Pictures of the gone world / Lawrence Ferlinghetti.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Ferlinghetti, Lawrence.

Contributor:

• City Lights Books, publisher.
• Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
• Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
• American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

• Pocket poets series ; no. 1.
• Pocket poets series ; no. 1

Standardized Title:

• Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Poetry.
• Beats (Persons)--Poetry.
• Beats (Persons).

Genre:

• Poetry.
• American poetry.

Penn Provenance:

• Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

27, that is, 42 pages ; 16 cm.

Place of Publication:

San Francisco : City Lights Books, [1955]

Summary:

Published to celebrate forty years of City Lights publishing, which began with the letterpress printing of this book in 1955. It was Lawrence Ferlinghetti's first book, and it has been reprinted twenty-one times, having never been out of print. The original edition contained the first twenty-seven poems to which the author has now added eighteen new verses.

Notes:

• Poems.
• First of the City Lights Pocket Poets series and Ferlinghetti's first collection of poetry.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy is "Fifth Printing".

Other Format:

Online version: Ferlinghetti, Lawrence. Pictures of the gone world.

ISBN:

• 0872860159
• 9780872860155

OCLC:

284356