New York, NY, USA: Portents (Ann and Samuel Charters) / Gotham Book Mart, 1970. Limited Trade Edition. With autograph postcard from Ann Charters to Albert Glover. "SCENES ALONG THE ROAD is a collection of snapshots of a group of men before they became, as Jack Kerouac put it, "famous writers more or less." In the 1940s and early 1950s, when most of the snapshots were taken, they were known only..... More

Berkeley, CA: Oyez Press, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. "This study, the first to be published on Charles Olson, discusses, significantly, the poet's first book, Call Me Ishmael, his now famous creative response to Herman Melville. It also treats in depth Olson's other writings on Melville: his essays, reviews, and the poem "Letter for Melville 1951." Charles Olson has made available unpublished earlier essays on Melville from his Black Mountain College..... More

Coventry, England, UK: Beat Scene Press, 2024. First Printing. Perfect Bound Wrappers. This hot-off-the-presses latest (as of this writing) Winter 2024 number of the magazine-format literary journal dedicated to the Beat Generation edited, published & with contributions by Kevin Ring in the UK features an essay on the life & work of classic hard-boiled twentieth-century proto-Beat author Nelson Algren by Jan Herman; an interview with Alice Notley conducted by Garrett..... More

Minneapolis, MN: Coffee House Press, 2009. First Edition. Softcover. "Amassed from the riches of the Naropa University audio archives, this collection offers an exciting new look at the Beats- whose influence lives on in the art and politics of our time. In these conversational talks and interviews readers are introduced to the hard truths behind being a Beat woman, the haunting accuracy of William S. Burroughs' world-view, the passion and..... More

New York, NY: Portents, 1969. First Printing. Broadside. Issued as Portents 13 by Ann Charters (author of the first major biography of Jack Kerouac), this 6"x15" broadside is a prospectus for a special Herman Melville-related box of which only 25 were produced. "This Melville box attempts to give a sense of Melville's presence in the Berkshires by offering a construct of objects, some contemporary to Melville, others from our own..... More

Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2019. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. The latest (as of this writing) number of the essential Beat Scene magazine published & edited by Kevin Ring in the UK features several articles relating to the life & work of Jack Kerouac, a Founding Father of the Beat Generation: "Jack Kerouac and the Dharma Bums" by the great pioneering Kerouac biographer Ann Charters; a short study of an..... More

San Francisco, CA; New York, NY: Straight Arrow Books; St. Martin's Press, 1973; 1978. First Editions. Hardcovers. Gathered here for the assiduous and dedicated Jack Kerouac scholar-&-enthusiast are two of the earliest professional volumes of Kerouac scholarship, Ann Charters’ “Kerouac: A Biography” (1) and “Jack’s Book: An Oral Biography of Jack Kerouac” (2). In the 1970s, Beat Scholarship was still in its infancy; a new generation of academics that had..... More