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On the Collecting Road with Writers of the Beat Generation

On the Collecting Road with Writers of the Beat Generation. Donald W. Miller, Jr. Fellowship of American Bibliophilic Societies Symposium Seattle, Washington May 13, 2006. Mary Lyde Williams (1866-1958). The Wilson 50

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On the Collecting Road with Writers of the Beat Generation

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  1. On the Collecting Road with Writers of the Beat Generation Donald W. Miller, Jr. Fellowship of American Bibliophilic Societies Symposium Seattle, Washington May 13, 2006

  2. Mary Lyde Williams (1866-1958)

  3. The Wilson 50 The Fifty Most Important Books of American Literature Published After World War II (1945-1980) Robert Wilson 1980

  4. Titles in the Wilson 50 1963 1953 1960 1949 1948 1946 1953

  5. Beat Literature in the Wilson 50 Poetry: Allen Ginsberg Howl and Other Poems (1956) Lawrence Ferlinghetti A Coney Island of the Mind (1958) Robert Creeley Form of Women (1959) Robert Duncan Selected Poems (1959) Gregory Corso Gasoline (1961) Denise Levertov Here and Now (1961) Michael McClure Dark Brown (1961) William Everson The Poet is Dead (1964) Gary SnyderRegarding Wave (1969) Novels: Jack Kerouac On the Road (1957) William Burroughs The Naked Lunch (1959) Diane DiPrimaMemoirs of a Beatnik (1969)

  6. Allen Ginsberg Jack Kerouac William Burroughs (1926-1997) (1922-1969) (1914-1997)

  7. The Beat MovementUnderground Period -- 1944-1956 Kerouac , Ginsberg, and Burroughs On Riverside Drive, New York, 1944 Burroughs tutoring Kerouac

  8. Neal Cassady

  9. Ginsberg, Cassady, and Howl

  10. Six Gallery 6 POETS AT 6 GALLERY --------------------Philip Lamantia reading mss. of late JohnHoffman-- Mike McClure, Allen Ginsberg,Gary Snyder & Phil Whalen--all sharp newstraightforward writing-- remarkable collection of angels on one stage readingtheir poetry. No charge, small collectionfor wine, and postcards. Charming event.Kenneth Rexroth, M.C.8 PM Friday Night October 7,19556 Gallery 3119 Fillmore St.San Fran Six Gallery 6 POETS AT 6 GALLERY --------------------Philip Lamantia reading mss. of late JohnHoffman-- Mike McClure, Allen Ginsberg,Gary Snyder & Phil Whalen--all sharp newstraightforward writing-- remarkable coll-ection of angels on one stage readingtheir poetry. No charge, small collectionfor wine, and postcards. Charming event.Kenneth Rexroth, M.C.8 PM Friday Night October 7,19556 Gallery 3119 Fillmore St.San Fran Lawrence Ferlinghetti Allen Ginsberg Jack Kerouac Michael McClure Robert Duncan Gary Synder Neal Cassady Philip Whalen

  11. The City Lights Bookstore Ferlinghetti today, age 86, in front of the store

  12. Morgan A3al.l (title page), printing of 1,000 copies, in England

  13. The City Lights Pocket Poets Series Titles in the Wilson 50: # 4 ALLEN GINSBERG, Howl and Other Poems # 6 DENISE LEVERTOV, Here and Now # 8 GREGORY CORSO, Gasoline #10 ROBERT DUNCAN, Selected Poems,

  14. Allen Ginsberg Siesta in Xbalba and Return to the States (56 mimeographed copies) 1956 1960 1963

  15. Dedication: • Jack Kerouac,new Buddha of American prose, who spit forth intelligence into eleven books written in half the number of years (1951-1956) -- On the Road, Visions of Neal, Dr. Sax, Springtime Mary, The Subterraneans, San Fransisco Blues, Some of the Dharma, Book of Dreams, Wake Up, Mexico City Blues, and Visions of Gerard -- creating a spontaneous bop prosody and original classic literature. Several phrases and the title of Howl are taken from him. • William Seward Burroughs,author of Naked Lunch, an endless novel which will drive everyone mad. • Neal Cassady,author of The First Third, an autobiography (1949) which enlightened Buddha. • All these books are published in Heaven. • [Lucien Carr, recently promoted to Night Bureau Manager of New York United Press.]

