Lawrence Ferlinghetti. 
 
New Directions: 1958. First edition. Hard cover in a slip case. Octavo. Scuffing on the slip case with the corners exposed, especially the bottom, front corner. A couple of ink marks on the spine. Slight bumping on the boards. Very good. Signed. 
 
Written by Ferlinghetti to capture his specific mood in the fifties and crafted to be read aloud to jazz accompaniment, A Coney Island of the Mind now lives in print as an iconic paperback on the book shelves of a million and a half rebels. This signed first hard cover edition, however, splits the difference by looking like a holy artifact in the slip case while feeling sturdy and easy to handle with its slimness, clothbound boards, deckled edges, and the smooth way it slides out of the case. 
 
"Junk for sale! 
Let’s cut it out let’s go 
into the real interior of the country
where hockshops reign
mere unblind anarchy upon us."