Jack Kerouac • Hand Written Letter • Signature • On The Road • Ginsburg • Beats

Description: Signed postcard penned in 1960 with handwritten message from Jack Kerouac responding to renowned autograph collector Jim Wiggins’s request for a signed picture! Kerouac hysterically points out that he doesn’t have a publicity guy like Tab Hunter. Kerouac goes on to make the connection, noting Wiggins lived on Berkeley Way, that he had lived on Berkeley Way in the summer of 1957. Kerouac’s hand has also written the address in the front of the card. . The Berkeley Way time period was an interesting one for Kerouac as he had just gotten his second novel published with Viking, he had just finished a 63 day stint as a fire lookout the previous summer where some say he came back completely changed and it was in Berkeley where Kerouac met Hube The Cube! Kerouac and his mother lived in the Berkeley apartment together and hoped it would be their forever location, Kerouac trying to recapture the feelings he felt while living with Allen Ginsberg at his “rose-covered cottage” on nearby Milvia Street. . Most importantly, Kerouac recalls receiving the first copies of what would be his most important novel “On The Road” from Viking, stating that he, Hinkle, Cassady and Henderson all got high reading, when they stopped by while Kerouac was unboxing the shipment of the renowned Beat Novel from Viking! . The screenshots in the photo listing are from the Berkeley Way e-plaque and what the house looked like when Kerouac and his mother lived there!! . . #beatgeneration #jackkerouac #ontheroad #desolationangels #berkeleyca #nealcassady #rarebooks #bibliophile #bookstore #bookshop #booktok #books4ewe #bookcollection #bookcollector #bigsur #allenginsberg #signedbooks #beatliterature

Price: 3900 USD

Location: Clover, South Carolina

End Time: 2024-11-23T09:51:20.000Z

Shipping Cost: 4.63 USD