Holmes Clellon, Signed (21 results)

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Limited Edition. Slight wear to covers, staples slightly rusted. Solid binding and clean text. No ownership marks, ex-lib marks, stamps or stickers. Holmes' signature on title page. This is copy 342 of 750. ; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 15 pages; Signed by Author.

First Edition. First edition. Small oblong softcover. [20 pages.] Number 730 from an edition of 750 copies. Volume 11 of The Unspeakable Visions of the Individual. Features a black and white image of Holmes' house affixed to the third page and a black and white image of Holmes. Includes an introduction by Holmes from 1979 along with four unpublished journal entries by him as well. A close to near fine copy in stapled wrappers that are lightly toned. Signed by Holmes on the title page. Despite the size of the edition this is a fairly uncommon item from the author of the classic beat novel "Go.". Signed.

Paperback. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. Cloth/no dust jacket Quarto. wraps, 273 pp signed by Gershon Legman on the front endpaper Standard shipping (no tracking) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition Thus. Square, clean, near fine copy in bright, unclipped near fine dustjacket (mylar protected). Half-title page is warmly INSCRIBED by Landesman to the countercultural poet/photographer/filmmaker/publisher/world traveler Ira Cohen; SIGNED and DATED: "To Ira Cphen / a very early fellow / conspirator - / Best, Jay Landesman / London / 1982". A very attractive copy and an excellent association. With a 7 pp. introduction by John Clellon Holmes. Inscribed & Signed by Editor.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Oblong 8vo. [16] pp. Good. Edgewear and toning to wraps, with slight creases to rear wrap. Several purely cosmetic droplet marks to front wrap. Number 248 of 250 signed copies.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 5 1/2 inches. [20] pp., photographic image of Holmes's house mounted to page [3]. Original printed wrappers, saddle-stapled. Light dust soiling in wrappers, light wrinkling in second leaf from mounting glue, else fine. Numbered 141 of 750 copies and signed by the author. Four previously unpublished journal entries reflecting on the death of and three visits by Jack Kerouac to the Old Saybrook, Connecticut, home of the author, John Clellon Holmes (1926-1988), his close friend, known widely as the "quiet Beat" and author of the first Beat novel (GO [1952]). The first visit, "in 1957 occurred seven months before the publication of On the Road. The second entry, 1962, suggests the inroads that 'Beat' notoreity had made on Jack's personal life and character. The third, 1965 portrays something of the autumnal Jack (lonely and played-out) of the last years. The fourth, in 1969, records some of my emotion on hearing of his sudden death" (pp. [6-7]). Volume 11 of THE UNSPEAKABLE VISIONS OF THE INDIVIDUAL, a series published by Beat Generation scholars and collectors, Arthur and Kit Knight. Signed by Author(s).

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Oblong 12mo. [19]pp. Stapled printed wrappers. Modest age-toning on the wrappers, else a near fine copy. Limited to 250 copies numbered and Signed by John Clellon Holmes. Issued as Volume 7 of "the unspeakable visions of the individual".

Wraps. Condition: Very Good. Limited Edition. One of 250 signed and numbered copies printed, this being #206. Volume 7 of The Unspeakable Visions of the Individual series produced by Arthur & Kit Knight. Light tanning to the front cover, darker tanning along the edges of the rear cover, and top cover creased, else a Very Good copy. // An uncommon publication from the noted Beat writer who published in 1952 Go, considered to be the first Beat novel depicting the life of his friends Jack Kerouac, Neil Cassidy, and Allen Ginsberg.

First Edition. First Edition. Limited Edition, one of 26 hand-lettered copies (this being letter C) SIGNED by the author. Very Good plus in saddle stapled wrappers, with wrapper spine lightly toned. Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Cloth & boards. 8vo. Printed dust jacket with unclipped flap. Errata slip. Inscribed by the author and signed at the bottom of the page. A collection of essays by the Beat Generation author including portraits of his contemporaries including Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and others. A good copy with some soiling to the covers and a bit of lean to the spine. The text is good with some heavy browning to the endsheets and some scattered foxing. The jacket is worn with some soiling and edge-chipping and a large closed tear at the top. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. VG octavo hardcover in a VG, glassine covered and priced dj. 8vo. 253pp. Stated first edition on cp. Signed with inscription on ffep Fully intact dj has light to moderate general wear. 1 Closed tare at front crease head of spine. Points slightly bumped. No names or markings to text. Beat fiction. Nice Signed copy. Inscribed by Author(s).

