Access via JSTOR, available in British Library Reading Rooms). The store was the first all-paperback bookshop in the United States (The Guardian online, Interview with a Bookstore: San Francisco's historic City Lights) and would become ‘the launching pad for the San Francisco Writers Renaissance’ ( Douglas Street in the Southwest Review, Vol. Two years earlier, he had co-founded City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco together with college professor and editor of City Lights magazine, Peter D. This was Ferlinghetti's first book, published in 1955 by his own City Lights Books, in a 500-copy letterpress edition (City Lights Booksellers & Publishers website). Pictures of the Gone World seemed like a good option (fifth printing edition held at BL shelfmark 011313.t.3/1.). Image taken by Christopher Michel on 2 July 2012, sourced via Flickr (CC BY 2.0) Photograph of poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
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