Safe in Heaven Dead de Jack Kerouac - 1990

Madras and New York: Hanuman Books, 1990. First Edition. Stiff wraps with dust jacket. Very Good/Very Good. Allen Ginsberg (cover photo). 32mo. Pp. 125, [3]. Stiff pink paper wraps without titles, letterpress printed in India: leaf edges minimally age toned. In the color photo illustrated dust jacket with titles stamped in gilt: edges lightly rubbed, gilt title a touch worn. Excerpts from published interviews 1957 - 1968 with an introduction and sources cited. Produced out the Chelsea Hotel by Raymond Foye and Francesco Clemente, this is number 42 in the publisher's seventh series. The diminutive format was inspired by pocket prayer books they collected in India. Dust jacket preserved in a clear, removable archival sleeve.

Madras / New York: Hanuman Books, 1990. Softcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Edited and with an introduction by Michael White. 32mo. Measuring approximately 2¾" x 4". Tiny corner chip on the lower wrap else fine in textured paper wrappers (topedge trimmed just a bit unevenly) in a lightly worn, near fine dust jacket with a tiny tear, featuring a portrait of Kerouac by Allen Ginsberg. Issued as number 42 in a series of small format artists' books published and edited by Raymond Foye and Francesco Clemente.

Hanuman Books, 1990-12. Paperback. Good.

Hanuman Books, 1990 . First edition, first printing. Hanuman Books has issued titles from 1986 to 1993 out of the Chelsea Hotel by its creator Raymond Foye, art critic and editor at large, and Italian painter Francesco Clemente. The books though never beautifully produced and with slight flaws at times were influenced by Indian prayer books. Their small size and bright in color were well dedicated to the writings of the particular poet or artist or outsider. Though the books might be somewhat slight in production, mainly they were all gems. Often they were published as 12 books in a year over the spring and fall. They were printed on letterpress in Madras. The pages were sewn together by local fisherman as the tale goes and others. Basically the books hold to a 3 x 4 dimension. Fine bright wraps as new. Lovely copy and gift quality. Never been read. Payment by personal check is required, thank you.