THE FIRST THIRD; and other writings.

[San Francisco]: City Lights, [1971]. First edn. original wraps, not issued in cloth.8vo, 157pp. Cover sl. worn, a VG copy. Charters B48. Scarce. Item #13875

This is the first third of of Neal Cassady's autobiography and includes the well documented fragments, I walked into the poolhall, Beginning of the history of the Hip generation, letter to Jack Kerouac, Letter to Ken Kesey, etc. Cassady was Kerouac's Dean Moriarty in On The Road and the driver of the Merry Pranksters' Further.

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