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Beat Hotel

Title: Beat Hotel / Harold Norse.
Author: Norse, Harold.
Publication: San Diego : Atticus Press, 1983.

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Request for On-site Use Request Scan Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Text	Use in library	JFD 86-8744	Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Text	Permit needed	Berg Coll Norse B43 1983a	Schwarzman Building - Berg Collection Room 320

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76 p. : ill.; 21 cm.

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Issued in maroon cloth-covered boards with title, author's name, and publisher's name gold-stamped on spine, and with dust jacket with painting of sleeping nude reproduced in brown monochrome on front wrapper and b&w photograph of author in front of Beat Hotel on back wrapper. Also with b&w photo of author in Beat Hotel as frontispiece.
Foreword by William S. Burroughs.
Several portions of the novel are written in cut-up style, with which Burroughs was experimenting at the Beat Hotel at the same time.
First published in German translation by Carl Weissner in 1975. This edition with English translation of excerpt from Weissner's preface to the German edition.
In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the Beat Hotel, at 9 Rue Git-le-Coeur, was the home for luminaries of the Beat generation, who resided there briefly or for extended periods: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Peter Orlovsky, William S. Burroughs, Brion Gysin, and Gregory Corso; also a resident was the Beat author and poet Harold Norse (1916-2009).

Access (note)

Berg Collection is restricted access;

Call Number

JFD 86-8744

ISBN

0912377003
0912377011 (pbk.)

OCLC

9592602
NYPG86-B65202

Author

Norse, Harold.

Title

Beat Hotel / Harold Norse.

Imprint

San Diego : Atticus Press, 1983.

Edition

1st U.S.A. ed.

Access

Berg Collection is restricted access; request permission from holding division.

Local Note

Berg Collection copy is part of Beat collection of books, magazines, broadsides, photographs, ephemera, and manuscripts purchased from the Beat scholar Ann Charters on May 17, 1994, and with her monogram ownership stamp embossed in bottom right corner of t.p.

Berg Collection copy with 2-leaf (1 sheet folded) advertising prospectus or prototype of dust jacked printed on yellow paper laid-in.

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Added Author

Burroughs, William S., 1914-1997. Contributor

Weissner, Carl. Contributor

Charters, Ann. Former owner

Research Call Number

JFD 86-8744

MSS DIV IGIC FIC N14 Inscribed by author.

Berg Coll Norse B43 1983a

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