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: 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

Niigata, Japan: Blue Jacket Press, 2002. First Edition. Hand-sewn Wrappers. This is the special Lawrence Ferlinghetti issue of the Japanese Beat magazine, Blue Beat Jacket. Edited by Yusuke Keida, this issue #20 contains unpublished poetry and artwork by Ferlinghetti, tributes, photographs, more. Limited to an edition of only 100 copies. Text in English. As New. 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

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: American Newsrepeat Co., n/d (Circa 1967). First Edition. Single Sheet. A large poster (22" x 28&1/4") with magnified reproduction of a classic photograph of Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the great Founding Father of the Beat Generation as both poet & publisher, who is still with us at 101 years old as of this writing! The location of this portrait is obviously City Lights Books, the iconic venue in San..... More

San Francisco, CA: Peter Lembecke Gallery, 1991. First Edition. Single Sheet. Signed by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. From September 3-September 30th, 1991, immortal poet-publisher & lifelong painter Lawrence Ferlinghetti provided selections from 50 years of painting at the Peter Lembecke Gallery on the famed Grant Ave. in San Francisco. Ever since his student days at the Sorbonne in France, Ferlinghetti has been ardently consumed by not only his commitment to language &..... More