The San Francisco Scene - This is the book that made The Beat Generation.  Published by Barney Rosset and Don Allen all the prominent beat writers were included.  San Francisco was HOT and the entire country wanted to see what was happening. 

Includes Ginsberg's Howl, Kerouac's October in the Railroad Earth, Ferlinghetti, McClure, Spicer, Snyder, Whelan, Duncan, Brother Antonius.