Kokubunsha. Japanese edition. Hardcover. 152; 4pp. Square sextodecimo [16 cm] White paper over boards. Illustrations in black and white. Very good condition. With both the black and white, and the tan and green pictorial dust jackets, in very good condition, showing light edge wear. Pipeau Series 66. More about The Beat Poetry
Penguin, 1993. Later printing. Paperback. 194pp. Octavo [19.5cm]; illustrated wraps. The story of young Kerouac's relationship with Maggie Cassidy. More about Maggie Cassidy
Penguin, 2016. Later printing. Paperback. 307 pp. Octavo [19.5 cm]. Kerouac's groundbreaking work that defined the Beat Generation published here by Penguin Classics as part of their Penguine Orange Collection. More about On the Road
New York: Penguin Books, 2008. Later printing. Paperback. 408pp. Octavo. Off-white covers with red and orange. The legendary first draft - rougher, wilder, and racier than the 1957 edition. More about On the Road: The Original Scroll
New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1961. First Printing. Paperback. Thin octavo [20 cm] Illustrated wraps. Very good. The covers are very lightly rubbed. The verso of the front cover has a previous owner's brief notation. There is a gift inscription on the title page. For the Film by Robert Frank... More about Pull My Daisy
New York: Grove Press, 1961. First edition. Paperback. 38[-72]pp. Octavo. White illustrated wrappers. Illustrated with stills from the film. Near fine. Light rubbing to covers. Minor spotting to fore edge of half-title. Text ad-libbed by Jack Kerouac for the film by Robert Frank and Alfred Leslie. More about Pull My Daisy
New York: Grove Press, 1961. First edition. Paperback. 38[-72]pp. Octavo. White illustrated wrappers. Illustrated with stills from the film. Near fine. Light rubbing to covers. Minor spotting to fore edge of half-title. Text ad-libbed by Jack Kerouac for the film by Robert Frank and Alfred Leslie. More about Pull My Daisy
Harvest, 1970. Later printing. Paperback. 499pp. Octavo [20cm]; illustrated wraps. Kerouac's first novel about a New England family viewed from the beginning of the century to the years following WWII. More about The Town and The City
Penguin, 1992. Later printing. Paperback. 96pp. Octavo [19.5cm]; illustrated wraps. A short novel written in the fifties about a young man's romantic encounter with a morphine addicted Mexican prostitute. More about Tristessa
Lund: Bakhall, 1989. Paperback. 93pp. Duodecimo [19 cm] Brown, white and purple pictorial wraps. Very good plus condition. There is a prior owner's name on the first page. Scattered Poems in Swedish. Jack Kerouac is known for his spontaneous method of writing, using themes such as Catholic spirituality, jazz, promiscuity... More about Livet Ar Min Konst (Scattered poems
Reinbek bei Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1978. Paperback. 216pp. Duodecimo [19 cm] Illustrated wraps. Near fine condition. The covers show light edge wear, and the pages are age-toned. Vanity of Duluoz in German. Jack Kerouac is known for his spontaneous method of writing, using themes such as Catholic spirituality, jazz, promiscuity, Buddhism... More about Die Verblendung des Duluoz: Eine abenteuerliche Erziehung, 1935-46 (Vanity of Duluoz
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1978. Hardcover. SIGNED. 339pp. Octavo [24 cm] 1/4 brown cloth with tan paper covered boards. Beige speckled endpapers. With numerous black and white photographs in the text. Very good. The edges of the covers are very slightly sunned. The spine ends and the top fore... More about Jack's Book: An Oral Biography of Jack Kerouac
San Francisco: City Lights, 2007. Paperback. 286pp. 20.5 cm. in black and white pictorial wrappers. Edited by Timothy Moran and Bill Morgan. Includes bibliographical references and index. New. More about You'll Be Okay; My Life with Jack Kerouac
San Francisco: City Lights, 2007. Later printing. Paperback. 286 pp. 20.5cm. Black, white and red photographic wrappers. From rear cover: "Edie Parker was 18 years old when she met Jack Kerouac at Columbia University in 1940. A young Socialite from Grosse Pointe, Michigan, she had come to New York to... More about You'll Be Okay; My Life With Jack Kerouac
Berkeley: The Arif Press, 1978. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 33pp. Very slim octavo [22 cm] 1/4 green cloth with decoratively patterned green paper over boards. Fore and bottom edges rough-trimmed. With only minor rubbing to the extremities. In the acetate dust wrapper, with chipping at the head of the wrapper's spine... More about Extended Love Poem
New York: Delacorte Press, 1971. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 151pp. Octavo [21 cm] 1/4 black cloth with black paper over boards, and blue, green and silver lettering on the spine and front cover. Very good plus condition. The foot of the spine is gently bumped. In a very good dust... More about The Adept
1965. First edition. Paperback. 70 pp (printed on rectos only). Slim quarto [33 cm]. White, brown and blue pictorial wraps. The wraps are mildly age-toned, soiled and creased. The true first edition of this work. Copyright page reads: "...for actors and friends of the auther only..." An underground theater classic... More about The Beard
Michael McClure / Privately Printed, 1965. First edition. Paperback. 70pp (printed on rectos only). Quarto [33 cm]; white, brown, and blue pictorial wraps. Sharp, square, unmarked text. With 5 contemporary black and white photographs of Michael McClure laid in (one photo is present in duplicate). The photographs measure 3 1/2... More about The Beard
San Francisco: Coyote, 1967. First trade edition. Paperback. 82pp. Octavo [20 cm] Illustrated wraps, with mild toning and rubbing to the wraps. From the rear wrap- "The Beard is a milestone in the history of heterosexual art." - Kenneth Tynan. More about The Beard
San Francisco: Dave Haselwood Books, 1967. Reprint. Paperback. Slim octavo [20 cm] White, brown and yellow pictorial wraps. Very good. The front wrap is rubbed at the edges. "Dark Brown is one of the peaks of modern poetry in English... the most extraordinary collection of erotic poems ever published in... More about Dark Brown
San Francisco: Dave Haselwood Books, 1967. Reprint. Paperback. Slim octavo [20 cm] White, brown and yellow pictorial wraps. Very good. The front wrap is rubbed, and the rear wrap is mildly foxed and damp stained. There is a previous owner's name and phone number on the first blank page, and... More about Dark Brown
San Francisco: The Auerhahn Press, 1961. Limited Edition. Paperback. Octavo [23 cm] Brown wraps. With minor sunning to the book's spine. One of 750 copies. More about Dark Brown
New York: A New Directions Book, 1976. First American edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 79pp. Octavo [21 cm] Rose-red cloth over boards with black lettering on the backstrip. Near fine. The spine ends and edges of the covers are marginally rubbed, and the pages are tanned. In a very good dust wrapper... More about Gorf or Gorf and the Blind Dyke
New York: A New Directions Book, 1976. First American edition. Hardcover. 79pp. Octavo [21 cm] Rose-red cloth over boards with black lettering on the backstrip. Near fine. The spine ends and edges of the covers are marginally rubbed and bumped, and the pages are tanned. In a very good dust... More about Gorf or Gorf and the Blind Dyke
New York: A New Directions Book, 1976. First New Directions paperback edition. Paperback. 79pp. Octavo [20 cm] White and black pictorial wraps. With a compliments of the author slip, signed by Michael McClure, tucked in (this slip was at one time mounted to the verso of the front cover. The... More about Gorf or Gorf and the Blind Dyke