LETTER To KEROUAC In HEAVEN (*autographed*)
$1,300 · Offered by Biblio
San Francisco: Author, 1985. Midnight Special Edition, #7 of 15 copies.. Paperback in hand-painted original cover (red letters on blue background w yellow underlines), red plastic snap-binding.. Very Good overall, rear cover lightly soiled, no other flaws.. Jack*s letters to Kerouac, plus many poems and stories of his (including Purple Submarine, Kid Dynamite, and Kid From Kansas). Most pages are mimeographed, some are handwriting photocopies. On verso of front wrap in author*s handwriting is written in purple marker pen, This is a midnight Special edition. This is No. 7 of 15 copies signed and numbered by the author with hand painted original cover Letter to Kerouac in Heaven ﾩ 1985 Jack Micheline. This copy is further inscribed by Jack in blue marker pen to his author-photgrapher friend, For Ed Buryn, love, Jack Micheline 10 Feb 1986. This copy includes a full-page photocopy drawing hand-colored in red & purple markers by Jack, entitled Jack Kerouac After Beat Conference in Heaven. It also includes a separate 8 x 10 color print of Jack walking and pufffing a cigarette on a crowded San Francisco street in June 1977, signed by photographer Ed Buryn. (This is the image used on the cover of Jack*s book Skinny Dynamite.) Unique offering. 8 x 11, approx 64 unnumbered pp, black marker-pen endpaper dwgs.
- Publisher: Author
- Year: 1985
- Edition: Midnight Special Edition, #7 of 15 copies.
- Binding: paperback
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