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Ferlinghetti, Lawrence ; Nancy J. Peters. Literary San Francisco: A Pictorial History from Its Beginnings to the Present Day. San Francisco, California: City Lights Books and Harper & Row, Publishers, 1980.

Price: US$45.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: First edition stated. Number line beginning with 1. Near fine, if not near fine plus hardback in near fine, if not near fine plus or fine dust jacket.($15.95). Book hhas round embossed stamp to lower fore-edge corner of first two lelaves and book plate in lower corner of front pastedown near spine. Only trivial additional signs of age/wear/previous use to book and dust jacket. Appears to be signed by both authors on front free endpaper.

Seller: Time Tested Books, Sacramento, CA, U.S.A.

FERLINGHETTI Lawrence, Nancy J. Peters .. LITERARY SAN FRANCISCO: A PICTORIAL HISTORY FROM ITS BEGINNINGS TO THE PRESENT DAY. (SIGNED). City Lights Books: Harper & Row, Publishers,, San Francisco,, 1980.

Price: US$51.45 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 4to. pp xi, 254. Original publishers green cloth, lettered gilt at the spine. Copiously illustrated in black and white throughout. Signed by Lawrence Ferlinghetti on the front endpaper. ISBN: 0062503251 Very good indeed in slightly used and nicked, near very good dust jacket.

Seller: Burwood Books, Wickham Market, United Kingdom

Ferlinghetti, Lawrence; Peters, Nancy J.. Literary San Francisco: A Pictorial History from Its Beginnings to the Present Day. City Lights Books, San Francisco, California, U.S.A., 1980.

Price: US$75.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Signed on the ffep by both Ferlinghetti and Peters. Nancy Peters was Ferlinghetti's editor at City Lights Books.

Seller: The Book Shelf, Salem, OR, U.S.A.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Nancy J. Peters. Literary San Francisco: A Pictorial History from Its Beginnings to the Present Day. City Lights Books, 1980.

Price: US$125.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Signed by the authors on front endpaper. Jacket is foxed on inside and out, with small open tears on corners and edges. Cover is foxed and bumped at top of spine, and bumped on corners. Binding is tight. Edges of first and last pages are slightly foxed, but text and images are unaffected and pages are otherwise clean and unmarked.

Seller: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Ferlinghetti, Lawrence and Nancy J. Peters. LITERARY SAN FRANCISCO: A Pictorial History from Its Beginnings to the Present Day. City Lights Books and Harper & Row, San Francisco, 1980.

Price: US$200.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Inscribed by Lawrence Ferlinghetti on the front flyleaf. ".recreates the city's brawling literary frontier, the escapades of the Bohemian Club, Les Jeunes - the spirited aesthetes of the late 1890s - the Carmel literary colony that sprang up while San Francisco was rebuilding after the 1906 quake, the telling appearance of Continent's End: An Anthology of Contemporary California Poets in 1925, the engagement of writers in the 1930s with labor strife and power politics, the post-World War II literary renaissance, the anti-Vietnam War movement, the beginnings of the Rock Era, and the contemporary literary expression of pioneer thinking on feminist, ethnic, minority, religious, and political issues." Quarto: xi, 254 p. with a plethora of photographs and illustrations. Original green cloth binding, with gilt titles. Some mild fading and wear along the extremities of the dust jacket; otherwise very good.

Seller: johnson rare books & archives, ABAA, Covina, CA, U.S.A.

Ferlinghetti, Lawrence, and Peters, Nancy J.. Literary San Francisco: A Pictorial History, from Its Beginnings to the Present Day. City Lights Books; Harper & Row, Publishers, San Francisco and New York, 1980.

Price: US$250.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Cloth, xi, 254 pages, illustrations; 29 cm. SIGNED. Boldly signed by poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919-2021), owner of City Lights Books; on the front free endpaper. Age toning, edges & endpapers lightly soiled. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket, with light edgewear, protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Size: 4to

Seller: LEFT COAST BOOKS, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.