Robert Frank

with Jack Kerouac and Alfred Leslie

Pull My Daisy

Pull My Daisy. Text by Jack Kerouac for the film by Robert Frank and Alfred Leslie. Introduction by Jerry Tallmer. Grove Press, New York/Evergreen, London, 1961. First edition. Stated first printing. 38 pp. text + illustrations. First printing. Stiff wrappers. Black and white reproductions.

"Here is the complete Kerouac text, with photos selected by Robert Frank from the film Pull My Daisy--a short cinematographic exhibition of 'Beat' life in a Bowery 'pad' on New York's Lower East Side, with spontaneous performances by poets Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, and Peter Orlovsky, painter Larry Rivers, composer David Amram, and other characters drawn from the highest echelons of Beat society."--from the cover blurb

Very good plus. A crisp copy with light wear to the edges. Few scratches visible in the light. Tiny creases to the corners. Tanning to the edges. Soil spots to back cover. Stray pencil mark. Internally, very good plus. Unusually bright. Tight binding. Crisp images.