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by John Clellon Holmes

$2,500 · Offered by Captain Ahab's Rare Books

First edition

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952. First Edition. If Kerouac was the principal avatar of the Beats, the man who paved the way for all Beat writing was John Clellon Holmes...the 1952 social realism novel Go, with jazz-infused sketches of private lives that became very public – Burroughs, Lucien Carr, Cassady, Ginsberg, Herbert Huncke, and Kerouac Belletto, The Cambridge Companion to the Beats, p.139 . There

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