(Kerouac Parker, Frankie Edith)

A collection of 12 snapshots from the collection of Kerouac's first wife, Frankie Edith Parker (2 vintage prints, the remainder printed from her negatives in 1979 and 1980), including four classic images of the young Kerouac (including the famous image of Jack in his Merchant Marine cap and raincoat and another of him in t-shirt and khakis in front of a fountain at Columbia University).  In a leather photograph album with Kerouac Parker's engraved card laid in. 



[With:]  the original setting-copy typescript for Save the Frescoes That Are Us: A Detroit Tribute to Jack Kerouac, edited by Edith Parker Kerouac, (Detroit, 1982).  35 pages, with some notations to the printer.  With a signed copy of the published book, 12 pages of the original typescript and one page of autograph manuscript with a poem beginning "Who Killed Jack . . .". 

Frankie Edith Parker Kerouac was Jack Kerouac's first wife.  He married her in 1944 in part so that her wealthy Grosse Pointe family would bail him out of jail where he was charged with "accessory after the fact" in Lucien Carr's murder of David Kammerer.