by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, illustrated by R.B. Kitazj
Signed limited edition, lettered copy
San Francisco: Arion Press, 2005. Limited edition, copy "T," one of the 26 lettered copies hors de commerce, i.e. given away by the publisher and our author, etc. Signed by Lawrence Ferlinghetti and artist R.B. Kitaj in pencil on rear colophon. [44] pp. Folio. Bound in publisher's illustrated boards with brown cloth backstrip, paper title labels, housed in publisher's slipcase. Fine in Fine slipcase.
A deluxe rendering of the seminal Beat poetry collection with charcoal portraits of the poet that unusually arranged to make turning of the book necessary and facilitate a disorienting rollercoaster effect (fitting for Coney Island), according to Bibliography of the Arion Press.