Berkeley, CA: Creative Arts Book Company, 1977. First Revised, Expanded Edition Thus. Softcover. "No matter where Jack (Kerouac) went he always knew he'd return to Lowell, the town he hated and loved, that he felt secure in, the one place he could never really leave." (from "Part Three: A Note on Kerouac's City," pg. 59) This is the chronicle by Barry Gifford (b. 1946) of his visit to Lowell, Massachusetts..... More

Beloit, WI: Beloit College, 1970. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Offered here is a most unique manifestation of (Beat-inflected) campus literary culture: the “Winter 1970-71” issue of “The Beloit Poetry Journal,” — the long-running literary journal of Beloit College, a private liberal arts college in Beloit, Wisconsin. Serious readers of "The New American Poetry" may be familiar with Beloit College as the site of a series of lectures given by the..... More

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1994. First Printing. Softcover. The sixth number of the literary & cultural-political journal edited & with contributions by Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919-2021), published by his iconic City Lights Books imprint. For our purposes, this issue is most distinguished by a transcript of William S. Burroughs' speaker-amplified telephone call to an audience at the Beat Generation Conference held at New York University during May 1994 (pgs..... 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