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Cook, Ralph T.; Cook, Lori A. - City Lights Books - 9780810826212 - V9780810826212
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City Lights Books

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Description for City Lights Books Hardback. Since 1955, City Lights Bookshop in San Francisco has published over 230 titles and its 1,500 authors include Jack Kerouac, James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, Hilda Doolittle, Allen Ginsberg, Goethe, Walt Whitman, Gregory Corso, and Karl Marx. Provides complete information on all City Lights publications from 1955 through 1990. Num Pages: 361 pages, Plans, facsimiles, transparencies, indexes. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; GBCR; KNTP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 221 x 148 x 25. Weight in Grams: 572.
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.

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
361
Condition
New
Number of Pages
361
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780810826212
SKU
V9780810826212
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15

About Cook, Ralph T.; Cook, Lori A.
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).

Reviews for City Lights Books
...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.
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