Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company Inc., 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Released in 1979, "Ferlinghetti: A Biography" was the first published biography of the founder of City Lights Books and accomplished poet and scholar Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Neeli Cherkovski moved to San Francisco in the early 1970s and became a Beat disciple, quickly making friends with Ferlinghetti, Gregory Corso, Allen Ginsberg, Bob Kaufman, Michael McClure and Charles Bukowski to name a...... More

Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Compiler & Publisher This is the limited signed edition of the City Lights Books bibliography compiled by Ralph Cook with an introduction by City Lights Books publisher and poet, Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Issued in hardcover only, this is one of the limited signed copies (30 total). This is Copy P of 26 lettered copies signed by Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Ralph Cook..... More

San Francisco, CA: Privately Printed by the Author, N/D. First Edition. Broadside. A broadside (8 & 1/2" x 11") with the short title poem by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the giant of poetry and publishing, still active at age 97 as of this writing. Photo-copied or offset printed (?) reproduction of the poet's hand-writing and unusually full signature. Hand-written in ink at the bottom below signature and date is: "itekCRC #2 of..... More

San Francisco, CA: Golden Mountain Press, 1961. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. A short booklet containing a little-circulated long poem by Lawrence Ferlinghetti; poet, publisher, and central organizing figure of the Beat movement. Originally published in October of 1961 in an impression of 1000 copies, this reflective, autobiographical work echoes much of the subject matter familiarly found in the poet's oeuvre: an acute sociopolitical consciousness and a focus on the poet's..... More

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

New York, NY: New Directions Publishing, 1981. First Edition. Softcover. Signed by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. "Lawrence Ferlinghetti is surely (as a reviewer in Booklist phrased it) "one of our ageless radicals and true bards. He has consistently spoken in poetic terms accessible to every type of reader about our life and time and its issues, not only the political ones but those of the interior life. Behind the immediacy of what..... More

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

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. "One of the longest relationships between a publisher and a writer was that of Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Allen Ginsberg. Ginsberg's very first book, "Howl and Other Poems," was published by Ferlinghetti's City Lights Books in 1956, and it was followed by a dozen more before Allen's death in 1997. Perhaps because of Ginsberg's action-packed life or Ferlinghetti's innate reluctance to..... More

Coventry, England: The Beat Scene Press, 2016. Limited First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. (#22/125) "Lawrence Ferlinghetti In London - 1965" is an interview Ferlinghetti was scheduled to give for Penthouse Magazine after the Royal Albert Hall Reading in 1965, which featured Ferlinghetti, Gregory Corso, & Allen Ginsberg, among others. Typical of the majority of press the Beats received in the 50's & 60's, the interviewer's comically ludicrous approach and at-times evidently..... More

San Francisco, CA: Privately Printed by the Author, 1979. First Printing. Broadside. A broadside (8" & 1/2" x 11") reprinting a poem-editorial originally published in the New York Times on May 12, 1979. "A Nation of Sheep" is a litany on the molding of the continent resultant from the atomic burst of money-grabbing entrepreneurial activity that gave birth to super industry America. Yet another of Lawrence Ferlinghetti's time-tested classics, the..... More

New York, NY: New Directions Publishing, 1973. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. Signed by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. In this 1973 collection of poems, Ferlinghetti proffered forth four distinctly different types of poetry, four alternative views on the development and execution of his creative conscience. The title section contains a mix of reflective sentimentality and picturesque snapshots of people and life that are quintessentially Ferlinghetti. Section two, "Poems in Transit," is a collection..... More

New York, NY: New Directions Publishing, 1984. First Edition. Softcover. "These poems on European themes by the author of "Her" (his Paris novel) and the enduring "A Coney Island of the Mind" were mostly written during the last seven years and, in the poet's words, are "transformations and transitions looking westward to America and beyond." Flowing from France to Italy to the Netherlands, on to Germany, back to France, and..... More

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 2015 (1955). First Edition Thus. Hardcover. In 2015 City Lights Books printed a special, limited hardcover edition of poet & founder of City Lights Lawrence Ferlinghetti's first book of poems, "Pictures of the Gone World." On the book, Lawrence commented: "I wrote the twenty-seven poems in this book during a very short period in San Francisco shortly after four years in France on the..... More