[KEROUAC, Jack].
1964 Columbia Review.
New York: Columbia University Press , 1964.
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Rare 1964 Columbia Review; From the Collection of Jack Kerouac
Rare May 1964 issue of Columbia Review, personally owned by Columbia University alum and Beatnik writer, Jack Kerouac. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers, volume XLIV number 2, illustrated, with the original U.S. retail price of $1 listed on the inside of the front cover. Featuring poetry, short stories, essays, and cartoons from majority Columbia University contributors. Stamped with the Jack Kerouac Estate stamp and the raised blind seal from the Executor of the Estate, John Sampas, Kerouac’s brother-in-law, on the first page "Editor's Note" in the top right corner. Quite probably inscribed in Kerouac's hand as "Columbia Review May 1964" along the booklet's spine. In near fine condition with light toning and shelfwear. Cover design by Joe Brainard and Ted Berrigan.
This periodical probably carried bittersweet associations for Jack Kerouac, who attended Columbia University off and on between 1940 and 1942 before dropping out after a football career-ending injury. Kerouac's time at Columbia University was formative socially as well as intellectually. It was around this time living in New York City in the early 1940s that Kerouac met fellow Columbia student Allen Ginsberg, and also William S. Burroughs, both of whom would become two of Kerouac's closest friends and fellow writers. Later during his professional writing career, Kerouac contributed to "Columbia Review" using the sobriquet "Jean-Louis Incogniteau."
1964 Columbia Review.
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