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Ferlinghetti, Lawrence. Unfair arguments with existence. New Directions, New York, 1963.
Price: US$14.46 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Prev owner's bookplate on fep.
Seller: Coast Market Books, Mermaid Beach, QLD, Australia
Price: US$14.95 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 7.8 x 5.1 x 1 inches-Sixteenth printing-1985. The pages are clean and unmarked.While famous for his celebrated novel, Under the Volcano, Malcolm Lowry always considered himself a poet. First published in 1962 and long out of print, Selected Poems of Malcolm Lowry is the only comprehensive selection of his poetry to be published, and it remains the perfect introduction to his extensive poetic canon. Edited by Lowry's good friend, renowned Canadian poet Earle Birney, with the assistance of his widow, Margerie Lowry, the selection includes extraordinary poems written during Lowry's stay in Mexico, many of which are closely related to his novel. This new edition includes a "Publisher's Note" from Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
Seller: Mad Hatter Bookstore, Westbank, BC, Canada
Ferlinghetti, Lawrence. Unfair Arguments with Existence. City Lights Books, San Francisco, 1963.
Price: US$17.50 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Small chip missing from top spine. Ex-libris inside front cover. Text fine.
Seller: Take Five Books, Ashland, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$22.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Strong, square copy with no creasing to the covers or the spine. A little toned along the spine and lightly rubbed at the spine tips.
Seller: Pensees Bookshop, Charleston, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 12mo. volume in stiff paper covers. Condition: minor vertical crease to spine; else slight shelf-wear to binding; inked name and date inside front cover; else very good. 82 pages.
Seller: Betterbks/ COSMOPOLITAN BOOK SHOP, Burbank, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$33.06 + shipping
Description: 8°. 176 S. Oln. mit illustriertem Schutzumschlag nach einem Gemälde des Autors. Umschlag mit wenigen ganz kleinen Randeinrissen (aber vollständig). Gutes Exemplar. Erste deutsche Ausgabe. Frühe deutsche Übersetzung eines wichtigen Werkes des amerikanischen Beat-Poeten. "in sein eigenes Ich verstrickt machte sich der.[.] Beat-Lyriker[.] auf epische Suche nach Urmutter-Gnade und 'nach dem Hauptdarsteller meines Lebens'. Er monologisiert, mal traumhaft und lyrisch, mal beißend-hämisch, über die Triebverklemmungen und die zivilisatorisch-kränkelnden Beziehungen seiner amerikanischen Zeitgenossen und bekennt: 'Ich wollte ein bißchen Luft ablassen und es war kein Ventil da.' Ferlinghettis panische Sprachekstase wirkt wie ein surrealistischer Kinsey-Report für Außenseiter" (aus einer Rezension des Magazins "Der Spiegel" im Erscheinungsjahr). Der Dichter (*1919) gehört neben Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs u.a. zu den bedeutendsten Vertretern der sogenannten Beat Generation, der ersten lterarischen Subkultur in den USA nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg. Er betrieb neben seiner Autorentätigkeit den City Lights Bookstore und den City Books-Verlag in San Francisco. Dort verlegte er nicht nur einige seiner eigenen Bücher, sondern auch Werke anderer Beat-Poets, so u.a. Allen Ginsbergs wohl bekanntestes Gedicht "Howl". Sprache: de
Seller: Antiquariat Les-art, Burgstetten, Germany
FERLINGHETTI, LAWRENCE (ed.). City Lights Journal Number One. City Lights Books 1963, 1963.
Price: US$39.74 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION ($1.50 cover price) octavo illus. light card covers, 112pp, VG (moderate tanning, light foxing)
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
. City Lights Journal. Number One. City Lights Books, San Francisco, 1963.
Price: US$47.48 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Uninscribed. A few square cm torn off first page. No wear, probably unopened. Work by Ginsberg, Kerouac, Ferlinghetti, Artaud, Brautigan, Mayakovsky etc.
Seller: Vortex Books, Teddington, MIDDX, United Kingdom
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Trade paperbound book. 118 pp. Seven short plays by the owner of City Lights Bookstore. In very good unmarked condition. With the folded "News From New Directions" promotional letter describing and discussing this book. An uncommon piece of Ferlinghetti ephemera.
Seller: Derringer Books, Member ABAA, Avon, CT, U.S.A.
McClure, Michael.. Meat Science Essays.. City Lights Books, San Francisco, 1963.
Price: US$55.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: First Printing. A Very Fine copy in black and grey smooth wrappers, a paperback original. 82pp. With an introductory Note by publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Immaculate. Q14417
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$57.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Photos; ads, 8 x 5.5", pict (Allen Ginsberg) wraps, 112pp, covers a bit rubbed, spine darkened with a small stain, pp edge-toned, but still a good copy. First (and only) edition and printing. Includes works by William Carlos Williams, Anselm Hollo, Richard Brautigan, Ed Sanders, Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, etc.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: The legendary and very scarce first issue of this fabled literary magazine which showcased the Beat Writers, with many literary figures represented. A very well preserved copy, clean and bright,.
