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Item Details
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| Author: |
Ferlinghetti, Lawrence |
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Lot of 16 Lawrence Ferlinghetti volumes, plus paper items - many signed |
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Various places |
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1960-2004 |
| Item # : |
181059 |
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| Sale Number |
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354 |
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302 |
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| Beat Literature Library of Stephen Ronan & Charles Bukowski Collection of Thomas Groff |
| Sale Date |
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04/26/2007 |
| Price realized |
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$ 316 |
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| Description: |
| Comprises: Her. 2 signed copies: 1st U.S., New Directions, [1960]; & 1st U.K. (tiny remainder stamp), MacGibbon & Kee, 1966. * Starting from San Francisco. With 33-1/3 record in rear sleeve (light scratches but appears still in working order). Boards, no dj. New Directions, [1961]. * A Coney Island of the Mind. 1st clothbound, slipcase. New Directions, [1968]. * The Secret Meaning of Things.1 of 150, this being an “out of series” copy, signed. Slipcase. New Directions, [1969]. * Cherkovski. Ferlinghetti: A Biography. Signed by Ferlinghetti; inscribed & signed by author to Steven Ronan with small drawing, Sept. 18, 1979. Doubleday, 1979. * Landscapes of Living & Dying. Signed. New Directions, [1979]. * Literary San Francisco. With Nancy Peters. Signed by both authors, dated Nov. 1980. With: ALS by Peters to Stephen Ronan with poem for “Ammunition”; typed note signed by Nancy Joyce to Ronan, Jan. 10, 1973 on City Lights letterhead; and inked horoscope chart for Ronan and “Karen”; all laid in with envelopes. 4to. City Lights/Harper, [1980]. * Over All the Obscene Boundaries. With Ferlinghetti’s business card, inscribed & signed to Ronan with “LF” initials, laid in. New Directions, [1984]. * These Are My Rivers. Signed. New Directions, [1993]. * In Search of Eros. Signed. Wraps. White Fields, 1995. * Ferlinghetti: The Poet as Painter. Illus. 4to. Wraps, with wrap-around paper band. Progetti Museali, [1996]. * Ogar, ed. The Poet’s Eye: A Tribute to Ferlinghetti & City Lights. Signed. Wraps. Bancroft Lib., 1997. * A Far Rockaway of the Heart. Inscribed & signed in 1997 to Ronan. New Directions, [1997]. * How to Paint Sunlight. New Directions, [2001]. * Americus I. Signed. New Directions, [2004]. * Plus some related paper items: 2 announcements for the 49th Bancroft Library meeting, 1996 (one signed by Ferlinghetti); 6 paper sheets from the 1996 meeting; and Bancroft Lib. newsletter, V.1 #1, Spring 1996, all laid inside original Bancroft envelope. Together, 16 volumes, plus paper items. 8vo to 4to. Mostly cloth and/or boards, 10 in jackets, 2 in slipcase; 3 in wrappers. First Editions or first printings. |
| Thirteen books and items signed by Ferlinghetti. |
| Condition: |
| About half of the jackets with short tears and creases, also those books with mild edge wear and soiling, generally very good; other half fine in like jackets. |
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