Published by City Lights/Grey Fox (1994), San Francisco, 1994
Seller: Crabtree's Collection Old Books, Sebago, ME, U.S.A.
Condition: VG PB. illustrated cover (illustrator). Jack Kerouac's Lowell was about 15 miles from ny own initial America, small farm town, Wst Acton, Massachuseetts, Lowell to the northeast was the city where my fami;y sometimes wemt for annual Easter clothese at the Bon Marche. On my mother's holiday we would go the edge of it on our way up to see my Aunt Bernie who lives in what was then the Weirs in New Hampshire The boston and Maine Railroad was till another link going through our town on its way to Chelmsford and then Lowell,just beyond our town on its way to Chelmsford and then Lowell just them on NashuaManchester and than on up to Canada followin up to Nashua, Manchster and finally up to Canada. It's all eastern inland Massachusetts, old detrelic mill towns, farms long ago abandoned to the suburbs which nonetheless still echo in New England' s hbaits to this day. When I first met Jack in the spring of 1956 in San Francisco, we had each come a long way from that first world yet still kept its company. CREELEY goes on to remember the pboblemsJack had with him in a bar that night. when the bartender tried to punch ihm sveral times. He went on to stay with Jack for a few days. Years later after some blured action in Palo Acton Creeley drove to that house with Ted Berrigan and Alice Nodley, poets and friends than in Bolinas just to show them where the parties has been where Jack had stayedwith Gary Snyder, Phil Wahlen, Allen and Peter all that old company had gathered, Snyder leaving for Japan us with plunges into the surf off Stinson Beach and collecting musstels for instand lunch, Jack sat jotting into his spiral notebook.
Published by City Lights/Grey Fox (1993), San Francisco, 1993
Seller: Crabtree's Collection Old Books, Sebago, ME, U.S.A.
Condition: VG PB. illustrated cover (illustrator). Jack Kerouac's Lowell was about 15 miles from my own initial America, small farm town, Wst Acton, Massachuseetts, Lowell to the northeast was the city where my fami;y sometimes wemt for annual Easter clothese at the Bon Marche. On my mother's holiday we would go the edge of it on our way up to see my Aunt Bernie who lives in what was then the Weirs in New Hampshire The boston and Maine Railroad was till another link going through our town on its way to Chelmsford and then Lowell,just beyond our town on its way to Chelmsford and then Lowell just them on NashuaManchester and than on up to Canada followin up to Nashua, Manchster and finally up to Canada. It's all eastern inland Massachusetts, old detrelic mill towns, farms long ago abandoned to the suburbs which nonetheless still echo in New England' s hbaits to this day. When I first met Jack in the spring of 1956 in San Francisco, we had each come a long way from that first world yet still kept its company. CREELEY goes on to remember the pboblemsJack had with him in a bar that night. when the bartender tried to punch ihm sveral times. He went on to stay with Jack for a few days. Years later after some blured action in Palo Acton Creeley drove to that house with Ted Berrigan and Alice Nodley, poets and friends than in Bolinas just to show them where the parties has been where Jack had stayedwith Gary Snyder, Phil Wahlen, Allen and Peter all that old company had gathered, Snyder leaving for Japan us with plunges into the surf off Stinson Beach and collecting mussels for instance lunch, Jack sat jotting into his spiral notebook. Spine is sun tanned.
Published by New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1959
Seller: Philip Smith, Bookseller, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. VG+. 8vo, 256pp, printed wrappers. Early issue of Evergreen Review, featuring work by Kerouac, Ginseberg, Olson, Corso, et al. Unmarked copy, a bit of outer wear. Not Signed.
Published by Grove Press, New York, 1965
Seller: San Francisco Book Company, Paris, France
First Edition
Pocketbook. Condition: Good. Pocketbook. wraps, 278 pp, first printing Standard shipping (no tracking) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders.
Published by New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1957
Seller: Philip Smith, Bookseller, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. Near VG. 8vo, 160pp (plus 8-page photo insert), printed wrappers. The watershed San Francisco Scene second issue of Evergreen Review, which contained work by the core Beat writers and introduced their work to a wide audience at the inception of popular awareness of the movement. Also includes three poems by Robert Duncan (Bertholf C73). Unmarked copy, solid overall with small tears at head and tail of spine and a minor marginal stain affecting front cover and early pages. Not Signed.
Published by New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1957
Seller: Philip Smith, Bookseller, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. VG+. 8vo, 160pp, printed wrappers. Poet Douglas Blazek's copy, with his ownership signature on first interior page (no other markings). Early issue of Evergreen Review, featuring a Robert Frank cover and writing by Kerouac, Ginsberg, Olson, et al. Subscription card laid in. Light wear and toning. Signed by Author(s).
Published by Grey Fox Press [1993], San Francisco, 1993
Seller: Brattle Book Shop [ABAA, ILAB], Boston, MA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: VeryGood. Limited issue, one of 60 specially bound copies signed by Creeley on atipped-in leaf. 8.5" x 5.5". In publisher's green cloth over boards,gilt-stamped titles to spine. Boards show faint wear at edges, minordusting to top edge. Near Fine. A collection of short pieces by Kerouac,curated by Grey Fox Press founder Donald Allen and introduced with RobertCreeley's "Thinking of Jack: A Preface.".
Published by Grove Press, New York, 1960
Seller: Tony Power, Books, North Vancouver, BC, Canada
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine (pc). First Edition. Ex-owner's name on front pastedown; else a near fine copy in a price-clipped else near fine dustjacket (mylar protected). 454 pp. 'First printing' stated on copyright page. A very attractive hardcover copy of the famous anthology. Photos available on request.