CITY LIGHTS
Film Criticism, Short Stories, Poems.
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Numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 (complete, all published). San Francisco, July 1952 Oct.1952, Spring 1953, Fall 1953, Spring 1955. In original wrappers. A very good set with only light tanning to extremities of some covers (22x17,5 and 24,5x19,5 cm). Very rare complete.
EUR 1,800.00
The Backstory to City Lights: City Lights Magazine
Cradle of the Beat Generation, where Lawrence Ferlinghetti had a partner named Peter D. Martin. The magazine was edited by Peter Martin, with Charles Polk, Norma Swain, Richard Miller, Wilder Bentley, Arthur Foff, Herbert Kaufman, Antoinette Wilson, MFM Pollack. Contributions by these and by Marjorie Farber, Hans Meyerhoff, V.S.di Suvero, Ken Kolb, George Herriman,Joseph Kostolefsky David Ri Bart Abbott, Philip Lamantia,Leslie Farber, Jack Spicer, etc.. Cover design Don Smith.
Peter D. Martin came to San Francisco from New York in the 1940's to teach sociology. Inspired by the Chaplin film, City Lights, he started this literary magazine in 1952, publishing such key Bay Area writers as Philip Lamantia, Pauline Kael, Jack Spicer, Robert Duncan, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti, as "Lawrence Ferling."
In 1953 Martin and Ferlinghetti founded City Lights bookstore, which has had a pretty good run. After two years Martin sold his interest and returned to New York and opened The New Yorker Bookstore.
The inaugural issue opens with Robert Duncan's "Open Letter to City Light", and an an interesting review of San Francisco's, Newsvue Theatre at Market and Mason streets, a third-run movie house that, every Saturday and Sunday, was the city's only theatre featuring the Giant Cartoon Carnival offering 20 cartoons. Also, a wonderful ad for 12 Adler Place, the 'lower bar' for Tommy's restaurant on Broadway, now known as Specs.
In Number 5 (The Television Issue)is a contribution by Lawrence Ferling (in fact Ferlinghetti).
Cradle of the Beat Generation, where Lawrence Ferlinghetti had a partner named Peter D. Martin. The magazine was edited by Peter Martin, with Charles Polk, Norma Swain, Richard Miller, Wilder Bentley, Arthur Foff, Herbert Kaufman, Antoinette Wilson, MFM Pollack. Contributions by these and by Marjorie Farber, Hans Meyerhoff, V.S.di Suvero, Ken Kolb, George Herriman,Joseph Kostolefsky David Ri Bart Abbott, Philip Lamantia,Leslie Farber, Jack Spicer, etc.. Cover design Don Smith.
Peter D. Martin came to San Francisco from New York in the 1940's to teach sociology. Inspired by the Chaplin film, City Lights, he started this literary magazine in 1952, publishing such key Bay Area writers as Philip Lamantia, Pauline Kael, Jack Spicer, Robert Duncan, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti, as "Lawrence Ferling."
In 1953 Martin and Ferlinghetti founded City Lights bookstore, which has had a pretty good run. After two years Martin sold his interest and returned to New York and opened The New Yorker Bookstore.
The inaugural issue opens with Robert Duncan's "Open Letter to City Light", and an an interesting review of San Francisco's, Newsvue Theatre at Market and Mason streets, a third-run movie house that, every Saturday and Sunday, was the city's only theatre featuring the Giant Cartoon Carnival offering 20 cartoons. Also, a wonderful ad for 12 Adler Place, the 'lower bar' for Tommy's restaurant on Broadway, now known as Specs.
In Number 5 (The Television Issue)is a contribution by Lawrence Ferling (in fact Ferlinghetti).
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