San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1962. First Edition, First Printing. Softcover. “A pipe of kif before breakfast gives a man the strength of a hundred camels in the courtyard.” (Nchaioui Proverb; title page). A Hundred Camels in the Courtyard is a collection of short fiction by American expatriate and author Paul Bowles (1910-1999) published by Beat Generation acolyte Lawrence Ferlinghetti's (1919-2021) City Lights Books in 1962. The volume was..... More

New York, NY, USA: W.W. Norton & Company, 1993. First Softcover Edition, Second Printing. Softcover. From the library of Lawrence Ferlinghetti, with his ownership signature. "The only biography Henry Miller ever wanted was the one he himself wrote in the brash, life-affirming fictions of The Tropic of Capricorn, The Tropic of Cancer, and The Rosy Crucifixion. But Robert Ferguson's new biography tells a different tale; for where the novels are..... 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

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

Oakland, CA: Pantograph Press, 2000. First Edition. Inscribed, signed, and dated by Jack Foley to Lawrence Ferlinghetti. “Jack Foley has lived in the Bay Area for nearly four decades, and his insights grow from personal involvement as well as active research. Literary criticism is rarely so intellectually wide-ranging, imaginatively suggestive, or unabashedly personal. Perhaps no recent writer has done more than Foley to foster a serious and informed critical conversation..... More

New York, NY, USA: W.W. Norton & Company, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. From the library of Lawrence Ferlinghetti, with his ownership signature, date & inclusion in the volume. "In this first comprehensive biography of Kenneth Rexroth (1905-1982), Linda Hamalian reveals a fascinating, enigmatic man riven with contradictions. From a high school dropout, Rexroth transformed himself into a newspaper columnist, painter, dedicated activist, translator, and poet, writing with breathtaking precision on..... 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

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1963. First Edition, First Printing. “This spate of sense-thought, these romantic, intuitive non-essays will rub an awful lot of people the wrong way, as they have the editor of this book who doesn’t at all agree with McClure’s lush green ideas. This editor is the friend referred to herein (in ‘The Man in the Telephone Booth: A Footnote on Camus’) and it’s obvious to..... More

San Francisco, CA: North Point Press, 1989. First Edition Thus. Softcover. From the library of Lawrence Ferlinghetti, with his ownership initials & date. “About eight o’clock one evening in April 1927 it occurred to me that I was out of a job, that I had little money, and that I had long wanted to go to France. At noon the next I day I was aboard the S.S. President Harding..... More

Vallejo, CA: Vallejo Center for the Arts, 2022. First Edition. Single Sheet. "The Grand Opening of Generation Beat! Celebrating The Art & Literary Genius of artist, poet and activist Lawrence Ferlinghetti A "Beat Era Happening" will be produced by Obtainium Works. The Temple Art Lofts Gallery will feature an extensive collection of Ferlinghetti paintings. Informational videos will be available in the gallery about the artist and his work. The Ferlinghetti..... More

San Francisco, CA: Oracle Co-operative Publishing Co., 1967. First Printing. Loose Folded Sheets. This vintage issue of the legendary newspaper-format underground literary & cultural journal from the very center-peak of the 1960s psychedelic phenomenon, edited by the American poet Allen Cohen (1940-2004), features "Academy 23: A Deconditioning" by William S. Burroughs- Founding Father of the Beat Generation-&-Beyond & the very Patron-Icon of our enterprise. This classic WSB Jeremiad denouncing the..... More

Stapled Wrappers. The motto of City Miner magazine is “community, personal adventure, aesthetics” according to the logo on the cover of this issue of the niche San Francisco magazine. The main feature of this issue is an interview by Michael Helm with the legendary proprietor of City Lights Books Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919-2021). Ferlinghetti discussed his entire career since arriving in San Francisco across eight full pages (pg. 2-6, 31-33) of..... More

Coventry, England, UK: Beat Scene Press, 2018. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This Spring 2018 number of the essential magazine-format literary journal devoted to the Beat Generation edited, published & with contributions by Kevin Ring in the UK features an intensive article by Ring about Allen Ginsberg's residency at a cottage in Berkeley during a crucial period that led to the first reading of "Howl" at the Six Gallery in San..... More