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Price: US$47.03 + shipping
Description: 4to, 5pp printed on single side only. A very good staple bound paper booklet. Edges slightly yellowed. . One of Ferlinghetti's most important poems of later years & a significant contribution to the literature documenting the immigrant experience in America.
Seller: Sainsbury's Books Pty. Ltd., Camberwell, VIC, Australia
Ferlinghetti (Lawrence).. The Old Italians Dying. City Lights Bookshop, San Francisco,, 1976.
Price: US$135.27 + shipping
Description: 4to A very nice copy with one horizontal fold, upper cover slightly darkened. This is the Authors Presentation Copy, inscribed on the upper cover, and with his holograph manuscript correction to the second line of the poem One of Ferlinghetti's most important poems of later years, this a significant contribution to the literature documenting the immigrant experience in America. It is sold together with a photocopied typescript (2 pages) of the poem Expressionist History of German Expressionism, a keepsake History of the Airplane produced to celebrate the dedication of City Lights Books as a Cultural Landmark on October 28 2001, and a photocopy of a poem from The New York Times, inscribed Op/Ed by the poet. The text is a reproduction of the authors holograph manuscript
Seller: Bertram Rota Ltd, Kintbury, United Kingdom
FERLINGHETTI, Lawrence. The Old Italians Dying. (City Lights Bookstore), (San Francisco), 1976.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Quarto, 6 leaves, side-stapled, printed rectos only, as issued. A very good or better copy, with very gentle toning to the extremities, and a few short edge creases. One of 50 limited copies of the first printing, considerably scarcer than the second and later printings, and among the scarcer Ferlinghetti items generally. A mimeographed copy of Ferlighetti's handwritten poem, a kind of elegy for the old Italian neighborhood in San Francisco, which was changing rapidly with the social and cultural upleavals of the 1960s and 1970s.
Seller: Cleveland Book Company, ABAA, Rocky River, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Description: Third Printing. Octavo (20.25cm); photo-illustrated wrappers; 255,[1]pp. Signed on the title page by Neeli Cherkovski, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Linda King, and A.D. Winans. Light wear to wrappers, mild sunning and vertical crease along front joint, with small, faint stain to lower right corner of textblock; Very Good+. Volume collecting a large portion of Bukowski's "Notes of a Dirty Old Man" column which he wrote for Open City between May, 1967 and February, 1969. The column and subsequent publication of the book made Bukowski more famous than nearly anything else he did throughout his career. A distinctive copy, signed by four individuals with deep, personal connections to the author. Krumhansl 29b.
Seller: Captain Ahab's Rare Books, ABAA, Stephenson, VA, U.S.A.