[Item #4432] Transatlantic Review 33 & 34 (Winter 1969-70). J. F. McCrindle, Barry Bowes, Malcolm Bradbury, Anthony Burgess, Neal Cassady, David Cooper, Margaret Croyden, Philippe de Broca, Paul Gardner, David Garland, Giles Gordon, Brendan Hennessy, Jack Kerouac, Steven Kroll, Joan Littlewood, Scott Sanders, David Storey, Inge Trachtenborg, Andrei Voznesensky.
Transatlantic Review 33 & 34 (Winter 1969-70)

Transatlantic Review 33 & 34 (Winter 1969-70)

London, England; New York, NY: The Transatlantic Review, 1969. First Printing. Softcover. A vintage double number of the acclaimed literary review, a joint production of the UK & USA chiefly edited by J.F. McCrindle. Featuring transcript of a tape-recorded conversation between Beat Generation Founding Father Jack Kerouac & his partner-muse in itinerant adventure Neal Cassady, conducted during 1952, typed by Kerouac & entitled "First Night of the Tapes". William S. Burroughs, his wife Joan Vollmer Burroughs (already dead by WSB's unsteady hand in the famous incident by then), Allen Ginsberg, Herbert Huncke, & the cult favorite autobiography Really the Blues by Mezz Mezzrow are among the people & topics discussed- an essential & fascinating early Beat dialogue, raw material from which anecdotes in Kerouac's Visions of Cody (fully published three years later in 1972) derived. Charters, C 117, pg. 91. This abundant issue also includes an interview with journalist & poet Brendan Hennessy conducted by David Storey; fiction by Barry Bowes, Malcolm Bradbury, Anthony Burgess, Steven Kroll, Scott Sanders, Inge Trachtenborg & many others; an interview with the esteemed theatre critic Margaret Croyden conducted by Joan Littlewood; poetry by David Cooper, Giles Gordon & others; an essay on poetry by Andrei Voznesensky; an interview with film script writer & journalist Paul Gardner conducted by Philippe de Broca & more. With many spaced-out, erotic illustrations exemplary of the period including by David Garland throughout; notes on contributors (where it is noted that Kerouac had died in October 1969, just a few months before this issue was published in December; & where On the Road is mis-titled as "On the Beat"). Trade-format softcover. An especially important, extra-large & varied issue in this highly collectible series, especially for Kerouac devotees. In fine condition with mild-to-moderate rubbing, scratching, creasing & browning to front, back covers & spine; mild wear & some tiny bumps, creases at thin edges & corners of same; very slight rubbing & browning to edges of text block. Interior very fine with only small, mostly faint creases & tiny bumps at corners of some page leaves. Fine. [Item #4432]

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