First UK edition of this notable assessment of the literature of the Beats and their contemporaries, with essays on Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Gershon Legman and Jay Landesman. Holmes's first novel, Go (1952), has been called the seminal novel of the Beat Generation, predating Kerouac's On the Road by five years.

First UK edition, first printing; 8vo; unmarked internally; publisher's orange cloth, gilt lettering to spine, spine ends bumped, with the price-clipped dust-jacket by Farrell/Wade, lightly toned and marked, some creasing to extremities, spine a touch faded, else very good.