Quebec, Canada: Secretariat Permanent des Peuples Francophones, 1987. First Printing. Poster. An 11" x 17&1/2" poster announcing a Jack Kerouac Conference in Quebec that was held on October 1-4, 1987. Text in French, featuring a photograph of Kerouac & a roster of participants including Carolyn Cassady (Neal's widow who recently died at age 90), Ann Charters (author of the first major biography of Kerouac), Allen Ginsberg, John Clellon Holmes, Gerald..... More

n/p: Higgins & Ross/Mill Town Graphics, 1988. First Printing. Poster. A large (25" x 20&1/2") poster, featuring an expansive black & white photograph of Route 66 & the surrounding landscape, with a trail of neon zipping down the road, a hitchhiker's arm & hand with thumb beckoning (representing Jack Kerouac/Sal Paradise), & the name "Kerouac" in blue neonesque cursive in front of the clouds. The dynamic image, so evocative of..... More

Berkeley, CA: Ammunition Press, 1988. First Printing. Stapled Sheets. This item is a poem inspired by & dedicated to Kerouac, "written for a program on Jack Kerouac on KPFA Radio, Berkeley, California. May-June 1988"(front cover). From the collection of James Perrizo (1944-2006), Beat scholar, collector & one-time assistant to Edie Kerouac Parker, Jack's former wife. A rare Kerouac tribute-relic, in very fine, virtually mint condition. Very Fine. More

Quebec, Canada: Secretariat permanent des Peuples Francophone, 1988. First Printing. Staplebound. The autumn, 1988 issue of the Kerouac journal published in Quebec. With articles mostly in French, occasionally English text, illustrations (including a tipped-in color photograph on pg. 29), copies of letters written by Kerouac, ads, etc. Most articles relate to Kerouac, but one by Claude Gratton relates to William S. Burroughs, & there are contributions by other writers &..... More

Lowell, MA: The Lowell Corporation For The Humanities, Inc., 1989. First Edition, Second Printing. Softcover. "Jack Kerouac's books represent an intense inner exploration that he felt compelled to express, and the powerful energy of those works continues to affect people throughout the world. In shying away from craft and revision in writing, he was digging away at the very core of himself, as if that were where he would find..... More

Berkeley, CA: Ammunition Press, c. 1990. First Printing. Stapled & Loose Sheets. A fascinating compilation of submissions for a Kerouac commemorative stamp solicited by & mailed to the publisher: "Forty-one artists from seven countries saw fit to design a stamp to honor Le Grande Jack on the 20th anniversary of his dropping the physical form."(from the introduction) Reproduced in various media, in what appear to be rubber stamped, screen print..... More

New York, NY: Paragon House, 1990. First Softcover Edition (First Edition Thus). Softcover. "While a legend has developed about the man Jack Kerouac, there has not been a thorough study of what he wrote. Regina Weinreich is the first to explore Kerouac's place in American literature by establishing the total design of his work. She contends that Kerouac wrote with this 'grand design" in mind, that he thought of his..... More

n/p; New York, NY: Pacific Red Car; Penguin Books, 1991; 1995. First Editions Thus. Chapbook; Softcover. Two collectible editions of the classic cycle of poems by Jack Kerouac, Founding Father of the Beat Generation: (1) San Francisco Blues, chapbook in stapled wrappers published by Pacific Red Car in 1991 per back cover. The lack of a copyright page, place, ISBN number etc. indicate that this is likely an unauthorized bootleg..... More

San Francisco, CA: Grey Fox Press, 1993. First Edition. Softcover. "In these uncollected writings Jack Kerouac portrays himself in his life. He hitches a ride to San Francisco with a blonde, goes on the road with photographer Robert Frank, rides bus through the Northwest and Montana, records the blues of an old Negro hobo, talks about the Beats and how it all began, gives his "Essentials of Spontaneous Prose" and..... More

Lowell, MA: Dharma Beat, 1993-1994. First Printings. Stapled Wrappers. "Welcome to the first issue of DHARMA BEAT, a new magazine dedicated to Jack Kerouac activities, events, and ideas around the world. Our goal is to promote the enjoyment and study of Jack Kerouac, his writings and his philosophy. We plan to publish every February and September, in time for events celebrating Jack's birth and marking his passing. DHARMA BEAT IS..... More

Berkeley & Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press, 1994. First Softcover Edition. Trade Softcover. The first University of California trade-format softcover edition of Gerald Nicosia's landmark critical biography, first published in hardcover in 1983. From the collection of James Perrizo (1944-2006), Beat scholar, collector & one-time assistant to Edie Kerouac Parker, Jack's former wife. In very fine condition, with only very slight crease at lower corner of front cover..... More

New York, NY: Viking Penguin, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed & dated at time of publication by Ann Charters. "Written between 1940, when (Jack) Kerouac was a college freshman, and 1956, immediately before his breathless leap into celebrity with the publication of On the Road, these letters offer invaluable insights into Kerouac's family life, friendships, travels, love affairs, and literary apprenticeship. Dispatches to the real-life models for his fictional pantheon-..... More

Czechoslovakia: Votobia, 1996. First Czech Edition. Hardcover. In a 2020 interview with Mojo Magazine, Tom Waits remarked that “Pic” was his personal favorite Jack Kerouac book. “It’s written like a Mark Twain story, all in phonetic black jargon,” Waits was quoted as saying. What most Kerouac fans (and Beat-&-Beyonders alike) don’t know is that “Pic” was not written at the very end of Kerouac’s life. Its posthumous publication (it was..... More