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Collection of Books by Lawrence Ferlinghetti Comes to Auction Shortly After Poet’s Death

Lawrence Ferlinghetti outside City Lights. Photo from The Kitchen Sisters. During McCarthyism and an era of American censorship, Lawrence Ferlinghetti offered a home to new and strange writing. His San Francisco bookstore, City Lights, was the first to sell only paperbacks, making book-buying cheaper. Just two years after founding City…