Signed Love in the Days of Rage Ferlinghetti 1988 First UK Edition

Description

Published during the late phase of Ferlinghetti’s career, this novella captures the revolutionary aftershock of 1968—Paris in upheaval, youth culture colliding with political idealism, and the uneasy space between desire and ideology. Best known as the founder of City Lights and a central Beat figure, Ferlinghetti turns here to fiction, blending his poetic sensibility with a sharper narrative edge.

The novel follows an American painter and an older anarchist as their relationship unfolds against the backdrop of student revolt and civil unrest. What gives this copy weight beyond the text is the author’s signature—clean, present, and unmistakable—tying the book directly back to one of the last living links to the Beat generation. Signed copies of Ferlinghetti’s later works, especially in this condition, do not linger.

Signed Ferlinghetti—sharp copy, strong jacket, and ready for a Beat or counterculture collection.