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 McClure
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 DiPrima
On the Road (1957)
The Naked Lunch (1959)
Memoirs of a Beatnik (1969)
Allen Ginsberg
Jack Kerouac
(1926-1997)
(1922-1969)
William Burroughs
(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
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Kenneth Rexroth,
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Jack Kerouac
8 PM8 Friday
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Michael McClure
San Fran
Robert Duncan
Neal Cassady
Philip Whalen
Gary Synder
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
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 A2a
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
Norway 1992
Russia 1995
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
The Town and the City
On the Road
Visions of Cody
Doctor Sax
Maggie Cassidy
The Subterraneans
Tristessa
Visions of Gerard
The Dharma Bums
Lonesome Traveler
Desolation Angels
Big Sur
Satori in Paris
Vanity of Duluoz
Published
Publisher (all in NY)
1946-1949
1950
Harcourt, Brace
1948-1955
1957
Viking
1951
1972
McGraw-Hill
1952
1959
Grove
1953
1959
Avon
1953
1958
Grove
1955
1960
Avon
1956
1963
Farrar, Straus
1957
1958
Viking
1958
1960
McGraw-Hill
1965
Coward-McCann
1961
1962
Farrar, Straus & Cudahy
1965
1966
Grove
1967
1968
Coward-McCann
1956, 1961
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)
(1995)
(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
Doctor Sax
The Subterraneans
750
26
100
Mexico City Blues
26
William Burroughs
A2a (back cover)
Maynard & Miles A2a (jacket)
A2a (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