Rare example of this Kerouac piracy of newspaper and magazine appearances, interviews, and the like gathered after the beat great’s death. A bibliographically murky book, one with several contradictory narratives explaining its origins, the best provided by colleague Allen Ahearn: “All agree that David Stivender produced it. We were told by Robert Wilson (Phoenix Bookshop) that there were 12 copies printed in 1971 and 12 copies of a revised and enlarged edition in 1972. The copies were given to friends, none were sold. Jeff Weinberg reports that only four copies were done by Stivender and that then Berrigan made four copies and sold them to Wilson and that Arthur Knight was also making copies and selling them for $100. We have seen a copy with ‘1971-Revised and Enlarged 1972’ on it, but Weinberg says that there never was a revised edition and that this was, in fact, the only edition, they just added the statement on the title page. We were later told by Marshall Clements that he and Stivender prepared this item, ‘we simply typed the ‘Revised and Enlarged 1972’ part onto the original 1971 title page, which David had signed and dated in 1971. There probably were not 12 copies in total’” (APG 035a). The present copy is one of the “Knight” editions, the pagination of which (as well as others we’ve handled) suggest that not only was there in fact an unrevised edition (see Anstee 3), but (at a minimum) a subsequent unstated third edition (this). OCLC locates 7 copies of the various editions in various bindings, across three entries. A notorious and elusive book.

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