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: Washington Square Press, 1984. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. "Joyce Johnson grew up bright and sensitive in Manhattan in the '50s of the cold war and gray flannel suits. "Attracted to decadence," with "little respect for respectability," she had a boundless- and dangerous- belief in the power of love. For two years, more or less, on and off, she was the girlfriend of Jack Kerouac, during the time..... More

Berkeley, CA: Paperback Editions Limited, 1957. First Printing. Softcover. "This exciting second issue of NEW EDITIONS features....A romantic rhapsody of boyhood by Jack Kerouac, author of a novel soon to be published by Viking...." (from back cover) An otherwise mostly obscure anthology with a most notable contribution- by Jack Kerouac, Founding Father of the Beat Generation, published earlier during the same year that his "novel soon to be published by..... More