We have been selling books by mail order and on the internet since 1993. Only about 50% of our stock is catalogued, so please inquire if you are searching for specific titles.
We also have a large selection of books signed by the author and uncorrected proof copies. Of the approximately 60,000 volumes in stock, the majority are hardcover first editions, although we also stock vintage science fiction paperbacks as well as sf digests and pulps.
We try to offer many uncommon books, and have a large selection of first books, and books by authors who are less frequently collected. "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.ī - the name used by Volk and Iiams, Booksellers- specializes in first editions of twentieth century literature, with an emphasis on women authors, African American, Native American and Latin American authors - plus mystery & detective fiction, science fiction & fantasy, poetry and children's & illustrated books. Ĭopyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. To the familiar history of the Beat Generation, Carolyn Cassady adds a proprietary chapter marked with newness, self-exposure, love and poignancy.
Among legendary Beats who pass through these memoirs are Gary Snyder, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Philip Whalen, Michael McClure, along with others who left an indelible impress on the lives of the Cassadys: Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters, an astrologer, a cult of clairvoyants. But compulsive infidelity, drugs, spells in prison, horse-race gambling and the road kept the well-intentioned Cassady otherwise engaged.
Of the famed Beat trio, only Ginsberg would claim his place as elder statesman, his survivorship forecast in his letters to Cassady: "It ain't right to take on so paranoiac just to challenge and see how far you can go" "I feel so evil when I not agree in blindness." How hard Cassady, possessed of "humid magnetism" and "dangerous glamour," traveled is a tale of self-destruction recreated with felt tragedy by a wife who yearned for conventional family life, to raise their three children in suburban security on the San Francisco peninsula, to be assured that her railway brakeman husband would bring home a weekly paycheck. in the car heading for the world unknown." So hazardous proved the terrain that Cassady died at age 43 Kerouac the following year, at 47. He was 22, three years her junior, when she married Cassady in 1948 and became handmaiden to a passionately devoted brotherhood: her husband, her extramarital lover Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, all, as Kerouc put it, ". In flesh, and as portrayed in Jack Kerouac's novels On the Road (as Dean Moriarty) and Big Sur (as Cody Pomeroy), Neal Cassady embodied the zeitgeist of his generation, among whom was the author, his wife of 15 chaotic years.
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