GINSBERG ALLEN (1926 1997) Jack Kerouac

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GINSBERG, ALLEN (1926-19997)
Jack Kerouac. Oversized silver print, 15 7/8x10 1/2 inches (40.3x26.7 cm.), with Ginsberg's signature, lengthy handwritten caption, and date, in ink, on recto, and with various notations, in pencil, in an unknown hand, on verso. 1953; printed 1989

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The caption reads "Jack Kerouac, railroad brakeman's rule-book in pocket, pillows airing on fire-escape, south view over backyard clotheslines three flights up, my apartment 206 East 7th Street Lower East Side Manhattan, W.S. Burroughs in a residence editing Yage Letters & Queer, Gregory Corso also visited that season. Kerouac'd already completed On the Road, Visions of Cody, Doctor Sax, had begun Book of Dreams & Pie, was in midst of Subterraneans affair with 'Mardou Fox,' that book completed same year along with Maggie Cassady, Fall 1953."