RIVER OF RED WINE AND OTHER POEMS - INSCRIBED TO JACK KEROUAC

by Micheline, Jack (poems); Kerouac, Jack (introduction)

$9,500 · Offered by Biblio

First edition · Signed

New York: Troubador Press, 1958. First Edition. First Printing. Slim octavo (17.5cm); decorative wrappers, stapled; [ii],38pp. Jack Kerouac's copy, with the circular embossed stamp and ink rubber-stamp from his estate on the contents leaf, and inscribed to him by Micheline on the verso: "To Jack Kerouac / Who loves the poets / my sincere wishes to a guy whose soul is warm for us children / Jack Micheline." Toning along the spine-fold, and to a lesser degree to the wrapper extremities, with beginning oxidation to staples, and some trivial dust-soil to rear wrapper; contents clean; Very Good+. Housed in a custom half-morocco slipcase and chemise. First collection of verse by the itinerant Beat poet and artist, a major figure in the San Francisco Renaissance. According to a 1997 interview with A.D. Winans, Micheline relayed the following concerning the events the led to Kerouac writing the introduction to his book: "I was living on Cornelia Street in the Village, and I knew this guy named Bob Cass, who edited Climax magazine. Cass had earlier met Kerouac at a bar on Sheridan Square. When I met Cass, he gave me the address of Kerouac, who was living in Florida. I mailed Kerouac a copy of my first book of poems (River of Red Wine) because the small press publisher agreed to publish the book if I could get a famous man to write an introduction to the book. Kerouac received the book, read it, got drunk and wrote an introduction. I became famouse because Kerouac wrote a drunk introdu

• Publisher: Troubador Press
• Year: 1958
• Edition: First Edition
• Printing: first
• Binding: unknown

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