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First Edition of John Clellon Holmes' Get Home Free; Inscribed by Him
CLELLON HOLMES, JOHN .
Get Home Free.
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc 1964.
First edition of Clellon Holmes’ third novel. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “May 1976 For Burt Britton- with appreciation- John Clellon Holmes.” Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Bacon.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 71478
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"Howl for them that suffer broken bone homeless on moody balconies, Jack's soul returning to me over & over with prophecy": First edition of Allen Ginsberg's Iron Horse; inscribed by him to Fellow Beat John Clellon Holmes
GINSBERG, ALLEN (JOHN CLELLON HOLMES).
Iron Horse.
Toronto: The Coach House Press 1972.
First edition of Ginsberg’s beatific visionary poem, an important part of his The Fall of America: Poems of These States sequence. Oblong octavo, original illustrated metallic wrappers. Association copy, lengthily inscribed by Allen Ginsberg on the half-title page, “a ah gha sa ma ha for John Clellon Homes Salem/Kerouac Mass from Allen Ginsberg 5 April 1973.” The recipient, John Clellon Holmes was one of the foremost members of the Beat Generation along with Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady and Allen Ginsberg. In November of 1952 Holmes introduced the phrase ‘beat generation’ as a term of common parlance with the publication of his article “This Is the Beat Generation” in The New York Times Magazine. The term was initially conceived by Kerouac who also provided Holmes with nickname ‘the quiet Beat’ for his observant role in the group. In near fine condition with Holmes’ stamp to the verso of the front panel and his pencil markings in the text. An exceptional association linking two of the foremost Beats.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 96567
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First Edition of John Clellon Holmes' Get Home Free; Inscribed by Him
CLELLON HOLMES, JOHN .
Get Home Free.
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc 1964.
First edition of Clellon Holmes’ third novel. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “For Phyllis- all good wishes- John Clellon Holmes.” Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Bacon.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 10022
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"the brave adventurer, the good companion, my love": First Edition of Nothing More To Declare; Inscribed by John Clellon Holmes to His Wife
HOLMES, JOHN CLELLON.
Nothing More To Declare.
New York: E.P. Dutton 1967.
First edition of this notable assessment of the literature of the Beats and their contemporaries, with essays on Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Gershon Legman and Jay Landesman. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author to his wife on the front free endpaper, “For Shirley- the brave adventurer, the good companion, my love- John Feb. 3, 1967.” Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Omin. An exceptional association copy.
Price: $1,800.00 Item Number: 103995
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"The book that launched the Beat Generation": First Edition of John Clellon Holmes' Go
HOLMES, JOHN CLELLON.
Go.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1952.
First edition of the novel that launched the Beat Generation’s literary legacy and describes the world of Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and Neil Cassady and “one of the best novels about the Beat Generation…brilliant and important” (Los Angeles Free Press). Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a good dust jacket. Jacket design by Helen Borten.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 138914