Title: Thirty volumes from the Pocket Poets Series - each signed by editor and co-founder of City Lights, Lawrence Ferlinghetti Author: Place: San Francisco Publisher: City Lights Date: Various dates Description: 30 volumes. Printed and pictorial wrappers. Various editions, All volumes signed by Lawrence Ferlinghetti on the title page. Inspired by the French poetry series, Poètes d'aujourd'hui, Lawrence Ferlinghetti launched the Pocket Poets Series in 1955 with his own Pictures of the Gone World. The success and scandal of Number Four, Howl & Other Poems (1956), established City Lights as a major alternative press for the most innovative American and international poetry. Includes: Ferlinghetti, Lawrence. Pictures of the Gone World. Second printing of the expanded edition, 1995. Rexroth, Kenneth, (translator). Thirty Spanish Poems of Love and Exile. Early edition, 1956. Patchen, Kenneth. Poems of Humor and Protest. Fifteenth printing, 1971. Ginsberg, Allen. Howl and Other Poems. Fourteenth Printing, 1965. Levertov, Denise. Here and Now. Third Edition, 1957. Williams, William Carlos. Kora in Hell : Improvisations. Seventh printing, 1967. Corso, Gregory. Gasoline. Later edition, reissued with The Vestal Lady on Brattle. Rothen, Jerome, (translator). New Young German Poets. 1959. Patchen, Kenneth. The Love Poems of Kenneth Patchen 1963. Ginsberg, Allen. Kaddish and Other Poems. Fourteenth printing, 1974. Lowry, Malcolm. Selected Poems of Malcolm Lowry. 1962. O'Hara, Frank. Lunch Poems. 1964, but later. Lamantia, Philip. Selected Poems 1943-1966. 1967. Kaufman, Bob. Golden Sardine. Third printing, 1976. Ginsberg, Allen. Planet News: 1961-1967. Twelfth printing, 2000. Upton, Charles. Panic Grass, 1968. Picasso, Pablo. Hunk of Skin. 1968 Kerouac, Jack. Scattered Poems, 1971, but later. Ginsberg, Allen. The Fall of America, Poems of These States 1965-1971. 18th printing, n.d. Waldman, Anne. Fast Speaking Woman. 1975. Hirschman, Jack. Lyripol. Also signed by Hirschman. 1976 Ginsberg, Allen. Mind Breaths: Poems 1972-1977. 1977. Rollins, Scott, editor. Nine Dutch Poets. 1982. Cornford, Adam. Animations. 1988 Mayakovsky, Vladimir. Listen! 1991 Kerouac, Jack. Pomes All Sizes. 1992. Kerouac, Jack. The Scripture of the Golden Eternity. 1994. Mehmedinovic, Semezdin. Nine Alexandrias. 2003 Rossi, Cristina Peri. State of Exile. 2008. Lamantia, Philip and John Hoffman. Tau and Journey to the End. 2008. Lot Amendments Condition: Some general wear, with light foxing, toning, etc., mostly to the earlier volumes; all volumes very good or better, most near fine or better. Item number: 280260
Title: Thirty volumes from the Pocket Poets Series - each signed by editor and co-founder of City Lights, Lawrence Ferlinghetti Author: Place: San Francisco Publisher: City Lights Date: Various dates Description: 30 volumes. Printed and pictorial wrappers. Various editions, All volumes signed by Lawrence Ferlinghetti on the title page. Inspired by the French poetry series, Poètes d'aujourd'hui, Lawrence Ferlinghetti launched the Pocket Poets Series in 1955 with his own Pictures of the Gone World. The success and scandal of Number Four, Howl & Other Poems (1956), established City Lights as a major alternative press for the most innovative American and international poetry. Includes: Ferlinghetti, Lawrence. Pictures of the Gone World. Second printing of the expanded edition, 1995. Rexroth, Kenneth, (translator). Thirty Spanish Poems of Love and Exile. Early edition, 1956. Patchen, Kenneth. Poems of Humor and Protest. Fifteenth printing, 1971. Ginsberg, Allen. Howl and Other Poems. Fourteenth Printing, 1965. Levertov, Denise. Here and Now. Third Edition, 1957. Williams, William Carlos. Kora in Hell : Improvisations. Seventh printing, 1967. Corso, Gregory. Gasoline. Later edition, reissued with The Vestal Lady on Brattle. Rothen, Jerome, (translator). New Young German Poets. 1959. Patchen, Kenneth. The Love Poems of Kenneth Patchen 1963. Ginsberg, Allen. Kaddish and Other Poems. Fourteenth printing, 1974. Lowry, Malcolm. Selected Poems of Malcolm Lowry. 1962. O'Hara, Frank. Lunch Poems. 1964, but later. Lamantia, Philip. Selected Poems 1943-1966. 1967. Kaufman, Bob. Golden Sardine. Third printing, 1976. Ginsberg, Allen. Planet News: 1961-1967. Twelfth printing, 2000. Upton, Charles. Panic Grass, 1968. Picasso, Pablo. Hunk of Skin. 1968 Kerouac, Jack. Scattered Poems, 1971, but later. Ginsberg, Allen. The Fall of America, Poems of These States 1965-1971. 18th printing, n.d. Waldman, Anne. Fast Speaking Woman. 1975. Hirschman, Jack. Lyripol. Also signed by Hirschman. 1976 Ginsberg, Allen. Mind Breaths: Poems 1972-1977. 1977. Rollins, Scott, editor. Nine Dutch Poets. 1982. Cornford, Adam. Animations. 1988 Mayakovsky, Vladimir. Listen! 1991 Kerouac, Jack. Pomes All Sizes. 1992. Kerouac, Jack. The Scripture of the Golden Eternity. 1994. Mehmedinovic, Semezdin. Nine Alexandrias. 2003 Rossi, Cristina Peri. State of Exile. 2008. Lamantia, Philip and John Hoffman. Tau and Journey to the End. 2008. Lot Amendments Condition: Some general wear, with light foxing, toning, etc., mostly to the earlier volumes; all volumes very good or better, most near fine or better. Item number: 280260
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