Research Catalog

Title

Beat hotel : [uncorrected proof] / Harold Norse.

Author

Norse, Harold.

Publication

San Diego, CA : Atticus Press, 1983.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Burroughs, William S., 1914-1997.
• Weissner, Carl.

Description

76 p.; 21 cm.

Subject

• Beats (Persons) > Fiction
• Experimental fiction, American

Genre/Form

Uncorrected proofs.

Note

• First published in German translation by Carl Weissner in 1975.
• Proof copy comb-bound with paper wrapper with hand-written sale and publication information mimeographed on front wrapper, with author's name, title, and imprint.
• Proof copy not illustrated except for b&w photograph of author as youth in Beat Hotel on back wrapper.
• 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.
• 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)

• Restricted access;

Call Number

Berg Coll Norse B43 1983

OCLC

800145355

Author

Norse, Harold.

Title

Beat hotel : [uncorrected proof] / Harold Norse.

Imprint

San Diego, CA : Atticus Press, 1983.

Edition

Uncorrected proof.

Access

Restricted access; request permission from holding division.

Local Note

Berg Collection copy donated by Francis O. Mattson, April 5, 2012, purchased by him from Poets House Library, "Collection of Richard Levey."

Berg Collection copy with 2-leaf (1 sheet folded) advertising prospectus or prototype of dust jacket printed on yellow paper laid-in, with author's b&w photograph on front.

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Added Author

Burroughs, William S., 1914-1997. Author of introduction

Weissner, Carl. Author of introduction

Mattson, Francis O. Former owner

Mattson, Francis O. Donor

Research Call Number

Berg Coll Norse B43 1983