Exhibition Checklist

This checklist is only a partial record of the exhibition. All materials listed are from the holdings of the Rare Book Collection (RBC) in Wilson Library. Most of the books in the exhibition are from the general holdings of the RBC. Others are from a special collection within the RBC, such as the Beat Literature Collection or the Grove Press Collection, and each of these items is identified as such within the entry. Charters numbers following many of the entries are from Ann Charters’s A Bibliography of Works by Jack Kerouac (Jean Louis Lebris De Kerouac): 1939–1975 (New York: The Phoenix Bookshop, 1975).

Early Life and Writings

1. Copy of the Baptismal Certificate for “John Louis Kirouac [sic],” noting his birth on March 12, 1922. Edie Parker-Henri Cru Papers, Beat Literature Collection.


2. Jack Kerouac. Two Early Stories. [New York]: Aloe Editions, 1973. Edition of 175. These stories originally appeared in The Horace Mann Quarterly in 1939 and 1940.


3. Jack Kerouac. Atop an Underwood. New York: Penguin, 2000.


4. Jack Kerouac. T.L.S. to Edie Parker Kerouac, September 18, 1943. Written on board a merchant ship in the Atlantic. Edie Parker-Henri Cru Papers, Beat Literature Collection.


5. Edie Parker. You'll Be Okay [holograph manuscript]. Draft of Parker’s unpublished memoirs. Edie Parker-Henri Cru Papers, Beat Literature Collection.


6. Jack Kerouac. Holograph manuscript of five poems, probably written between 1944 and 1946. Edie Parker-Henri Cru Papers, Beat Literature Collection.


7. Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg. “Song: Fie My Fum.” Neurotica 6 (Spring 1950). Originally composed in December 1948, these four stanzas were drawn from a longer poem, “Pull My Daisy,” which became the title of the famous 1959 avant-garde film produced by Robert Frank with Kerouac as narrator. Beat Literature Collection. Charters C11.


8. Jack Kerouac. The Town and the City. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1950. First edition. Written between 1946 and 1949, Kerouac’s first novel was published in the spring of 1950. Shown are the advance review copy in paper wrappers and a copy of the first published edition. Charters A1a.



The Early 1950s and the Publication of On the Road (1957)

9. Jack Kerouac. “The Mexican Girl.” Paris Review III, 11 (Winter 1955). Published later in part one of On the Road (1957). Charters C13.


10. Jean Louis (i.e., Jack Kerouac). “Jazz of the Beat Generation.” In New World Writing. Seventh Mentor Selection. New York: New American Library, 1955. Later published in part three of On the Road. Gift of Benjamin J. Marks. Charters B1.


11. Jack Kerouac. On the Road. New York: Viking, 1957. First edition. Charters A2a.


12. Jack Kerouac. On the Road. New York: New American Library, 1958. Charters A2b.


13. Jack Kerouac. On the Road. [London]: Andre Deutsch, 1958. First British edition. Charters A2c.


14. Jack Kerouac. On the Road. London: Pan Books, 1961. First British paperback edition. Charters A2d.



Publishing Heyday, 1958-1962

15. Jack Kerouac. The Subterraneans. New York: Grove, 1958. First edition, limited issue, number 1 of 100 copies. Grove Press Collection. Charters A3c. Shown with a copy of the first paperback issue, published in the same year (Charters A3b).


16. Jack Kerouac. The Subterraneans. New York: Avon, 1959. With an introduction by Henry Miller. See Charters, p. 23.


17. The Subterraneans. [New York:] Loews Incorporated, 1960. One poster and two theater lobby cards advertising the Arthur Freed/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer production of Kerouac's novel, starring Leslie Caron and George Peppard. From a set of three posters and eight lobby cards in the Rare Book Collection.


18. Jack Kerouac. The Dharma Bums. New York: Viking, 1958. First edition. Charters A4a.


19. Jack Kerouac. The Dharma Bums. [New York]: New American Library, 1959. First paperback edition. Charters A4b.


20. Jack Kerouac. Doctor Sax: Faust Part Three. New York: Grove, 1959. Shown are both the uncorrected page proofs and a copy of the first edition. Grove Press Collection. Charters A5a.


