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

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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 ( ) Mary Lyde Williams ( )

The Wilson 50 The Wilson 50 The Fifty Most Important Books of American Literature Published After World War II ( ) Robert Wilson

Titles in the Wilson

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 Snyder Regarding Wave (1969) Novels: Jack Kerouac On the Road (1957) William Burroughs The Naked Lunch (1959) Diane DiPrima Memoirs of a Beatnik (1969)

Allen Ginsberg Jack Kerouac William Burroughs Allen Ginsberg Jack Kerouac William Burroughs ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( )

The Beat Movement Underground Period Kerouac, Ginsberg, and Burroughs On Riverside Drive, New York, 1944 Burroughs tutoring Kerouac

Neal Cassady

Ginsberg, Cassady, and Howl

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

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

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

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,

Allen Ginsberg Siesta in Xbalba and Return to the States (56 mimeographed copies)

Dedication: Jack Kerouac, new Buddha of American prose, who spit forth intelligence into eleven books written in half the number of years ( ) -- 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.]

Cassady, Kerouac, and On the Road

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

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

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

The Duluoz Legend (Book 1)

The Duluoz Legend (Books 2 and 3)

KEROUAC, JACK, Doctor Sax. New York: Grove Press, 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. The Duluoz Legend (Book 4)

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”

The Duluoz Legend (Books 5-7)

The Duluoz Legend (Books 8-11)

The Duluoz Legend (Books 12-14) “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)."

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.

The Duluoz Legend by Jack Kerouac The Duluoz Legend by Jack Kerouac WrittenPublished Publisher (all in NY) The Town and the City The Town and the City Harcourt, Brace On the Road On the Road Viking Visions of Cody Visions of Cody McGraw-Hill Doctor Sax Doctor Sax Grove Maggie Cassidy Maggie Cassidy Avon The Subterraneans The Subterraneans Grove Tristessa Tristessa Avon Visions of Gerard Visions of Gerard Farrar, Straus The Dharma Bums The Dharma Bums Viking Lonesome Traveler Lonesome Traveler McGraw-Hill Desolation Angels Desolation Angels 1956, Coward-McCann Big Sur Big Sur Farrar, Straus & Cudahy Satori in Paris Grove Vanity of Duluoz Vanity of Duluoz Coward-McCann

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

Specially Bound and Signed Editions of Kerouac’s Books Visions of Cody Doctor Sax The Subterraneans Mexico City Blues Visions of Cody Doctor Sax The Subterraneans Mexico City Blues

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

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

The Duluoz Legend