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The Jack Kerouac Collection.
Santa Monica, CA: Rhino Records, 1990. Limited edition 4-LP record boxed set (R1 70939).
Contains all three of Kerouac’s LP releases, beginning with “Poetry for the Beat Generation” (each one reproduces the original cover art), together with a fourth album, “The Last Word”, featuring previously unreleased material, including outtakes from the “Blues and Haikus” sessions, readings from “On the Road” and “Visions of Cody” from the Steve Allen Plymouth Show (November 16, 1959), as well as “Is there a Beat Generation?”, a recording taken from a symposium held at the Hunter College Playhouse on November 6, 1958.
The accompanying 32pp. booklet features a foreword by Jan Kerouac, “previously unpublished tributes and commentary” from Allen Ginsberg, Gerald Nicosia, Ann Charters, Steve Allen, Bob Thiele, William Burroughs, Ray Manzarek, Michael McClure, Jerry Garcia, Stephen Ronan, and others, plus photographs by Robert Frank, Henri Cru and Allen Ginsberg.
Vinyl and sleeves Mint in as new and unopened box with obi strip, still sealed in (partially torn) original shrinkwrap.
Hard to find in the vinyl edition, of which probably no more than 2000 copies were pressed.
Price:
£150.00
