Beat Generation: Glory Days in Greenwich Village

Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. Very Good, 1st Edition, Schrimer 1996. Thick Royal 4to. 286pp. 240 wonderful black and white contemporary photographs by the beat poet author, mostly full-page, also beat poetry and prose, some unpublished, and introductory essay. Appears unread. very good condition, clean tight sound square, no bookplate, inscription or marks of any kind, clean crisp corners and edges, well held in joints nad hinges. Bound in bright gilt lettered black faux leather rubbed to head and tail of spine, together with origianal unclipped portrait pictorial dustwrapper. 'Promises to be a landmark document of The Beats, their life and times. ' The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved...the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.' Jack Kerouac, On The Road.