Edited by Lawrence Ferlinghetti (27 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good condition. Minor dust jacket edgewear. Light front cover corner crease. Clean and tight. No writing or marking. Not Ex-Library.

Condition: As New. Unread copy in mint condition.

Condition: New. Brand New.

Condition: As New. Unread copy in mint condition.

Condition: New. Brand New.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good condition. Later printing of the 1956 original. San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1982. 4.75" wide by 6.25" tall. Clean, tight, square, unmarked copy. Flat spine. Not price clipped (2.50). No remainder mark. No store stamp, owner's name or bookplate. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. "The Pocket Poets Series, Number Four." The book's dedication is to Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, and Neal Cassady. Later printing of the 1956 original. Softcover. Very Good condition. 47pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping. …

paperback. Condition: Very Good. PAPERBACK. VERY GOOD CONDITION, CLEAN, SOLID, COVER shows 2 beat poets in dark room.flowered wallpaper ; White titles on black paper covers. THICK BOOK.; 645pg pages; Beat Generation Travel.excellent & compassionate picture of that generation. ." ."I first met Dean after my wife and I split up.". Illustrated by Cover B & W Photo Jack k & W. BURROUGHS (illustrator).…

paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. [New York]: A New Directions Book 1972. First Edition. Trade Paperback. First edition. 179 pages, illustrated. Very good with lower corner creasing to the rear cover] with a remainder mark to the top and bottom edges. whb11E.

First edition, first printing Number 43 in Keepsakes Series. As new and bright tall stiff wraps with excellent spine and crisp bright text. Vintage photographs of Lawrence Ferlinghetti and other Beat portraits. A lovely tribute.

Original Wraps. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket, as Issued. First Edition. Nineteenth printing of the true first edition of this famous work by Allen Ginsberg, published as a paperback original. City Lights originally published the book in 1961. Number Fourteen in the Pocket Poets Series. ***Near fine in the iconic black & white glossy card covers, priced at $3.95 on the back cover. The book is near fine, with the edges hardly rubbed at all - just slightly creased. No tears. Spine clean and unfaded. Internally near fine, with a neat gift inscription to the front free endpaper. The endpapers are dark blue. Pages clean. No creases or tears. Spine tight. Covers bright and clean. ***158mm x 124mm. 104 pages including a three-page catalogue of City Lights Publications at the back of the book. ***'Irwin Allen Ginsberg (June 3, 1926 - April 5, 1997) was an American poet and writer. As a student at Columbia University in the 1940s, he began friendships with William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, forming the core of the Beat Generation. He vigorously opposed militarism, economic materialism, and sexual repression, and he embodied various aspects of this counterculture with his views on drugs, sex, multiculturalism, hostility to bureaucracy, and openness to Eastern religions. Ginsberg is best known for his poem "Howl", in which he denounced what he saw as the destructive forces of capitalism and conformity in the United States. San Francisco police and US Customs seized "Howl" in 1956, and it attracted widespread publicity in 1957 when it became the subject of an obscenity trial, as it described heterosexual and homosexual sex at a time when sodomy laws made (male) homosexual acts a crime in every state. The poem reflected Ginsberg's own sexuality and his relationships with a number of men, including Peter Orlovsky, his lifelong partner. Judge Clayton W. Horn ruled that "Howl" was not obscene, stating: "Would there be any freedom of press or speech if one must reduce his vocabulary to vapid innocuous euphemisms?" Ginsberg was a Buddhist who extensively studied Eastern religious disciplines. He lived modestly, buying his clothing in second-hand stores and residing in apartments in New York City's East Village. ***The lead poem "Kaddish" also known as "Kaddish for Naomi Ginsberg (1894-1956)", was written in two parts by Beat writer Allen Ginsberg, and was first published in Kaddish and Other Poems 1958-1960. The book was part of the Pocket Poet Series published by City Lights Books. In the table of contents, the poem is titled "Kaddish: Proem, narrative, hymmnn, lament, litany, & fugue". Along with Ginsberg's "Howl", Kaddish is said to be one of his greatest masterpieces. Ginsberg wrote the poem about his mother Naomi after her death in 1956, who struggled with mental problems throughout her life. Naomi suffered many psychotic episodes both before Allen was born and while he was growing up. She went in and out of mental hospitals and was treated with medication, insulin shock therapy, and electroshock therapy. She died in an asylum in 1956. ' [Wiki] ***A later (nineteenth) impression of the famous City Lights Pocket Poets series edition of 'Kaddish' by Allen Ginsberg, first published as a paperback original, in very nice collectable condition. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.…

