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City Lights Bookstore
City Lights Bookstore
City Lights Bookstore
City Lights Bookstore
261 Columbus Ave
San Francisco CA 94133
Tel: (415) 362-8193
Hours: Mon-Sun 10am-12am

Listed in: Bookstore

Neighborhood: Nob Hill

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The nation's first all-paperback bookstore, City Lights has expanded several times over the years; we now offer three floors of both new-release hardcovers and quality paperbacks from all of the major publishing houses, along with an impressive range of titles from smaller, harder-to-find, specialty publishers. The store features an extensive and in-depth selection of poetry, fiction, translations, politics, history, philosophy, music, spirituality, and more, with a staff whose special book interests in many fields contribute to the hand-picked quality of what you see on the shelves. The City Lights masthead says A Literary Meetingplace since 1953, and this concept includes publishing books as well as selling them. In 1955, Ferlinghetti launched City Lights Publishers with the now-famous Pocket Poets Series; since then the press has gone on to publish a wide range of titles, both poetry and prose, fiction and nonfiction, international and local authors. Today, City Lights has well over a hundred titles in print, with a dozen new titles being published each year. The press is known and respected for its commitment to innovative and progressive ideas, and its resistance to forces of conservatism and censorship. All City Lights Publications that are currently available are proudly featured in the bookstore.

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My favorite place for poetry.
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I like the concept of City Lights more than I actually enjoy shopping here. If you are looking for an obscure lit book, then this is the place to go!