Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Phil Whalen, Jack Kerouac, Kenneth Rexroth, Robert Duncan, Denise Levertov, Gary Snyder, Philip Lamantia, Louis Zukofsky, William Carlos Williams, Kenneth Patchen, Jess Collins, et al.
 
The Ark: 1947-57. All three installments. Octavos. Saddle-stapled in printed wraps and printed letterpress by Villiers Publications. ARK II, MOBY I is signed by Ferlinghetti at his contribution page. All copies very good or better. 
 
A collection of verse, drawings, and articles that captured the San Francisco rennaisance in full flight (volume one) and also laid the groundwork for the Beat Generation (volumes two and three). As such, one of the most important literary journals in the history of American letters and rarely available as a complete set, especially one signed by a contributor and seminal figure of the Beat Movement in Ferlinghetti. 
 
"This was probably the first coherent expression of a new aesthetic and social freedom, which as the years have gone by is now seen to be the characteristic approach of the post war II generation."