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  "Thanks for driving me home in your Buick in '32, and for your friendship to my father": First Edition of Jack Kerouac's First Book The Town and the City; signed by Lucien Carr, Carolyn Cassady, Kennett Love, and Helen Weaver

  KEROUAC, Jack [John].

  The Town and the City.

  New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1950.

  First edition of Jack Kerouac's first book. Octavo, original red cloth. Boldly signed by Lucien Carr, Carolyn Cassady, and Kennett Love on the front free endpaper, and by Helen Weaver on the title page. Lucien Carr, fictionalized in the novel as Kenneth Wood, played a central role in shaping the early Beat circle by introducing Jack Kerouac to Allen Ginsberg at Columbia University and reconnecting him with William S. Burroughs, a friend from Carr’s youth. Helen Weaver was Kerouac's girlfriend from 1956 to 1957, and was given the nickname "Slugger" by Carr after a scuffle between her and Kerouac at her apartment. Carolyn Cassady—Neal Cassady’s second wife—later recounted the formative period of Kerouac and Neal’s friendship in her memoir Off the Road, offering an intimate perspective on their intertwined lives. Kennett Love, born and raised in St. Louis, was a foreign correspondent for the New York Times and was a student at Columbia University. Love was the original owner of this volume, and it was he who asked Helen Weaver to contact Lucien Carr to sign the book, among other Kerouac titles in his possession. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Ownership signatures on the verso of the dust jacket at the crown of the spine. Accompanied by an article regarding K...

  Price: $2,600.00     Item Number: 149677

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