City Lights Books - Hardcover

Cook, Ralph T.; Cook, Lori A.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0810826216 ISBN 13: 9780810826212

Publisher: Scarecrow Press, 1992

Synopsis

In 1955, poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti began issuing small paperback books of poetry from City Lights Bookshop in San Francisco. Since then the press has published over 230 titles and 1,500 authors. Throughout its history, City Lights Books has reflected a broad range of ideas and fresh thought, publishing writers from every part of the world and cutting across lines of culture, age, and gender. Authors include Jack Kerouac, James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, Robert Burns, Hilda Doolittle, Diane di Prima, Allen Ginsberg, Goethe, Walt Whitman, Gregory Corso, and Karl Marx. The Cooks provide complete information on all City Lights publications from 1955 through 1990, with full decriptions of title pages, collation, contents, bindings, dates published, and print run.

About this title

About the Author:

Ralph T. Cook (BBA, National University, San Diego, CA) is a former rare book dealer and editor of a little magazine, Atticus Review. He has studied the Beat Generation writers for the past 20 years and is the author of The City Lights Pocket Poets Series: A Descriptive Bibliography (1982).

Review:

...an inevitable resource for the bibliographers of a host of modern authors as well as providing the basis of the history of an important publishing venture. (Papers Of The Bibliographic Society Of America)

...meticulously thorough....serves as a record of the avante-garde's delightfully eclectic taste over more than three decades. (Wilson Library Bulletin)

...meticulously defines his terms and explains his methodology, thereby making his volume useful even for the nonspecialist who is unfamiliar with the arcane jargon of descriptive bibliography...invaluable not only to researchers but also to librarians, rare book dealers, and book collectors. (American Reference Books Annual)

...will prove to be a valuable publication for students, scholars, librarians, booksellers, and book collectors. (Reference Reviews)

About this edition

• Publisher: Scarecrow Press
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0810826216
• ISBN 13: 9780810826212
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 361