  16. Cassady, Kerouac, and On the Road

  17. On the Road Charters A2a Twenty 10-foot long rolls of Japanese tracing paper taped together 3” x 5” Pocket Note Book Scroll for On the Road

  18. Book Covers for Translations of On the Road Portugal 1960 Sweden 1965 Germany 1968 Argentina 1977 Greece 1981 Japan 1983 Holland 1978 France 1980

  19. Book Covers for Translations of On the Road Yugoslavia 1988 Norway 1992 Poland 1993 Hungary 1983 Czech Republic 1994 China 1998 Finland 2000 Russia 1995

  20. The Duluoz Legend (Book 1) 1950

  21. The Duluoz Legend (Books 2 and 3) 1957 1972

  22. The Duluoz Legend (Book 4) KEROUAC, JACK, Doctor Sax. New York: Grove Press, 1959. First Edition. Stamped on the blank and title page “Uncorrected Page Proof,” stitch bound, laid into the dust jacket for the bound edition, and also the wrapper for the paper edition. Kerouac’s own copy, containing seven full page drawings (some signed “Jean Louis Kerouac”), a small drawn map, and fourteen textual corrections.

  23. Paintings and Line Drawings in the Kerouac Estate New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press, 2004 Kerouac. Van Gogh at Work Pencil, notebook, 3” x 5”

  24. The Duluoz Legend (Books 5-7) 1960 1958 1960

  25. The Duluoz Legend (Books 8-11) 1963 1958 1960 1965

  26. The Duluoz Legend (Books 12-14) 1962 1966 1968 “I had come to France and Brittany just to look up this old name of mine which is just about three thousand years old and was never changed in all that time, as who would change a name that simply means House (Ker), In the Field (Ouac)."

  27. Satori in Paris KEROUAC, JACK. Satori in Paris. Original typed manuscript with penciled copy editor markings, with galley proofs and correspondence between the Publisher and Kerouac, 2 ASL and 2 TSL by Kerouac and 10 TSL by the Publisher.

  28. The Duluoz Legendby Jack Kerouac WrittenPublishedPublisher (all in NY) The Town and the City1946-1949 1950 Harcourt, Brace On the Road1948-1955 1957 Viking Visions of Cody1951 1972 McGraw-Hill Doctor Sax 1952 1959 Grove Maggie Cassidy1953 1959 Avon The Subterraneans1953 1958 Grove Tristessa1955 1960 Avon Visions of Gerard1956 1963 Farrar, Straus The Dharma Bums1957 1958 Viking Lonesome Traveler 1958 1960McGraw-Hill Desolation Angels1956, 1961 1965 Coward-McCann Big Sur 1961 1962 Farrar, Straus & Cudahy Satori in Paris 1965 1966 Grove Vanity of Duluoz1967 1968 Coward-McCann

  29. Poetry Mexico City Blues (1959) Scattered Poems(1971) Trip Trap: Haiku Along the Road from San Francisco to New York, 1959(1973) Heaven, and Other Poems(1977) Pomes All Sizes(1992) Book of Blues(1995) Book of Haikus (2003) Philosophy/Religion The Scripture of the Golden Eternity (1960) Some of the Dharma (1997) Play/Screenplay Pull My Daisy (1961) Beat Generation(2005) Dreams Book of Dreams(1961) Letters Selected Letters 1946-1956 (1995) Selected Letters 1957-1969 (1999) Other Prose Works Pic (1971) Two Early Stories (1973) Old Angel Midnight (1973) Home at Christmas (1973) Good Blonde and Others (1993) Atop an Underwood: Early Stories and Other Writings (2000) Orpheus Emerged (2002) Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac 1947-1954 (2004) Book of Sketches (2006) Other Books by Kerouac

  30. Specially Bound and Signed Editionsof Kerouac’s Books Visions of Cody Doctor Sax The Subterraneans Mexico City Blues 750 26 100 26

  31. William Burroughs A2a (back cover) Maynard & Miles A2a (jacket) A2a (cover) Lolita back cover

  32. William Burroughs 1953 1961 1981

  33. 1955 1958 1960

  34. 1952 1958 1959

  35. University of California Press, 2004 Route (Pontefract), UK, 2005 Farrar, Straus and Giroux, NY, 2006

  36. The Duluoz Legend

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