except Peace" (third page, first two stanzas) The legendary Jeremiad-poem by..... More

San Francisco, CA: New Directions, 1973. Second Printing. Softcover. Signed by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. (Morgan A21, p. 33-34). "Yes even you who now in seventy-three / turn out to be beyond our wildest 'paranoid' fantasy / of the depths of your deceptions / Behind the Berlin Wall of your little White House Shadow Cabinet / Yes You who now turn out to be a too-true caricature / of yourself, too truly..... More

New York, NY: New Directions, 1976. First Trade Softcover Edition. Softcover. “‘Do you enjoy your own mind? Maxims and legends of total reality, echoing and re-echoing there?’ asks Lawrence Ferlinghetti in discussing this, his seventh book of verse. ‘If we could only decepher it…Visual beatitudes, landscapes of living and dying flashed upon the dark screen…’ The poems in Who Are We Now?, truly ‘landscapes of living,’ are naturally attempts to..... More

Milan, Italy: Ragazzo Innocuo, 2008. Limited First Edition. Sewn Binding. Signed by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. “hovers over the body | like the libido that flies through | Beethoven concertos | And then of a sudden | that desire plunges down | into the body | At a cocktail party for instance | When some totally delirious | cynosure of sex | dances by.” (“Desire,” Lawrence Ferlinghetti) A chapbook of two poems..... More

New York, NY, USA: Penguin Books, 2003. First Edition. Softcover. Signed & dated by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. “No but you see I’ve got to explain all this because I dont, we dont know how much time there is left and I have to work on the, to finish this work of mine while I, why I’ve brought in this whole pile of books notes pages clippings and God knows what, get..... More

Paris, France: La Difference, 2003. First Edition, First Printing. From the library of Lawrence Ferllinghetti, with dated gift inscription to him from author Abdellatif Laabi. "Everything which the Arab reality offers that is generous, open and creative is crushed by regimes whose only anxiety is to perpetuate their own power and self-serving interest. And what is often worse is to see that the West remains insensitive to the daily tragedy..... More

Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1976. First Edition. From the library of Lawrence Ferlinghetti, with his ownership initials."Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it." (Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It; pg. 104) A River Runs Through It and Other Stories is a semi-autobiographical collection of three stories by American author and University of Chicago professor Norman Maclean (1902–1990), published in 1976. It was..... More