The Beat Hotel

Paris: Gris Banal, 1984. First edition. Softcover, [188]pp., 7 x 9.5 inches.

Near Fine. Gentle wear and age toning to covers.

Text in English and French. 

In The Beat Hotel Harold Chapman documented the abbreviated period when poets, artists, and writers of the Beat generation lived cheaply and freely in a hotel in the Latin Quarter in Paris. The book is a part family photo album and part reminiscence of the residents of the legendary Beat Hotel, "a fleabag shrine documented by art historians." Introductions by William Burroughs and Brion Gysin, captions by Claire Perry, and images of Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky, William Burroughs ,Brion Gysin, Ian Sommerville, Harold Norse, Sinclair Beiles, Kay Johnson, Gregory Corso and many more.