Huncke, Herbert

The Herbert Huncke Reader

ISBN: 0-688-15266-X
New York, NY: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1997. First edition. Hardcover. "The Herbert Huncke Reader includes the full texts of Huncke's long-out-of-print classics Huncke's Journal and The Evening Sun Turned Crimson, excerpts from his autobiography, Guilty of Everything, and a wide selection from his unpublished letters and diaries."(back flap) Here in one volume, published shortly after his death the previous year, are the essential works of the man who "....introduced Kerouac to the term "Beat," gave Burroughs his first shot of morphine, and became the archetype on which the Beat Generation modeled itself."(front flap) Huncke was a great storyteller & writer in his own right, besides being immortalized by William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg & Jack Kerouac in their most well-known works. Edited by Benjamin Schafer, with a foreword by WSB & an introduction by Raymond Foye. In pristine, as new condition, this compendium is itself an already out-of-print collectible, and absolutely belongs on the shelf of the Beat Generation devotee. As New / As new [Item #1469]