Description: Literary San Francisco: A Pictorial History from Its Beginnings to the Present Day Ferlinghetti, Lawrence; Peters, Nancy J. Published by City Lights Books, San Francisco, California, , 1980. First Edition 1st printing. SIGNED by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI front endpaper. Cloth hardcover very good in dust jacket with edge tears else intact (price present front flap) ; 254 pages loaded with photos and index. History of the literary scene in San Francisco, from the oral traditions of the Costanoan Indians through the twentieth century. Includes biographies of the city's literary luminaries. Covers the Bohemian Club authors, Les Jeunes of the 1890's, the Carmel literary colony, the writers of the 1930's, World War II literary renaissance, BEAT GENERATION authors, the anti-Vietnam War movement, the beginnings of the Rock Era, etc. Ferlinghetti, Beat poet and novelist, was founder of City Lights Books in San Francisco. Nancy Peters was co-director of City Lights Books. Includes Beat generation, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Jack London, Bohemian Club and Grove, The Lark, George Sterling, Mark Twain, Yone Noguchi, Oracle, Kenneth Patchen, Robinson Jeffers Robert Duncan, Kenneth Rexroth, Mary Austin, ... just a sample.
Price: 80 USD
Location: Berkeley, California
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Restocking Fee: No
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All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
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Binding: Hardcover
Modification Description: Signed by author Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
Place of Publication: New York
Signed: Yes
Publisher: Harper & Row
Modified Item: Yes
Subject: Literature & Fiction
Year Printed: 1980
Language: English
Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Dust Jacket, Illustrated, signed
Author: Lawrence Ferlinghetti; Nancy J. Peters
Personalized: No
Topic: Literature, Modern
