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8 volumes. Various bindings. First Editions.

An assortment of works from original Beat and co-founder and publisher of City Lights Books. All volumes signed by Ferlinghetti, generally on the title or half-title page.

Includes:

• Starting from San Francisco. Photographic boards. With a 33-1/3 RPM spoken word record of Ferlinghetti reading three poems from this work, recorded at the University of California, Berkeley, on April 22, 1960. Record still sealed in envelope affixed to rear pastedown.  First Edition. New York: New Directions, [1961].
• Her. Cloth, pictorial dust jacket. First UK Edition. London: McGibbon and Kee, 1966.
• These Are My Rivers: New & Selected Poems, 1955-1993. Maroon cloth, spine lettered in gilt, pictorial dust jacket. First Edition.  [New York]: New Directions, [1993].
• The Cool Eye: Lawrence Ferlinghetti talks to Alexis Lykiard. Pictorial wrappers. First Edition. [Devon: Stride, 1993].
• How to Paint Sunlight: Lyric Poems & Others (1997-2000). Cloth-backed boards, dust jacket. First Edition. New York: New Directions, [2001].
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti Sits Down With Soheyl Dahi. Introduction by Neeli Cherkovski. Pictorial wrappers. Also signed by Cherkovski and Dahi. One of 300 copies. San Francisco: Sore Dove, 2005.
• Poetry as Insurgent Art. Cloth. First Edition. New York: New Directions, [2007].
• Pictures of the Gone World. Decorative boards. 60th Anniversary Edition. San Francisco: City Lights, [2015].