Lowell, MA: Dharma Beat, 1995. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. “Welcome to Issue 5. This issue brings to you an unpublished Jack Kerouac work, courtesy of John Sampas (“My Mad Sunset Birth,” “…an unknown, and until now, unpublished piece by Jack Kerouac. It was written around 1941 when Jack was about 19 years old. It was recently discovered among papers belonging to his close friend, Sebastian Sampas.”) So reads the introductory..... More

New York, NY: Viking Penguin, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. "Before Jack Kerouac expressed the spirit of a generation in his 1957 classic On the Road and became the definitive voice of Beat culture, he spent years figuring out how he wanted to live and, above all, learning how to write. In Atop an Underwood, editor Paul Marion has brought together more than sixty previously unpublished works that Kerouac wrote between..... More

Lowell, MA; New York, NY: Paul Maher Jr., 2017; 1999. First Editions. Softcover; Hardcover. Signed by Paul Maher Jr. "I Am the Revolutionary: Young Jack Kerouac had its origins with my intentions to write an even longer book for an academic press. It was to be a standalone tome that would have covered Kerouac's formative years as an upstart writer clawing his way through the thickets of frequently-read books (Joyce..... More

New York, NY: Viking Penguin, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. "On a blind date in Greenwich Village set up by Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac met Joyce Glassman in January of 1957, nine months before he became famous overnight with the publication of On the Road. She was an adventurous, independent-minded twenty-one-year-old who earned her keep as a secretary but who already had a publisher interested in her first novel. Kerouac was..... More

New York, NY: Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, Inc., 2001; 2013. First Printings. Softcovers. Gathered here are two salivating (to Booksellers, archivists, and Kerouac collectors, that is) bookseller’s catalogs produced by New York’s Glenn Horowitz describing-&-listing two different archival lots which once-upon-a-time were procured and brought to market by the New York-based bookseller. Beginning with the first-listed catalog, “This Isn’t Folly, This is Me” alluringly lists (in Special Collections library-friendly, “register” format)..... 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 First Edition Thus, Second Printing / Rescinded Edition.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

New York, NY; Santa Fe, NM: Viking Penguin; Palace of the Governors, 2007. First Printing; First Edition Thus; First Printing. Hardcovers; Stapled Wrappers. Jack Kerouac's On the Road, along with Allen Ginsberg's Howl & William S. Burroughs' Naked Lunch, ignited the Beat Generation into a popular phenomenon that in turn paved the way for the seismic literary & cultural upheavals which culminated during the 1960s. Famously written on a single..... More

London, England: Penguin Books Ltd., 2000; 2008. First Softcover Editions Thus, Later Printings. Softcovers. Both volumes signed by Carolyn Cassady, one also inscribed & dated. Jack Kerouac's On the Road, along with Allen Ginsberg's Howl & William S. Burroughs' Naked Lunch, ignited the Beat Generation into a popular phenomenon that in turn paved the way for the seismic literary & cultural upheavals which culminated during the 1960s. Famously written on..... More

Berkeley, CA: Viva Editions/ Cleis Press, Inc., 2011. First Edition, Advance Reading Copy. Softcover. Inscribed with drawings & signed by Gerald Nicosia to R.J. Ellis. "Lu Anne Henderson was a beautiful 15-year-old girl in Denver in 1945 when she met Neal Cassady, fast-talking hurricane of male sexuality and vast promises. He told her he was going to enroll in Columbia to become a writer. He did marry her and took..... More

Monee, IL: Get Things Done Publishing, 2015. Tenth Edition. Softcover. "The exploits chronicled in this book happened before I was on the Beat Circuit, but then this was really the first one...but I've been hearing about this thing ever since it happened. Every time any two people who were both there were in the same room they'd talk about it like they'd taken some wild trip together. That's why I...... More

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..... More

New York, NY: Bloomsbury Academic/ Bloomsbury Publishing Inc., 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. "The leading light of the Beat Generation writers, Jack Kerouac also had a lifelong passion for music, particularly the mid-century jazz of New York City. Furthermore, some of the greatest transatlantic names in rock- from Bob Dylan to the Grateful Dead, Van Morrison to David Bowie- credited the novelist's impact on their work. Kerouac on Record considers how..... More

Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2021. Limited First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. A fascinating, well-researched scholarly essay by Mike Andrews that focuses on the parallel lives & works of respective American literary & musical giants Jack Kerouac & Miles Davis. Direct references to Davis & Co. (esp. Charlie Parker) live & on record in Kerouac's works are noted, & there is a general thread of comparing their separate lives at identical..... More