The Beat Generation

Proof Copy, the following is hand written or hand printed on the light blue soft cover – “Aug”; “The Beat Generation”; “by” “B. Cook” which is crossed out with “Bruce Cook” written above it; C. Scribner’s Sons” and then in black marker “Incorrected Copy”. No title page with the first page printed “PART 1” and the verso has a ink stamp that says “This Page is Blank – Page 2” and “Job Number” followed by a line, on which is written “435”. The text starts on the next page with “Chapter 1”. Proof marks on each of the 246 pages. There is slight discoloration on the soft cover binding and overall the book is in near fine condition. Bruce Alexander Cook (1932 – 2003) was an American journalist and author who also wrote under the pseudonym “Bruce Alexander”, creating historical novels about a blind 18th-century Englishman and also a 20th-century Mexican-American detective. He had been an editor with “USA Today”; “The Detroit News”; the “Los Angeles Daily News” and then a senior editor at “Newsweek”. This non-fiction work, an objective analysis of this counterculture movement, was his first book which was then followed by a number of novels.…