Original Wraps. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket, as Issued. First Edition. Twenty-first printing of the true first edition of this famous work by Allen Ginsberg, published as a paperback original in January 1989. City Lights originally published the book in 1961. Number Fourteen in the Pocket Poets Series. ***Near fine in the iconic black & white glossy card covers, with an 'Airlift Book Company' import price sticker of £4.95 over the original printed price of $3.95 on the back cover. The book is near fine, with the edges hardly rubbed at all - no creases or tears. Spine clean and unfaded. No fading. Internally also near fine, with no inscriptions. The endpapers are dark blue. Pages clean. No creases or tears. Spine tight. Covers bright and clean. ***158mm x 124mm. 99 pages plus a two-page complete list of published works by Allen Ginsberg and a three-page catalogue of City Lights Publications at the back of the book. ***'Irwin Allen Ginsberg (June 3, 1926 - April 5, 1997) was an American poet and writer. As a student at Columbia University in the 1940s, he began friendships with William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, forming the core of the Beat Generation. He vigorously opposed militarism, economic materialism, and sexual repression, and he embodied various aspects of this counterculture with his views on drugs, sex, multiculturalism, hostility to bureaucracy, and openness to Eastern religions. Ginsberg is best known for his poem "Howl", in which he denounced what he saw as the destructive forces of capitalism and conformity in the United States. San Francisco police and US Customs seized "Howl" in 1956, and it attracted widespread publicity in 1957 when it became the subject of an obscenity trial, as it described heterosexual and homosexual sex at a time when sodomy laws made (male) homosexual acts a crime in every state. The poem reflected Ginsberg's own sexuality and his relationships with a number of men, including Peter Orlovsky, his lifelong partner. Judge Clayton W. Horn ruled that "Howl" was not obscene, stating: "Would there be any freedom of press or speech if one must reduce his vocabulary to vapid innocuous euphemisms?" Ginsberg was a Buddhist who extensively studied Eastern religious disciplines. He lived modestly, buying his clothing in second-hand stores and residing in apartments in New York City's East Village. ***The lead poem "Kaddish" also known as "Kaddish for Naomi Ginsberg (1894-1956)", was written in two parts by Beat writer Allen Ginsberg, and was first published in Kaddish and Other Poems 1958-1960. The book was part of the Pocket Poet Series published by City Lights Books. In the table of contents, the poem is titled "Kaddish: Proem, narrative, hymmnn, lament, litany, & fugue". Along with Ginsberg's "Howl", Kaddish is said to be one of his greatest masterpieces. Ginsberg wrote the poem about his mother Naomi after her death in 1956, who struggled with mental problems throughout her life. Naomi suffered many psychotic episodes both before Allen was born and while he was growing up. She went in and out of mental hospitals and was treated with medication, insulin shock therapy, and electroshock therapy. She died in an asylum in 1956. ' [Wiki] ***A later (twenty-first) impression of the famous City Lights Pocket Poets series edition of 'Kaddish' by Allen Ginsberg, first published as a paperback original, in very nice collectable condition. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.…

First edition New and bright in like pictorial dustjacket with crisp bright text throughout. From the versatile poet, painter, pacifist, publisher and owner of the now and always legendary City Lights Bookshop. There is a selection of a fast trove of mostly unpublished handwritten notebooks with a keen wandering eye. Gift quality.…

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First paperback edition. Owner name on half-title, highlighting on several pages, light rubbing, very good. Contributions by: Tennessee Williams, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Bruce Caldwell, David Antin, Nicholas Bellitto, Edwin Brock, John H. Galey, Peter Glassgold, and others.…

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. 235pp. Pictorial wrappers. Spine has moderate wear, else a very good copy. Contains the first appearance of Allen Ginsberg's "New York to San Fran"; other contributions by G. Corso, C. Olson, M. McClure, C. Pelieu, and more.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Illustrated from black and white photographs. Pictorial wrappers. Moderate rubbing and soiling, very good. Contains the first appearance of Allen Ginsberg's "New York to San Fran" [Morgan C240]; other contributions by Alexandro Jodorowsky, Gregory Corso, Charles Olson, Michael McClure, C. Pelieu, and more.…

Softcover. 4°, Original booklet with illustrated front cover. 22 pages in typescript. Clean, good condition. -- Originalheft mit illustriertem Vorderdeckel. 22 Seiten in Typoskript. Sauberer, guter Zustand. Cover and layout by Birgit Stephenson. - Steven Strnad: The footlocker (9 pages) -- Bitte Portokosten außerhalb EU erfragen! / Please ask for postage costs outside EU! / S ' il vous plait demander des frais de port en dehors de l ' UE! // Bitte beachten Sie auch unsere Fotos! / Please also note our photos! / Veuillez noter nos photos -- Leuchtender Herbstbeginn! Wie wäre es mit einem guten Buch? Bei uns werden Sie fündig, stöbern Sie in unserem Ladengeschäft oder online. -- Wir kaufen Ihre werthaltigen Bücher! K03915-436105.…

First edition, first printing Cover design by Rex Ray. This unique anthology putting together the wonderful mousetrap size books published by Lawrence Ferlinghett. Opening with his own book, and contribution, and following down through the ages with Kenneth Rexroth, Allen Ginsberg, Kenneth Patchen, Robert Duncan, Frank O'Hara, Bob Kaufman, Jack Kerouac, and a few women are allowed in including Denise Levertov, Marie Ponsot, Diane di Prima, and Janine Pommy Vega,whose copy this is, drawing from her personal library. Fine bright illustrated classy boards with clean text. …

First edition, first printing Brand new and very bright in wraps with pictorial front cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good copy. Slight soiling to covers. Minor reading creases to spine. Binding still tight and square. Very minor damp stain to top of front cover and first few pages, otherwise internally clean and unmarked. Authors include Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Charles Bukowski, Huey P. Newton, Robert Creeley, Gary Snyder, Herbert Marcuse and many others. Cover illustration of Thelonious Monk by Victor Brauner.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good+ binding. Very Good+ dust jacket. Octavo. lxvi, 437, [1] pp., illus. First edition, first printing. In publisher's boards with dust jacket. A very nice, fresh copy.

