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“And it's finally only in the woods you get that nostalgia for "cities" at last, you dream of long gray journeys to cities where soft evenings'll unfold like Paris": FIRST EDITION OF BIG SUR; SIGNED BY JACK KEROUAC
KEROUAC, Jack.
Big Sur.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1962.
First edition of Kerouac's poignant masterpiece of self-reflection. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Jack Kerouac on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Janet Halverson. Exceptionally rare with no other signed examples traced at auction since publication, while signed copies of On the Road have rarely appeared at auction, no signed examples of Big Sur have appeared since publication.
Price: $75,000.00 Item Number: 150040
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First edition of Jack Kerouac's on the Road; signed by ten ten Beat Generation figures who played a significant roles in the book's creation including Allen Ginsberg, Sterling Lord, and Lucien Carr
KEROUAC, Jack.
On the Road.
New York: Viking Press, 1957.
First edition of Kerouac’s classic novel. Octavo, original publisher's black cloth lettered in white, top stain red. Association copy, signed by ten Beat Generation figures, each of whom played a significant role in the creation of On the Road. Signed by Lucien Carr, Allen Ginsberg (dated 2/10/84), Al Hinkle, Ed White, Sterling Lord, Helen Weaver (dated 9/17/04), Carolyn Cassady, John Cassady, Cathy Cassady, and Jami Cassady on the title and opposite page. This remarkable gathering of signatures traces the living network behind On the Road, each name linked to Jack Kerouac and the creation of his defining work. Sterling Lord—Kerouac’s tireless literary agent—spent four years placing the manuscript after repeated rejections, ultimately securing its publication at Viking and ensuring the novel’s place in American letters. Ed White, Kerouac’s friend from Columbia University, encouraged him in 1951 to carry a sketchbook and “sketch in the streets,” a suggestion that directly shaped the spontaneous prose style of On the Road; White appears in the novel as Tim Gray. Allen Ginsberg, presented as Carlo Marx, became one of Kerouac’s closest companions and a central figure in the Beat movement. Al Hinkle, a Denver friend of Neal Cassady, appears as Ed Dunkel, anchoring th...
Price: $25,000.00 Item Number: 149815
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“All that hitchhikin All that railroadin All that comin back to America”: FIRST EDITION OF JACK KEROUAC’S Lonesome Traveler; Signed by Him
KEROUAC, Jack; Drawings by Larry Rivers.
Lonesome Traveler.
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1960.
First edition of this collection of short stories. Octavo, original half cloth, drawings by Larry Rivers. Boldly signed by Jack Kerouac on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Rare and desirable signed, this is the first example we have seen.
Price: $20,000.00 Item Number: 114572
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“Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road": First Edition of Jack Kerouac's On The Road; Signed by Gary Snyder
KEROUAC, Jack [Gary Snyder].
On The Road.
New York: The Viking Press, 1957.
First edition of Kerouac's classic novel. Octavo, original black cloth. Boldly signed by legendary beat Gary Snyder on the half-title page. Near fine in an excellent near fine dust jacket with light wear. Jacket design by Bill English. An exceptional example, rare and desirable signed.
Price: $20,000.00 Item Number: 131088
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First Editions of Each of the novels of Jack Kerouac; Finely Bound by The Harcourt Bindery
KEROUAC, Jack.
The Novels of Jack Kerouac: The Town and the City, On the Road, The Subterraneans, The Dharma Bums, Doctor Sax, Maggie Cassidy, Tristessa, Book of Dreams, Big Sur, Visions of Gerard, Desolation Angels, Satori in Paris, Vanity of Duluoz.
New York/San Francisco: Harcourt, Brace and Company/The Viking Press/Grove Press, Inc./Avon Book Division/City Lights Books/Farrar, Straus and Cudahy/Farrar, Straus and Company/Coward-McCann, Inc, 1950-1967.
First editions of each of Jack Kerouac's novels. Octavo, thirteen volumes bound in full black levant morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. In fine condition. A completely unique and desirable set of the legendary Beat prose-poet's collected novels.
Price: $19,500.00 Item Number: 149820
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“Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road": First Edition of Jack Kerouac's On The Road; inscribed by his only child Jan Kerouac
KEROUAC, Jack.
On The Road.
New York: The Viking Press, 1957.
First edition of Kerouac's classic novel. Octavo, original black cloth, top stain red. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author's daughter, "For Allen MacGuire Best wishes, Jan Kerouac." Jan Kerouac was a writer and the only child of Jack Kerouac and Joan Haverty Kerouac. She published three semi-autobiographical novels, Baby Driver: A Story About Myself in 1981, Trainsong in 1988 and posthumously published Parrot Fever in 2005. Near fine in a very good original price-clipped dust jacket with expert restoration to the extremities. Jacket design by Bill English. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Rare and desirable signed.
Price: $9,800.00 Item Number: 148125
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"Because the only people for me are the mad ones": First Edition of Jack Kerouac's On The Road
KEROUAC, Jack.
On The Road.
New York: The Viking Press, 1957.
First edition of Kerouac's classic novel. Octavo, original black cloth. Near fine in a bright very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Bill English. With the original New York Times article for On the Road laid in. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. A sharp example.
Price: $7,500.00 Item Number: 136101
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First Edition of Jack Kerouac's On The Road
KEROUAC, Jack.
On The Road.
New York: The Viking Press, 1957.
First edition of Kerouac's classic novel. Octavo, original black cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with light rubbing and wear. Jacket design by Bill English. A sharp example.
Price: $5,000.00 Item Number: 144208
