Berkeley, Conari Press, (1996). A portrait of the "writers, artists and muses" of the Beat Generation: this copy is heavily edited by Carolyn Cassady, wife of Neal Cassady, portrayed as "Camille" in Jack Kerouac's On the Road. Most all of Cassady's corrections are within the chapter about her: the chapter runs 18 pages, but the final 10 pages are an excerpt from her own book, Off the Road. Her roughly three dozen corrections cover about 8 pages: some corrections are objectively factual, correcting dates or places, but a good number have to do with correcting mischaracterizations, either of Neal or of her own emotional state or motivations. The only comment she makes outside of this chapter is in the introduction: "Hardly any of this applies to Carolyn Cassady - CC." The book is signed by Cassady at the start of her edited chapter; it is also signed by Joyce Johnson (author of Come and Join the Dance and Minor Characters) at her chapter, part of which is an excerpt from Minor Characters -- her book about the women of the Beat generation as Jack Kerouac's girlfriend in the period when On The Road was published. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#036824] SOLD