Layton, UT: Gibbs Smith, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. A beautiful book in oblong format, with photographs of Lawrence Ferlinghetti, sometimes in the company of Beat luminaries including William S. Burroughs & Allen Ginsberg, interspersed with his poetry. In very fine condition with only very slight rubbing to dust jacket covers & slight scraping of top & bottom board edges at spine. Very Fine. 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

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: Vojo Skyline Press / Peter Lembcke Gallery, 1991. Limited 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 their..... More

New York, NY: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2015. First Printing. Hardcover. “I see this book as in the tradition of D.H. Lawrence’s travels in Italy or Goethe’s Italian journeys….It is as if much of my life were a continuation of my youthful wanderjahr, my walkabout in the world,” writes Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919-2021) in “Writing Across the Landscape 1960-2015,” selections from his travel journals. Your Devoted Managing Curator cannot help but reflect..... More

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1994. First Printing. Softcover. The sixth number of the literary & cultural-political journal edited & with contributions by Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919-2021), published by his iconic City Lights Books imprint. For our purposes, this issue is most distinguished by a transcript of William S. Burroughs' speaker-amplified telephone call to an audience at the Beat Generation Conference held at New York University during May 1994 (pgs..... More

New York, NY: The Paris Review Foundation, Inc., 2019. First Printing. Softcover. This fairly recent number of the venerable literary, art & cultural journal edited by Emily Nemens (originally co-founded & edited by George Plimpton, 1927-2003) features a lengthy interview with Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919-2021), the iconic Beat-&-Beyond poet, publisher & City Lights Bookseller, conducted & with an introduction by Garrett Caples. Nearly 99 years old at the time of this..... More

New York, NY: Evergreen Review, Inc., 1961. First Printing. Softcover. This early vintage number of the legendary literary journal chiefly edited by Barney Rosset features the poem "Lysergic Acid" by Allen Ginsberg, Founding Father of the Beat Generation, a very early milestone of creative writing under the influence of LSD, much-predating & predicting the countercultural explosion of acid trips later in the 1960s decade. The poem is followed by facsimile..... 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