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21.
FERLINGHETTI, Lawrence.
Northwest Ecolog.

San Francisco: City Lights (1978).

First edition. 43 pp. Near fine in illustrated wrappers. Poems and drawings. Cook 125.
$25

22.
FERLINGHETTI, Lawrence.
One Thousand Fearful Words for Fidel Castro.

San Francisco: City Lights (1961).

First edition. Single 7 ½ x 25 inch sheet, folded three times, as issued. Fine. “There are not one thousand words here. The author has left room for a happier ending, in case the relentless hostility of government and press in the US should somehow not triumph in the end.” Cook 28.
$45

22a.
Same title.
Very near fine. SIGNED by Ferlinghetti on the rear cover.
$75

23.
FERLINGHETTI, Lawrence and Nancy J. Peters. eds.
City Lights Review Number One.

San Francisco: City Lights (1987).

First edition. 204 pp. Very good plus in glossy illustrated wrappers. Includes work by Codrescu, Pavese, Tsvetayeva, Lorca, Michaux, Chomsky, Ponsot, Tom Clark, Ginsberg, Cardenal, Julian Beck, and others. Cook 182.
$15

24.
FERLINGHETTI, Lawrence. ed.
Interim Pad No 1.

San Francisco: City Lights, 1967.

First edition. 4to. 46 pp. Small snag to spine, else very near fine in side-stapled wrappers. One of 500 copies, printed by mimeograph. Only issue of this City Lights-based mag. Contributions by Carl Solomon, Allen Ginsberg, Bob Kaufman, Ferlinghetti, Claude Pelieu and Mary Beach, and others. Cook 65.
$75

25.
[FERLINGHETTI, Lawrence. ed.].
On the Barricades: Revolution & Repression. Journal for the Protection of All Beings No. 2.

San Francisco: City Lights/Beach Books, Texts & Documents (1968).

First edition. Tall 4to. [40 pp]. Small corner crease, else near fine in stapled wrappers. Published on Bastille Day, this issue collects b&w photographs of the May actions in France, along with anonymous poems, slogans, and graffiti. Translations from the original French by Mary Beach. Photographs by “Caron.” Cook 70.
$75

26.
GASCOYNE, David.
A Short Survey of Surrealism.

San Francisco: City Lights (1982).

First US edition (originally published in London in 1935). xiv + 162 pp w/index. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. Cover illustration and design by Max Ernst. This edition includes a new introduction by Gascoyne. Cook 150.
$20

27.
GENET, Jean.
May Day Speech.

San Francisco: City Lights, (1970).

First edition. 25 pp. Light wear along spine, else very near fine in stapled wrappers. Cover photograph by Les Payne. Introductory description, “Genet’s Commencement Discourse” by Allen Ginsberg. Morgan B73. Cook 86.
$25

28.
GINSBERG, Allen.
Airplane Dreams: Compositions From Journals.

Toronto & San Francisco: House of Anansi/City Lights (1969).

First US edition. 38 pp. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. Printed dedication to Philip Whalen. Morgan A12a3.1. Cook 74.
$15

29.
GINSBERG, Allen.
Iron Horse.

San Francisco: City Lights (1974).

First US edition. Horizontal 8vo. 52 pp. Near fine in illustrated wrappers. Morgan A27a2.1. Cook 105.
$15

30.
HEMINGWAY, Ernest.
Collected Poems.

San Francisco: [City Lights], 1960.

First printing of this piracy. 28 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. Collects the ten poems from Hemingway’s first book, with the addition of six additional “Miscellaneous Poems.” Hanneman A26c. Cook 20.
$20

31.
JOHNSON, Kay.
Human Songs.

San Francisco & London: City Lights/Villiers (1964).

First edition. 47 pp. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. Cover art and frontis drawing by Johnson. One of 400 copies. Her first collection of verse. Cook 47.
$25

32.
JOYCE, James.
Pomes Penyeach.

San Francisco: [City Lights, 1966].

First edition. [20 pp. Near fine in stapled wrappers. Cook 56.
$25

33.
[JOYCE, James]. Smith Paul Jordan.
A Key to the ULYSSES of James Joyce.

[San Francisco]: City Lights (1970).

First US edition. 89 pp. Very good plus in illustrated wrappers. Cook 88.
$15

34.
KAUFMAN, Bob.
Second April.

San Francisco: City Lights (1959).

First edition. Single long sheet, folded five times (7 ½ x 6 inches closed). Fine. Cook 18.
$35

35.
LAUGHLIN, James.
In Another Country: Poems 1935–1975.

San Francisco: City Lights (1978).

First trade paperback printing. 12mo. [64 pp]. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Cover photograph by Ann Laughlin. Poems selected by Robert Fitzgerald, with his foreword. Cook 126.
$10

35a.
Same title.
Sticker residue on the rear cover, else near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. INSCRIBED by Laughlin on the half-title page, “For Charles Brashees / from / James Laughlin / The man who knew / Pound.”
$45

36.
LAUGHLIN, James.
Selected Poems 1935–1985.

San Francisco: City Lights (1986).

First edition. 248 pp w/notes & index of titles. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. One of 300 hardcover copies. Foreword by Marjorie Perloff. Cook 170.
$25

37.
[LITERARY ANTHOLOGY]. Buhle, Paul. et al, eds.
Free Spirits: Annals of the Insurgent Imagination I.

San Francisco: City Lights (1982).

First edition. 223 pp. Near fine in illustrated wrappers with a light corner crease to the front cover. Contributions by Jablonski, the Rosemonts, Lamantia, Nancy Joyce Peters, Amina Baraka, Angela Carter, Charles Amirkhanian, Ferlinghetti, and many others. Illustrated. Cook 151.
$35

38.
[LITERARY ANTHOLOGY]. Ferlinghetti, Lawrence. ed.
City Lights Anthology.

San Francisco: City Lights (1974).

First edition. Small 4to. 250 pp. Very good plus in illustrated wrappers. In addition to house writers, includes work by Huey P. Newton, Judson Crews, Linda King, Thomas Head, Richard Brautigan, Ed Bullins and many others. Also presents two feature sections, “Greek Poets Today,” and “The Surrealist Movement in the U.S.” Cook 107.
$35

39.
McCLURE, Michael.
Meat Science Essays.

San Francisco: City Lights (1963).

First edition. 82 pp. Light bump to lower corner, else very near fine in illustrated wrappers. SIGNED by McClure. Brief introduction by Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
$65

40.
MENSION, Jean-Michel.
The Tribe.

San Francisco: City Lights (2001).

First US edition. 132 pp. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Translated from the original French by Donald Nicholson-Smith. Contributions to the History of the Situationist International and Its Time, Vol. 1.
$14.95

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