Charters, Ann (Kerouac, Jack)

On the Road with Jack Kerouac in Hyannis

Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2017. Limited First Edition Thus. Stapled Wrappers. "Fifty years ago I wrote this letter to Sam Charters as a way of sorting out my complex and contradictory impressions of (Jack) Kerouac after he invited me to spend two days with him and his mother on Cape Cod...the events in this letter are the basis of the simplified account of my visit to Kerouac included in chapter 34 of my biography Kerouac (Straight Arrow, SF: 1973)." (from introduction) The full text of a letter written to her husband in 1966 by Ann Charters, the earliest biographer & bibliographer of Jack Kerouac- one of the foremost scholars of the Father of the Beat Generation, & among the very few who actually met Kerouac in person during his short & bedeviled lifetime. After originally appearing in a 2017 issue of The Journal of Beat Studies, offered here is one of a limited edition of 125 hand-numbered copies produced during August 2017, this is copy No. 71/125. Chapbook in stapled wrappers with flaps, a beautiful production issued as No. 61 in the special series by Kevin Ring's Beat Scene Press in the UK- publisher of Beat Scene magazine, the indispensable resource that always upholds its motto, "This is the Beat Generation." (see the many issues & other chapbooks available here). A very significant Charters-Kerouac collectible destined, as in all of this series, for ever-greater rarity & value. In very fine, substantially as-new condition inside & out. Very Fine. [Item #5114]

Price: $35.00