Signed Proof of Bill Morgan's "The Typewriter Is Holy" (2010)

New York City: Free Press (book, proof, signed), 2010.
9.25" x 6" x 0.75", 275 pages, softcover proof.

Uncorrected proof copy of Bill Morgan's The Typewriter is Holy: The Complete, Uncensored History of the Beat Generation, as produced by Free Press (New York City) in 2010. This book is dedicated to Alan Ansen

Although this is rather Ginsberg and Kerouac centered, William S. Burroughs' history pops up throughout the book.

This specific copy is signed twice: first at the cover by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and at the title page by the author Bill Morgan. This copy was acquired at Pacific Book Auctions.

Contents: 

• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• "The Typewriter Is Holy":
1. "Friendship and Murder"
2. "The Lumpen World"
3. "The Adonis of Denver"
4. "Insanity"
5. "The Subterraneans"
6. "Literary Lives"
7. "The Name of a Generation"
8. "To the West Coast"
9. "Nightmare of Moloch"
   
10. "The Six Gallery"
11. "Desolation and Loneliness"
12. "Censorship and Vindication"
13. "Fame"
14. "The Threads Loosen"
15. "The Circle Widens"
16. "Cut-ups"
17. "Bitter Fruits"
18. "Setting the Global Stage"
19. "A Culture Turned Upside Down"
20. "The Sixties"
21. "The End of the Road"
22. "Aftermath"
23. "Respectability"
24. "Acceptance"
25. "Postscript"
• Source Notes
• Selected Bibliography
• Index