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, 1987. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. “Yes, Jack [Kerouac] came to Horace Mann in 1939 from Lowell, Mass as a ringer, to play football. It was a very expensive school with an excellent scholastic reputation. Jack and the rest of the football team got a big discount on their tuition, because they enhanced the school’s football reputation….He was short but built like a weight-lifter. He was..... 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

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

Glasgow, Scotland: The Kerouac Connection, 1992. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. “Despite the fact that Jack Kerouac formulated the ‘Essentials for Spontaneous Prose’ in 1953, the doctrine itself unfortunately did not appear in print until The Black Mountain Review first published it in Autumn 1957, shortly following the September release of On the Road. By that time, Kerouac had already lived thirty-five of his forty-seven years. In addition to this time-lag..... More

Glasgow, Scotland: The Kerouac Connection, 1993. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This vintage number of the UK literary journal of the Beat Generation & especially Jack Kerouac features a tribute-obituary essay on Carl Solomon (1928-1993), the dedicatee of Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" & a key-yet-obscure original Beat figure, by Jim Burns. Also in this issue are Kerouac- & Beat-related scholarly articles & fictional prose by Dan Barth ("Saint Jack," in which he..... More