San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1963. First Edition. Softcover. Signed by Allen Ginsberg for Richard Cupidi. The first number of the landmark first series of literary journals edited & with contribution by Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919-2021), published by his iconic City Lights Books imprint. As noted on back cover, this now-historic issue is dedicated to then-recently deceased great American poets E.E. Cummings & William Carlos Williams, with a theretofore unpublished..... More

Berkeley, CA: The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley; Heyday books, 2006. First Edition. Softcover. "What catches Ira Nowinski's eye and what he captures with his lens are people- the beat poets of North Beach, opera divas radiating passion and delighting in adulation, cigar-smoking old Italians, tenant organizers, and an alert shirtless old man in a boxer's stance. These are photographs from three decades that speak eloquently and powerfully about..... More