New York City, New York: Portents (Ann & Samuel Charters), 1969. First Edition. Framed Broadside. A poetry broadside (12" x 14") featuring a haiku by Jack Kerouac (which later appeared in the posthumous Scattered Poems) and a 1956 line drawing of Kerouac by Robert LaVigne. Published “As a memoriam - J.K., March 12, 1922 - October 21, 1969” by Ann and Samuel Charters. At the bottom is printed “This was..... More

Portland, OR: The Yes! Press, 1971. Limited First Edition Thus. Single Sheet. "...So whatever plan you have for me/ Splitter of majesty/ Make it short/ brief/ Make it snappy/ bring me home to the eternal mother/ today/..." A beautiful broadside (9" x 11") featuring the title poem by Jack Kerouac, founding father of the Beat Generation. The sadly prophetic poem was originally published during 1959, again anonymously the day after..... 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

New York, NY: Ballantine Books, Inc., 1973. First Softcover Edition Thus. Softcover. "Describing the mystery and terror of an intensely felt adolescence, Doctor Sax is the story of Jack Duluoz, like Kerouac himself a French-Canadian, growing up among the shadowy doorways and brown tenements of Lowell, Massachusetts. Always lurking in the back of Jack's mind is the shadow of Doctor Sax, cape flowing, slouch hat half concealing a malevolent leer..... More

London, England: Andre Deutsch, 1974. First UK Edition. Hardcover. "Ann Charters demythifies Kerouac's public image as 'king of the Beats' and tells the truth about the original hopes and visions, about experiments with drugs and sexuality; about frenzied quests across the country, in Mexico and in Tangier; about the years of failure; about accidental murders, madness and despair. She unlocks the literary mysteries of his books, revealing who really was..... More

Palo Alto, CA: Fels & Firn Press, 1976. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. "In media res, into the memoir revealing secret lives and West Coast whispers, of John Montgomery doing business as Henry Morley, a.k.a. Alex Fairbrother and a walk-on straight, three roles for Jack Kerouac bookmovie Eisenstein impresario of the Duluoz legend (o the alias ploy!) and even Neal's Carolyn an utter realist, once the Academy of Parapsychology and Medicine..... More

Clarence Center, NY: Moody Street Irregulars, 1978. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. A fun fact about Moody Street Irregulars, the Jack Kerouac-focused magazine published and edited primarily by the late Joy Walsh, is that “…the title of the publication derives from the “Baker Street Irregulars,” a group of street urchins often employed by Sherlock Holmes in the novels by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.” Now that you've imbibed your "Beat Snapple Fact..... More

Clarence Center, NY: Moody Street Irregulars, 1979-1980. First Printings. Stapled Wrappers. A fun fact about Moody Street Irregulars, the Jack Kerouac-focused magazine published and edited primarily by the late Joy Walsh, is that “…the title of the publication derives from the “Baker Street Irregulars,” a group of street urchins often employed by Sherlock Holmes in the novels by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.” Now that you've imbibed your "Beat Snapple Fact..... More

London, England: Faber and Faber Limited, 1984. First Edition. Softcover. "Chris Challis's interest in the Beat Generation, their literature and their lifestyle, began, like that of many of his contemporaries, as a youthful enthusiasm. That interest developed into a thesis and many critical articles, and led to personal contact or correspondence with many of the Beats themselves. In due course he made the physical and spiritual journey across the United..... More

Bristol, UK: The Kerouac Connection, 1984. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Subtitled a “Beat Brotherhood Newsletter,” here we have the elusive inaugural issue of “The Kerouac Connection,” Dave Moore & Alan Griffey’s charming Jack Kerouac-focused periodical. As Moore himself notes in the work’s blurb-length Editorial Note, “We don’t want to bore you by contributing all the material ourselves, so please let’s have any articles, reviews, poems, letters, photographs and general comments..... More

New York, NY: Grove Press, Inc., 1985. First Edition Thus. Softcover. "This new edition comprises two important novels by one of the most original of the "beat" writers, Jack Kerouac. Satori in Paris chronicles a jet-age odyssey into ancient France. "Satori" is the Japanese word for "sudden illumination," "sudden awakening," or simply "kick in the eye." On a journey to trace his surname, Kerouac travels with dazzling speed through dozens..... More

Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 1988. Limited First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. "When I first reached Lowell, Massachusetts, in July 1977, I had read all of Jack Kerouac's books at least once, and some several times. I am not sure what I expected to find- possibly a medieval city of walls and arches and bridges over moats, with shadowy caped phantoms lurching about, breathing fire from their mouth. Possibly a holy..... More

Bristol, England: The Kerouac Connection, 1989. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This vintage number of the UK literary journal of the Beat Generation & especially Jack Kerouac, edited & with contributions by David Moore, begins with "Frankie & Johnnie: A New York Memoir," about Kerouac & his first wife Edie (referring to their mutual affectionate nicknames) by none other than James Perrizo (1944-2006), the devoted Beat scholar & collector who was..... More