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(McDARRAH) Fred W.Jack Kerouac thinking up lines
New-York, 10 décembre 1959. 1 tirage (270 x 260 mm), postérieur [1999], par le photographe, signé au recto et note signée et certificat au verso, encadrement maison Havard.
"Kack Kerouac creating a poem with Lew Welchand Albert Saijo, at Mc Darrah's New-York apartement, December 10, 1959".
Lew Welsh (David Wain's character in "Big Sur") and Albert Saijo published with Kerouac "Trip-trap", the book of haikus they wrote during the trip from San Francisco to New York, from September to December 1959. The final corrections were made on the spot, and this photograph captures the atmosphere: cigarettes, alcohol, a slightly puffy, tired face.
Fred Mc Darrah recounts, the photographer, tells : "We went to the same bars, we went to the same places, and there were poetry readings everywhere. The main meeting place was the Living Theatre, which put on dance shows and plays. All this took place in New York,… Read More

Paris, Gallimard, [December 30, 1963], 1964. 1 vol. (185 x 117 mm) of 224 p. Brown morocco, arabesque mosaic decoration in two shades of red and two shades of green on a prominent light tan ground, title and dates in gilt lettering, gilt edges on booklet, green suede endpapers, folder, slipcase (Paul Bonet, 1964).
First edition. One of the first 15 copies on Japon Impérial (no. 15).
A perfect copy, in a strictly contemporary binding by Paul Bonet.
This is the first of Bonet's two bindings for this work, and the only one on this first deluxe paper.
Sartre's autobiographical account first appeared in two issues of Les Temps modernes (October and November 1963), before being published by Gallimard in April 1964. Despite Sartre's polemical image in French public opinion at the time, press tributes were unanimous, and the often inspired titles of the many articles that reviewed the book reflected the surprise and general emotion generated by Les Mots.
Without doubt his greatest and best book. And… Read More