21. Jack Kerouac. Maggie Cassidy. New York: Avon, 1959. First edition. Charters A7a.


22. Jack Kerouac. Mexico City Blues. New York: Grove, 1959. First edition. Grove Press Collection. Charters A8a.


23. Jack Kerouac. Excerpts from Visions of Cody. New York: New Directions, 1959. Edition of 750 signed copies. Charters A9.


24. Jack Kerouac. Visions of Cody. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1972. First edition of the complete text. Charters A29a.


25. Jack Kerouac. Hymn—God Pray for Me. New York: Jubilee, 1959. Charters A10.


26. Jack Kerouac. The Scripture of the Golden Eternity. New York: Totem Press, 1960. Charters A11.


27. Jack Kerouac. Tristessa. New York: Avon, 1960. First edition. Charters A12a.


28. Jack Kerouac. Lonesome Traveler. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1960. Illustrated by Larry Rivers. First edition. Charters A13a.


29. Jack Kerouac. Rimbaud. San Francisco: City Lights, 1960. Long broadside folded twice into four sections. Charters A14.


30. Jack Kerouac. Book of Dreams. San Francisco: City Lights, 1961. First edition. Charters A15.


31. Jack Kerouac. Pull My Daisy. New York: Grove, 1961. First edition. Grove Press Collection. Charters A16.


32. Jack Kerouac. Big Sur. New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1962. First edition. Charters A17a.


33. Jack Kerouac. Poem. New York: Jubilee, 1962. Broadside with a photograph by Claudia H. Andujar. Charters A18.



Later Years, 1962-1969

34. Jack Kerouac. Visions of Gerard. New York: Farrar, Straus, 1963. First edition. Charters A19a.


35. Jack Kerouac. Desolation Angels. New York: Coward-McCann, 1965. First edition. Charters A20a.


36. Jack Kerouac. Satori in Paris. New York: Grove, 1966. First edition. Shown is the archival copy of the Grove Press with the press's library sticker on the spine. Grove Press Collection. Charters A21a.


37. Jack Kerouac. A Pun for Al Gelpi. Cambridge, MA: Lowell House Printers, 1966. Broadside with a block print by Nicole Hollander. Copy number 37 of 100, signed by the author. Charters A22.


38. Jack Kerouac and Hugo Weber. (An Imaginary Portrait of Ulysses S. Grant/Edgar Allen [sic] Poe). New York: Portents, 1967. Folded broadside with a photograph by Ann Charters of Hugo Weber's oil painting. Charters A23.


39. Jack Kerouac. Someday You'll Be Lying. Pleasant Valley, NY: Kriya Press, 1967. Copy number 28 of 100. Charters A24.


40. Jack Kerouac. Vanity of Duluoz: An Adventurous Education, 1935-46. New York: Coward-McCann, 1968. First edition. Charters A25a.


41. Jack Kerouac. T.L.S. to Mrs. Edith Garvin (i.e., Edie Parker), St. Petersburg, Florida, September 8, 1969. Description of his involvement in a barroom fight in St. Petersburg. Edie Parker-Henri Cru Papers, Beat Literature Collection.


42. Jack Kerouac. T.L.S. to Mrs. Edith Garvin (i.e., Edie Parker), St. Petersburg, Florida, September 21, 1969. Kerouac withdraws an invitation to Parker to visit him in Florida. He would die a month later, on October 21, 1969. Edie Parker-Henri Cru Papers, Beat Literature Collection.



Posthumous Publications: 1969 to the Present

43. Jack Kerouac. A Last Haiku. New York: Portents, 1969. Broadside with a portrait of Kerouac by Robert LaVigne from 1956. Charters A26.


44. Jack Kerouac. Scattered Poems. San Francisco: City Lights, 1971. With a photograph of Kerouac in Tangier taken by Allen Ginsberg in 1957. Charters A27.


