[Rarebooks] FS: Signed Ferlinghetti with holograph poem

[Kaaterskill Books]

We offer for Sale:

Ferlinghetti, Lawrence. PICTURES OF THE GONE WORLD [WITH HOLOGRAPH 
POEM]. San Francisco: City Lights Pocket Bookshop, 1956 (1955) 
Unpaged. Sm. 8vo. Paper wrappers. Morgan: A1b. Second edition.

Inscribed by Ferlinghetti to Arnold and Nancy Perl on the front 
wrapper with the poem "Don't let that horse eat that violin" in 
holograph on the verso of the contents page. This version differs 
somewhat the the version published in his second book, 'A Coney 
Island of the Mind.'

Arnold and Nancy Perl were leftist writers and producers. Arnold Perl 
wrote the teleplay "The World of Shalom Aleichem" (1959) which 
provided the basis for the Broadway mega-hit Fiddler on the Roof. He 
wrote the documentary Malcolm X (1972) which Nancy produced. His 
subsequent screenplay on Malcolm X, which was unfinished at the time 
of his death in 1971, became an important source for Spike Lee's 
later screenplay.

It is most likely that this handwritten copy of the poem "Don't let 
that horse eat that violin" was written prior to the appearance of 
the poem in print. The second edition of 'Pictures of the Gone World' 
(offered here) was printed in March of 1956 about the time that the 
Coney Island of the Mind was being written: "in the first few months 
[of 1956]... he [Ferlinghetti] composed a whole new group of 
twenty-nine poems, all without revision ... and borrowing a line from 
Henry Miller's 'In the Night Life,' he titled it 'A Coney Island of 
the Mind' and sent it off to New Directions (Silesky: Ferlinghetti: 
the Artist in his Time, p.85). James Laughlin wrote back to 
Ferlinghetti on Dec. 2, 1956 saying that he was just getting down to 
selecting material for New Directions 16 which was not printed until 
1957 about the time that the third edition of Pictures appeared 
(March 1957). Coney Island of the Mind appeared in book form in 
1958). A unique item and a very good copy.  [33802] $950.00

Images available upon request.

Regards,

Charles Kutcher
Kaaterskill Books
P. O. Box 122
East Jewett, NY 12424
email: books at kaaterskillbooks.com
phone: 518-589-0555
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