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Book SynopsisSince 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.
Trade Review...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. * s *
