On the Collecting Road with Writers of the Beat Generation

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On the Collecting Road with Writers of the Beat
Generation
Donald W. Miller, Jr. Fellowship of American
Bibliophilic Societies Symposium Seattle,
Washington May 13, 2006
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Mary Lyde Williams (1866-1958)
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The Wilson 50   The Fifty Most Important Books
of American Literature Published After World War
II (1945-1980)
Robert Wilson
1980
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Titles in the Wilson 50
1963 1953 1960
1949 1948 1946 1953
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Beat Literature in the Wilson 50

• Poetry
• Allen Ginsberg Howl and Other Poems
  (1956)
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti A Coney Island of the
  Mind (1958)
• Robert Creeley Form of Women (1959)
• Robert Duncan Selected Poems (1959)
• Gregory Corso Gasoline (1961)
• Denise Levertov Here and Now (1961)
• Michael McClure Dark Brown (1961)
• William Everson The Poet is Dead (1964)
• Gary Snyder Regarding Wave (1969)
• Novels
• Jack Kerouac On the Road (1957)
• William Burroughs The Naked Lunch (1959)
• Diane DiPrima Memoirs of a Beatnik (1969)

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Allen Ginsberg Jack Kerouac
William Burroughs (1926-1997)
(1922-1969) (1914-1997)
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The Beat MovementUnderground Period -- 1944-1956
Kerouac , Ginsberg, and Burroughs On Riverside
Drive, New York, 1944
Burroughs tutoring Kerouac
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Neal Cassady
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Ginsberg, Cassady, and Howl
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Six Gallery 6 POETS AT 6 GALLERY
--------------------Philip Lamantia reading
mss. of late JohnHoffman-- Mike McClure, Allen
Ginsberg,Gary Snyder Phil Whalen--all sharp
newstraightforward writing-- remarkable
collection of angels on one stage readingtheir
poetry. No charge, small collectionfor wine, and
postcards. Charming event.Kenneth Rexroth,
M.C.8 PM Friday Night October 7,19556 Gallery
3119 Fillmore St.San Fran
Six Gallery 6 POETS AT 6 GALLERY
--------------------Philip Lamantia reading
mss. of late JohnHoffman-- Mike McClure, Allen
Ginsberg,Gary Snyder Phil Whalen--all sharp
newstraightforward writing-- remarkable
coll-ection of angels on one stage readingtheir
poetry. No charge, small collectionfor wine, and
postcards. Charming event.Kenneth Rexroth,
M.C.8 PM Friday Night October 7,19556 Gallery
3119 Fillmore St.San Fran
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Allen Ginsberg
Jack Kerouac
Michael McClure
Robert Duncan
Gary Synder
Neal Cassady
Philip Whalen
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The City Lights Bookstore
Ferlinghetti today, age 86, in front of the store
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Morgan A3al.l (title page), printing of
1,000 copies, in England
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The City Lights Pocket Poets Series

• Titles in the Wilson 50
• 4 ALLEN GINSBERG, Howl and Other Poems
• 6 DENISE LEVERTOV, Here and Now
• 8 GREGORY CORSO, Gasoline
• 10 ROBERT DUNCAN, Selected Poems,