Stapled 4to wraps w yellow cover, 140pp, Very Good plus contents and front cover with Brian Gysin Illustration, lacking rear cover but all text and front cover clean and tight, no creases to cover or markings at all. Scarce issue re small press publication as well as the usual fine prose and poetry. Scarce issue. …

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. First edition. First Printing. 464pp. 8vo. Paper over boards, gilt on spine. Signed by the author on a publisher's tipped-in sheet. Book is unread, unmarked, unclipped, bright, tight, and Brodart protected. Complete number line from 1-10, stated First Edition. Embedded with facsimilie manuscript pages and poems, many never before published. Book consists of Previously Published Works; Author's Note; Editors' Introduction; First Time Abroad; Normandy Invasion (June 6, 1944); I The Sixties; II The Mexican Night; III The Seventies; IV The Eighties; V The Nineties; VI 2000-2010; Acknowledgments; Notes; Index. Gift quality book. Signed. …

First edition, first printing Not to be confused with City Lights Journal or the City Lights Review from the same location all circulating around Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Nancy Phillips with its cover by Victor Brauner of Thelonius Monk. Great and hardy with Allen Ginsberg on his encounters with Ezra Pound, Andrei Voznesensky, Huey P. Newton, Judson Crews, Diane di Prima, Barbara Guest, Jack Micheline, Charles Bukowski, Jack Kerouac, Gary Snyder, Robert Creely, Richard Brautigan, Kay McDonough on Bob Kaufman reading at Vesuvio's Bar, Ed Bullins, Michael McClure, Richard Baker-roshi, Vicente Huidobro, Arthur Rimband with A Season in Hell, Jean Genet looks at the studio of Alberto Giacommeti, plus a hearty selection of poets from "The Surrealist Movement in the US". Near fine tall illustrated wraps with the gentlest of use and the usual edge toning.…

paperback. Condition: Very Good. Nn. 1-2-3-4. Articoli vari di: Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Philip Lamantia, Julian Beck, Ernesto Cardenal, Charles Henri Ford, Allen Ginsberg, James Laughlin, Henri Michaux, Daniel Moore, Roland Topor, Nanos Valaoritis, Marie Wilson, David Wojnarowicz, Edmund White, Lucia Berlin, Giorgio Manganelli, et al. . Cm 23x18. pp. 200 c.ca a fascicolo. . Molto buono (Very Good). . . . Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. SIGNED BY LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI first US edition, sixth printing in Near Fine condition with inked inscription from previous owner on front endpaper and with no dust jacket as issued. (see photos). 259pp. Signed by Author.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. No. 4/5 (double issue), softcover issue. Tall octavo. 191pp. Unprinted wrappers with integral dust jacket (tipped-on inside the front cover), printed on several paper stocks. Jacket and early (exposed) foredges foxed, and wrappers soiled, middle 20 or so pages (on tan stock) with light but unobtrusive staining, sound and near very good. (Without the fragile outer jacket and sealed flowers, but we are unsure if they were issued with the softcover edition.) Contributions by William Wantling, Charles Bukowski, Diane Di Prima, Denise Levertov, Lawrence Durrell, Michael Hamburger, Douglas Blazek, d. a. levy, Thomas Merton, Robert Bly, Jackson Mac Low, Jean Cocteau, and many others. Also prints an "Homage to Kenneth Patchen" with contributions by Bro. Antoninus, Allen Ginsberg, Hugh MacDiarmid, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Henry Miller, and others. A cool magazine, "Handset, Mostly, & Hand Bound At Loujon's Desert Workshop Printery, Arizona U.S.A. .".…

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition, complete in 5 volumes. Perfectbound wrappers. The issues are moderately soiled with a modestly toned spine on Volume 1, light foxing on the cover of Volume 2, and a small tear on the spine of Volume 4, overall very good. Included is the notorious first issue which reprints the complete contents of the suppressed *Winter 1959 Chicago Review*, which consisted of "Ten Episodes from *Naked Lunch*" by William S. Burroughs, "Old Angel Midnight" by Jack Kerouac, two pieces by Edward Dahlberg and three poems from Gregory Corso. *Maynard and Miles* C6. The remaining issues feature contributions from Allen Ginsberg, Antonin Artaud, Paul Bowles, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Robert Duncan, John Ashbery, Norman Mailer, Robert Creeley, Jack Spicer, Jack Kerouac, LoRoi Jones, Charles Olson, John Updike, and others.…