Desolate Angel – Jack Kerouac, the Beat Generation and America, A Biography [Library of Duncan Hannah]

This 401 page First Edition hardcover is from the library of the late Duncan Hannah, painter, author and sometime bad boy in 1970s New York. At one time admittedly “under the spell” of Jack Kerouac, Hannah used what interested him about the Beats for his work (and style) and laid away the rest. Hannah has written his name in red ink on the ffep. The book is firm and tight but has foxing to edges, one yellow marker spot on one page, and the ghost of a red remainder mark to bottom edge, VG. Dust-jacket is VG minus with a few small chips & closed tears to extremities. (We’ll protect it with mylar.) Laid into the book are: two sides (of 4?) of a printed program for a Tricycle (the Buddhist Review) benefit featuring a “Gala Dinner and Selected Readings of Jack Kerouac’s Wake Up” (with Ellen Burstyn, David Byrne, (Philip Glass, Anne Waldman and others) and six loose xeroxed pages of what looks like the photo section from another Kerouac biography or book on the Beats, with one portrait cut out and one outlined in blue ink.