(NY), Viking, (1992). A large (600+ pages) compendium of works by the key figures of the Beat Generation, edited by Ann Charters, who did the first bibliography of Kerouac and was also the first to write a full length biography of him. This copy belonged to Nelson Lyon, a longtime friend of William Burroughs, Terry Southern, Timothy Leary, and others associated with the counterculture that grew out of the Beat movement, and is inscribed to him or signed and dated by: William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Ed Sanders, Michael McClure and Anne Waldman. Fine in a fine dust jacket. An exceptional copy, with distinguished provenance, signed by several of the key figures of one of the most important American literary movements of the 20th century. [#028371] SOLD