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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$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.
FERLINGHETTI, Lawrence.. Pictures of the Gone World.. San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1963, 1963.
Price: US$969.13 + shipping
Description: First edition, sixth printing, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page 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$1938.26 + 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. Four 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