NMLP P-019072 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04
Pictures of the Gone World
Lawrence Ferlinghetti · City Lights Books / The Pocket Poets Series No. 1 (San Francisco) · 1955
City Lights US (1955) is the true first and the first title City Lights issued. As Pocket Poets No. 1 it is a foundational Beat-era imprint; the later (1995) expanded edition is 'first thus,' not the true first.
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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-019072 for "Pictures of the Gone World" by Lawrence Ferlinghetti (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-019072, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).