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MARCH FEATURE: THE LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI MEMORIAL SPECIAL

In honor of the recent passing of legendary literary lion Lawrence Ferlinghetti, we've chosen 30 exceptional rarities from the Ferlinghetti canon for our March Feature. These include books, broadsides and even postcards--many of which are signed and all of which are First Editions--that honor the groundbreaking poet, publisher, and champion of free expression.

All on sale for 15-30% off for the month of MARCH ONLY!

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A Coney Island of the Mind. Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Ferlinghetti, Lawrence

A Coney Island of the Mind

New York, NY: New Directions Publishing, 1958. First Edition. Softcover. "A Coney Island of the Mind" is the signature magnum opus from a titan of American Letters and leader of the literary avant-garde, Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Softcover in sewn binding. An essential Ferlinghetti collectible. In good condition, with moderate rubbing and soiling to front, back covers and spine; horizontal creasing along length of front cover spine-edge; small bump and creasing at..... More

[Item #2518]

Price: $65.00 save 20% $52.00

An Eye on the World. Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Ferlinghetti, Lawrence

An Eye on the World

London, England: MacGibbon & Kee Ltd., 1967. First Edition. Softcover. Published by English publisher MacGibbon & Kee in 1967, this volume is a selection of poems comprised of contents from "Pictures of the Gone World," "A Coney Island of the Mind," and "Starting from San Francisco"; along with "The Situation in the West," "After the Cries of Birds," and "Moscow in the Wilderness, Segovia in the Snow," --all billed under..... More

[Item #2529]

Price: $25.00 save 20% $20.00

The Secret Meaning of Things. Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Ferlinghetti, Lawrence

The Secret Meaning of Things

New York, NY: New Directions Publishing, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. " "The Secret Meaning of Things" is Lawrence Ferlinghetti's fourth book of poems, and it has all the elements of his earlier poetry: lyrical intensity, wit, social concern, satirical bite..." The collection "...brings together six long poems with a certain continuity and progression of vision." (front flap) This particular edition is the first regular hardcover edition, pressed in an impression..... More

[Item #2530]

Price: $50.00 save 30% $35.00

Tyrannus Nix? Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Ferlinghetti, Lawrence

Tyrannus Nix?

New York, NY: New Directions Publishing, 1969. First Edition. Softcover. Published in 1969, Ferlinghetti's politically-charged populist hymn was yet another audacious stab into the heart of military-industrial complex America and its corrupt and powerful perpetrators. With the text set in Ferlinghetti's own hand, "Tyrannus Nix" provides a poignant, era-specific glance at the backstage debauchery that has poisoned the American political process in a way that curiously echoes our current era..... More

[Item #2531]

Price: $30.00 save 30% $21.00

Back Roads to Far Towns After Basho. Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Ferlinghetti, Lawrence

Back Roads to Far Towns After Basho

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1970. First Edition, First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. "Back Roads to Far Towns After Basho" is an exceedingly rare run of 500 copies pressed on September 1, 1970 "for friends of the author." As the title implies, Ferlinghetti took cues from his study of Haiku masters Basho and others and combined it with his then fully-flowered creative force for this memorable collection of verses. Lawrence..... More

[Item #2532]

Price: $100.00 save 30% $70.00

Back Roads to Far Places. Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Ferlinghetti, Lawrence

Back Roads to Far Places

New York, NY: New Directions Publishing, 1971. First Trade Edition. Softcover. "This single long poem of intimately linked verses is not a translation, although the echoes of Japanese poetry and Tibetan Buddhist texts are many. Starting out after Basho but meeting Milarapa and Dante among others en route, the poet finds his own way, toward a kind of American mantra." (back cover) As the title implies, Ferlinghetti took cues from..... More

[Item #2534]

Price: $40.00 save 30% $28.00

Love is No Stone on the Moon. Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Ferlinghetti, Lawrence

Love is No Stone on the Moon

Berkeley, CA: Arif Press, 1971. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. A strange rarity in the Lawrence Ferlinghetti canon, "Love is No Stone on the Moon" is comprised of inverted pages from other sources printed over with an "automatic poem" no doubt influenced by his study of French emperor of Surrealism André Breton and his caustic rebel contemporaries. The actual poem spans a short seven pages, and is printed in the author's..... More

[Item #2535]

Price: $40.00 save 30% $28.00

To Paint the Portrait of a Bird. Jacques Prevert, Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Prevert, Jacques (Ferlinghetti, Lawrence)

To Paint the Portrait of a Bird

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company Inc., 1971. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. The French poet Jacques Prevert has widely been noted as an integral influence on the poetic development of Lawrence Ferlinghetti, among the most influential organizing figures of American literature in the latter half of the 20th century. Along with the early translations Ferlinghetti pioneered with City Lights Pocket Poets Series No. 9, "Paroles," he lent his expertise to..... More

[Item #2536]

Price: $45.00 save 30% $31.50

Who Are We Now? Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Ferlinghetti, Lawrence

Who Are We Now?

