Search Results: Beat Generation from Sad Paradise Books

New York: Grove, 1959. First Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. First Evergreen edition, third printing. Original black cloth with green metallic title and credit to spine, 245 pages. Very light corner creasing to a few pages. Near fine - a very neat, bright example of perhaps Kerouac's most sustained creative writing - his personal favourite. One for the collector, or a perfect gift.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1989. Hardcover. Very Good +/Fine. A very neat bright copy of the first impression. In publisher's grey boards quarter bound in black cloth, gilt lettering to spine, black & white photographic plates, notes, bibliography, index, 588 pages. Top corner of free front endpaper neatly snipped off. Draws upon Ginsberg; journals & correspondence and scores of interviews to weave an intimate portrait of a man whose poetry shocked the establishment, and whose rebellious lifestyle fuelled the counterculture revolution of the 1960's.

New York: Viking , 1989. Hardcover. Near Fine,/Fine. A neat bright copy of the first printing in grey boards quarter bound in black cloth with orange lettering and design to spine, illustrated endpapers,194 pages. Introduced by the editor James Grauerholtz, jacket art by Burroughs. Small remainder mark to lower edge. Interzone the dreamlike imagined world where the laws of time, space and conventional human personality are suspended, where everything is both possible and permitted. Listing with Biblio since 2005, we guarantee our book descriptions, & post the next business day with tracking notification.

London: John Calder, 1963. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. A neat, tight copy. First UK edition, first impression. Octavo in original wrappers, 190 pages. Some fading to wrapper. Robert Creeley (1926 - 2005), one of America's leading poets was a a friend and contemporary of Kerouac, Ginsberg, and Jackson Pollock. 'The Island' (Creeley's only novel) is based on his experiences on Majorca in 1953. It's an impressionistic autobiography, a fractured account of his difficult marriage and the social scene on Majorca.

London: Hamlyn House, 1999. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. A very neat, bright copy. Quarto in publisher's original illustrated boards with white lettered credits to spine. 160 pages including foreword by Carolyn Cassady, numerous informative and poignant colour / black & white photographic plates, list of books by Kerouac with a guide to who-was-who, selected bibliography. A fabulous photo-essay biography of Kerouac - excellent production values.

New York: St Martins, 1978. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Octavo. Edges foxed, small closed tear to rear panel of slightly edge-chipped dustjacket. Charming, neat little inscription by previous owner on flyleaf. This oral biography was created from interviews with those who knew Jack as a man, a friend and a lover. A sound tight copy.

Edinburgh: Rebel Inc, 1999. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. A sound, clean copy of the first UK edition. First printing. xxii - 393 pages, black and white plates. Wrapper a little creased. This oral biography was created from interviews with those who knew Jack as a man, a friend and a lover.

Emeryville: Shoemaker & Hoard, 2005. First edition thus. Paperback. Fine. A lovely bright copy in colour illustrated wrapper, 209 pages. As new. These poems that chart Snyder's journey from 1947 to 1985: from the mountains and shores of the Pacific Northwest to the streets of San Francisco, New York and Kyoto.

New York: McGraw-Hill, 1960. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Original fawn / black boards, 184 pages. Line illustrations throughout by Larry Rivers. Some light chipping to top of spine, very light age toning to page edges. A very attractive example of Kerouac's most accessible work; a collection of magazine articles on his wanderings across the US and then to Mexico, Morocco, Paris, London. Images available on request. Nice example of an important Beat classic.

London: Andre Deutsch, 1962. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Original publisher's red boards with gilt title and credit top spine, 183 pages. Dustjacket has a 1 inch chip at bottom of spine and smaller one at the top. Top of front board and spine faded. Kerouac's most accessible work; a collection of magazine articles on his wanderings across the US and then to Mexico, Morocco, Paris, London. A clean and sound example of the first UK edition.

Columbia, Review: University of Missouri, 1994. First Thus. Printed Wrapper. Fine. Illustrated wrappers with a photograph of Kerouac. Features fifteen never-before-published letters from Jack Kerouac to Ed White. A tight, clean, square copy.

New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, 2002. First edition. Paperback. Near Fine,. A very neat, square copy. First printing. Octavo in illustrated wrapper, 309 pages including black and white plates, index. Small dog-ear on front panel. Amram recounts his enduring friendship and artistic collaborations with Kerouac including the now classic film 'Pull my Daisy'. An important memoir of Kerouac, told by 'an ever-enthusiastic and energetic travel guide, taking you along in this extraordinary account of their adventures from 1956 until Kerouac's death in 1969.'

Berkeley: Counterpoint, 2009. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A lovely bright neat copy of the first impression. Bound in publisher's cream boards quarter bound in rust cloth with gilt lettering to spine, black & white photographic illustrations, index, 321 pages. The editor has selected the most significant letters from the 850 the men exchanged over nearly four decades to paint biographical and poetic portraits of two of America's most important - and most fascinating - poets. Listing with Biblio since 2005, we guarantee our book descriptions, & post the next business day.

New York: Coward-McCann, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Poor. A very sound,clean copy. Second impression. Patterned grey boards quarter bound in black cloth gilt lettering to spine, black & white photographic illustrations to endpapers, 269 pages. The dustjacket is tatty with a big chunk missing from the front panel. A distinctly American coming of age; a wild time with drugs, writing and love exploding into a binge of non-stop experience that eventually even included murder.

Lowell, Massachusetts: Ithaca Press, 1974. Pictorial Cover. Very Good. Sound, tight copy. Second edition. Wrapper soiled, slightly worn, Kerouac's life from the perspective of an old Lowell school friend who became a professor of literature.