New York, NY: Harper Collins, 2005. First Edition. Quarter brown paper with brown paper over boards and titling blue gilt. 6" x 9", 3 - 270. Internally clean and tight, DJ has very light edge wear and price sticker adhesive residue, now appropriately preserved in mylar. Published more than 10..... More
Berkeley: Creative Arts Book Co., 1976. First Edition. Red Cardboard with black and white text and photos on front and back. 5.75" x 8.75" pp. [8] 3-93, with a double sided red front end paper with 6 pp. of B&W photos. Red front end paper and rear cover has bled..... More
New York: New Directions Publishing, 1971. Second Printing. 5 in x 6.25 in pp. [96] in Beat Poetry format bound in black and white wrapper. This singular poem printed in freehand font with simple illustrations is printed on recto pages. Small amount of adhesive on upper right front cover, small..... More
Boulder, CO: Elbow / Cityful Press, 2001. First Edition. Graphic card covers with a photo of Kerouac at the piano keyboard on the cover. 9" x 6", 7 - 101 pp. New, no defects noted. Jones has written at least five publications delving into the Kerouac canon, making it clear..... More
New York: Bantam, September 1963. First Paperback Editionn. Paperback with. 4.25" x 7" [6] 1-200 with 2 pp. of advertising. Two slightly bent corners and rubs at bottom of spine. Previous owner name in ink and previous bookseller pencil notes. For a Kerouac paperback which has bounced around in many..... More
San Francisco: City of Lights Books, 1961. First Edition. Cardboard covers. 5.5" x 8" pp. [4] 5-184, Only a diagonal corner bend at the top and bottom of front cover, rub down right side of spine, in all this is a fine condition copy of this well preserved, delicate and..... More
New York: Grove Press, 1959. First Evergreen. Black Paperback with white, grey and red lettering on cover and spine. 5.5" x 8" pp. [6] 3-245. Evergreen Original E-160 with crease at bottom and center of front cover and bent, scuffing and creasing on spine, one inch tear on rear bottom..... More
New York: Grove Press, 1970. First Printing. 4.25 in. x 6.85 in. pp. [iii] vi 1-183. Paperback in white wrapper with photo of JK by Robert Frank on the front. Smudge on back, some fading on spine, small paper sticker on front upper right and back upper right corners. Previous..... More
New York: Avon, 1959. First Edition. Paperback original. 4 3/16 in. x 7 1/16 in. [6] 7-189 (190 - 192) with a back page advertisement for The Subteraneans. Stiff white wrapper printed in multicolor. Pages slightly yellowed, mostly toward the top, chip on front cover bottom right, tight firm copy..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1957. First Edition. Black cloth with title in white on cover and flawless text in white on spine. Octavo 5.25" x 8" pp. [2] 3-310. One of the most seminal, shape shifting books of 20th century literature, Kerouac's book introduced a revolution to not only..... More
New York: Evergreen Black Cat, 1973. First Edition. Jack Kerouac's last novel published posthumously by his estate. Written in the voice of a young black boy from North Carolina by Kerouac in his deteriorating later years, this book affirms his continuing genius until the very end. 120 pp. adhesive peel..... More
New York: Avon, 1960. First Edition. Soft cover, 120 pp. by the master originator of poetic prose. Pages are slightly yellowed, pristine, taut copy of this normally well-read, well-worn paperback. RL Macleod hand written on inside front cover, all else a beautiful collector copy. A love story for the ages..... More
New York: Grove Press, 1957. Volume 1, Number 2. Pamphlet. 5.38" x 8" pp. [5] 6-160. Eight pages of B&W photos of some contributors. Scarce collection of Beat Voices; Kerouac, Ginsberg, Rexroth, Ferlinghetti, Snyder and more. For a paperback copy with a delicate blue cover of a San Francisco night..... More
New York: Avon in arrangement with Grove Press, 1959. 5.25 in. x 6.37 in. [8] 9-126 pp. stiff white wrapper printed in subdued grays with yellow author name and S. F. Examiner review. Preface edition by Henry Miller. "...in other words this is the story of an unself-confident man, at..... More
New York: Penguin Books, 1999. Great Books of the 20th Century. SIGNED "Ken Kesey" on Title Page in his usual flamboyant marker (blue). [1-8] (1-3) 4-277 pp. with French flaps. If you can't own the Viking first edition, then this as new copy signed by the author should grace your..... More
New York, NY: Grove Press, 1957. First Edition. Card wraps with San Francisco night scene in dual tone blue / black. 5.5" x 8", 159 pp with 8 pp of full page author photos. Spine has a reading crease and mild rubbing, small chip at top / bottom of spine..... More
