Ann Charters' "Beats & Company" (1986)

Garden City, New York, US: Dolphin/Doubleday & Company (book, photobook, signed, 1st), 1986.
12.25" x 9.125" x 0.625", 159 pages, hardcover with dust-jacket, ISBN 0-385-23368-X.

Beats & Company: Portrait of a Literary Generation by Ann Charters, a photobook of the Beat writers, with commentary and a simple bibliography at the end. Published in hardcover by Dolphin/Doubleday & Company (Garden City, New York, US). Introduction by John Clellon Holmes. 

This copy is signed by Ann Charters at the title page, and was acquired from Jeffrey Weinberg at Water Row Books.

Contents: 

• John Clellon Holmes: Introduction
• Raymond Ross: photograph of Ann Charters
• Herbert Huncke: "Ann Charters and Allen Ginsberg, 1967" (photograph)
• George Butterick: "Walking with Charles Olson, 1968" (photograph)
• Ann Charters: 
• "A Note on the Photographs"
• cover photograph of Allen Ginsberg, "Allen Ginsberg talking to Bob Dylan, East Tenth Street, New York City, 1966" 
• "Allen Ginsberg with his father, Paterson, New Jersey, December 6, 1970" (photograph)
• photographs of Allen Ginsberg and Louis Ginsberg
• "Peter Orlovsky, East Tenth Street, 1966" (photographs)
• "Jack Kerouac at Hyannis, Massachusetts, 1966" (photograph)
• "Jack Kerouac with his mother Gabrielle" (photographs)
• "William Burroughs, London, December 1972" (photographs)
• "Herbert Huncke and Allen Ginsberg, Lower East Side, New York City, 1966" (photograph)
• photographs of City Lights, San Francisco, and Caffe Trieste
• "Ferlinghetti in San Francisco, 1969" (photographs)
• "Ferlinghetti and Corso, San Francisco, 1969" (photographs)
• "Gregory Corso, San Francisco, 1969" (photograph)
• "Carolyn Cassady, 1982" (photograph)
• "Robert Duncan, San Francisco, 1969" (photograph)
• "Kenneth Rexroth, San Francisco, 1969" (photograph)
• "Brother Antoninus, Kentfield Priory, 1969" (photograph)
• "Donald Allen, San Francisco, 1969" (photograph)
• "Philip Lamantia, San Francisco, 1984" (photograph)
• "Michael McClure, San Francisco, 1969" (photograph)
• "David and Tina Meltzer, San Francisco, 1969" (photograph)
• "Gary Snyder, San Francisco, 1969" (photographs)
• "Gary Snyder, Stockholm, Sweden, 1972" (photograph)
• "Michael McClure at a Stockholm lake with Gary Snyder, 1972" (photographs)
• "Philip Whalen, San Francisco Zen Center, 1982" (photograph)
• "Joanne Kyger, Bolinas, 1982" (photographs)
• "Diane di Prima in her apartment, San Francisco, 1984" (photographs)
• "Diane di Prima, San Francisco, 1984" (photograph)
• "John Clellon Holmes, Old Saybrook, Connecticut, 1981" (photographs)
• "John Clellon Holmes with Shirley Holmes, Old Saybrook, 1985" (photographs)
• "The Peace Eye Bookstore, East Tenth Street, 1967" (photographs)
• "Ed Sanders and his daughter, New York City, 1966" (photographs)
• "Louis Zukofsky, New York City, 1966" (photograph)
• "Paul Blackburn, New York City, 1966" (photograph)
• "Anne Waldman, New York City, 1969" (photographs)
• "Ted Berrigan, Boulder, Colorado, 1982" (photograph)
• "Allen Ginsberg's farm, Cherry Valley, New York, August, 1970" (photographs)
• "Julius Orlovsky in the kitchen at the Cherry Valley Farm" (photograph)
• "Ray Bremser, Cherry Valley, New York, 1970" (photograph)
• "Ray Bremser talking to his daughter. His wife Bonnie holds her close on her lap at the breakfast table." (photographs)
• "Charles Olson, Gloucester, 1967" (photographs)
• "Olson's apartment in Gloucester" (photographs)
• "Allen Ginsberg and neighbor, Cherry Valley, 1970" (photograph)
• "Allen swinging Ray Bremser's daughter Georgia" (photograph)
• "The farmhouse" (photograph)
• "Peter Orlovsky at the Second LSD Conference, Santa Cruz, 1981" (photograph)
• "Joyce Johnson is a novelist and author of the prize-winning memoir Minor Characters about her love affair with Kerouac and her involvement in the Beat Scene in the 1950s, New York City, 1985" (photograph)
• "The back steps to the apartment where Kerouac lived as a teenager in Lowell, Massachusetts. His family's apartment was on the top floor." (photograph)
• "Kerouac's birthplace, Lupine Road, Lowell" (photograph)
• "Holmes, Ginsberg and Corso at Kerouac's funeral, Lowell, 1969" (photographs)
• "Ken Kesey at his farm in Oregon, 1984" (photographs)
• "The bus driven by Neal Cassady and the Merry Pranksters in the 1960s, now parked in Kesey's barn" (photographs)
• "Robert Creeley, Annisquam, Massachusetts, 1969" (photographs)
• "Bobbie Louise Hawkins" (photograph)
• "The pallbearers entering the church with Kerouac's coffin" (photograph)
• "Jack Kerouac's funeral, Lowell, Massachusetts, 1969" (photographs)
• "Ken and Faye Kesey, Pleasant Valley, Oregon, 1984" (photographs)
• "Kesey reading his morning mail" (photographs)
• "Tuli Kupferberg, New York City, 1985" (photograph)
• "John Giorno, New York CIty, 1985" (photograph)
• "In 'The Bunker'" (photographs)
• "Alice Notley, New York City, 1985" (photograph)
• "Harry Smith" (photograph)
• "Gregory Corso, Melon [sic] Tytell, Robert Frank, 'Jay', Lewis MacAdams, John Clellon Holmes at the Naropa Conference, Boulder, Colorado, 1982, celebrating the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of Kerouac's On the Road." (photographs)
• "Prisoners of the Press Conference: Ginsberg, Waldman, Burroughs, Kesey – Naropa, 1982" (photographs)
• "Herbert Huncke, Jack Micheline, Michael McClure, and Carl Solomon on the porch at the Naropa Conference, 1982" (photograph)
• "Diane di Prima at the conference, sitting for a portrait by Robert la Vigne" (photograph)
• "Lawrence Ferlinghetti on the porch at the conference" (photograph)
• "Allen Ginsberg reading Howl on the twenty-fifth anniversary of its publication, Columbia University, 1981" (photograph)
• Allen Ginsberg: excerpt from "Kaddish" (poetry)
• Louis Ginsberg: "Thanks for a Loan" (poetry)
• Gregory Corso: from "Marriage" (poetry)
• Gary Snyder: from "A Berry Feast" (poetry)
• Diane di Prima: from "Loba" (poetry)
• Ted Berrigan: from "Many Happy Returns" (poetry)
• Charles Olson: from "Maximus, to Himself" (poetry)
• "Short List of Books by Writers mentioned in Beats & Company" (bibliography)