Bisbee Press Collective and Cochise Fine Arts, 1980. First edition, first printing. Paperback. Slim duodecimo [17 cm] White and black pictorial wraps, with a cover photo by Richard Byrd. Tissue flyleaves. Very good condition, with light soiling on the rear wrap. Festival Series No. 1. One of one thousand copies..... More
San Francisco: A City Lights Publication, 1961. Broadside. SIGNED. Thin duodecimo [19 cm] Folded black and white printed broadside poem. Very good. The extremities are ever so slightly creased, rubbed and soiled. There is a 1/4 inch long closed tear along one of the folds. Signed by Ferlinghetti on the..... More
Milano [Milan]: Oscar Mondadori, 2006. First "Piccola Biblioteca Oscar" edition. Paperback. 348pp. Duodecimo [18 cm] Photographically illustrated wraps. An Italian edition of City Lights Pocket Poets Anthology. More
Paris: Julliard, 1961. Paperback. 185pp. Octavo [20 cm] Yellow, blue and black printed wraps. Uncut pages. Very good condition. The pages are tanned. Les lettres nouvelles 18. Signed by Ferlinghetti on the front cover. Ferlinghetti helped to ignite the San Francisco literary renaissance of the 1950s and the “Beat” movement..... More
Paris: Julliard, 1961. Paperback. 185pp. Octavo [20 cm] Yellow, blue and black printed wraps. Uncut pages. Very good condition. Ex-library (discarded), with just a label on the first page. The pages are tanned. Les lettres nouvelles 18. Signed by Ferlinghetti on the front cover. Ferlinghetti helped to ignite the San..... More
Paris: Julliard, 1961. Paperback. 185pp. Octavo [20 cm] Yellow, blue and black printed wraps. Uncut pages. Near fine condition. The pages are tanned. Les lettres nouvelles 18. Signed by Ferlinghetti on the front cover. Ferlinghetti helped to ignite the San Francisco literary renaissance of the 1950s and the “Beat” movement..... More
Paris: Julliard, 1961. Paperback. 185pp. Octavo [20 cm] Yellow, blue and black printed wraps. Uncut pages. Very good condition. There is a 3/4" closed tear in the paper at the foot of the spine, and there is a small, light stain on the bottom edge of the front cover. The..... More
Toronto: Anansi, 1968. Correct first edition. Paperback. 38pp. Octavo [22 cm] Illustrated wraps. With the Note from the Editors regarding piracy and the importation of this publication to the United States. Dowden, p. 15. One of 6,000 copies. "Note: These are compositions from Journals kept decades 1948-1968, a few solid..... More
New York: Harper Collins, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. 118pp. Octavo [24 cm] 1/4 black cloth with black paper covered boards, a metallic purple ink stamped title on the spine, and a gilt stamped ornamental pattern on the front cover. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Remainder mark on..... More
New York: Harper Collins, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. 118pp. Octavo [24 cm] 1/4 black cloth with black paper covered boards, a metallic purple ink stamped title on the spine, and a gilt stamped ornamental pattern on the front cover. Very good plus. The spine is just a little rolled back..... More
Hannover: Apartment Edition, 1988. Paperback. 38pp. Thin quarto [27 cm] White, black and yellow pictorial wraps. Very good condition. Apartment Edition #3. Reflections on Poetry 1. A conversation with Michael Aldrich, Edward Kissam, Nancy Blecker and Allen Ginsberg which took place in Cherry Valley on November 26, 1968. More
Paris: Flammarion, 1979. French numbered edition. Paperback. 232pp. Octavo [20 cm] Tan, orange and black pictorial wraps. Very good condition. "The Fall of America" in French. Translated by Gerard-Georges Lemaire and Anne-Christine Taylor. Number 2390 in an edition of 3,600 (3000 numbered, 300 numbered H.C. 1 to H.C. 300, 300..... More
San Francisco: City Lights Books, November, 1968. First American edition. Paperback. 144pp. Sextodecimo [16 cm] in wraps. Light toning and wear to wraps, small crease to rear wrap upper corner. The Pocket Poet Series Number Twenty-Three. More
San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1982. First edition. Hardcover. 111pp. Duodecimo. Orange cloth. Near fine/Fine. Pocket Poets Series number 40. Cook pgs. 99-101. "La science, la nouvelle noblesse! Le progres. Le monde marche! Pourquoi ne tournerait-il pas?" - Rimbaud. More
Kyoto, Japan: Kyoto Seika University, 1989. Original printing. Paperback. 88pp. Small slim quarto [25.5 cm] Stapled pictorial wraps. Very good. The wraps are mildly soiled. Internally very clean. With Allen Ginsberg's contribution, "What the East Means to Me: A lecture at Kyoto Seika University, November 2, 1988," and Morgan Gibson's..... More
New Haven, CT: Yale University by the Yale Literary Society, 1965. Original edition. Paperback. 76pp. Small quarto [25 cm] Purple printed wraps. The wraps are toned, and rubbed at the edges. With "Today" by Allen Ginsberg. This issue also includes contributions by John Weiners, Robert Creeley, Ed Sanders, and Howard..... More
San Francisco: City Lights Publishers. Modern reprint. Paperback. 57pp. Sextodecimo [16 cm] Black and white wrappers. The title poem forever changed the landscape of writing as well as popular culture. One of the principle works of the Beat Generation. Originally performed at the legendary Gallery Six reading. Introduction by William..... More
New York City: Gotham Book Mart and Gallery, 1974. Original edition. Broadside. Broadside, folded twice, and with four pages printed with on one side. 23 cm tall when folded. Near fine. "This is the text of Allen Ginsberg's acceptance speech for the National Book Award in Poetry, delivered by Peter..... More
New York: Lumen Press, 1979. Original issue. Paperback. 51pp. Very slender quarto [28 cm] Stapled pictorial wraps. With minor fading to the wraps. The first issue of Lumen / Avenue A, dedicated to the memory of Louis Zukofsky, American Poet. Included in the Contents is, Pier Paulo Pasolini translated by..... More
New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1967. First edition. Hardcover. 253pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] 1/2 white cloth with orange paper covered boards, and a blue ink stamped title on the spine. Very good. Very gently soiled and bumped at the extremities. The head of the spine is a...... More
Hamden, CT: Archon Books, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. 262pp. Octavo [22 cm] Publisher's light blue buckram with gilt stamped title on backstrip. Near fine/Fine. Minor fading to extremities of jacket. Double inscribed by the author. Inscribed on the front free endsheet. Inscription reads: "6/6/95 - For ___ ___ - with..... More
Boulder, CO: Elbow/Cityful Press, 2001. First edition. Paperback. 101pp. Octavo [23 cm] Photographically illustrated wraps. From the publisher- "Jones's latest contribution to the growing Kerouac canon of studies focuses not only on issues of Kerouac's biographical life, but invariably winds up weaving elements of his fiction into the biographical backdrop."..... More
Penguin, 1993. Later printing. Paperback. 194pp. Octavo [19.5cm]; illustrated wraps. The story of young Kerouac's relationship with Maggie Cassidy. More
New York: Grove Press, 1961. First edition. Paperback. 38[-72]pp. Octavo. White illustrated wrappers. Illustrated with stills from the film. Near fine. Light rubbing to covers. Minor spotting to fore edge of half-title. Text ad-libbed by Jack Kerouac for the film by Robert Frank and Alfred Leslie. More