Various (Ring, Kevin (Editor); Bauer, Todd; Burroughs, William S.; Creeley, Robert; Ginsberg, Allen; Girodias, Maurice; Kaufman, Bob; Kerouac, Jack; Kerouac, Jan; Leary, Timothy; Whitehead, Ron; Winans, A.D. et al.)

Beat Scene No. 25 (1996)

Coventry, England: The Beat Scene Press, 1996. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This vintage mid-1996 number of the magazine-format literary journal edited & published by Kevin Ring in the UK features the transcript of a telephone interview with William S. Burroughs conducted by Ron Whitehead on June 19, 1996, slightly over a year before WSB's death. Also in this issue, an obituary of & the final interview with Jan Kerouac, Jack's bedeviled daughter, conducted by Todd Bauer a few months before her death that year; obituaries of counterculture guru Timothy Leary & Jazz great Gerry Mulligan who also both had passed away that year; a profile of Maurice Girodias' Olympia Press (Parisian publisher of the first edition of WSB's (The) Naked Lunch among many other now-iconic works); the third part of a descriptive discography of recordings by Allen Ginsberg; a celebratory essay on Bob Kaufman by A.D. Winans; reviews (including of a live reading at a historic UK venue by poet Robert Creeley) & more. With many reproductions of early & contemporary photographs, including images of WSB on front cover & Jack Kerouac on back cover. A rare earlier issue of this indispensable series for devotees & collectors of the Beat Generation, especially significant with this exclusive late WSB interview. As its front cover motto states & always fulfills, "This is the Beat Generation"! In fine condition with very mild rubbing to front, back covers & stapled spine; mild wear & some tiny bumps, creases at thin edges & corners of same; several angled light creases across right edge & near same of front cover; staples in process of rusting but with no discernible interior or exterior bleeding. Interior very fine with only tiny bumps at corners & edges of some page leaves. Fine. [Item #4069]

Price: $30.00