Fayetteville, AK: University of Arkansas Press, 1988. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. “This book—volume two of a proposed three volume edition of nonfiction—deals with people…These pieces all reflect a belief that the passionate response of representative individuals to their era, the response of character to the waywardness of time, will reflect as well the generative ideas and experiences (what might be called the inner life) of a given period—in this case..... 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: 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 In Atop an Underwood, editor Paul Marion has brought together more than sixty previously unpublished works that Kerouac wrote between.....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

New York, NY: Viking Penguin, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. "When Viking published the first volume of Jack Kerouac's selected letters in 1995, it was hailed as an important and revealing addition to Kerouac scholarship. The passionate early correspondence portended the uninhibited and spontaneous prose style that would later become his trademark. In the second and final volume of this life in letters, Ann Charters, renowned Kerouac biographer and editor of..... 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

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: Viking Press, 1990. First Printing. Hardcover. "The Merry Pranksters' 1964 voyage aboard Further is probably the best-known adventure of an adventurous decade. Ken Kesey and friends transformed an old yellow school bus into a psychedelic schooner -- wired with sound equipment, cameras, musical instruments, and a fridge full of acid-laced orange juice -- and set off on a coast-to-coast trip, all systems turned on, filming and recording..... More

London, England: Alan Ross, 1969. First UK Edition. Hardcover. "I write this in London, where I have found an English publisher willing to give me the equivalent of your airwaves for my American voice. This voice, this book in your hands, first made their appearance via a tiny Greenwich Village press in New York in 1961. The press is long dead; the voice is still swinging, although the tune she..... More

New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. "The letters gathered here have been selected from the surviving correspondence between Kenneth Rexroth and James Laughlin, a collection of approximately 350 letters written between 1937 and Rexroth's death in 1982...While many of the letters are reproduced entire, many others are not; in the main, the attempt has been to give as accurate a reflection as possible of the..... More

Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. "The development of Thoreau's identity--from David Henry, son of John and Cynthia, to Henry David, sojourner at Walden, was a long, complex, and painful process; it was by no means a fully self-assured, stately march to the beat of a different drummer. The period between Thoreau's graduation from Harvard in 1837 and the beginning of the Walden experiment in 1845..... More

New York, NY: New Directions Books, 2001. First Edition. Softcover. "During the last decade of his life, living as a recluse high in the mountains of southeast China, Hsieh Ling-yun (385-433 C.E.) initiated a tradition of "rivers-and-mountains" (shan-shui) poetry that stretches across millennia in China and beyond, a tradition that represents the earliest and most extensive literary engagement with wilderness in human history. Hsieh's work, all but unknown in the..... More

Columbia, SC: Paul Maher Jr., 2019. First Edition. Softcover. "A Vast Glowing Empty Page: The Life and Writings of Jack Kerouac takes the reader from Jack Kerouac's early years in Lowell, Massachusetts through his last years in St. Petersburg, Florida. Read of the hapless young man searching for his voice as a writer as he struggles through the pitfalls of school, family conflicts, poverty, World War II, fame and the..... More

Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2018. Limited First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. "I came to Bukowski after taking a detour from Hemingway, my first love. It led me down a cracked path to a muddy backwater reeking of dirt and grime. And yet I felt in strangely familiar territory. Though Bukowski usually mentioned Hemingway among a list of a number of authors who influenced him, he was probably the biggest one..... More