Kerouac: A Biography

by Charters, Ann [Jack Kerouac] [Allen Ginsberg] [Michael McClure]

$1,500 · Offered by Biblio

First edition · Signed · In dust jacket

SF: Staight Arrow Books, 1973. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Fine. Inscribed on the title page: "To Pat -- Ann Charters." Also boldly signed there by Michael McClure and, a few pages in, signed and dated "6/11/94" by Allen Ginsberg at his very succinct foreword. A nice and rare collection of signatures from several close associates often mentioned in the biography. McClure and Ginsberg both read at the famous Six Gallery Reading where Ginsberg introduced "Howl" and Kerouac was in the audience passing the wine jug and chanting, "Go! Go!" The "first and definite" biography of Kerouac. Charters was a member of the Beat Scene from early on and she consulted Ginsberg in particular extensively for this book, so his is a particularly nice signature to have. Laid in is a torn ticket for a Michael McClure reading at Eliot Bay Books in Seattle as well as an obituary of Kerouac (October 21, 1969) from the Tacoma News Tribune. A near fine book in cream cloth with a few spots of yellowing/soiling to lower board edges, otherwise fine; former owners very small "Please return" stamp behind the jacket flap on on the pastedown. In a fine jacket.

• Publisher: Staight Arrow Books
• Year: 1973
• Edition: First Edition
• Binding: hardcover

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