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City Lights Journal. No.1-4 [all published]. Ed. L. Ferlinghetti and M. Monsanto. San Francisco, City Light Books, 1963-1978, 4 issues, photogr. ills., orig. not unif. photogr. wr.
- Trifle fingersoiled. Otherwise a fine set.
= No. 2 with a SIGNED AUTOGRAPH DEDICATION by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI. One of the major publications of the counterculture and the Beat generation, published as thick paperbacks, edited by Lawrence Ferlinghetti (No. 4 by Mendes Monsanto, appeared in 1978). Contributions by i.a. Allen Ginsberg, Alex Trocchi, Charles Bukowski, Wm. C. Williams, Jack Kerouac, Gary Snyder, William Burroughs and H.M.C. Corman. No. 2 contains the English translation of Epocas interview with Ezra Pound; no. 3 is devoted to Poetry San Francisco 1966 and Spoleto 1965. With a duplicate of issue no.2. Clay and Phillips, p.98f: "Ferlinghetti started the City Lights Journal in 1963, basing it on such older and distinguished European literary journals as Botteghe Oscure and Transition and on the yearly American anthologies from New Directions. The entire Beat pantheon (...) contributed to the first issue."
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City Lights Journal. No.1-4 [all published]. Ed. L. Ferlinghetti and M. Monsanto. San Francisco, City Light Books, 1963-1978, 4 issues, photogr. ills., orig. not unif. photogr. wr.
- Trifle fingersoiled. Otherwise a fine set.
= No. 2 with a SIGNED AUTOGRAPH DEDICATION by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI. One of the major publications of the counterculture and the Beat generation, published as thick paperbacks, edited by Lawrence Ferlinghetti (No. 4 by Mendes Monsanto, appeared in 1978). Contributions by i.a. Allen Ginsberg, Alex Trocchi, Charles Bukowski, Wm. C. Williams, Jack Kerouac, Gary Snyder, William Burroughs and H.M.C. Corman. No. 2 contains the English translation of Epocas interview with Ezra Pound; no. 3 is devoted to Poetry San Francisco 1966 and Spoleto 1965. With a duplicate of issue no.2. Clay and Phillips, p.98f: "Ferlinghetti started the City Lights Journal in 1963, basing it on such older and distinguished European literary journals as Botteghe Oscure and Transition and on the yearly American anthologies from New Directions. The entire Beat pantheon (...) contributed to the first issue."
