On the Collecting Road with Writers of the

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

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

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

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

The Beat Movement Underground Period -- 1944 -1956 Kerouac , Ginsberg, and Burroughs On Riverside Drive, New York, 1944 Burroughs tutoring Kerouac

Neal Cassady

Ginsberg, Cassady, and Howl

Six Gallery 6 Six Gallery. POETS AT 6 GALLERY ----------6 POETS AT 6 GALLERY ---------- Lawrence Ferlinghetti Philip Lamantia reading mss. of late John Hoffman-- Mike Mc. Clure, Allen Ginsberg, Hoffman-- Mike Phil Whalen--all sharp Gary Snyder & Mc. Clure, Allen Ginsberg, new Gary Snyder & Phil Whalen--all sharp new straightforward writing-- remarkable collection of angels on one reading ection of angels on one stage their poetry. No charge, small collection for wine, and postcards. Charming event. Allen Ginsberg Kenneth Rexroth, M. C. Jack Kerouac 8 PM Friday Night October 7, 1955 8 PM Friday October 7, 1955 6 Gallery 3119 Fillmore St. 6 San Fran Gallery 3119 Fillmore St. Michael Mc. Clure San Fran Robert Duncan Neal Cassady Philip Whalen Gary Synder

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

Morgan A 3 al. 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) 1956 1960 1963

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. ]

Cassady, Kerouac, and On the Road

On the Road Charters A 2 a Twenty 10 -foot long rolls of Japanese tracing paper taped together 3” x 5” Pocket Note Book Scroll for 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 Czech Republic 1994 Yugoslavia 1988 Russia 1995 Norway 1992 China 1998 Poland 1993 Finland 2000

The Duluoz Legend (Book 1) 1950

The Duluoz Legend (Books 2 and 3) 1957 1972

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.

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) 1960 1958 1960

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

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). "

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 Written Published Publisher (all in NY) The Town and the City 1946 -1949 1950 Harcourt, Brace On the Road 1948 -1955 1957 Viking Visions of Cody 1951 1972 Mc. Graw-Hill Doctor Sax 1952 1959 Grove Maggie Cassidy 1953 1959 Avon The Subterraneans 1953 1958 Grove Tristessa 1955 1960 Avon Visions of Gerard 1956 1963 Farrar, Straus The Dharma Bums 1957 1958 Viking Lonesome Traveler 1958 1960 Mc. Graw-Hill Desolation Angels 1956, 1961 1965 Coward-Mc. Cann Big Sur 1961 1962 Farrar, Straus & Cudahy Satori in Paris 1965 1966 Grove Vanity of Duluoz 1967 1968 Coward-Mc. Cann

Other Books by Kerouac Poetry Dreams Mexico City Blues (1959) Scattered Poems (1971) Trip Trap: Haiku Along the Road Book of Dreams (1961) Letters Selected Letters 1946 -1956 Selected Letters 1957 -1969 from San Francisco to New York, 1959 (1973) Other Prose Works 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) (1999) 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)

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

William Burroughs A 2 a (back cover) Maynard & Miles A 2 a (jacket) A 2 a (cover) Lolita back cover

William Burroughs 1953 1961 1981

1955 1958 1960

1952 1958 1959

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

The Duluoz Legend