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A Coney Island of The Mind (Special Edition)

50th Anniversary Edition

Poetry

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

A million copies in print — translated into over a dozen languages — one of the best-selling and most popular books of poetry ever published, now available in a new hardcover edition containing a CD of the author reading his work.

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Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Contemporary American poet novelist, playwright, publisher, critic, social activist, visual artist and founder of City Lights Books

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Publication Date: January 1, 2001

Cloth $23.95
CN 0.00
96 pages
ISBN 9780811217477

Paperback $ 9.95
96 pages
ISBN 9780811200417

trim size: 6x8

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