Santa Barbara, CA: Capra Press, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed & Numbered by Barry Gifford. “THE MYTH OF THE RAINY NIGHT! Just awoke to shroud mist morning, veiled day, heavy traffic on Bridge St.—mill men on their way to work. Last night “Louise” came home ‘bout 3 A.M. with a man but wouldn’t let him in her room. “Aw, lemme in Louise—Louise honey, I ain’t got no place to go”;..... More

n/p; Carmarthen, Wales; San Francisco, CA: Booklegger/ Albion; Unicorn Bookshop; Grey Fox Press, 1973; 1976; 1993. Bookleg Edition; First Edition Thus; First Edition Thus, Second Printing. Stapled Wrappers; Unbound Sheets in Loose Wrappers; Softcover. "Old Angel Midnight is only the beginning of a lifelong work in multilingual sound, representing the haddal-da-babra of babbling world tongues coming in thru my window at midnight no matter where I live or what I'm..... 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

Berkeley, CA: Creative Arts Book Company, 1977. First Revised, Expanded Edition Thus. Softcover. "No matter where Jack went he always knew he'd return to Lowell, the town he hated and loved, that he felt secure in, the one place he could never really leave-" (from "Part Three: A Note on Kerouac's City," pg. 59) This is the chronicle by Barry Gifford of his visit to Lowell, Massachusetts, the birthplace &..... More

New York, NY; Kentfield, CA: Random House, Inc., 1979. First Editions. Hardcover; Softcover. A collectible bundle of two outstanding biographical-critical works about Jack Kerouac, the great American author & a Founding Father of the Beat Generation: (1) Desolate Angel: Jack Kerouac, the Beat Generation and America. Published in 1979, an acclaimed biography by Dennis McNally, the prolific author, historian & music publicist. Among the earliest studies as the Beats were..... More

Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Robert J. Milewski's exhaustively authoritative "Jack Kerouac: An Annoted Bibliography of Secondary Sources, 1944-1979" is simply a masterwork of bibliography. "Part 1A" consists of "Reviews of Kerouac's Primary Works," including "Big Sur," "Book of Dreams," "Desolation Angels," "The Dharma Bums," "Doctor Sax," "Heaven and Other Poems," "Lonesome Traveler," "Maggie Cassidy," "Mexico City Blues" and many more. "Part 1B" consists of "Films, Including..... 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

n/p: Zeta Press, 1985. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. Signed by (presumed) publisher to R.J. Ellis. A collection of miscellaneous writings by Jack Kerouac, Founding Father of the Beat Generation. All eleven "The Last Word" columns Kerouac published during 1958-1961 in Escapade magazine are gathered here chronologically, as well as some of his widely-published & more obscure essays including the classic "Essentials of Spontaneous Prose" & a short autobiography-bibliography. This is..... More

San Anselmo, CA: Fels & Fern Press, 1986. First Trade Edition. Softcover. "Jack Kerouac gave me the idea of interindependence. We have to respect the independence of others. We all want independence, even though we are dependent on so many things and so many people. He was striving for "beatitude", the beatific existence of Saints, with complete detachment from the world, without abandoning the world. People in Lowell don't really..... More

Lowell, MA: The Lowell Corporation For The Humanities, Inc., 1989. First Edition, Second Printing. Softcover. "Jack Kerouac's books represent an intense inner exploration that he felt compelled to express, and the powerful energy of those works continues to affect people throughout the world. In shying away from craft and revision in writing, he was digging away at the very core of himself, as if that were where he would find..... More

Bristol, England: The Kerouac Connection, 1990. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This vintage number of the UK literary journal of the Beat Generation & especially Jack Kerouac, edited & with contributions by David Moore, features Kerouac's poem "Old Western Movies," transcribed from the recording session for the 1959 album "Blues & Haikus" by Moore; along with Moore's article on "Jack & Neal on disc," "A complete (?) list of recordings which..... More

Raleigh, NC: Cooper Street Publications, 1991. First Edition. Softcover. "KEROUAC...Just the name itself sounds unique. But Jack Kerouac was much more than unique. His writing, not only his taboo subject matter, but also his honest way of writing, his narrative prose style, has opened the eyes of millions of literature students all over the world...for a number of years in the 1950s...Jack Kerouac would call Rocky Mount, North Carolina, Home..... More

Czech Republic: Votobia, 1993. First Edition. Softcover. “Lonesome Traveler” brings together numerous gems from Jack Kerouac’s now-classic accounts of his early travels across the American continent & the world, recounted in his inimitably excited yet ultimately melancholy manner—a milestone work by the Founding Father of the Beat Generation. Scenes of Mexico, Morocco, the United Kingdom and France appear throughout the work—as do the flings, relationships and jobs he encountered during..... More