New York, NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1984. Uncorrected Proof. Softcover. "Jack Kerouac is a cult hero. The legend of his life is told and retold- almost always by passionate devotees or detractors. The myth is partly Kerouac's own doing, for he was a writer whose subject was himself. In this carefully researched biography, Tom Clark provides us for the first time with a life of Kerouac that examines him as..... More

Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 1988. Limited First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. "When I first reached Lowell, Massachusetts, in July 1977, I had read all of Jack Kerouac's books at least once, and some several times. I am not sure what I expected to find- possibly a medieval city of walls and arches and bridges over moats, with shadowy caped phantoms lurching about, breathing fire from their mouth. Possibly a holy..... 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

New York, NY: Viking Penguin, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed & dated at time of publication by Ann Charters. "Written between 1940, when (Jack) Kerouac was a college freshman, and 1956, immediately before his breathless leap into celebrity with the publication of On the Road, these letters offer invaluable insights into Kerouac's family life, friendships, travels, love affairs, and literary apprenticeship. Dispatches to the real-life models for his fictional pantheon-..... 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

Chicago, IL: Chicago Review Press, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. "A great many books have been written about Jack Kerouac, and the Net is awash with those who claim some sort of soul-mating with him. I knew him in his prime until his death, from 1947 to 1969, but I am mystified by the increase in his popularity generation after generation since...(Kerouac) responded emotionally to any stimuli, within or without, and..... More

New York, NY: Viking Press, 2000. First Edition/ Advance Uncorrected Proof. Softcover. "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..... 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

Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2012. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. A fine work of Beat scholarship by Kevin Ring, editor-publisher of the indispensable Beat Scene magazine & an ongoing series of chapbook-style publications of which this is one. Ring's essay chronicles & explains the long & bumpy road of Jack Kerouac's Visions of Cody. An important thread in the Kerouac oeuvre, a fragment of Visions was published as a signed..... 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 transcript of remarks delivered by Clark Coolidge (b. 1939), the acclaimed & prolific New York School-&-Beyond American poet & musician, as a participant in the major conference that was held in Boulder, Colorado at the Naropa Institute during 1982 to commemorate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the first publication of On the Road, the breakthrough novel by Jack Kerouac..... More

Boise, ID: Boise State University, 1974. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. As the back covers of Wayne Chatterton & James H. Maguire's "Western Writers Series" pamphlets suggest, "This continuing series, primarily regional in nature, provides brief but authoritative introductions to the lives and works of authors who have written significant literature about the American West. These attractive, uniform pamphlets, none of them longer than fifty pages, will be useful to the..... More