First edition of Clellon Holmes' third novel. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Phyllis- all good wishes- John Clellon Holmes." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Bacon. Five years before Kerouac's On the Road, Holmes's novel Go introduced the kind of lives and themes that later would be called Beat. Get Home Free, first published in 1964, also portrays the desperate and dissipated youth that congregated in New York City in the '50s. The novel takes its title from the child's game of kick-the-can, where players scurry back to home base; only here, the participants are existentialist adults. Bohemians Dan Verger and May Delano break up and, in separate sections, we follow them on visits home, Dan to the Connecticut shore ``to come to terms with a stalled life,'' and May to Louisiana, where she confronts her past as a Southern belle. Dan and May gain self-confidence, and, eventually calmer, more sober, they both return to New York determined to forge ahead. In Holmes's world, where ``even the hopelessness becomes curiously moving,'' May and Dan succeed by recognizing that their talky search for all the answers about love and their times, initially inspiring, has become tiring and even deadly; they shut up and just live. Infused with the characteristic Beat rawness, at times the novel is painful to read. It also often crackles with social observations that still speak true today, and there are many fine set pieces that evoke the splendor of rural life and the angst of the urban.

First edition of Clellon Holmes' third novel. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "May 1976 For Burt Britton- with appreciation- John Clellon Holmes." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Bacon. Five years before Kerouac's On the Road, Holmes's novel Go introduced the kind of lives and themes that later would be called Beat. Get Home Free, first published in 1964, also portrays the desperate and dissipated youth that congregated in New York City in the '50s. The novel takes its title from the child's game of kick-the-can, where players scurry back to home base; only here, the participants are existentialist adults. Bohemians Dan Verger and May Delano break up and, in separate sections, we follow them on visits home, Dan to the Connecticut shore ``to come to terms with a stalled life,'' and May to Louisiana, where she confronts her past as a Southern belle. Dan and May gain self-confidence, and, eventually calmer, more sober, they both return to New York determined to forge ahead. In Holmes's world, where ``even the hopelessness becomes curiously moving,'' May and Dan succeed by recognizing that their talky search for all the answers about love and their times, initially inspiring, has become tiring and even deadly; they shut up and just live. Infused with the characteristic Beat rawness, at times the novel is painful to read. It also often crackles with social observations that still speak true today, and there are many fine set pieces that evoke the splendor of rural life and the angst of the urban.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Good plus octavo hardcover in a VG glassine covered and priced at $4.95 dj. Signed with inscription on ffep. Stated first edition on cp. No other names or markings to text. 8vo. 253pp. Book has wear at points with soiling at bottom edge and foxing at foredge of front board. Dj has light sunning to spine. Faint vertical rubbing line on front panel. Light to moderate general wear. No chips lacking. First edition signed of this classic novel. Fiction. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: good. Cloth/dust jacket Octavo. white/orange boards, blue lettering, dust jacket unclipped, 253 pp first edition inscribed to Gershon Legman on the front endpaper, signed and dated (John Clellon Holmes-Jan. 1967) at the bottom. cloth boards lightly soiled, dj spine faded and lightly worn, some foxing on the foredge, top edge soiled. Standard shipping (no tracking) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders.

First edition of Ginsberg's beatific visionary poem, an important part of his The Fall of America: Poems of These States sequence. Oblong octavo, original illustrated metallic wrappers. Association copy, lengthily inscribed by Allen Ginsberg on the half-title page, "a ah gha sa ma ha for John Clellon Homes Salem/Kerouac Mass from Allen Ginsberg 5 April 1973." The recipient, John Clellon Holmes was one of the foremost members of the Beat Generation along with Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady and Allen Ginsberg. In November of 1952 Holmes introduced the phrase 'beat generation' as a term of common parlance with the publication of his article "This Is the Beat Generation" in The New York Times Magazine. The term was initially conceived by Kerouac who also provided Holmes with nickname 'the quiet Beat' for his observant role in the group. In near fine condition with Holmes' stamp to the verso of the front panel and his pencil markings in the text. An exceptional association linking two of the foremost Beats. Written throughout the mid-to-late 1960's Ginsberg's The Fall of America: Poems of These States sequence is characterized by a deeply prophetic tone, in the style of Whitman and Blake. More overtly political than much of Ginsberg's previous poetry, content includes the death of Neal Cassady, a condemnation of the Vietnam War, and the first manned mission to land on the Moon. Many of the poems were originally composed on an Uher Tape recorder, purchased by Ginsberg with the help of Bob Dylan. Iron Horse contains two parts, the first of which Ginseberg composed on a train ride from California to Chicago, and the second of which takes place on a Greyhound bus.

