Clarence Center, NY: Moody Street Regulars, 1989. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. The astute Beat-&-Beyond scholar-enthusiast may have thought the "memorial" in the title of "Moody Street Irregulars No. 21-22: The 'Memorial Issue' of Spring 1989" referred to the then-approaching 20-year anniversary of the October 21, 1969 death of Jack Kerouac (1922-1969). Yet, as Founder-Editor-Publisher Joy Walsh notes in her "Editorial" on pg. 4, "This issue is built around three themes..... More

Bristol, England: The Kerouac Connection, 1985. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Subtitled a “Beat Brotherhood Newsletter,” here we have the elusive sixth issue of “The Kerouac Connection,” Dave Moore & Alan Griffey’s charming Jack Kerouac-focused (1922-1969) periodical. The Kerouac Connection is hallmarked by a collage-like assembly of literary-critical (or otherwise historical & scholarly) works from the Beat commentariat (as it then existed). Just as often beside these are new or republished..... More

Bristol, England: The Kerouac Connection, 1986. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. “In early April 1951 Kerouac sat at his typewriter and hammered out, on a continuous roll of paper in a three week burst of energy, the fourth of what was to be five attempts at his ‘Road’ book, the work he had been attempting for more than two years. This scroll version of ‘On the Road’ has now attained legendary..... More

Bristol, England: The Kerouac Connection, 1988. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This vintage number of the UK literary journal of the Beat Generation & especially Jack Kerouac, edited by David Moore, is entirely devoted to works concerning John Clellon Holmes (1926-1988), one of Kerouac's closest friends & associates, depicted in On the Road (as "Tom Saybrook") & several other Kerouac classics. Holmes' novel GO (1952, see item No.s 3326, 3412) is..... More

Glasgow, Scotland: The Kerouac Connection, 1991. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Offered here is Issue No. 22 of “The Kerouac Connection,” — the Slim Gaillard tribute issue. Gaillard, of course was the smooth-talking, multi-instrumentalist hepcat famously favored by the likes of Jack Kerouac and Neal Cassady, among numerous other bona-fide Beats. What’s unknown about Gaillard (and the Beats’ association with him, generally) is the 'intellectual kinship' aspect of things. Gaillard was..... More

New York, NY: Transatlantic Review, 1962. First Printing. Softcover. It isn't every day that true time capsules--one-way flights, if you will--to the vaunted literary past come to market, or even to light. Yet, by virtue of era or epoch, items possessing "mojo" (historical pedigree of a sort, or at least a line of verifiable relation to it) are, in fact, procurable. This is one such item--easily overlooked "at first glance"..... More

Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2008. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This twentieth number of "A little magazine of the Beat Generation" published by Kevin Ring in the UK features Ring's intensive essay on poet Ted Berrigan's 1967 interview with Jack Kerouac which appeared in The Paris Review (Vol, 11, No. 43, Summer 1968); a "Bloomsday" (June 16, 2008) interview with Joanne Kyger (1934-2017), the prolific Beat Generation poet who was..... More