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Gotta Go author Patricia Smith just won poetry’s highest honor, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize for lifetime achievement. With Michael Abramson photographs, it’s one of our most special books. Celebrate and take 20 percent off with TAKE20.

Home - CityFiles Press CityFiles Press is a small Chicago book publishing company that has produced books on Vivian Maier, Richard Nickel, Maya Romanoff, Edgar Miller, and others.

CityFiles is immensely proud to announce today the re-publication of Ansel Adams’ 1944 book Born Free and Equal, his look at Japanese Americans incarcerated at the Manzanar concentration camp. This is the first time the book has been republished in full—with new scans based on Adams’ original work. Adams called this work “the most important thing I’ve done.” We agree. The only place you can purchase it is https://tinyurl.com/ycpb65v8

The end of war.

"There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book.”
 —Patti Smith