First edition of this notable assessment of the literature of the Beats and their contemporaries, with essays on Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Gershon Legman and Jay Landesman. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author to his wife on the front free endpaper, "For Shirley- the brave adventurer, the good companion, my love- John Feb. 3, 1967." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Omin. An exceptional association copy. At 40, John Clellon Holmes scrutinizes maturity-his own, and that of the recent, memorable generation we called Beat. This is one writer's provocative, personal summation of the men and ideas that made his literary generation. Despite himself, Holmes became spoksman for the Beat. Contains intimate portraits of Gershon Legman, Jay Landesman, Allen ginsberg, and Jack Kerouac.

253 pp. 8vo. First edition. First edition. 253 pp. 8vo. John Clellon Holmes' memoir of his Beat cohort. Inscribed to the self-described "greatest reader alive, at least in fiction" Bookstore owner Burt Britton. Half cloth and paper covered boards. Near fine in dust jacket that is lightly soiled with a few scattered closed tears.

Unknown. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Typed Letter Signed by noted Beat author John Clellon Holmes, June 5, 1975, 25 lines, signed 'John'. Written during Holmes' brief stint teach at Bowling Green University, basis for both a personal and creative renewal and Holmes' 1977 book 'The Bowling Green Poems', this letter to an advanced writing student is vintage Holmes at his best. 'Anent THE NO-BOMBING OF LOS ANGELES: send it to Esquire immediately, or Playboy. That is, I think it's done. I think it's good. Perfect tonal-control, seems to me. Funny & true. At last, your comma-paragraph-break thing is working for the story, instead of against it. I think of this, in a way, as one long sentence. Terrific cohesion. I urge you to start it on the ardous journey towards publication. It's an exemplary piece of work, one of the very best, and most successful things I've read since I've been here.' In the introduction to Holmes' 'Bowling Green Poems', he writes 'This sequence of poems was written in Bowling Green, Ohio, in April and May of 1975. It constitutes the only record I kept of a time during which I re-discovered Pound and Williams as sources that held out hope for a self-silenced poet, and was involved as a teacher with a gifted group of young writers. all of whom helped to renew a tired and baffled man.'.

TLS on 8.5 x 11 inch stock dated December 3, 1962. With typed envelope addressed to Leo Garen, also revealing Holmes' return address. Old folds to letter, now mellowed. A touch of offsetting to verso. Corners sharp, with no edge-wear. Letter written by the noted Beat writer from Old Saybrook, Connecticut to his friend, theatrical director and playwright, film and TV director Leo Garen, then in Paris. Holmes writes about the "real bitch of a time" he's having on a new novel, as well as the stage adaptation of his jazz-Beat chef d'oeuvre, The Horn, with which Garen is collaborating. Holmes, who was quite tight with Kerouac and who coined the term "Beat" to describe their milieu, writes, "Jack was here for a week, drinking well over a quart of cognac a day, in excellent shape somehow, and we had eight solid days of the most extraordinary talk, wrangling, arguing, bitching, giggling, laughing and boozing . ." Two additional sentences on Kerouac follow, with mention of Gregory Corso.In sum, a poignant, informative letter revealing a multitude of personality facets of the Beat subculture. Now housed in a removable, archival sleeve with an acid-free backing. Loose Sheet Typed Recto and Verso.

unbound. Condition: very good(+). Written to Elga Lippman Duval, a New York writer & painter. Several are very lengthy running to many single spaced pages each, and are rich in detail of his work, his depressions, his opinions of current literature; some are full of emotional outbursts regarding his ardent feeling for his correspondent. Also included are 2 manuscripts, 5 poems, etc. 4to & 8vo, 1951-1970. The correspndence begins with his first letter to her (20 Feb. 1951) answering a question she had written to him concerning one of his poems. The future novelist was 25 years old and had not published his first book ("Go", 1952). He is shortly inviting her to call him "Johnnie" and speculating about what she looks like, why she is continuing the correspondence, etc. In later years (1969) when both of them have married others, but their friendship continues, he writes to her ".your remarkable elan is one of my educative memories." One of the more sexually explicit letters was sealed by the recipient and labelled "not to be opened until after his death.".