Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First printing stated. A small trade paperback original book. Text ad-libbed by Jack Kerouac. Containing stills from the Robert Frank film. A handsome near fine copy with typical light fade to spine colors. This copy has been SIGNED and briefly ANNOTATED by Allen Ginsberg who was one of the spontaneous performers in this production (along with Gregory Corso, Peter Orlovsky and Larry Rivers).
Seller: Derringer Books, Member ABAA, Avon, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Signed by the following people who appeared in or were involved with the production of the film in1959 Pull My Daisy: Robert Frank, Allen Ginsberg, David Amram (Music), John Cohen (the still photographer for the film), Larry Rivers and Alfred Leslie. 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. Based on an incident in the life of Neal Cassady and his wife Carolyn, Pull My Daisy tells the story of a railway brakeman whose painter wife invites a respectable bishop over for dinner. However, the brakeman's bohemian friends crash the party, with comic results. Pull My Daisy was praised for years as an improvisational masterpiece, until Leslie revealed in 1968 that the film was actually carefully planned, rehearsed, and directed by him and Frank. The book is fairly scarce because many copies were destroyed in a fire at Alfred Leslie's studio. An excellent near fine copy. Front cover is lightly rubbed.
Seller: Rob Warren Books, Richmond, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1607.85 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing, signed "Allen Ginsberg, Cambridge, 2/8/85" underneath a monochrome still of himself and Gregory Corso, the latter playing a flute. This is a review copy, with the Grove Press compliments slip loosely inserted. Shot on 16mm black and white film in Leslie's loft studio in New York City, Pull My Daisy is a short film adapted by Kerouac from the third act of his play, Beat Generation. Kerouac provides improvised narration, and Corso, Ginsberg and Orlovsky appear as themselves. Charters A16. Octavo. Original photographic wrappers, spine and front cover lettered in red, yellow and black. No dust jacket issued. Illustrated with monochrome stills from the film. Wrappers lightly marked and toned, a couple of small surface abrasions to front wrap, contents clean. A very good copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$2250.99 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing, signed by Gregory Corso, Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky by a photograph of Corso and the film's two directors, Robert Frank and Alfred Leslie; additionally inscribed by Orlovsky "Good meditation to you 6/22/84". Shot on 16mm black and white film in Leslie's loft studio in New York City, Pull My Daisy is a short film adapted by Kerouac from the third act of his play, Beat Generation. Kerouac provides improvised narration, and Corso, Ginsberg and Orlovsky appear as themselves. Charters A16. Octavo. Original photographic wrappers, spine and front cover lettered in red, yellow and black. No dust jacket issued. Illustrated with monochrome stills from the film. Extremities lightly rubbed and creased, one signature a little smudged, a near-fine copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom