Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1992. Limited Lettered First Edition. Hardcover. This is the limited, lettered, signed edition of the City Lights Books bibliography compiled by Ralph Cook with introduction from the late literary lion, Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919-2021). It contains the entire published output of City Lights Books from its inaugural publication—Ferlinghetti’s debut book, “Pictures of the Gone World,”—through 1990. Cook is a first-rate bibliographer and this work does not disappoint—it..... More

Louisville, KY: White Fields Press/ The Literary Renaissance, 1994. First Printing. Single Sheet. "If there had been only/ one Buddha in the woodpile/ In Waco Texas/ to teach us how to sit still/ one saffron Buddhist in the Back rooms/ just one Tibetan Lama/ just one Taoist/ Just one Zen/ just one Thomas Merton Trappist/ just one saint in the wilderness/ of Waco USA" (first lines) A large broadside (appx..... More

New York, NY: Doubleday; New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1960; 2019. First Edition, Second Printing; First Softcover Edition, Eighth Printing. Hardcover; Softcover. The final novel published during the long lifetime of Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919-2021), together with an early classic in one offering: (1) Little Boy: A Novel (2019), hardcover in unclipped dust jacket, first edition as stated on copyright page, second printing as indicated by number sequence thereon. "In this unapologetically..... More

London, England: The Bodley Head, 1988. First UK Edition. Hardcover. "Spring 1968: while the streets of Paris reverberate with the student protest which is to sweep through the country in a wave of revolutionary fervour, an unlikely love affair springs up between Annie, an American expatriate painter...and Julian, an affluent middle-aged banker and armchair anarchist. Their relationship matures amidst the heady mixture of anger and euphoria erupting from cafes and..... More

San Francisco, CA: Anarchist Resistance Press, 1976. First Printing. Single Sheet. Signed by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. A broadside (8&1/2" x 14") with the title poem by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, among the most important founding members of the Beat Generation & San Francisco Renaissance as poet, publisher & proprietor of his iconic City Lights Bookstore, still with us as of this writing at the age of 101! An all-too-timely, ironic, evocative & provocative..... More

New York, NY: New Directions Books, 1969. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. "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, and above all a classical claritas. But it goes much further: there is a deepening of vision and a darker understanding of "our clay condition." " (from back cover) A...... More

San Francisco, CA: Vojo Skyline Press / Peter Lembcke Gallery, 1991. Limited Lettered First Printing. Single Sheet. "The paintings can't be explained. The best of them have a certain mystery about them that can't be explained... It is a mysterious process, painting. The figures, the creatures, the face appear 'out of nowhere,' so to speak, messengers or harbingers from some other place or time... I only know they exist in..... More

Sanjo-Shi, Niigata: Japan: Blue Beat Jacket / Yusuke Keida, 2002. Limited First Printing. String-Bound. "This issue is Lawrence Ferlinghetti special from the Vojo Sindolic Beat Archive, Dubrovnik in R. Croatia. ... Ferlinghetti poems, his photos, drawings & the poet's 'statement for "BBJ" came from Vojo. But we found some of them unpublished so left them off. Last April (of 2001) Ferlinghetti sent us two broadsides with a card (pg. 2)..... More

Orient, NY: The Mediterranean Review, 1971. First Printing. Softcover. Signed by Diane Wakoski. The second vintage number of the acclaimed literary & art journal "...devoted to new literature not only from the Mediterranean area but from the rest of the world" as stated by the publisher, chiefly edited by Robert DeMaria. Featuring an insightful, in-depth interview with primary Beat-&-Beyond author Paul Bowles conducted by Oliver Evans; a diaristic prose-poem essay..... More

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1978. First Printing. Softcover. The fourth number of the landmark first series of literary journals published by Lawrence Ferlinghetti's iconic City Lights Books imprint, here edited by Mendes Monsanto. With a staggeringly rich roster of poets & prose writers at the forefront of the Beat Generation & San Francisco Renaissance, as well as their progeny-proteges of the Baby Beat Generation/ Second San Francisco Renaissance..... More

Coventry, England: The Beat Scene Press, 2016. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This late summer 2016 number of the magazine-format literary journal edited & published by Kevin Ring in the UK begins with an interview with Lawrence Ferlinghetti conducted by Paul Iorio during 2000, when he was a youthful 81 years old (as we know, Ferlinghetti just recently as of this writing died at age 101). The subject of the interview..... More

Garden City, NY: Anchor Books, 1972. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. Inscribed & signed by Yevgeny Yevtushenko to Thomas Rain Crowe. "You talk to me of freedom? Empty question/ under umbrellas of bombs in the sky/ It's a disgrace to be free of your own age/ A hundred times more shameful than to be its slave." ("On the Question of Freedom, fourth stanza, translated by Lawrence Ferlinghetti with Anthony Kahn) A...... More