Introduction by Jack Kerouac. Illustrated with reproductions of Frank's photographs of the American scene. Oblong 4to, gilt-lettered black cloth; photo-pictorial dust jacket, lightly worn. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. New York: Grove Press, Inc., (1959)
WITH--Robert Frank, Alfred Leslie, Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg. Pull my Daisy. 8vo, photo-pictorial wrappers. FIRST EDITION. New York: Grove Press and London: Evergreen Books, (1961)
Provenance The Collection of Neil Robert Berzak
Pull My Daisy is a 1959 short film that typifies the Beat Generation. Directed by Robert Frank and Alfred Leslie, Daisy was adapted by Jack Kerouac from the third act of a stage play he never finished entitled Beat Generation. Kerouac also provided improvised narration. It starred Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Larry Rivers, Peter Orlovsky, David Amram, Richard Bellamy, Alice Neel, Sally Gross, and Pablo, Frank's then-infant son.
