Signed Trade Hardcover and Flyer for Bill Morgan's "The Typewriter Is Holy" (2010)

New York City: Free Press (book, signed), 2010.
9.5" x 6.5" x 1.125", 293 pages, hardcover, ISBN 978-1-4165-9242-6.

Bill Morgan's The Typewriter is Holy: The Complete, Uncensored History of the Beat Generation, as published in a trade hardcover edition 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, and is well-represented in the Index. Multiple photographs of Burroughs by Allen Ginsberg are also present.

This specific copy is signed by Lawrence Ferlinghetti at the title page.

Included with this book is a flyer for the release party at City Lights Books (San Francisco, California, US), signed by the author Bill Morgan.

Both this copy of the book and the flyer were acquired from 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