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Charleston, WV: The University of Charleston, Parchment Gallery Graphics. 1/200. Silkscreen [28 cm x 25 cm] Printed in black ink. Near fine. In printer's envelope with leaf of explanatory text. Signed and numbered by Ferlinghetti. Printed in an edition of 50 copies. A silkscreen reproduction of Ferlinghetti's first painting (oil on canvas, 1950) that was completed while a student at the Sorbonne. Rare. Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919-1921) was a poet, painter, book designer, publisher, bookseller, and graphic artist, who was an important leader in the American poetry revival in San Francisco in the 1950s.