New York, NY: New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. " "Do you enjoy your own mind? Maxims and legends of total reality, echoing and reechoing there?" asks Lawrence Ferlinghetti in discussing this, his seventh book of verse. "If we could only decipher it....Visual beatitudes, landscapes of living and dying flashed upon the dark screen...." The poems in Who Are We Now?, truly "landscapes of..... More

[Item #3681]

Price: $90.00 save 25% $67.50

Adieu a Charlot: Second Populist Manifesto. Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Ferlinghetti, Lawrence

Adieu a Charlot: Second Populist Manifesto

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Booksellers & Publishers, 1978. First Printing. Single Folded Sheet. "Sons of Whitman sons of Poe/ sons of Lorca & Rimbaud/ or their dark daughters/ poets of another breath/ poets of another vision/ Who among you still speaks of revolution/ the locks from the doors/ in this revisionist decade?" (first lines) A rare broadside with the title poem by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, among the foremost living original..... More

[Item #3677]

Price: $30.00 save 25% $22.50

Endless Life: Selected Poems / With: Lawrence Ferlinghetti: Poet At Large. Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Ferlinghetti, Lawrence

Endless Life: Selected Poems / With: Lawrence Ferlinghetti: Poet At Large

New York, NY: New Directions Publishing (1981) / Southern Illinois University Press (1983), 1981 / 1983. First Edition. Hardcover; Softcover. In 1981, Lawrence Ferlinghetti's longtime publisher New Directions released the first & most enduring anthology of Ferlinghetti's work, "Endless Life." Ferlinghetti, at the enthusiastic approval of personal friend & publishing giant James Laughlin, assembled this canonical collection of masterful verses as introduction & retrospective to potential readers and dedicated scholars..... More

[Item #2626]

Price: $50.00 save 30% $35.00

Over All the Obscene Boundaries. Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Ferlinghetti, Lawrence

Over All the Obscene Boundaries

New York, NY: New Directions Publishing, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. "Over All the Obscene Boundaries: European Poems & Transitions" is a monumental collection for Ferlinghetti because it is a snapshot of a transitory era & it is implicitly autobiographical in nature & execution, as it draws heavily on his French heritage & experience. He divulges in incandescent detail his excursions & experiences in the 49 poems collected here. Bound in..... More

[Item #2631]

Price: $35.00 save 30% $24.50

Inside the Trojan Horse. Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Ferlinghetti, Lawrence

Inside the Trojan Horse

San Francisco, CA: Don't Call it Frisco Press, 1988. First Edition. Softcover. In 1988, Don't Call it Frisco Press released "Inside the Trojan Horse," a slim softcover pocket poets-style volume compiling a total of 4 of Lawrence Ferlinghetti's most lauded pieces from his "All Over the Obscene Boundaries" and "Endless Life" collections. What marks this as an essential tome in the Ferlinghetti oeuvre is the inclusion of a lecture he..... More

[Item #2625]

Price: $25.00 save 20% $20.00

Wild Dreams of a New Beginning. Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Ferlinghetti, Lawrence

Wild Dreams of a New Beginning

New York, NY: New Directions Publishing, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. "Wild Dreams of a New Beginning" combines two earlier collections of Lawrence Ferlinghetti's work, "Landscapes of Living and Dying" and "Who Are We Now?" These collections contained such notable masterworks as the "Populist Manifesto," "The Old Italians Dying," "A Nation of Sheep" and "An Elegy to Dispel Gloom" among many other commendable contributions. A very desirable Ferlinghetti compilation. Book and..... More

[Item #2543]

Price: $45.00 save 30% $31.50

Untitled Broadside ("The world is a beautiful place"). Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Ferlinghetti, Lawrence

Untitled Broadside ("The world is a beautiful place")

New Haven, CT: Sign of the Gryphon, 1989. First Printing. Single Sheet. A broadside (appx. 16&1/2" x 23&7/8") by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the great poet & publisher who was a Founding Father of the Beat Generation & the San Francisco Renaissance, still with us as of this writing at one hundred years old. A bold, beautiful production with the eleventh poem from Ferlinghetti's seminal Pictures of the Gone World, his first..... More

[Item #3456]

Price: $250.00 save 30% $175.00

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