Charles Plymell's Benzedrine Highway (2013)

New York City: Kicks Books (book, boxed, signed, numbered, blurb, quote), 2013.
7.5" x 5.5" x 1" (box), 7.25" x 4.5" x 0.75" (book), 210 pages, numbered softcover with dust-jacket in box with three postcards, one signed, and extra folded and numbered broadside.

Benzedrine Highway: Hi-Octane Early Work by Charles Plymell, as issued in a limited boxed set by Kicks Books (New York City) in 2013. Foreword by Allen Ginsberg.  This includes the text of Apoclaypse Rose and The Last of the Moccasins.

This set includes a numbered copy of the book with (a) a signed postcard of the book [signed by Plymell], (b) a postcard of a reading with Plymell and Gerard Malanga, (c) a postcard-sized letterpress broadsheet by Bottle of Smoke Press, and (d) a folded broadside of "Song for Neal Cassady" by Plymell.

William S. Burroughs is quoted just prior to the introduction, at page IV: "From the first paragraph the reader is drawn into the writer's space. Plymell has as much in depth to say about death as Hemingway did and a lot more to say about in terns of the present generation stillborn into a world that can offer nothing... death from an OD... Death from a plane crash... Computerized death... He is saying a lot about life which becomes the chewed over leftovers of death... 'A manifesto of ashes' A very readable manifesto."

This quote is distilled as a blurb to the back cover of the book: "Plymell has as much in depth to say about death as Hemingway did, and a lot more to say about it in terms of the present generation stillborn into a world that can offer nothing."  

This copy was acquired from Burnside Rare Books (Portland, Oregon).