45. Jack Kerouac. Pic. New York: Grove Press, 1971. First edition. Grove Press Collection. Charters A28a.


46. Jack Kerouac. Three. California, PA: The Unspeakable Visions of the Individual, 1978. Broadside.


47. Jack Kerouac. San Francisco Blues: (In 79 Choruses). N.p.: Beat Books, 1983. Edition of 500.


48. Jack Kerouac. The Great Western Bus Ride. N.p.: Pacific Red Car, 1984.


49. Jack Kerouac. Visions of America. Sudbury, MA: Water Row, 1991. Broadside issued in cloth folio case. Edition of 250.


50. Jack Kerouac. Some of the Dharma. New York: Viking, 1997. First edition.


51. Jack Kerouac. Book of Haikus. New York: Penguin Poets, 2003. First edition.


52. Jack Kerouac. Selected Letters, 1940-56. [And] Selected Letters, 1957-69. New York: Viking, 1995 and 1999. Edited by Ann Charters. Two volumes. First editions.


53. Jack Kerouac and Joyce Johnson. Door Wide Open: A Beat Love Affair in Letters, 1957-1958. New York: Viking, 2000. First edition.


54. Jack Kerouac. Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac 1947-1954. New York: Viking, 2004. Edited by Douglas Brinkley. First edition.



Photographs

55. Neal Cassady at a North Beach used car lot, 1955. Photograph with holograph caption by Allen Ginsberg. Beat Literature Collection.


56. Neal Cassady and Natalie Jackson embracing on Market Street in San Francisco in 1955. The movie theater behind them is showing Marlon Brando’s The Wild One. Photograph with holograph caption by Allen Ginsberg. Beat Literature Collection.


57. Jack Kerouac in Asbury Park, New Jersey, following his graduation from Horace Mann, the New York prep school, 1940. Photographer unknown. Edie Parker-Henri Cru Papers, Beat Literature Collection.


58. Jack Kerouac as a member of the merchant marine, 1942. Photographer unknown. Edie Parker-Henri Cru Papers. Beat Literature Collection.


59. Jack Kerouac by a fountain near Low Library, Columbia University, New York, NY, 1944. Photographer unknown. Edie Parker-Henri Cru Papers, Beat Literature Collection.


60. Jack Kerouac looking out the window at Allen Ginsberg's East 7th Street apartment in Manhattan, 1953. Photograph with holograph caption by Allen Ginsberg. Beat Literature Collection.


61. Jack Kerouac across from Tompkins Square Park on the Lower East Side in Manhattan, Fall 1953. Photograph with holograph caption by Allen Ginsberg. Beat Literature Collection.


62. Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs sitting on a couch in Allen Ginsberg's East 7th Street apartment in Manhattan, Fall 1953. Photograph with holograph caption by Allen Ginsberg. Beat Literature Collection.


63. Jack Kerouac in Tangier, Morocco, near the apartment of William S. Burroughs, March 1957. Photograph with holograph caption by Allen Ginsberg. Beat Literature Collection.


64. Jack Kerouac and Peter Orlovsky (left) at the beach in Tangier, Morocco, 1957. Photograph by Allen Ginsberg. Beat Literature Collection.


65. Jack Kerouac listening to a radio, 1959. Photograph by John Cohen. Beat Literature Collection.


66. Jack Kerouac sitting with friends in a New York restaurant, 1959. Clockwise from bottom: Gregory Corso, Larry Rivers, Kerouac, David Amram, and Allen Ginsberg. Photograph by John Cohen. Beat Literature Collection.


67. Jack Kerouac on his last visit to Allen Ginsberg’s East 7th Street apartment in Manhattan, 1964. Photograph with holograph caption by Ginsberg. Beat Literature Collection.


68. Edie Parker sitting at a restaurant table, New York, 1940s. Photographer unknown. Edie Parker-Henri Cru Papers, Beat Literature Collection.