Seller: Bibliodisia Books, IOBA, MWABA, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Beats - McClure, Michael. Meat Science Essays (Inscribed). City Lights, San Francisco, 1963.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Small trade paperbound volume. 82 pp. A collection of essays by the beat poet. Introduction by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. A lovely near fine copy. Boldly INSCRIBED by McClure.
Seller: Derringer Books, Member ABAA, Avon, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Near fine in pictorial printed wrappers. (112pp. ) (Faint half cup ring on front cover that appears almost to be a rainbow. ) Features work by: Kerouac, Burroughs, Brautigan, Ginsberg, Snyder to name only a few. (GC); 6" x 7 3/4"; 112 pages
Seller: WAVERLEY BOOKS ABAA, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$138.75 + shipping
Description: 14mo. pp. 112. few b/w illus. wrs. First Edition.
Seller: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Canada
Ferlinghetti, Lawrence. City Lights Journal. City Lights Books, San Francisco, 1963.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: City Lights Journal edited by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. First edition, first issue in pictorial wrappers. Publisher: City Lights Books, San Francisco, 1963. 112 pages. 6 x 7 ¾ inches. Price of $1.50 printed on the front wrapper. Wrappers in near fine condition, edges toned. Contents bright and clean. Contributors include: Kerouac, Burroughs, Brautigan, Ginsberg, Snyder. Inventory #23-143. Price: $150.
Seller: Discovery Bay Old Books ABAA, ILAB, Brentwood, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: City Lights Books, San Francisco, 1963 (1961) 100 pages. Wraps. From the collectible and pioneering chapbook publishing series: The Pocket Poets Series - Number 14. 1st edition, 6th printing. Signed by poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti, owner of City Lights Books and editor of City Lights Books publications. Signed directly to the title page without inscription. Just below his name, Mr. Ferlinghetti wrote the word 'editor'. Book is clean and tight. Rubbing along edges. $1.50 price on rear cover. A nice, unique signed copy.
Seller: Medium Rare Books, Mountainside, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$560.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1963. Four volume set. Octavos. Soft covers. All four volumes first editions. Volume three signed by Ferlinghetti. All volumes in very good condition. Volume two has foxing and edge wear.
Seller: Bad Animal, Santa Cruz, CA, U.S.A.
. CITY LIGHTS JOURNAL 1 à 4Collection complète. 1963-78, 1963.
Price: US$936.76 + shipping
Description: San Francisco, City Lights Books, 1963-1978, 204x140mm, 112, 280, 229 et 256p., volumes brochés sous couvertures photographiques.Dirigé par Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Richard McBride et Miles Payne (n°1), Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Joanne Joseph et Robert McBride (n°2), Lawrence Ferlinghetti (n°3) et Mendes Monsanto (n°4). Participation de nombreux écrivains américains et étrangers depuis Guillaume Apollinaire, Antonin Arthaud ou Henri Michaux jusquaux contemporains comme William Burroughs, William Carlos William, Jack Kerouac, Jean Louis Bory, pour nen citer que quelques uns. Ralph T. Cock, City Lights Books ,n°39, 49, 57, 124. Sohm n°22. (103254) Livres
Seller: Chloé et Denis Ozanne, Paris, France
FERLINGHETTI, Lawrence.. Pictures of the Gone World.. San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1963, 1963.
Price: US$962.45 + shipping
Description: First edition, sixth printing, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper to a fellow Beat publisher, "To Mike Horovitz, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, London, May 1963". A champion of experimental poetry in Britain, Michael Horovitz (1935-2021) founded the magazine New Depatures in 1959, which published work by Burroughs, Ginsberg, and several British Beat poets. Ferlinghetti and Horovitz met in the 1960s, and Ferlinghetti appeared, with Burroughs and Ginsberg, at Horovitz's International Poetry Incarnation at the Royal Albert Hall in 1965. Square octavo. Original black and yellow wrappers, wire-stitched as issued. Wrappers slightly rubbed, a few pages folded, a very good copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$1924.90 + shipping
Description: The full run of City Lights Journal, each issue signed by the editor on the title page, "Number One" additionally signed by contributors Jack Hirschman, Gary Snyder, and Harold Norse; "Number Four" by Hirschman, Neeli Cherkovski, and A.D. Winans. Although the short-lived journal struggled to stick to its annual schedule (the final issue was published 15 years after the first) it remains a testament to Ferlinghetti's influence: the first issue includes contributions from the entire Beat pantheon, including Ginsberg, Burroughs, Kerouac, Ed Sanders, and Neal Cassady. 4 volumes, octavo. Original black and white photographic wrappers lettered in black and white. Housed in a custom black cloth slipcase. Wrappers rubbed and lightly toned with a few marks, spines and lower corners slightly creased, foxing to some edges and endpapers, No. 1 with tiny chip at head of spine, No. 2 with stain on spine extending slightly to rear wrapper and lower corners of a few leaves, not affecting text, No. 3 spine ends slightly bumped, No. 4 with joints split at head but firm. A very good set.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom