San Francisco: Straight Arrow Books, 1973. First Edition, First Printing. An important Kerouac biography. Octavo, 419 pages. Very Good in a Near Fine dust jacket. Ivory-colored front board a bit smudged. Dust jacket shows slight edge wear. Overall, a nice copy. More about Kerouac: A Biography
San Francisco: City Lights Books, Publication Date Not Stated. Later printing. 16mo (4 7/8 x 6 1/4 inches / 124 x 159 mm), 105,[7] pages in wrappers. A Fine copy. SIGNED by Lawrence Ferlinghetti on the title page as "Ferlinghetti, editor." A collection of poems by Beat poet Gregory Corso (1930-2001)... More about Gasoline & The Vestal Lady on Brattle
New York: New Directions, 1960. Tenth Printing. Small 8vo (5 5/16 x 7 7/8 inches / 134 x 200 mm), [2],91,[3] pages in stiff pictorial wrappers. Light edge wear and soiling to wrappers, interior clean with some light toning to the page edges. A Very Good or better copy. SIGNED by... More about The Happy Birthday of Death
San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1995. Second Edition. 16mo (4 7/8 x 6 1/4 inches / 124 x 159 mm), [72] pages in wrappers. A Fine copy. SIGNED by Lawrence Ferlinghetti on the title page. A 1995 "enlarged edition" of the first book in City Lights' Pocket Poets Series, featuring 27... More about Pictures of the Gone World
New York: New Directions, 1967. Fifth Printing. 8vo (5 3/8 x 8 inches / 136 x 203 mm), 64 pages, in stiff pictorial wrappers. Light edge wear and light soiling to covers. Interior clean and bright. A Very Good or better copy. SIGNED by Lawrence Ferlinghetti on the title page. A.... More about Starting From San Francisco
San Francisco: Sore Dove Press, 2007. First Edition, First Printing. Small 8vo (7 x 7 3/4 inches/ 178 x 197 mm). Four etchings in four different colors plus a colophon leaf housed in a red cloth box stamped Ferlinghetti on the front. Red ribbon attached inside. The box and etchings... More about Two Parisian Models
New York: Liveright Publishing Corp. 2015. First Edition, First Printing. Small 4to (7 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches / 185 x 241 mm), xxiii,464,[6] pages in boards with a pictorial dust jacket. Small remainder mark on top edge, leaving an ink smudge, corners bumped, especially rear top corner along the... More about Writing Across the Landscape: Travel Journals 1960-2010 Lawrence Ferlinghetti
New York: Hyperion, 1999. Later printing. Octavo, 452 pages. First edition, later printing. Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket with slight edge wear and scuffing. A collection of writing, photographs and drawings of the Beats (Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, and many others). More about The Rolling Stone Book of the Beats: The Beat Generation and American Culture
San Francisco: Sore Dove Press, 2008. First Edition, First Printing. 8vo, 7 1/2 x 9 inches (190 x 227 mm), [12] pages, sewn into stiff black wrappers lettered in silver. Front wrapper slightly creased at bottom right, interior clean and bright. A Near Fine copy. Ginsberg's long letter to Jack... More about If Not Forever: A Letter to Jack Kerouac
San Francisco: City Lights Books, Publication Date Not Stated. Later printing. 16mo (4 7/8 x 6 1/4 inches / 124 x 159 mm), [8],76,[4] pages in wrappers. A Fine copy. SIGNED by Lawrence Ferlinghetti on the title page as "Ferlinghetti, editor." A collection of poems, #28 in City Lights' Pocket Poet... More about Scattered Poems
New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1995. First Edition. A comprehensive Whitney Museum catalogue of a traveling exhibition on the Beats. Large Octavo, 280 pages, soft cover. Near Fine, with slight edge wear. No dust jacket. More about Beat Culture and the New America 1950-1965
New York: Totem Press, 1960. First Edition, First Printing. 8vo (8 1/4 x 5 3/8 inches; 208 x 135 mm), 51, [1] pages, in pictorial wrappers. First issue of the important Beat magazine Kulchur. With contributions from William S. Burroughs, Diane Di Prima, Charles Olson, Basil King, Paul Bowles, Allen... More about Kulchur
New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1999. First Edition, First Printing. An interesting look at the Beats, SIGNED by both the author and photographer on the title page. Quarto, 226 pages. Very Good+ in a Fine dust jacket. Slight bend to the rear board and small stain on lower... More about Paradise Outlaws: Remembering the Beats
Chicago: The Poetry Foundation, 2012. First Edition, First Printing. 8vo (5 1/2 x 9 inches / 140 x 227 mm), [6],311-415,[13] pages in illustrated wrappers. Slight soiling to the white covers, corners bumped. A Very Good or better copy. SIGNED by Lawrence Ferlinghetti at the beginning of a section featuring... More about Poetry: July/August 2012