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City Lights Books: A Descriptive Bibliography

Ralph T. Cook

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In 1955, poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti began issuing small paperback books of poetry from City Lights Bookshop in San Francisco. Since then the press has published over 230 titles and 1,500 authors. Throughout its history, City Lights Books has reflected a broad range of ideas and fresh thought, publishing writers from every part of the world and cutting across lines of culture, age, and gender. Authors include Jack Kerouac, James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, Robert Burns, Hilda Doolittle, Diane di Prima, Allen Ginsberg, Goethe, Walt Whitman, Gregory Corso, and Karl Marx. The Cooks provide complete information on all City Lights publications from 1955 through 1990, with full decriptions of title pages, collation, contents, bindings, dates published, and print run.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Scarecrow Press
  • Publish Date: Nov 1st, 1992
  • Pages: 361
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.64in - 5.58in - 1.02in - 1.26lb
  • EAN: 9780810826212
  • Categories: • Bibliographies & Indexes• General

About the Author

Ralph T. Cook (BBA, National University, San Diego, CA) is a former rare book dealer and editor of a little magazine, Atticus Review. He has studied the Beat Generation writers for the past 20 years and is the author of The City Lights Pocket Poets Series: A Descriptive Bibliography (1982).

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Just looked at my book pile and my oddball bookmarks, including a postcard from City Lights Books in SF, an old swim meet award, a river permit, a Cub Scout patch and a leaf knitted by author/friend Elizabeth Engstrom. Got any of your own to show? #Writing community #Am writing https://t.co/aay1hBFLka

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HEY BAY AREA! I'll be signing copies of my new cocktail book and engaging in some timely conversation at Tosca Cafe on May 30, 6 pm. Come have a drink and get a signed copy of Eddie Muller's Noir Bar. Presented by legendary City Lights Bookstore. https://t.co/yeCzpRGsXb

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Praise for this book

...an inevitable resource for the bibliographers of a host of modern authors as well as providing the basis of the history of an important publishing venture.-- "Papers Of The Bibliographic Society Of America"
...meticulously thorough....serves as a record of the avante-garde's delightfully eclectic taste over more than three decades.-- "Wilson Library Bulletin"
...meticulously defines his terms and explains his methodology, thereby making his volume useful even for the nonspecialist who is unfamiliar with the arcane jargon of descriptive bibliography...invaluable not only to researchers but also to librarians, rare book dealers, and book collectors.-- "American Reference Books Annual"
...will prove to be a valuable publication for students, scholars, librarians, booksellers, and book collectors.-- "Reference Reviews"

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