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Allen Ginsberg
Siesta in Xbalba and Return to the States
(56 mimeographed copies)
1956 1960 1963
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Dedication
Jack Kerouac, new Buddha of American prose, who
spit forth intelligence into eleven books written
in half the number of years (1951-1956) -- On the
Road, Visions of Neal, Dr. Sax, Springtime Mary,
The Subterraneans, San Fransisco Blues, Some of
the Dharma, Book of Dreams, Wake Up, Mexico City
Blues, and Visions of Gerard -- creating a
spontaneous bop prosody and original classic
literature. Several phrases and the title of Howl
are taken from him. William Seward Burroughs,
author of Naked Lunch, an endless novel which
will drive everyone mad. Neal Cassady, author of
The First Third, an autobiography (1949) which
enlightened Buddha. All these books are
published in Heaven. Lucien Carr, recently
promoted to Night Bureau Manager of New York
United Press.
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Cassady, Kerouac, and On the Road
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On the Road
Charters A2a
Twenty 10-foot long rolls of Japanese tracing
paper taped together
3 x 5 Pocket Note Book
Scroll for On the Road
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Book Covers for Translations of On the Road
Portugal 1960
Sweden 1965
Germany 1968
Argentina 1977
Greece 1981
Japan 1983
Holland 1978
France 1980
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Book Covers for Translations of On the Road
Yugoslavia 1988
Norway 1992
Poland 1993
Hungary 1983
Czech Republic 1994
China 1998
Finland 2000
Russia 1995
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The Duluoz Legend (Book 1)
1950
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The Duluoz Legend (Books 2 and 3)
1957
1972
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The Duluoz Legend (Book 4)
KEROUAC, JACK, Doctor Sax. New York Grove
Press, 1959. First Edition. Stamped on the
blank and title page Uncorrected Page Proof,
stitch bound, laid into the dust jacket for the
bound edition, and also the wrapper for the paper
edition. Kerouacs own copy, containing seven
full page drawings (some signed Jean Louis
Kerouac), a small drawn map, and fourteen
textual corrections.
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Paintings and Line Drawings in the Kerouac Estate
New York Thunders Mouth Press, 2004
Kerouac. Van Gogh at Work Pencil, notebook, 3 x
5
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The Duluoz Legend (Books 5-7)
1960
1958
1960
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The Duluoz Legend (Books 8-11)
1963 1958
1960 1965
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The Duluoz Legend (Books 12-14)
1962
1966 1968
I had come to France and Brittany just to look
up this old name of mine which is just about
three thousand years old and was never changed in
all that time, as who would change a name that
simply means House (Ker), In the Field (Ouac)."
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Satori in Paris
KEROUAC, JACK. Satori in Paris. Original typed
manuscript with penciled copy editor markings,
with galley proofs and correspondence between the
Publisher and Kerouac, 2 ASL and 2 TSL by Kerouac
and 10 TSL by the Publisher.
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The Duluoz Legend by Jack Kerouac

• Written Published
  Publisher (all in NY)
• The Town and the City 1946-1949 1950
  Harcourt, Brace
• On the Road 1948-1955
  1957 Viking
• Visions of Cody 1951 1972
  McGraw-Hill
• Doctor Sax 1952 1959
  Grove
• Maggie Cassidy 1953 1959
  Avon
• The Subterraneans 1953 1958
  Grove
• Tristessa 1955 1960
  Avon
• Visions of Gerard 1956 1963
  Farrar, Straus
• The Dharma Bums 1957 1958
  Viking
• Lonesome Traveler 1958 1960
  McGraw-Hill
• Desolation Angels 1956, 1961
  1965 Coward-McCann
• Big Sur 1961 1962 Farrar,
  Straus Cudahy
• Satori in Paris 1965 1966
  Grove
• Vanity of Duluoz 1967 1968
  Coward-McCann

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Other Books by Kerouac

• Poetry
• Mexico City Blues (1959)
• Scattered Poems (1971)
• Trip Trap Haiku Along the Road from San
  Francisco to New York, 1959 (1973)
• Heaven, and Other Poems (1977)
• Pomes All Sizes (1992)
• Book of Blues (1995)
• Book of Haikus (2003)
• Philosophy/Religion
• The Scripture of the Golden Eternity (1960)
• Some of the Dharma (1997)
• Play/Screenplay
• Pull My Daisy (1961)
• Beat Generation (2005)

• Dreams
• Book of Dreams (1961)
• Letters
• Selected Letters 1946-1956 (1995)
• Selected Letters 1957-1969 (1999)
• Other Prose Works
• Pic (1971)
• Two Early Stories (1973)
• Old Angel Midnight (1973)
• Home at Christmas (1973)
• Good Blonde and Others (1993)
• Atop an Underwood Early Stories and Other
  Writings (2000)
• Orpheus Emerged (2002)
• Windblown World The Journals of Jack Kerouac
  1947-1954 (2004)
• Book of Sketches (2006)

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Specially Bound and Signed Editionsof Kerouacs
Books
Visions of Cody Doctor Sax The
Subterraneans Mexico City Blues
750 26 100 26
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William Burroughs
A2a (back cover)
Maynard Miles A2a (jacket) A2a (cover)
Lolita back cover
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William Burroughs
1953 1961 1981
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1955 1958 1960
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1952 1958 1959
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University of California Press, 2004 Route
(Pontefract), UK, 2005 Farrar, Straus and
Giroux, NY, 2006
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The Duluoz Legend
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