Pictures of the Gone World First copy of the first City Lights book
$17,500 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books
First edition · Signed
San Francisco: The City Lights Pocket Bookshop, 1955. A copy of great historical significance: the very first copy of the first book ever published by City Lights. First edition, first printing. Signed by Lawrence Ferlinghetti on the title page, inscribed, simply, Lawrence Ferlinghetti / August 5, 1955 / first copy . Bound in publisher's stapled pages into perfect bound black wraps with yellow card wraparound
- Printing: first
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