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

Los Angeles, CA: Rare Bird Books/ Sal Paradise Press, 2022. First Edition. Hardcover. "In the summer of 1956, Jack Kerouac hitchhiked from Mill Valley, California, to the North Cascades to spend two months serving as a fire lookout for the US Forest Service. Taking only the Diamond Sutra for reading material, he intended to spend his time in deep contemplation and to achieve enlightenment. He wrote in his journal that..... 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

Lexington, KY: The University Press of Kentucky, 2012. First Printing. Hardcover. A deeply academic look at the Beat Generation, “The Philosophy of the Beats” brings together the kind of essays written by Ph.D’s that—for the most part, save an enterprising few—are meant to be read by fellow Ph.D’s (so specialized is the knowledge there invoked; the connections there attempted). The volume is the editorial work of one Sharin N. Elkholy..... More

College Station, TX: Virtual Book Worm Publishing, 2005. First Edition. Softcover. “The ‘bad trip’ of Kerouac’s was henceforth reflected in his work. He never had anything good to say about hallucinogens. He supported the idea that LSD was part of a Russian plot to subvert the country by attacking its young people. Contrary to the usual reactions to this powerful and remarkable drug, he found none of the mystical or..... More

London, England: Picador/ Pan Macmillan Ltd., 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. "At the end of the millennium, the leading industry magazine, The Bookseller, selected the ten people who had most influenced its century. Tom Maschler- described as 'the most important publisher in Britain; the most innovative, adventurous, and newsworthy'- was one of them; it went on to say that for nearly twenty years, 'he made publishing glamorous and the aura he..... More

London, England: William Heinemann Ltd., 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. "The first thing I want to insist on is that reading should be enjoyable. Of course, there are many books that we all have to read, either to pass examinations or to acquire information, from which it is impossible to extract enjoyment. We are reading them for instruction, and the best we can hope is that our need for it will..... More

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 2021. First Edition. Softcover. "In this powerful collection of new poems, Michael McClure gives us a rare view into his thoughts about mortality, particularly in the moving sequence "Death Poems." Mule Kick Blues takes its title from a series of homages to blues musicians, and features shout-outs to lifelong friends, a long poem "Fragments of Narcissus," and the ecological and zen-infused themes for which..... More

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 2001. First Edition. Softcover. "San Francisco Beat: Talking with the Poets is an essential archive of the Beat Generation, a rich moment in a fortunate place. America, somnolent, conformist, and paranoid in the 1950s, was changed forever by a handful of people who refused an existence of drudgery and enterprise, opting instead for a life of personal, spiritual, and artistic adventure. In these intimate..... More