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

New York, NY: Viking (The Penguin Group), 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Ann Charters. "Written between 1940, when 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- including Neal and Carolyn Cassady..... More

New York, NY: Viking Penguin, 1997. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. "In his September 5, 1957, New York Times review, Gilbert Millstein prophetically declared that On the Road was "the most beautifully executed, the clearest and the most important utterance yet made by the generation (Jack) Kerouac himself named years ago as 'beat.' " Few novels have had as profound an impact as On the Road, and Kerouac's vision continues to..... More

New York, NY: Viking Penguin, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. "When Viking published the first volume of Jack Kerouac's selected letters in 1995, it was hailed as an important and revealing addition to Kerouac scholarship. The passionate early correspondence portended the uninhibited and spontaneous prose style that would later become his trademark. In the second and final volume of this life in letters, Ann Charters, renowned Kerouac biographer and editor of..... More

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 2001. Uncorrected Advance Proof. Softcover. "Book of Dreams is Jack Kerouac's record of his dreamlife, a parallel autobiography of the soul, the sleeper's On the Road....In 1961 City Lights published excerpts from Jack Kerouac's "private dream diary." This new, expanded edition marks the first publication of the complete manuscript as Kerouac intended it."(back cover) This is the Uncorrected Advance Proof of the new, expanded..... More

Coventry, England: The Beat Scene Press, 2012. Limited First Edition Thus. Stapled Wrappers. "Early in 1995 three old friends reconvened in a small American East Coast town...Northport (Massachusetts), to listen to a recording made way back in 1964 when they were saying bon voyage to a good pal of theirs. Artist Stanley Twardowicz, his wife Ann, together with Larry Smith and his wife Tsuneko, had gathered to wish the writer..... More

New York, NY: The Library of America, 2016. First Edition. Hardcover. "With On the Road and other iconic works, Jack Kerouac established himself as a quintessentially American writer whose revolutionary style captured the spirit of a generation. The fourth volume in the Library of America's definitive edition of his works reveals for the first time the remarkable literary journey that led to his success, a journey with deep roots in..... More

New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 1981. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. The hardcover first edition of the novel-memoir by Jan Kerouac, daughter of Jack Kerouac. "Just as Jack Kerouac captured the cool beat of the fifties generation, so does Jan Kerouac capture the gyrating, driving rhythm of the generation that followed."(from back dust jacket flap) From the collection of the late James Perrizo, Beat collector, scholar & one-time assistant..... More

New York, NY: Henry Holt and Company, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Jan Kerouac. "Having survived- barely- her bewildering childhood and frantically hedonistic teenage years, as recounted in her earlier book, Baby Driver, Jan Kerouac continues the picaresque saga of her quest for identity. Returning from South America to her mother's home in Oregon, she pauses briefly for a restorative dose of family comforts, but her restless need to..... More

Spartanburg, SC: Holocene Press, 1993. First Edition Thus, Second Printing. Softcover. Inscribed & signed twice by John Lane to Thomas Rain Crowe. "These were my first essays, written after ten years of commitment to the life and language of a poet. They were written years ago now, in 1985, during a stay in a cabin in the Smokies, not far from the Cherokee Indian reservation. Keep in mind they are..... More

Canterbury, NH: Wind in the Timothy Press, 2003. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers in Attached Over-Wraps. "Most of these pieces are based on experiences that occurred more than fifty years ago when working on dairy farms in Fremont and Walpole, New Hampshire. In those days the cows were kept tied up in stanchions in the barn from October until May. Milking was done by machine, which was carried from cow to..... More

Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1983. Limited First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Lettered & Signed & with a page of original manuscript by Gerard Malanga. A volume of works by Gerard Malanga, poet & key associate of Andy Warhol at the height of the 1960s counterculture & beyond. Consisting of Poems divided into 3 sections, & the title work, in two forms: a poem; & a longer prose work subtitled..... More

Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1991. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. Numbered & signed by Gerard Malanga. A later volume of poetry & photographs by Gerard Malanga, a key associate of Andy Warhol at the "factory" during the height of the 1960s counterculture & beyond, whose "simultaneous careers as poet, photographer, filmmaker, curator and archivist have brought him a large international following for his work."(from short biography at end) Along..... More