The Portable Beat Reader

The Portable Beat Reader by Ann Charters First Edition, First Printing signed by 14 Beat Writers $4,000.00.

Viking Press, New York, 1992. This first edition, first printing is remarkably signed on the title page by the following beat and counterculture writers and poets: Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Michael McClure, Joanne Kyger, Peter Orlovsky, Ray Bremser, Carl Solomon, Ed Sanders, Hettie Jones, Tuli Kupferberg, Carolyn Cassady, Ann Charters (editor), Jack Micheline, Joyce Johnson, Diane diPrima and Anne Waldman. Minimal wear to dust jacket and the book is in fine condition. A remarkable beat/counterculture writer’s book with all fourteen of these giants signature on one page. The consignor to the original auction of this book by Heritage Auctions, an Internationally known auction house, states that all signatures were obtained on February 5, 1992 at a book publication event at St. Mark’s Church, New York City. A remarkable find which is unlikely to surface again with all these luminaries signatures. It’s its own beat generation of 14 writers.