Czechoslovakia: Votobia, 1996. First Czech Edition. Hardcover. In a 2020 interview with Mojo Magazine, Tom Waits remarked that “Pic” was his personal favorite Jack Kerouac book. “It’s written like a Mark Twain story, all in phonetic black jargon,” Waits was quoted as saying. What most Kerouac fans (and Beat-&-Beyonders alike) don’t know is that “Pic” was not written at the very end of Kerouac’s life. Its posthumous publication (it was..... More

London, England: Andre Deutsch, 1974. First British Hardcover Edition (Publisher's File Copy). Hardcover. "Maggie Cassidy is a haunting and tender recreation of (Jack) Kerouac's first love. Jack Duluoz is sixteen, at once gauche, passionate and football-crazy, and Maggie Cassidy is a sexually precocious high-school girl a year older than he...and although Jack is only too conscious of the problems caused by his extreme youth and inexperience, and her wayward sexuality..... More

New York, NY: The Viking Press, 1957. First Printing. Hardcover. "After World War I a certain group of restless, searching Americans came to be called "The Lost Generation." This group found its truest voice in the writings of the young Hemingway. For a good many of the same reasons after World War II another group, roaming America in a wild, desperate search for identity and purpose, became known as "The..... More

New York, NY: ibooks Inc., 2005. First Edition Thus, Second Printing / Rescinded Edition. Softcover. “It was Allen Ginsberg who introduced us—if that’s the appropriate word for what happened that evening in spring, San Francisco, 1956. I’d come into the city for the first time a few weeks before and had met Allen through the fact that both he and poet friend Ed Dorn were working at the Greyhound Bus..... More

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1992. First Edition, Second State. Softcover. “The original manuscript of this book, written between 1954 and 1965, has been in the safekeeping of City Lights all the years since Kerouac’s death in 1969. Reaching beyond the scope of his ‘Mexico City Blues,’ here are poems about Mexico and Tangier, Berkeley and the Bowery. Mid-fifties road poems, hymns and songs of God, drug poems, wine..... More

New York, NY: Grove Press, Inc., 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. "In Satori in Paris, Kerouac brings the candid and innocent joy which informs all his writings of America, to the calmer, less changing world of France. He sees the French as themselves and at the same time, as American counterparts. Flashing in and out of his "travelogue" are scenes and images from his days as a boy, a student, a...... More

New York, NY: The Universal Library/ Grosset & Dunlap; Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1960; Circa 1974. First Softcover Editions Thus. Softcovers. "In his big, compelling first novel, Jack Kerouac drew on his own New England background and experiences to tell the story of George and Marguerite Martin and their three daughters and five sons, a clan of energetic individuals, each wrapped in his own vision of life. The narrative follows..... More

n/p: Pacific Red Car, 1984. Limited First Edition Thus. Stapled Wrappers. "Here we have two quite different examples of (Jack) Kerouac's short story writing, from different periods of his life. "The Rumbling, Rambling Blues" first appeared in Playboy magazine of January 1958, shortly after On the Road was published. Unusually, for Kerouac, the story, although written in the first person, does not appear to be autobiographical, but is possibly the..... More

New York, NY: Coward-McCann, Inc., 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. "Football, war, and murder- these are the catalytic forces in this stunning new novel by Jack Kerouac which traces the adventures of a young man coming of age in the American 1930's & '40's." (from front flap) The last novel published during the lifetime of Jack Kerouac (1922-1969), Founding Father of the Beat Generation, in the year before his death. A...... More

Cardiff, Wales: Second Aeon Publications, 1970. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. A chapbook of poems in tribute to Jack Kerouac, published in Wales. This appears to us to be among the first, if not the very first, UK small press production following Kerouac's death in October 1969- there is a reference to "7.70" (July 1970) at page 1, & a copyright date of 1970 on page 2. Edited by Peter Finch..... More

New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. "Jack Kerouac gave birth to a whole generation of young people, kids who left the safety of suburbia for the harder truths of the road. Thousands went searching and the beatniks of the jazzy fifties gave way to the hippies of the psychedelic sixties, a generation lost on the American highway. But one person inherited Jack's legacy like no other..... More

Coventry, England: The Beat Scene Press, 2017. Limited First Edition Thus. Stapled Wrappers. "The qualities that made On the Road a huge success and Kerouac a powerful storyteller, guide and literary icon are the same ones that rendered him remarkably unsuitable for the military: Independence, creativity, impulsivity, sensuality and recklessness." (from second page) An essay that focuses on the brief, aborted U.S. Naval Reserve career of Jack Kerouac during World..... More

Ellensburg, WA: Vagabond Press, 1976. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. Signed by T.L. Kryss. "Words are sardines packed / in a man's eyes / some say they are still used / like the boulder money / of the Easter Islanders / carried from place to place / on sagging poles, / that they are no more permanent / than the buildings / after the air raids on London" (from "Bell Too..... More