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
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
Amsterdam: Lawrence Ferlinghetti, 1980. First Edition, First Printing. Quarto (11 x 8 1/2 inches; 280 x 215 mm), 9 leaves plus cover sheet, printed rectos only, stapled twice along the left margin. SIGNED by Lawrence Ferlinghetti on the last page, one of only 25 copies. Ferlinghetti describes this..... More
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
San Francisco: Sore Dove Press, 2007. First Edition, First Printing. Small Octavo (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. Each etching..... More
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
Berkeley, California: Crosscut Saw Press, 1978. First Edition. 8vo (8 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches; 218 x 140 mm), 111, [1] pages, in illustrated wrappers. Soiling to wrappers and outer page edges. Internally clean. A Very Good copy. SIGNED by Allen Ginsberg, with his East 12th Street, New York, address..... More
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
New York: Totem Press, 1959. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo (8 1/2 x 5 5/8 inches; 220 x 145 mm), 8 pages, in illustrated stapled wrappers. INSCRIBED by Michael McClure on the title page to book editor William Targ: "This copy for Bill Targ / and / all..... More
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
New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1999. First Edition, First Printing. Small Quarto (10 1/4 x 8 1/8 inches; 260 x 207 mm), 226 pages, in quarter-cloth and boards, titles in silver to spine, in a photo-illustrated dust jacket. SIGNED by both the author and photographer on..... More
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