Berkeley, CA: Creative Arts Book Company, 1977. First Revised, Expanded Edition Thus. Softcover. "No matter where Jack went he always knew he'd return to Lowell, the town he hated and loved, that he felt secure in, the one place he could never really leave-" (from "Part Three: A Note on Kerouac's City," pg. 59) This is the chronicle by Barry Gifford of his visit to Lowell, Massachusetts, the birthplace &..... More

Sunbury, MA: Water Row Press, 1994. First Revised Edition. Stapled Wrappers. “Jack Kerouac died in Florida during the morning hours of 21 October, 1969. The following day, at a small printing shop around the corner from the Phoenix Book Shop in New York City, 300 copies of a short Kerouac poem entitled “Hymn” (see TMB Item #3674; find it using the “Book ID” section under the “Search Inventory” tab on..... More

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 2011. First Edition. Softcover. “So in America when the sun goes down and I sit on the old broken-down river pier watching the long, long skies over New Jersey and sense all that raw land that rolls in one unbelievable huge bulge over to the West Coast, and all that road going, all the people dreaming in the immensity of it…” Thus begins the..... More