Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Coach House Press, 1976. Limited Second Printing. Softcover. "This is the record of a Quebec novelist's obsession with Jack Kerouac and with the significance of Kerouac's life and writing for a Quebecois. Victor-Levy Beaulieu finds Kerouac's Americanism superficial, constituted mostly of desperate and unsuccessful flight from the Quebec gloom which was his inescapable heritage. He suggests that Kerouac's fear of women, his mother-worship, and his fear of..... More

San Francisco, CA: Sore Dove Press, 2007. Limited Edition. Folded Sheet in Wrappers. Signed by Sharon Doubiago. "The Hopi believe | the Revolution will happen | when there are many homeless people on the roads. | The Beats believed this too, Snyder and Kerouac in "Dharma Bums." | These people will be known | by a name that sounds like Hopi." (first stanza). Offerred today is Hip Hop Hopi Hope..... More

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1996. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. "Tim Hunt's study of Jack Kerouac's writing is the first, best - and only indispensible - guide that explains this American author's achievement as an important and original prose stylist..." (Ann Charters, Foreword, pg ix). First published in 1981 & now a classic, Kerouac’s Crooked Road by American author Tim Hunt, was one of the first critical works on..... More

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1966. First Edition, Second Printing. Softcover. "The reader should know that this is just a collection of dreams that I scribbled after I woke up from my sleep- They were all written spontaneously, nonstop, just like dreams happen, sometimes written before I was even wide awake- The characters that I've written about in my novels reappear in these dreams in weird new dream situations...and..... More

Milan, Italy: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 1996. First Italian Edition Thus. Softcover. Offered here is the first Italian edition thus of the cycle of poems under the heading of San Francisco Blues by Jack Kerouac (1922-1969), Founding Father of the Beat Generation. Originally composed during the early 1960s & partially published in myriad official & bootleg publications from the early 1980s, the first complete English-language version of San Francisco Blues (to..... More

New York, NY, USA: Totem Press, 1960. First Edition, Third Printing. Stapled Wrappers. “The awakened Buddha to show the way, the / chosen Messiah to die in the degradation / of sentience, is the golden eternity. One that / is what is, the golden eternity, or, God, or, / Tathagata–the name. The Named One. / The human God. Sentient Godhood. / Animate Divine. The Deified One. / The Verified One..... More

Orpington, UK: Delta Music Plc, 2005. First Edition. “What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? - it's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.”--Jack Kerouac, On The Road. Offered today is the 2005 DVD release of What Happened to Kerouac?: The Jack..... More

Coventry, England, UK: Beat Scene Press, 2024. First Printing. Perfect Bound Wrappers. This hot-off-the-presses latest (as of this writing) Winter 2024 number of the magazine-format literary journal dedicated to the Beat Generation edited, published & with contributions by Kevin Ring in the UK features an essay on the life & work of classic hard-boiled twentieth-century proto-Beat author Nelson Algren by Jan Herman; an interview with Alice Notley conducted by Garrett..... More

Coventry, England, UK: Beat Scene Press, 2015. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This Early Summer 2015 number of the magazine-format literary journal edited, published & with contributions by Kevin Ring in the UK features a talk-based essay by Peter Anastas describing a visit to the great "Maximus" poet Charles Olson by none other than the Founding Father of the Beat Generation himself, Jack Kerouac, during October of 1968, the twilight of..... More

Coventry, England, UK: Beat Scene Press, 2018. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This Spring 2018 number of the essential magazine-format literary journal devoted to the Beat Generation edited, published & with contributions by Kevin Ring in the UK features an intensive article by Ring about Allen Ginsberg's residency at a cottage in Berkeley during a crucial period that led to the first reading of "Howl" at the Six Gallery in San..... More

Menlo Park, CA: Kerouac Connection, 1998. First Edition, First Printing. From the library of Lawrence Ferlinghetti, with his ownership signature & date. "Old and New Age life travelers of every kind are here. A few seemingly comfortably secure in dissident sub-cultural ghettos..." (excerpt from David Cunliffe's review of Visions of Poesy, pg. 33). The rotating editorial odyssey of The Kerouac Connection continues in this here issue, the 28th in this..... More

Bristol, England: The Kerouac Connection, 1986. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. “Much of the attention showered upon Kerouac’s work is directed towards On the Road, Visions of Cody, and The Dharma Bums, the three books which, if not his most readable, his most enduring and popular. Long overlooked is another Kerouac manifesto, one which I consider to be a companion piece of the aforementioned: Desolation Angels. Scholars have shortchanged Desolation Angels;..... More

London, England, UK: Quartet Books Limited, 1975; 1977. First Editions Thus. Softcovers. "Young and in love, Jack Duluoz experiences all the palpitations of fear, anxiety and delight as he dreams of making it- as a football star, and with Maggie Cassidy, his high-school sweetheart. He met her at the New Year's Eve Dance at the Rex Ballroom, Lowell, Mass., and he's crazy about her. But at eighteen, a year older..... More