A Coney Island of the Mind
(New York): New Directions, (1958).
Price: $250.00
Softcover. Fourth printing. Age-toned, else near fine. Uncommon advance format. A set of unbound folded and gathered sheets for the fourth printing, formerly from the collection of New Directions publicity director Ned Erbe.
Item #281953
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
birth name: Lawrence Ferlinghetti
born: 3/24/1920
Biography
American poet, one of the founders of the Beat Movement in San Francisco in the mid-1950s. His City Lights bookstore was an early gathering place of the Beats, and the publishing arm of City Lights was the first to print the Beats' books of poetry. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore